Bukka White Mississippi Blues lp

lp
2010/1963-64
new
White started playing music at parties, passing himself off as an adult to get more girls as early as age 14. He played baseball in the Negro leagues, boxed, gave BB King his first guitar (they were cousins), and imitated Charley Patton with his gravelly voice & National Steel slide. He shot a guy in the leg in Mississippi, jumped bail to record a couple of sides in Chicago, and had to do a 3 year stint at the notorious Parchman Farm as a result. Luckily, White's recordings did well while he was in jail, and more recordings/popularity earned him a relatively smooth sentence. He then went to work in a tank factory around Memphis, and stayed there until 1963, when John Fahey wrote him a letter (romantically addressed to Old Blues Singer, General Delivery, Aberdeen, Miss.). These recordings were made right after Fahey & Ed Denson met White. It had been 23 years since his last recording, but White's barrelhouse constitution is still strong enough to pull a river of songs down from the sky. Tracklisting: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues, Baby Please Don't Go, New Orleans Streamline, Parchman Farm Blues, Poor Boy Long Ways From Home, Rememberance of Charlie Patton, Shake Em On Down, I Am in the Heavenly Way, The Atlanta Special, Drunk Man Blues, Army Blues, World Boogie, Midnight Blue, Old Man Walking Blues.