Eric Bibb - Booker’s Guitar (2010)

Tracklist

01. Booker's guitar
02. With my maker I am one
03. Flood water
04. Walkin' blues again
05. Sunrise blues
06. Wayfaring stranger
07. Train from Aberdeen
08. New home
09. Nobody's fault but mine
10. One soul to save
11. Rocking chair
12. Turning pages
13. A good woman
14. Tell riley
15. A-Z Blues
16. Everyday's been Sunday
17. River of song
18. Dreaming in Mandinka


Eric Bibb's 'Booker's Guitar' captures the spirit of the original Delta blues of the early 20th century and reinterprets it for a new era. Bibb recorded the title track, one of his own compositions, in England using Delta blues legend Booker White's 1930s vintage Resophonic National steel-body guitar that had been recently re-discovered.

The remaining tracks, although recorded in rural Ohio on Bibb's own guitars, sprang from the same well of inspiration. "Once I had written that song, I really wanted to make a complete statement and document my connection to the Delta blues tradition," says Bibb. "I really wanted to put myself in the position of my heroes, but in a contemporary context, and create songs that I feel could have been part of their repertoire and could have come from their own experience."

Eric Bibb is one of the leading figures on the acoustic folk-blues scene. He draws large audiences with his rich sensitive vocals, thoughtful lyrics and dazzling finger-picking technique whenever he tours the UK.

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