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​​Includes Wilkins' fabulous blues Prodigal Son , recorded by the Rolling Stones on their... more

Reverend Robert Wilkins: Prodigal Son (CD)

  • ​​Includes Wilkins' fabulous blues Prodigal Son, recorded by the Rolling Stones on their classic 'Beggars' Banquet' LP.
  • A true giant of pre-War blues, Wilkins sounded just as good - maybe better - after his rediscovery in the 1960s!
  • These ultra-rare recordings were only issued on limited edition LPs in the 1960s and haven't been heard since.
1-CD Digipak(4-plated) with 28-page booklet, 13 tracks. Total playing time approx. 56 mns.

Memphis bluesman Robert Wilkins recorded between 1928 and 1935 - and then disappeared. Researcher Dick Spottswood rediscovered him in 1964 and gave him a new career. Of all the rediscovered pre-War blues singers, Wilkins was among the finest. His vocals and guitar playing were still very strong and confident. But Wilkins had become a preacher and wouldn't do blues as he had recorded them before the War. Instead, he recorded gospel songs with the fire and passion with which he'd recorded blues.

Spottswood issued some of the Wilkins songs on 'Memphis Gospel Singer' (Piedmont Records) and another four songs on 'The Old World's In A Hell Of A Fix' (Biograph Records). Now all are gathered together, remastered and restored together with Spottswood's detailed remembrance of his friend Robert Wilkins.

At one time, we took rediscovered blues men for granted, but of course they passed one by one. Robert Wilkins died in 1987. The Rolling Stones royalties from their cover of Prodigal Son made the last years good for him. Now, no pre-War blues singers remain alive, and the ranks of post-War bluesmen are thinning fast. That makes these recordings, quickly passed over at the time of release, more valuable than ever. A tangible reminder of the blues in its infancy as a great American art form.

Tracks:
Jesus Will Fix It Alright - Thank You, Jesus - Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Do Lord Remember Me - Here Am I, Send Me - The Prodigal Son - Jesus Said If You Go - I'm Going Home To My Heavenly King - Old Time Religion - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down - It Just Suits Me - The Gambling Man - Bonus: Biographical statement

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Wilkins, Reverend Robert - Prodigal Son (CD) CD 1
01 Jesus Will Fix It Alright Reverend Robert Wilkins
02 Thank You, Jesus Reverend Robert Wilkins
03 Just A Closer Walk With Thee Reverend Robert Wilkins
04 Do Lord Remember Me Reverend Robert Wilkins
05 Here Am I, Send Me Reverend Robert Wilkins
06 The Prodigal Son Reverend Robert Wilkins
07 Jesus Said If You Go Reverend Robert Wilkins
08 I'm Going Home To My Heavenly King Reverend Robert Wilkins
09 Old Time Religion Reverend Robert Wilkins
10 I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down Reverend Robert Wilkins
11 It Just Suits Me Reverend Robert Wilkins
12 The Gambling Man Reverend Robert Wilkins
13 Biographical Statement Reverend Robert Wilkins
Reverend Robert Wilkins THAT'S NO WAY TO GET ALONG Rev. Robert Wilkins and his Guitar, 1964... more
"Reverend Robert Wilkins"

Reverend Robert Wilkins

THAT'S NO WAY TO GET ALONG

Rev. Robert Wilkins and his Guitar, 1964

In 1964 Robert Wilkins was a name best known to 78rpm disc collectors who cherished a handful of exceptional blues performances he recorded between 1928 and 1935 that showcased a gifted, original Memphis-Mississippi stylist whose straightforward singing, finely crafted lyrics and eloquent guitar accompaniments made him a master of his art.

Early that year, following up a rumor that Wilkins was alive and well in Memphis, my wife, Louisa Spottswood, checked a current city phone directory and found two Robert Wilkins. Letters went to both and the man who answered was the one we sought.

The early 1960s had already witnessed the rediscoveries of Tom Ashley, Mississippi John Hurt, Sleepy John Estes, Henry Townsend, Dock Boggs and saw new careers for traditional stylists Doc Watson, John Jackson, Mance Lipscomb and Fred McDowell. Prewar stylists like Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Maybelle Carter, Rev. Gary Davis, the Chuck Wagon Gang and Bill Monroe were still active, and old-time blues giants Bukka White and Skip James would reappear before the end of 1964 

Other Memphis blues survivors who reappeared in the 1950s and '60s included Will (Son Brimmer) Shade, Gus Cannon, Yank Rachel and Furry Lewis. Cannon saw a New York City 'folk' arrangement of his Walk Right In top the charts in 1963 and the old (b. 1883) entertainer, banjo picker, jug blower and medicine show man eventually received royalties that helped support him until his death in 1979.

1964 also marked the arrival of the Beatles, whose success was like a tidal wave, eclipsing the folk revival and a promise of rewarding new careers for older traditional performers. English super-star bands, the Beatles included, publicly embraced the blues, but not in a way that left room for its creators to share much of the limelight or the profits. However, a second English rock band made a major difference to Rev. Wilkins, as we shall see.

Robert Timothy Wilkins claimed to have been born on January 16, 1896 near Hernando, Mississippi, in DeSoto County, ten miles south of Memphis on Highway 51. A 1900 Census report gives the year as 1895 and is probably accurate. His father, a subsistence farmer named George Wilkins, fled the state before Robert was born, after striking a white man during a gambling dispute. His mother, Julia, married Polk 'Sam' Oliver, and Robert became known as Tim Oliver. Though Sam could play the guitar, he was twenty years older than his wife and Robert/Tim remembered him less as a musician and more as an ill-tempered drunk who regularly beat her.Robert attended school through the fourth grade, when he began to farm full time. He got his first guitar when he was sixteen and mastered it within a year. He learned I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down from Aaron 'Buddy' Taylor, who subsequently taught him Frisco Train, St. Louis Buck Dance, Jesse James and Casey Jones, a song commemorating a 1900 train wreck that happened 150 miles south of Hernando in Vaughan, Mississippi, when Robert was five years old. He remembered first hearing the blues around 1904 and at first calling them slow drags. He performed at fish fries, dances and parties for white and black patrons and on Saturdays he busked on the street in Hernando. Around 1910, he nearly shot Sam after Julia had been severely beaten, and Sam left home permanently. Robert continued to develop his music and in 1915 decided to try his luck in Memphis as a working performer. He recalled the anger that helped fuel his music. As he told his grand-daughter and biographer Lane Wilkins: "By the time I got to Beale Street, they were already there: Frank Stokes, Gus Cannon, Ishmon Bracey, and the rest. Somehow or other the word got around I learned the guitar from Sam Oliver. I never tried to deny this because in a way it was kind of the truth. Every time I saw my mama¹s face after he fought her, my playing got a little better and stronger."

from booklet BCD16629 - Reverend Robert Wilkins Prodigal Son
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22 May 2014

The real stuff, can't be more downhome

23 Mar 2014

Really great stuff. I used to have on LP long ago, so I am happy it turned up on CD now.
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Tracklist
Wilkins, Reverend Robert - Prodigal Son (CD) CD 1
01 Jesus Will Fix It Alright
02 Thank You, Jesus
03 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
04 Do Lord Remember Me
05 Here Am I, Send Me
06 The Prodigal Son
07 Jesus Said If You Go
08 I'm Going Home To My Heavenly King
09 Old Time Religion
10 I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down
11 It Just Suits Me
12 The Gambling Man
13 Biographical Statement