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(2016/Arhoolie) 12 tracks. Fred McDowell's Vol. 2, originally released on Arhoolie in 1966 is... more

Mississippi Fred McDowell: Vol.2 (LP, Ltd.Edition)

(2016/Arhoolie) 12 tracks.
Fred McDowell's Vol. 2, originally released on Arhoolie in 1966 is one of the finest recorded examples of the Hill Country Blues style. With a distinctive and hypnotic guitar style McDowell powers through 12 tunes here, almost all originals. A stone classic reissued on vinyl in a deluxe tip-on jacket. On blue-green vinyl.

Article properties: Mississippi Fred McDowell: Vol.2 (LP, Ltd.Edition)

  • Interpret: Mississippi Fred McDowell

  • Album titlle: Vol.2 (LP, Ltd.Edition)

  • Label ARHOOLIE

  • Genre Blues

  • Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
  • Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
  • Record Grading Mint (M)
  • Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
  • Artikelart LP

  • EAN: 0646315227116

  • weight in Kg 0.2
McDowell, Mississippi Fred - Vol.2 (LP, Ltd.Edition) LP 1
01 I Ain't Gonna Be Bad No More Mississippi Fred McDowell
02 Where Were You (When the Rooster Crowed 'Fore Day) Mississippi Fred McDowell
03 I Looked at the Sun (And It Was Setting Low) Mississippi Fred McDowell
04 Do My Baby Ever Think of Me Mississippi Fred McDowell
05 Brooks Run Into the Ocean Mississippi Fred McDowell
06 Bull Dog Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell
07 I Walked All the Way From East St Louis Mississippi Fred McDowell
08 Red Cross Store Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell
09 Gravel Road Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell
10 Frisco Lines Mississippi Fred McDowell
11 You Got to Move Mississippi Fred McDowell
12 I Wish I Was in Heaven Sittin' Down Mississippi 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 The mammoth disc recorder Lomax once hauled had been replaced by a stereo reel-to-reel tape rig.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

 

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