Registrazioni effettuate a metà degli anni '80. Non è una riedizione. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1994.
tracce 1-12 registrate agli studi della BBC di New York City il 10 ottobre 1938. Tracce 13-17 registrate a una festa a casa del Professor Hector Lee a Salt Lake City, Utah, il 9 Dicembre 1946.
Reissue of 'Negro Folk Songs for Young People', Folkways 7533 (1960), with additional tracks recorded in New York, 1941-1948.
Mastered at AirShow, Springfield, VA.
?© 1999 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Previously issued on Verve/Folkways. Previous Folkways issue: FTS 31006.
?© 1989 Smithsonian/Folkways Records [sic]
Tracks 1-12 and 24 recorded in Berkeley, California, April, 1966. Tracks 13-15 recorded in Navasota, Texas, August 12, 1960. Track 16 recorded in Navasota, June 30, 1960. Tracks 17-23 recorded in Navasota, August 13, 1960.
Tracks 1-7 and 12 previously issued on [r2715836] (Arhoolie LP 1033).
Tracks 8-11 and 13-24 previously unissued.
Original session matrix numbers:
1: M-144
2: M-147
3: M-158
4: M-155
5: M-156
6: M-162
7: M-153
8: M-135
9: M-141
10: M-145
11: M-146
12: M-161
13: M-26
14: M-28
15: M-35
16: M-7
17: M-43
18: M-44
19: M-47
20: M-53
21: M-54
22: M-58
23: M-59
24: M-T
Catalog number CD 465 on front cover; catalog number CD-465 on disc face; catalog number 465 on rear cover.
© & ? 1998 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
All songs composed or arranged by Mance Lipscomb
© ? JSP RECORDS
1986/2003
Credits on back have incorrect track numbers. They say "Willie Dixon - Speech/Vocals (Tracks 1-8)" and "Fred Below - Drums (Track 9), but Dixon is not heard on Track 8. The liner notes (excerpted below) indicate that the last nine tracks (8-16) are live recordings--not the tape with Willie Dixon--which is evidence that Dixon is in fact not on Track 8. Further confirmation is found on the original 1986 LP release, which credits Dixon only on the first 7 tracks found here.
There are no drums on Track 9, but there are drums on Tracks 10, 12, and 13. The original 1986 LP credits Fred Below for drums on "The Whale" (here Track 10). Tracks 12 & 13 are not on the original LP, so I have left drums on those tracks uncredited.
Quotation from the liner notes:
"JB and Willie Dixon are together on these recordings made in 1962 in JB's own home. Willie taped this as an audition tape for JB to come to Europe on the large Blues packages which then dominated the European Blues scene. They are sitting down together, relaxed, away from any commercial, studio or club situation and they are caught here talking, jiving and singing the Blues in a manner that has seldom been caught on tape."
"The balance of this album is made up of nine exciting live versions of songs he had recorded in the studio."
Packaged in regular jewel case, with black tray. with 4-page booklet.
Spine gives catalog # "JSPCD2154". Back cover and CD both give "JSP2154".
Con Big Joe Williams e Luther Huff.
Recorded in November 1969 at Ultrasonic Studios in New Orleans
Ristampa Repertoire dell'album del 1972
Materiale degli anni 1963-68 rimasterizzato