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(Sunset BLVD) 27 tracks. This 2-CD set contains previously unreleased performances. "Jesus On...more

Mississippi Fred McDowell: Jesus On The Mainline (2-CD)

(Sunset BLVD) 27 tracks.

This 2-CD set contains previously unreleased performances.

"Jesus On The Mainline" was recorded at two concerts in 1971: on April 14, 1971 in Tacoma, Washington, and on November 5, 1971 at the Gaslight in New York, which would prove to be the Delta blues legend's last recording.
The bottleneck guitarist was 67 years old when these tracks were recorded, and his passion and conviction seem to have grown stronger with the years. By this time, McDowell had switched his career to electric slide guitar. The guitar accompanies McDowell's raspy voice and often seems to finish the singer's sentences for him; it's like listening to an old married couple.

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McDowell, Mississippi Fred - Jesus On The Mainline (2-CD) CD 1
01Letter From Hot SpringsMississippi Fred McDowell
02Jesus Is On The MainlineMississippi Fred McDowell
03Don't Mistreat Nobody (Cause You Got A Few Dimes)Mississippi Fred McDowell
04Shake 'em On DownMississippi Fred McDowell
05MercyMississippi Fred McDowell
06You Got To MoveMississippi Fred McDowell
07Good Mornin' Little SchoolgirlMississippi Fred McDowell
08When The Saint's Go Marchin' InMississippi Fred McDowell
09LouiseMississippi Fred McDowell
10Baby Please Don't ToMississippi Fred McDowell
1161 HighwayMississippi Fred McDowell
12Levee Camp BluesMississippi Fred McDowell
13I'm Crazy 'bout You BabyMississippi Fred McDowell
14Get Right ChurchMississippi Fred McDowell
McDowell, Mississippi Fred - Jesus On The Mainline (2-CD) CD 2
01Write Me A Few Of Your LinesMississippi Fred McDowell
02Someday BabyMississippi Fred McDowell
03Oh That's AlrightMississippi Fred McDowell
04Mojo HandMississippi Fred McDowell
05Lord My Head Don't Hurt MeMississippi Fred McDowell
06Kokomo BluesMississippi Fred McDowell
07InstrumentalMississippi Fred McDowell
08I Woke Up This MorningMississippi Fred McDowell
09I Feel So BadMississippi Fred McDowell
10(Glory, Glory, Hallelujah) When I Lay My Burden DownMississippi Fred McDowell
11Worried BluesMississippi Fred McDowell
12Fred Mcdowell's BluesMississippi Fred McDowell
13Bye Bye Little GirlMississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi Fred McDowell Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (Traditional) Summer 1959... more
"Mississippi Fred McDowell"

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning

(Traditional) Summer 1959 Atlantic LP 1346

Musicologist Alan Lomax roamed the back roads of the South during the early 1940s, discovering and recording Mississippi bluesmen Muddy Waters and David 'Honeyboy' Edwards for the Library of Congress (see the first disc of this set). Lomax hit the road anew in 1959, this time on behalf of Atlantic Records. Portable recording equipment had come a long way. The mammoth disc recorder Lomax once hauled had been replaced by a stereo reel-to-reel tape rig.

 

Lomax came across a slide guitarist in Como, Mississippi that was easily the equal of his prior discoveries: Mississippi Fred McDowell. That nickname was a bit of a misnomer; McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee on January 12 of either 1904 or '05 (he wasn't sure which). His uncle Gene Shields taught him how to play slide with a beef rib bone when Fred was just a lad (he eventually used the neck off a Gordon's gin bottle). Local musicians Raymond Payne and Vandy McKenna showed him some licks. McDowell finally corralled his own guitar in 1940, when he moved to Como after some years in Memphis. He wed Annie Mae Collins in Como (she would be his frequent duet partner on the religious pieces that constituted a good portion of his repertoire) and played local dances but mostly farmed.

 

Then Lomax rolled into Como during the late summer of 1959 and changed Fred's life forever. During a lengthy field session at McDowell's domicile, the guitarist laid everything he had on tape for the folklorist, including the haunting, slide-soaked Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning, which had been recorded in December of '28 by slide master Blind Willie Johnson. Atlantic included several of Fred's debut tracks on a series of Lomax-produced albums in late 1960, introducing a new blues giant born over half a decade prior to Robert Johnson.

 

By 1962, other researchers were finding their way to McDowell's door. Testament Records owner Pete Welding and Arhoolie label boss Chris Strachwitz issued a series of excellent McDowell LPs over the next few years. Fred played the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, his pungent slide proving very influential to a young Bonnie Raitt. He was convinced to go electric in 1969 for a set waxed at Malaco Studios in Jackson, Miss. ironically titled 'I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll.' The Rolling Stones covered McDowell's You Gotta Move on their 'Sticky Fingers' LP in 1971. But the slide specialist didn't have long to enjoy the royalties he'd share with Rev. Gary Davis; stricken with cancer, he died July 3, 1972. Stardom came uncommonly late to McDowell, but he wore it magnificently.

                                                                                        --Bill Dahl

 

BCD 17229 Verschiedene Interpreten - Acoustic Blues Vol.1 (1923 - 1939) BCD 17230 Verschiedene Interpreten - Acoustic Blues Vol.2 (1941 - 1959) BCD 17231 Verschiedene Interpreten - Acoustic Blues Vol.3 (1960 - 1979) BCD 17232 Verschiedene Interpreten - Acoustic Blues Vol.4 (1980 - 2012)

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Tracklist
McDowell, Mississippi Fred - Jesus On The Mainline (2-CD) CD 1
01 Letter From Hot Springs
02 Jesus Is On The Mainline
03 Don't Mistreat Nobody (Cause You Got A Few Dimes)
04 Shake 'em On Down
05 Mercy
06 You Got To Move
07 Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl
08 When The Saint's Go Marchin' In
09 Louise
10 Baby Please Don't To
11 61 Highway
12 Levee Camp Blues
13 I'm Crazy 'bout You Baby
14 Get Right Church
McDowell, Mississippi Fred - Jesus On The Mainline (2-CD) CD 2
01 Write Me A Few Of Your Lines
02 Someday Baby
03 Oh That's Alright
04 Mojo Hand
05 Lord My Head Don't Hurt Me
06 Kokomo Blues
07 Instrumental
08 I Woke Up This Morning
09 I Feel So Bad
10 (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah) When I Lay My Burden Down
11 Worried Blues
12 Fred Mcdowell's Blues
13 Bye Bye Little Girl