Robert Pete Williams LP: Louisiana Blues

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(1966 'Takoma') 4 Men With Beards 180 g vinyl. more

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Robert Pete Williams: Louisiana Blues

(1966 'Takoma') 4 Men With Beards 180 g vinyl.

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Interpret: Robert Pete Williams
Album titlle: Louisiana Blues
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Edition 2 Audiophile Blues LP-Records
Label 4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0646315119312
weight in Kg 0.2

Williams, Robert Pete - Louisiana Blues LP 1
01	Somebody Help Poor Me	Robert Pete Williams
02	Freight-Train Blues	Robert Pete Williams
03	It's Hard To Tell	Robert Pete Williams
04	I'm Going Down Slow	Robert Pete Williams
05	Motherless Children Have A Hard Time	Robert Pete Williams
06	Ugly	Robert Pete Williams
07	So Long Boogie	Robert Pete Williams
08	This Is A Mean Old World To Me	Robert Pete Williams
09	High As I Want To Be	Robert Pete Williams
10	It's A Long Old Road	Robert Pete Williams

Robert Pete Williams This largely instrumental workout with spoken verses gives an indication... more

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"Robert Pete Williams"

Robert Pete Williams

This largely instrumental workout with spoken verses gives an indication of just one style of playing by Robert Pete Williams, known for his wide range of self-composed or cleverly adapted story songs, a man Harry Oster called "an innovative artist, raw and spon- taneous, as close to pure folk tradition as anyone of his generation" and who musicologist David Evans told me was, "a genius in my estimation." This appar- ently improvised song based on a number of lines about a wrong-doing woman was recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, one of a num- ber of recordings that persuaded Harry Oster he had discovered a man of rare talent there. Born into a sharecropping family in Zachary in 1914, Robert Williams moved to Baker and Scotlandville by the 1930s, doing farmwork and hauling lumber. When someone sold him a guitar cheaply he studied recordings by Blind Lemon Jefferson, admiring his speed, flexibility and range, and Peetie Wheatstraw. Soon, he said, "White folks started having me to play at their parties. I got to rappin' good with the guitar. They used to call me [after] Peetie Wheatstraw because I could play all his tunes." The newly-dubbed Robert 'Pete' also learned from a number of local players from the Baton Rouge area – his brother, two sisters, his uncle Simon Carney, and especially two older men, Frank and Robert Meddy – whose music was never recorded and is now lost to us. Robert Pete described playing at house parties and all night fish fries as part of a lost community of musicians that included Henry Gaines, Lacey Collins, Solomon Bradd, Dan Jackson, Walker Green, Willie Hudson, and Silas Hogan. Musically, Williams seems to have changed his style in the 1940s, "when I see where I could find more notes on a guitar."...

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Extract from: Various Artists - Blues Kings Of Baton Rouge (2-CD) - BCD17512
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