Category Archives: Liner Notes

3315: HOMESICK JAMES – “Goin’ Back Home” LP, CD & digital release         In the articles that have been written about Homesick James, here and especially abroad, much has been made of the uncertainty of has “true” name and actual … Continue reading →

3314: Dan DelSanto – “White Feathers in the Coop”   SIDE ONE –  FROM GREENVILLE TO RICHMOND – see the last tune. THE C.M. JORDAN BLUES – I ran across the guitar this song is played on while employed at … Continue reading →

3312: Roy Dunn – “Know’d Them All” Original LP and CD re-release Atlanta, Georgia was always a major blues center, starting with Barbecue Bob or Peg Leg Howell in the ’20s, on to Curley Weaver, Blind Willie McTe|l, or Buddy Moss in … Continue reading →

3311: Various Artists – “Detroit After Hours”              This album of piano blues from Detroit is truly “underground music”. Even by the time that demolition for the Chrysler freeway had inflicted wounds of a mortal nature in Detroit’s Black Bottom, … Continue reading →

3310: Tarheel Slim – “No Time at All” Original LP and CD re-release Success for a black musician is very often a fleeting thing, though a single hit can often carry an artist for some period of time. In 1959 there was … Continue reading →

 3309: Pernell Charity – “The Virginian” Original LP and CD re-release The phonograph record has had an important effect in shaping the song repertoire of many blues musicians and this is especially true of those who reside in a community with no … Continue reading →

3308: Eddie Kirkland – “The Devil (and other blues demons)”     * Original LP and CD re-release Eddie Kirkland . . . the Hawg man… Eddie Kirkland . . . with John Lee Hooker five years . . . Eddie Kirkland . . … Continue reading →

3307: Robert Jr. Lockwood – “Contrasts” Original LP and CD re-release       One of the happiest events in recent blues history is the emergence of Robert Jr. Lockwood from semi-retirement. He returns not as a man whose marvelous talent has seen better … Continue reading →

3306: Guitar Shorty – “Alone in his Field”               * Original LP and CD re-release Guitar Shorty is an unique indivldual, both from a musical and personal standpoint. In the former, he is a total musical animal, often spontaneously creating material on the … Continue reading →

3305: WILLIE TRICE – “Blue & Rag’d”            Original LP and CD re-release             Born February 10, 1910, Willie Agusta Trice has lived all his life within a mile or two of his birthplace, a quiet rural section of wooded … Continue reading →