Louisiana Red - When My Mama Was Living (2012)
BAND/ARTIST: Louisiana Red
- Title: When My Mama Was Living
- Year Of Release: 2012
- Label: Labor Records
- Genre: Blues
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:06:35
- Total Size: 332 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Walk All Over Georgia
02. I'm a King Bee
03. When My Mama Was Living
04. Caught Your Man and Gone
05. Bad Case of the Blues
06. Little Suzie Jane
07. Got a Girl With a Dog Won't Bark
08. Cold White Sheet
09. Going Down to Georgia
10. You Got to Move (You Gotta Move)
11. Going Home
12. I'll Be Glad When You Are Dead You Rascal You
13. Cold, Cold Feeling
14. John Henry
15. Stole from Me
16. Joanna
Were he alive today, Louisiana Red wouldn't stand a chance on one of the wretched singing competitions that pollute the television landscape. That's both an indictment of contemporary music culture and a testament to the gutbucket power and soulful integrity of the late, great bluesman. Red lived a fascinating and at times harrowing life that informs every bar of every song he wrote and performed. He lost his parents when he was a child, was raised in a succession of orphanages, learned to play guitar from a street musician, and lived the hardscrabble life of a traveling musician while in his teens. He made his first recording in 1949, hung out with legends like John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, and eventually carved out a prolific career that resulted in more than 50 albums. In honor of Red's passing, Labor Records has released this CD of 16 previously unreleased tracks that capture him at his peak. Recorded in the mid-1970s, half are originals written by Red and Kent Cooper; half are standards that Red stamps with his inimitable style: stark, haunted and filled with a lifetime's pain and disappointment. Yet one can also hear a survivor's strength and spirit in tunes like "Walk All Over Georgia" and "King Bee" that make listening to Red a transformative, uplifting experience. Stripped down to the essentials -- vocals, guitar, harmonica - this is blues in the raw, as pungent and powerful as a shot of redeye.
01. Walk All Over Georgia
02. I'm a King Bee
03. When My Mama Was Living
04. Caught Your Man and Gone
05. Bad Case of the Blues
06. Little Suzie Jane
07. Got a Girl With a Dog Won't Bark
08. Cold White Sheet
09. Going Down to Georgia
10. You Got to Move (You Gotta Move)
11. Going Home
12. I'll Be Glad When You Are Dead You Rascal You
13. Cold, Cold Feeling
14. John Henry
15. Stole from Me
16. Joanna
Were he alive today, Louisiana Red wouldn't stand a chance on one of the wretched singing competitions that pollute the television landscape. That's both an indictment of contemporary music culture and a testament to the gutbucket power and soulful integrity of the late, great bluesman. Red lived a fascinating and at times harrowing life that informs every bar of every song he wrote and performed. He lost his parents when he was a child, was raised in a succession of orphanages, learned to play guitar from a street musician, and lived the hardscrabble life of a traveling musician while in his teens. He made his first recording in 1949, hung out with legends like John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, and eventually carved out a prolific career that resulted in more than 50 albums. In honor of Red's passing, Labor Records has released this CD of 16 previously unreleased tracks that capture him at his peak. Recorded in the mid-1970s, half are originals written by Red and Kent Cooper; half are standards that Red stamps with his inimitable style: stark, haunted and filled with a lifetime's pain and disappointment. Yet one can also hear a survivor's strength and spirit in tunes like "Walk All Over Georgia" and "King Bee" that make listening to Red a transformative, uplifting experience. Stripped down to the essentials -- vocals, guitar, harmonica - this is blues in the raw, as pungent and powerful as a shot of redeye.
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