Robert Pete Williams Poor Bob's Blues (2-CD)

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(1959-79 'Arhoolie') (96:15/19) Von Harry Oster, Produzent und Dokumentarist amerikanischer... more

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Robert Pete Williams: Poor Bob's Blues (2-CD)

(1959-79 'Arhoolie') (96:15/19) Von Harry Oster, Produzent und Dokumentarist amerikanischer Folklore, gemachte Aufnahmen. Williams gilt als einer der ungewöhnlichsten Bluesleute seiner Zeit; sein Stil ist individuell und 'afrikanischer' als jener seiner meisten Kollegen / Recorded by Harry Oster, field producer and researcher of American folklore. Williams was an unusal country blues artist. His style was more 'African' than any other contemporary's music. ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS - gtr/voc.

Article properties: Robert Pete Williams: Poor Bob's Blues (2-CD)

Interpret: Robert Pete Williams
Album titlle: Poor Bob's Blues (2-CD)
Label ARHOOLIE
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0096297051122
weight in Kg 0.107

Williams, Robert Pete - Poor Bob's Blues (2-CD) CD 1
01	My Mind Wandering Around	Robert Pete Williams
02	Cane Cut Man	Robert Pete Williams
03	My Daddy Was A Hoodoo Man	Robert Pete Williams
04	No More Sweet Potatoes	Robert Pete Williams
05	Poor Bob's Blues	Robert Pete Williams
06	Cows Love Music	Robert Pete Williams
07	Can't Yo-Yo No More	Robert Pete Williams
08	Shake, Shake Baby	Robert Pete Williams
09	Lord, I Done You Wrong	Robert Pete Williams
10	Been Mistreated So Long	Robert Pete Williams
11	Things All Wrong With Me	Robert Pete Williams
12	Matchbox Blues	Robert Pete Williams
13	Sad News From Korea	Robert Pete Williams
14	What A Shape I'm In	Robert Pete Williams
15	Poor Boy, Long Way From Home	Robert Pete Williams
16	Out All Night Long	Robert Pete Williams
17	Crying Won't Make Me Stay	Robert Pete Williams
18	All Out And Down	Robert Pete Williams
19	Tom And Old Master	Robert Pete Williams

Williams, Robert Pete - Poor Bob's Blues (2-CD) CD 2
01	Things All Wrong With Me	Robert Pete Williams
02	Matchbox Blues	Robert Pete Williams
03	Sad News From Korea	Robert Pete Williams
04	What A Shape I'm In	Robert Pete Williams
05	Poor Boy, Long Way From Home	Robert Pete Williams
06	Out All Night Long	Robert Pete Williams
07	Crying Won't Make Me Stay	Robert Pete Williams
08	All Out & Down	Robert Pete Williams
09	Tom And Old Master (Story)	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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