Smoky Babe - Way Back in the Country Blues: The Lost Dr. Oster Recordings (2014)

Tracklist

01. Boss Man Blues
02. Backyard Boogie
03. Bad Luck and Trouble
04. Diggin' My Potatoes
05. What's Wrong with You
06. Chicago Bound
07. If I Had Listened to What My Mama Say
08. On Mr. Walter's Farm
09. I'm Goin' Home on the Morning Train
10. I'm Goin' Away Baby
11. Way Back in the Country Blues
12. Shake, Shake Mattie
13. I'm Wild About You, Black Gal
14. Arkansas Blues
15. Terraplane Blues
16. Goin' Home Blues
17. Boogie Gal


Today it is hard to find anyone at all who remembers Robert Brown, the powerful Mississippi-born guitar player known to a few blues fans as Smoky Babe. Born in Itta Bena, MS, Smoky was recorded by folklorist Harry Oster in Louisiana and Mississippi on some twenty occasions between February 1960 and August 1961. These recordings were previously unissued, hidden away on tapes in Oster s widow s house. This record represents what we feel is the best of those long lost performances.

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