Various Artists - Putumayo Presents Blues Café (2022) FLAC

The musical genre that has come to be known as the blues has made quite a journey. The blues has traveled back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and meandered up the Mississippi River from the rural South to the urban North. It has crossed racial and class boundaries as well, migrating from rough and tumble juke joints to sophisticated concert halls.
The blues was born on the cotton and tobacco plantations of the South, descending from field hollers and created to express the sorrow and tribulations that plagued enslaved African Americans and their sharecropper descendants. Although it was once consid- ered “devil’s music,” the blues is now recognized widely as a major American art form. It has influenced popular music for generations by providing the musical underpinnings for jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and even hip-hop.
These days, you can find blues aficionados, musicians, venues, festivals, and radio programs almost anywhere in the world. Yet despite its international appeal, the roots and soul of the blues remain in the silty waters of the Mississippi Delta, the dusty roads of east Texas, and the verdant fields of the Piedmont plateau.
Despite its historical importance and the reverence it inspires among fans, musicians and scholars, the survival of the blues tra- dition in the regions where it was born is threatened. The original blues pioneers have passed on and many of the elders who remain are struggling to get by. The social and economic disorders that first inspired blues musicians generations ago are still a long way from being cured.



1.01 - Lightnin' Hopkins - Found My Baby Crying (4:02)
1.02 - Arnaud Fradin & His Roots Combo - Good Morning Love (5:23)
1.03 - Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee - Walk On (3:11)
1.04 - Junior Wells & Buddy Guy - In The Wee Hours (3:46)
1.05 - Lurrie Bell - Blues In My Soul (6:05)
1.06 - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Somebody Got To Go (4:03)
1.07 - Alabama Slim & Little Freddie King - I Got The Blues (4:41)
1.08 - John Dee Holeman & The Waifs - Comin' Home To You (7:32)
1.09 - Otis Spann, James Cotton & Muddy Waters - The Blues Never Die (3:43)
1.10 - Algia Mae Hinton - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad (2:04)