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Frank Stokes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yazoo
• ASIN: B0006TRO4U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,138 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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The Best Of Frank Stokes by Frank Stokes

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5.0 out of 5 stars great collection of early blues, February 14, 2012

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Frank Stokes is not as well known as, say, Mississippi John Hurt, or the great Delta bluesmen. But he is a fantastic player and singer in his own right. Much of this music combines influences from blues, ragtime, and string bands, which makes it a great window onto a bygone time and place. Also, while Stokes is a great player in the alternating-bass fingerpicking style that combines rhythm and lead, this CD also contains some beautiful songs in which he accompanies a fiddle player whose playing is haunting and lovely. There is some hiss, but every song is easily listenable, and Yazoo Records has done as good a job as I imagine can be done given the limitations of the original 78's--to me it just adds to the time-machine ambiance.