Various Artists - I Can`t Be Satisfied: Early American Women Vol. 2

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

016351202727

Description:

Full title: I Can`t Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers, Vol. 2. Performers include: Ma Rainey, Sara Martin, Sippie Wallace, Lottie Kimbrough, Mae Glover. Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins. Liner Note Author: Don Kent. Although this second volume of I Can`t Be Satisfied features a more uptown approach to the blues than the first volume, which centered on the rural aspects, this selection of American women blues singers from the 1920s is only a small degree removed from those roots, and the presence of small jazz combos and striking horn leads on these sides augments that Deep South country blues pedigree way more than it transforms it into the halls of urbane sophistication. These tracks are still undeniably the blues, and the jazz trappings can`t disguise that fact. After all, having the blues in town isn`t any different than having them in the country, and if there is a difference between the rural and the urban approaches, it may be that the sensuality on display here is even more pronounced and boldly delivered. Some of these sides literally purr (and some downright roar) as such fine singers as Sippie Wallace ("Section Hand Blues"), Clara Smith ("Strugglin` Woman`s Blues"), Madlyn Davis ("Winter Blues"), and the unstoppable Ma Rainey (a chugging jug band version of "Traveling Blues") instill sometimes clichd floating blues lyrics with passion and verve, bringing them to life with an often amazing vibrancy, reminding listeners that the blues aren`t really about being down and out, but instead are about surviving on one`s own terms. ~ Steve Leggett

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Dirty T.B. Blues - Victoria Spivey
2. Strugglin` Woman`s Blues - Clara Smith
3. Everybody Does It Now - Martha Copeland
4. Pay Roll Blues - Lucille Bogan
5. Forget Me Not Blues - Sara Martin
6. Section Hand Blues - Sippie Wallace
7. Good Chib Blues - Edith North Johnson
8. Traveling Blues - Ma Rainey
9. Do Dirty Blues - Bertha "Chippie" Hill
10. I Helped You, Sick Man, When You Were Down and Out - Katherine Baker
11. He`s Never Gonna Throw Me Down - Sara Martin
12. Blood Hound Blues - Victoria Spivey
13. Dead Drunk Blues - Margaret Johnson
14. Parlor Social De Luxe - Sippie Wallace
15. Bye Bye Baby - Hattie Burleson
16. Winter Blues - Madlyn Davis
17. My Own Man Blues - Ivy Smith
18. Jim Nappy - Hattie Burleson
19. How Long - James Brown
20. Trouble in Mind - Bertha "Chippie" Hill
21. Walking Blues - Ma Rainey
22. Mistreatin` Man Blues - Sara Martin
23. Trouble Everywhere I Roam - Sippie Wallace

Album Information

Release Date:

03/18/1997

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Country Blues

Label:

Yazoo

Producer:

Don Kent; Richard Nevins

Catalog Number:

2027

Original Release Year:

1997

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mixed

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