VA - Matchbox Bluesmaster Series, Vol. 6 (2022)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Matchbox Bluesmaster Series, Vol. 6
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Matchbox Bluesmaster
Genre: Blues
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks+digatal booklet)
Total Time: 05:27:02
Total Size: 758 mb | 1.2 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Matchbox Bluesmaster Series, Vol. 6
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Matchbox Bluesmaster
Genre: Blues
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks+digatal booklet)
Total Time: 05:27:02
Total Size: 758 mb | 1.2 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1
01. Papa Charlie Jackson - Salt Lake City Blues
02. Papa Charlie Jackson - Mama Don't Allow It (And She Ain't Gonna Have It Here)
03. Papa Charlie Jackson - I'm Tired Of Fooling Around With You
04. Papa Charlie Jackson - The Judge Cliff Davis Blues
05. Papa Charlie Jackson - Four Eleven Forty Four
06. Papa Charlie Jackson - Bad Luck Woman Blues
07. Papa Charlie Jackson - Gay Cattin'
08. Papa Charlie Jackson - Look Out Papa Don't Tear Your Pants
09. Papa Charlie Jackson - Long Gone Lost John
10. Papa Charlie Jackson - I'm Looking For A Woman Who Knows How To Treat Me Right
11. Papa Charlie Jackson - Lexington Kentucky Blues
12. Papa Charlie Jackson - Good Doing Papa Blues
13. Papa Charlie Jackson - Corn Liquor Blues
14. Papa Charlie Jackson - Hot Papa Blues
15. Papa Charlie Jackson - Tailor Made Love
16. Papa Charlie Jackson - Take Me Back Blues No. 2
17. Papa Charlie Jackson - 'Tain't What You Do But How You Do It
18. Papa Charlie Jackson - Forgotten Blues
CD2
01. Memphis Jug Band - I Packed My Suitcase, Started To The Train
02. Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues
03. Memphis Jug Band - Evergreen Money Blues
04. Memphis Jug Band - Coal Oil Blues
05. Memphis Jug Band - Peaches In the Springtime
06. Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz
07. Memphis Jug Band - Feed Your Friend With a Long Handled Spoon
08. Memphis Jug Band - I Whipped My Woman With a Single Tree
09. Memphis Jug Band - Stonewall Blues
10. Memphis Jug Band - He's in the Jailhouse Now
11. Memphis Jug Band - Move That Thing
12. Memphis Jug Band - You Got Me Rollin'
13. Memphis Jug Band - My Love Is Cold
14. Memphis Jug Band - Jazzbo Stomp
15. Memphis Jug Band - Tear It Down, Bed Slats and All
16. Memphis Jug Band - Fishin' In the Dark
17. Memphis Jug Band - Rukas Juice and Chittlin'
18. Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Quartette
CD3
01. Barbecue Bob - When the Saints Go Marching In
02. Barbecue Bob - Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole
03. Barbecue Bob - Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name
04. Barbecue Bob - It Won't Be Long Now, Pt. 1
05. Barbecue Bob - It Won't Be Long Now, Pt. 2
06. Barbecue Bob - Goin' Up the Country
07. Barbecue Bob - Ease It to Me Blues
08. Barbecue Bob - She's Gone Blues
09. Barbecue Bob - Cold Wave Blues
10. Barbecue Bob - Good Time Rounder
11. Barbecue Bob - Red Hot Mama Papa's Going to Cool You Off
12. Barbecue Bob - Trouble Done Bore Me Down
13. Barbecue Bob - Unnamed Title
14. Barbecue Bob - She Moves It Just Right
15. Barbecue Bob - Yo Yo Blues No. 2
16. Barbecue Bob - Darktown Gamblin', Pt. 1 (The Crap Game)
CD4
01. Bobby Leecan - Black Cat Bone Blues
02. Bobby Leecan - Dirty Guitar Blues
03. Bobby Leecan - Dollar Blues
04. Bobby Leecan - Maxwell and Peoria Blues
05. Bobby Leecan - South Street Blues
06. Bobby Leecan - Hock My Shoes
07. Bobby Leecan - Ain't She Sweet
08. Bobby Leecan - Don't Let Your Head Hang Down
09. Bobby Leecan - Royal Palm Blues
10. Bobby Leecan - Blue Harmonica
11. Bobby Leecan - Macon Georgia Cut Out
12. Bobby Leecan - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
13. Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band - Memphis Shake
14. Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band - My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
15. Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band - Kansas City Shuffle
16. Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band - Black Cat Bones
CD5
01. Roosevelt Sykes - Black River Blues
02. Roosevelt Sykes - Bury That Thing
03. Roosevelt Sykes - I Love You More and More
04. Roosevelt Sykes - Cotton Seed Blues
05. Roosevelt Sykes - Drinkin' Woman Blues
06. Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff
07. Isabel Sykes - Don't Rush Yourself
08. Charlie McFadden - Low Down Rounders Blues
09. Charlie McFadden - Last Journey Blues
10. Charlie McFadden - Hold It Where You Got It
11. Charlie McFadden - Lonesome Ghost Blues
12. Clarence Harris - Try My Whiskey Blues
13. Clarence Harris - Lonesome Clock Blues
14. Carl Rafferty - Mr. Carl's Blues
15. Johnnie Strauss - Hard Working Woman
16. Johnnie Strauss - St. Louis Johnnie Blues
17. Johnnie Strauss - Radio Broadcasting Blues
18. Johnnie Strauss - Old Market Street Blues
CD6
01. Mississippi Sheiks - Sheiks Special
02. Mississippi Sheiks - Dear Little Girl
03. Mississippi Sheiks - Please Don't Wake It Up
04. Mississippi Sheiks - She's a Bad Girl
05. Mississippi Sheiks - Tell Me What the Cats Fight About
06. Mississippi Sheiks - Kind Treatment
07. Mississippi Sheiks - Lazy Lazy River
08. Mississippi Sheiks - Too Long
09. Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker
10. Mississippi Sheiks - When You're Sick With the Blues
11. Mississippi Sheiks - She's Crazy About Her Lovin'
12. Mississippi Sheiks - Tell Me to Do Right
13. Mississippi Sheiks - Kitty Cat Blues
14. Mississippi Sheiks - Show Me What You Got
15. Mississippi Sheiks - Hitting the Numbers
16. Mississippi Sheiks - It's Done Got Wet
17. Mississippi Sheiks - She's Got Something Crazy
18. Mississippi Sheiks - You'll Work Down to Me Someday
The sixth six-CD set in the Matchbox Bluesmaster Series is slightly more slanted towards ‘hokum’ music than previous sets, featuring the work of popular entertainers as well as that of more ‘pure’ blues artists, but like its predecessors it is a veritable goldmine, containing numerous priceless nuggets of early recorded music, all scrupulously annotated by world authority Paul Oliver.
Papa Charlie Jackson is unusual in that his preferred instrument is the banjo rather than the guitar (though three tracks here feature his limber guitar playing), and this gives his music a slightly vaudevillian flavour, appropriate for his work as an entertainer on medicine shows, where he’d play for hoochy-coochy dancers etc., using contemporary events and issues as inspiration for a number of his original songs. His has a pleasingly informal approach, his singing frequently interspersed with spoken interludes; as Oliver comments, he ‘never seemed to succumb to complaints… but told of scuffling and hardship with a wry, sometimes ironic humour’.
The Memphis Jug Band needs no introduction – anyone interested in early American music will doubtless already be familiar with such timeless classics as ‘Stealin’, Stealin’’, ‘Whitewash Station Blues’ and ‘Got a Letter from My Darlin’’ – but this selection features other vocalists as well as Will Shade, Ben Ramey and Will Weldon, among them the sweetly strident Jennie Clayton and Charlie ‘Bozo’ Nickerson. Their material, delivered with all their customary panache (featuring musical saw, kazoo, washboard as well as the jug), is anchored in blues, but also contains dance material and road-show standards, well loved by audiences keen to distract themselves from the vicissitudes associated with the Great Depression.
The CD featuring Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks) begins with ‘When the Saints Go Marching in’, a relatively uncommon selection at the time (though it has subsequently become the anthem of the New Orleans Revival), and continues with another religious number, ‘Jesus’ Blood Can Make Me Whole’, but the singer is clearly more at ease with secular titles such as ‘Easy Rider, Don’t You Deny My Name’ or the hokum of ‘It Won’t be Long Now’, a humorous song performed with his older brother Charley, who taught him to play guitar. Barbecue Bob has a warm baritone voice and an eclectic repertoire, so his premature death at 29 from pneumonia robbed the music of a potential great.
Leecan & Cooksey are Bobby Leecan (guitar) and Robert Cooksey (harmonica), and most of the cuts on their CD are duets (apart from a solo ‘Blind Bobbie Baker’ version of the classic ‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out’), all addressed with considerable brio, if no great subtlety. They also collaborated with cornet player Tom Morris in the Dixie Jassers Washboard Band, who provide the last four items in this lively, intriguing selection.
Roosevelt Sykes is another familiar name, here caught at the beginning of a fifty-year career. Professional to his fingertips, he clearly hit his stride early (he is in his mid-twenties on these sessions), dispensing an easy-rolling piano which perfectly complements both his own engaging singing and that of others included here, such as Isabel Sykes, Charlie McFadden and Carl Rafferty. As Oliver points out, Sykes was ‘unusual among blues singers for he had an outgoing disposition and a… generally optimistic outlook’, and his inclusion in this set brings welcome emotional variety to the proceedings.
The Mississippi Sheiks are a family string band with rural origins featuring Bo Carter (Chatmon) and Walter Vinson among others, and their repertoire is fascinatingly broad-based, including songs about everything from Prohibition to automobiles and the numbers racket. The violin playing of Lonnie Chatmon is, admittedly, not particularly tuneful, but if the band are somewhat lacking in strict musicality they more than make up for it with the spirit and energy of their performances.
This is the penultimate issue in a seven-set series, but Saydisc are to continue their admirable reissuing policy with a further five volumes (each of six CDs) of Matchbox 1970s blues releases (including Library of Congress recordings), field recordings and some unissued material.
Papa Charlie Jackson is unusual in that his preferred instrument is the banjo rather than the guitar (though three tracks here feature his limber guitar playing), and this gives his music a slightly vaudevillian flavour, appropriate for his work as an entertainer on medicine shows, where he’d play for hoochy-coochy dancers etc., using contemporary events and issues as inspiration for a number of his original songs. His has a pleasingly informal approach, his singing frequently interspersed with spoken interludes; as Oliver comments, he ‘never seemed to succumb to complaints… but told of scuffling and hardship with a wry, sometimes ironic humour’.
The Memphis Jug Band needs no introduction – anyone interested in early American music will doubtless already be familiar with such timeless classics as ‘Stealin’, Stealin’’, ‘Whitewash Station Blues’ and ‘Got a Letter from My Darlin’’ – but this selection features other vocalists as well as Will Shade, Ben Ramey and Will Weldon, among them the sweetly strident Jennie Clayton and Charlie ‘Bozo’ Nickerson. Their material, delivered with all their customary panache (featuring musical saw, kazoo, washboard as well as the jug), is anchored in blues, but also contains dance material and road-show standards, well loved by audiences keen to distract themselves from the vicissitudes associated with the Great Depression.
The CD featuring Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks) begins with ‘When the Saints Go Marching in’, a relatively uncommon selection at the time (though it has subsequently become the anthem of the New Orleans Revival), and continues with another religious number, ‘Jesus’ Blood Can Make Me Whole’, but the singer is clearly more at ease with secular titles such as ‘Easy Rider, Don’t You Deny My Name’ or the hokum of ‘It Won’t be Long Now’, a humorous song performed with his older brother Charley, who taught him to play guitar. Barbecue Bob has a warm baritone voice and an eclectic repertoire, so his premature death at 29 from pneumonia robbed the music of a potential great.
Leecan & Cooksey are Bobby Leecan (guitar) and Robert Cooksey (harmonica), and most of the cuts on their CD are duets (apart from a solo ‘Blind Bobbie Baker’ version of the classic ‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out’), all addressed with considerable brio, if no great subtlety. They also collaborated with cornet player Tom Morris in the Dixie Jassers Washboard Band, who provide the last four items in this lively, intriguing selection.
Roosevelt Sykes is another familiar name, here caught at the beginning of a fifty-year career. Professional to his fingertips, he clearly hit his stride early (he is in his mid-twenties on these sessions), dispensing an easy-rolling piano which perfectly complements both his own engaging singing and that of others included here, such as Isabel Sykes, Charlie McFadden and Carl Rafferty. As Oliver points out, Sykes was ‘unusual among blues singers for he had an outgoing disposition and a… generally optimistic outlook’, and his inclusion in this set brings welcome emotional variety to the proceedings.
The Mississippi Sheiks are a family string band with rural origins featuring Bo Carter (Chatmon) and Walter Vinson among others, and their repertoire is fascinatingly broad-based, including songs about everything from Prohibition to automobiles and the numbers racket. The violin playing of Lonnie Chatmon is, admittedly, not particularly tuneful, but if the band are somewhat lacking in strict musicality they more than make up for it with the spirit and energy of their performances.
This is the penultimate issue in a seven-set series, but Saydisc are to continue their admirable reissuing policy with a further five volumes (each of six CDs) of Matchbox 1970s blues releases (including Library of Congress recordings), field recordings and some unissued material.
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