Jessie Mae Hemphill - She-Wolf

Artist:

Hemphill, Jessie Mae

UPC:

012928650823

Description:

Personnel includes: Jessie Mae Hemphill (vocals); David Evans (guitar); Joe Hicks (drums).
Personnel: Jessie Mae Hemphill (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Dr. David Evans (guitar); Calvin Jackson , Joe Hicks (drums).
Audio Mixers: Ian Marks; Matthew Kosel.
Liner Note Authors: Dr. David Evans ; Jessie Mae Hemphill.
Recording information: Center For Southern Folklore, Memphis, TN (07/28/1979-12/05/1980); Como, MS (07/28/1979-12/05/1980); Senatobia, MS (07/28/1979-12/05/1980); Shoe Productions Studio, Memphis, TN (07/28/1979-12/05/1980).
Photographer: Tom Wofford.
This compact disc reissue gathers up all the original tracks from Jessie Mae`s 1980 debut album for the French Vogue label along with four remixed bonus tracks, all seeing their first domestic release. Recorded by folklorist Dr. David Evans (who also contributes second guitar on 13 of the 15 tracks here) in various locales around Memphis and Mississippi, the music stays down-home and primal throughout. There`s a strong sense of rhythm that permeates this record, whether it comes from the fife and drum-derived percussion work of Calvin Jackson and Joe Hicks or simply Jessie Mae`s own foot-operated tambourine driving the beat home. Highlights include "Jessie`s Boogie" and "Standing In My Doorway Crying" (both sides of her first 45 single, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts), "Honey Bee," "Boogie Side of the Road," "Crawdad Hole," "Lovin` In the Moonlight," "Married Man Blues" and the title track. The blues, real and raw. ~ Cub Koda

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. She-Wolf
2. Standing in My Doorway Crying
3. Jump, Baby, Jump
4. Take Me Home With You, Baby
5. Black Cat Bone
6. Boogie `Side the Road
7. Hard Times
8. Crawdad Hole
9. Married Man Blues
10. Honey Bee
11. Overseas Blues
12. Loving in the Moonlight
13. Bullyin` Well
14. Jessie`s Boogie
15. My Lord Do Just What He Say

Album Information

Release Date:

01/13/1998

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Delta

Label:

Shout! Records

Producer:

David Evans

Catalog Number:

HMG 6508

Original Release Year:

1981

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

55 : 48

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