V/A feat. R.L. Burnside – Let’s Move: A Heavy Blues Collection (CD, UK)

26 October 2012

Mojo

MOJO DECEMBER 2012

01. R.L. Burnside – Goin’ Down South 02. Magic Sam Blues Band – I Feel So Good 03. Junior Kimbrough – I Gotta Try You Girl 04. Howlin’ Wolf – Shake For Me 05. Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers – Give Me Back My Wig 06. Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Drudup – That’s All Right 07. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Let’s Move 08. Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band With Buddy Guy – Chitlin Con Carne 09. John Lee Hooker – Devil’s Jump 10. Muddy Waters – I can’t Be Satisfied 11. Bo Diddly – Watusi Bounce 12. Elmore James – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ 13. Jimmy Dawkins – Triple Trebles 14. B.B. King – She’s Dynamite 15. T-Model Ford & Gravelroad – How Many More Years
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NOTES:
The compilation Let’s Move: A Heavy Blues Collection was a covermount CD included with the December 2012 issue of Mojo Magazine (available in the UK from 26 October 2012) which featured a Goin’ Down South from the R.L. Burnside (with The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) album A Ass Pocket of Whiskey.
SONG CREDITS:
01. R.L. Burnside – Goin’ Down South Writer: Burnside Published: Mocking Bird Music (BMI) Vocals/Guitar: R.L. Burnside Guitar: Kenny Brown Guitar/Harmonica/Vocals/Casio SK-1: Judah Bauer Drums: Russell Simins Guitar/Vocals/Drums/Theremin: Jon Spencer Recorded on the afternoon of 2-6-96 at Lunati Farms in Holly Springs, MS. Produced: Matthew Johnson Recorded: Bruce Watson Mixed/Sequenced at Waterworks, Tuscon, AZ by Jim Waters and Judah Bauer Assisted by Saylor Breckenridge 02. Magic Sam Blues Band – I Feel So Good Writer: Herman ‘Jr’ Parker Published: Blues Man Music, BMI. (p) & (c) Recorded October 25, 1967 Original cover photo by Jack Bradley, original cover design by Z. Jastrzebski. Licensed courtest of Delmark Records www.delmark.com Available on: Magic Sam Blues Band – West Side Soul (Delmark DE-615) 03. Junior Kimbrough – I Gotta Try You Girl Writer: Junior Kimbrough Published: Big Legal Mess (p) & (c) 1998 Fat Possum, LLC. Licensed courtesy of Fat Possum Records www.fatpossum.com Available on: God Knows I Tried (Fat Possum CD/LP/DOWNLOAD) 04. Howlin’ Wolf – Shake For Me Writer: Dixon Published: ArcMusic 05. Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers – Give Me Back My Wig Writer: Theodore Roosevelt Taylor Published: Taylor, Eyeball Music, BMI (p) & (c) (ALCD4701) Licensed courtesy of Alligator Records www.alligator.com Available on Hound Dog Taylor And The House Rockers (Alligator) 06. Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Drudup – That’s All Right Writer: Arthur Crudup Published: Wabash, BMI 07. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Let’s Move Writer: Hopkins Published: Angel Music 08. Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band With Buddy Guy – Chitlin Con Carne Writer: Kenny Burrell Published: Sephra Music, ASCAP (p) & (c) Recorded September 22, 1968 & cover design is Z. Jastrzebski Licensed courtesy of Delmark Records. www.delmark.com Available on: Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy – Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark DE-612) 09. John Lee Hooker – Devil’s Jump Writer: Texas Slim Published: Copyright Control 10. Muddy Waters – I can’t Be Satisfied Writer: Morganfield Published: Arc Music 11. Bo Diddly – Watusi Bounce Writer: McDaniel Published: Arc Music 12. Elmore James – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ Writer: Morganfield Published: Arc Music 13. Jimmy Dawkins – Triple Trebles Writer: Jimmy Dawkins Published: Leric Music, BMI (p) & (c) Recorded November 28, 1968 & cover photo by Jim Falconer Licensed courtesy of Delmark Records www.delmark.com Available on: Jimmy Dawkins – Fast Fingers (Delmark DD-623) 14. B.B. King – She’s Dynamite Writer: Riley Jr King Published: Universal Music Publishing Group 15. T-Model Ford & Gravelroad – How Many More Years Writer: Chester Burnett Published: BMG Platinum Songs US, BMG, A/c Arc/Conrad Music LLC, dba Arc Music. (p) & (c) 2011 Alive Naturalsound records. www.alivenergy.com Available on: Taledragger (Alive CD/LP/DOWNLOAD)
SLEEVE NOTES:
This month the conversation at Mojo HQ has revolved around Celebration Day, the exceptional film of Led Zeppelin’s triumphant show at London’s HQ Arena in December 2007. In his introduction to Trampled Underfoot, Robert Plant namechecks Robert Johnson as well as a set of musical adventures in Mississippi. It was the mention of these escapades that sent us back to listen to a bunch of blues records. We started with Johnson’s seminal King of The Delta Blues Singers, but as the month progressed, our choice of records shifted into electric blues territory as we graduated to classic recordings by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Magic Sam, and the on to the likes of R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford and Junior Kimbrough. Suddenly we were deep in heavy blues territory, creating a bunch of playlists packed with hard-driving, swining music. This 15-track compilation is an edited version of those playlists. It is designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the genre, but ultimately it is engineered as the soundtrack to a night of mischief. Some of these tracks will be familiar, some won’t. Let’s Move by Lightnin’ Hopkins is a tune that Jools Holland played us a few years back when he compiled a list of his favourite boogie albums for Mojo. Somehow, it seemed to encapsulate the intention of this compilation, hence its inclusion as the title track. “The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has meaning,” said John Lee Hooker prior to his death in 2001. Listen up and hear what these songs ave to say…” Phil Alexander Editor-In-Chief, Mojo Magazine London, England. October 2012
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ARTWORK: BARCODE (Magazine): 9 771351 019157 MATRIX: “MOJO DECEMBER 2012 00095 52909 212 01 * 53141138”