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1.1 I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart1.2 All I Want Is That Pure Religion1.3 Got the Blues1.4 Long Lonesome Blues1.5 Booster Blues1.6 Dry Southern Blues1.7 Black Horse Blues1.8 Corinna Blues1.9 Got the Blues1.10 Long Lonesome Blues1.11 Jack O'Diamond Blues (Take 1)1.12 Jack O'Diamond Blues (Take 2)1.13 Chock House Blues1.14 Beggin' Back1.15 Old Rounders Blues1.16 Stocking Feet Blues1.17 That Black Snake Moan1.18 Wartime Blues1.19 Broke and Hungry1.20 Shuckin' Sugar Blues1.21 Booger Rooger Blues1.22 Rabbit Foot Blues1.23 Bad Luck Blues |
 | | Description: | Blind Lemon Jefferson was a commercial sensation, the large sales of his first releases revealing to Paramount and the other record companies the existence of a species of blues beyond the vaudeville stage, and of an untapped market waiting to buy it. This first, of Document's four volumes of Blind Lemon Jefferson's complete recorded output, serves to remind us that those sales weren't simply the result of novelty. Jefferson was also a musical sensation, combining a piercing, wide-ranging voice with deft, imaginative guitar picking. For the first purchasers of those records, the experience was altogether different; usually, the only comparison available would have been with the work of their local blues singer, and it's very difficult now to recapture the astonishment that must have resulted from putting "Long Lonesome Blues" on the wind-up record player for the first time. Nevertheless, this two excellently remastered CD does enable the listener to get some way towards re-enacting that experience. Volume 1, in particular, conveys the same sense that one gets from Robert Johnson or Louis Armstrong, that here is a musician who can do anything, and who brings to the musical tradition in which he grew up a genius that makes him it's master as well as it's heir. Useful booklet notes are included from Jefferson mavin Bob Groom, and Volume 1, at least, should ornament any blues collection worthy of the name.Remastered at Studio Klement.
Original Matrix Information:
1: Chicago, c. December 1925 - January 1926 (11010-1, Paramount 12386)
2: Chicago, c. December 1925 - January 1926 (11041-1, Paramount 12386)
3: Chicago, c. March 1926 (2471-2, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723332]Paramount 12354[/url])
4: Chicago, c. March 1926 (2472-1, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723332]Paramount 12354[/url])
5: Chicago, c. March 1926 (2474-1, Paramount 12347)
6: Chicago, c. March 1926 (2475-1, Paramount 12347)
7: Chicago, c. April 1926 (2543-1, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723301]Paramount 12367[/url])
8: Chicago, c. April 1926 (2544-2, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723301]Paramount 12367[/url])
9: Chicago, c. May 1926 (1053-2, Paramount 12354)
10: Chicago, c. May 1926 (1054-, Paramount 12354)
11: Chicago, c. May 1926 (2557-1, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723333]Paramount 12373[/url])
12: Chicago, c. May 1926 (2557-2, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723333]Paramount 12373[/url])
13: Chicago, c. May 1926 (2558-2, Paramount 12373)
14: Chicago, c. August 1926 (2016-4, Paramount 12394)
15: Chicago, c. August 1926 (2018-1, Paramount 12394)
16: Chicago, c. November 1926 (3066-1, Paramount 12407)
17: Chicago, c. November 1926 (3067-2, Paramount 12407)
18: Chicago, c. November 1926 (3070-1, Paramount 12425)
19: Chicago, c. November 1926 (3076-2, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723313]Paramount 12443[/url])
20: Chicago, c. November 1926 (3077-2, Paramount 12454)
21: Chicago, c. December 1926 (3088-2, Paramount 12425)
22: Chicago, c. December 1926 (3089-1, Paramount 12454)
23: Chicago, c. December 1926 (3090-2, [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1723313]Paramount 12443[/url])
This is the first of four volumes.
© 1991 by Document Records.
Made in Austria. | | | No. of tracks: |
23 |
| | Manufacturer No.: |
DOCD5017 |
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