Various Artists - Oh, Run into Me, But Don`t Hurt Me! [Digipak]

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

5411867112686

Description:

There are a couple of names here, like Memphis Minnie and Lucille Bogan, that will be familiar to fans of the early blues on this interesting collection of female blues singers who recorded between 1923 and 1930, but most of these singers will be unknown to all but the most serious blues scholars and collectors. Most of them recorded sparingly, often cutting only the two sides of a single 78, before vanishing into the mists of history, remaining now only as vocal ghosts in the digital glow of the 21st century. Those voices, however, remain amazingly powerful, and the honest coarseness and barely veiled sexual themes of these songs is oddly refreshing and hopeful, and the directness of some of these sides seems bold even by today`s standards. The little-known Margaret Johnson is a case in point. Her two-sided 78, which included the to-the-point-and-suffer-no-fools "Dead Drunk Blues," a song that could only be called a blues dirge, and the bright-sounding (but not really) "Second-Handed Blues," explores the universal themes of the wages and costs of love with all the subtlety of a hammer thrown through a pane of glass. The directness is startling, revealing, redemptive, and even a little frightening. In other words, it`s everything the blues should be. ~ Steve Leggett

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Trixie Blues - Anna Jones
2. Low Down Despondent Blues - Lena Henry
3. Get It Fixed - Rosa Henderson
4. I`m Gonna Get Me a Man, That`s All - Virginia Liston
5. Come Get Me Papa Before I Faint - Margaret Carter
6. I Want Plenty Grease in My Frying Pan - Margaret Carter
7. Somebody`s Been Lovin` My Babe - Monette Moore
8. Stole My Man Blues - Martha Copeland
9. Dead Drunk Blues - Margaret Johnson
10. Second-Handed Blues - Margaret Johnson
11. Down South Blues - Coletha Simpson
12. Third Alley Blues - Ivy Smith
13. Sad and Blue - Ivy Smith
14. You`ll Never Miss Your Jelly - Lil Johnson
15. Never Let Your Left Hand Know - Lil Johnson
16. Pot Hound Blues - Lucille Bogan
17. Coffee Grindin` Blues - Lucille Bogan
18. Doggin` Me Around Blues - Jenny Pope
19. Whiskey Drinking Blues - Jenny Pope
20. Bull Frog Blues - Jenny Pope
21. Tennessee Workhouse Blues - Jenny Pope
22. Black Angel Blues - Lucille Bogan
23. Tricks Ain`t Walking Anymore - Lucille Bogan
24. I`m Talking About You, No. 2 - Memphis Minnie

Album Information

Release Date:

05/05/2008

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Sub Rosa (Label)

Catalog Number:

SR 268

Original Release Year:

2008

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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