Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues

by Bukka White

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Brian Parker Bukka is essential original blues. While for me, nothing is as spooky as the original Okeh stuff, this is a welcome addition. The improved fidelity of the 60’s recording helps showcase his guitar playing.

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1.	Shake 'em on Down 03:32	buy track
2.	I Am in the Heavenly Way 03:44	buy track
3.	Atlanta Special 05:55	buy track
4.	Drunk Man Blues 03:53	buy track
5.	Army Blues 03:03	buy track
6.	Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues 04:12	buy track
7.	Baby Please Don't Go 04:50	buy track
8.	New Orleans, Streamline 03:45	buy track
9.	When Can I Change My Clothes 02:54	buy track
10.	Poor Boy Long Way From Home 02:22	buy track
11.	Remembrance of Charley Patton 03:54	buy track
12.	World Boogie 02:33	buy track
13.	Midnight Blue 02:36	buy track
14.	Old Man Walking Blues 05:40	buy track
15.	Black Rat (live in Germany) 06:21	buy track
16.	Way Out in the West (live in Germany) 05:48	buy track
17.	Mama Don't Allow (live in Germany) 06:36	buy track
18.	Stuttgart, Arkansas (live in Germany) 06:32	buy track
19.	Don't Fuzz Blues (live in Germany) 03:46	buy track
20.	Big Boat Up the River (live in Germany) 08:11	buy track
21.	New Orleans Streamline (live in Germany) 04:28	buy track
22.	Every Day I Have the Blues (live in Germany) 05:52	buy track
23.	Aberdeen Blues (live in Germany) 03:03	buy track
24.	Midnight Blues (live in Germany) 04:36	buy track
25.	Poor Boy Long Way From Home (live in Germany) 02:34	buy track

about

He was born Booker T Washington White. Born in 1909, Booker was the son of a railroad worker. While serving time for assault, he recorded for the folklorist John Lomax. The few songs he recorded around this time became his most well known: “Shake ‘Em On Down,” and “Po’ Boy.” His 1937 version of the oft-recorded song “Shake ‘Em on Down,” is considered definitive; it became a hit while White was serving time in Mississippi State Penitentiary, commonly known as Parchman Farm. He wrote about his experience there in “Parchman Farm Blues,” which was released in 1940. Bob Dylan covered his song “Fixin’ to Die Blues,” which aided a “rediscovery” of White in 1963 by guitarist John Fahey and Ed Denson, which propelled him into the folk revival of the 1960s. Led Zeppelin’s “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper,” on their album Led Zeppelin III was based in large part on “Shake ‘Em on Down,” while “Custard Pie,” on Physical Graffiti, also references “Shake ‘Em on Down.” It was also brilliantly covered by the North Mississippi Allstars. “Parchman Farm Blues” was recorded by Jeff Buckley, issued posthumously on the bonus disc of Grace. The 14 studio tracks that lead off this collection are White’s 1960’s revivalist recordings produced by John Fahey, while the final 11 tracks present an entire White concert from Bremen, Germany - never released in North America on any format and unavailable for the last 40 years.

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released October 11, 2019

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