I'm a Mojo Man [Import]

Lonesome Sundown (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B00002M7UP
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,855 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gonna Stick To You Baby

2. I'm A Mojo Man

3. I Stood By

4. Don't Go

5. Lonely Lonely Me

6. You Know I Love You

7. Learn To Treat Me Better

8. Lonesome Lonely Blues

9. I'm Glad She's Mine

10. Sundown Blues

11. My Home Ain't Here

12. What You Wanna Do It For

13. I Woke Up Cryin' (Oh What A Dream)

14. When I Had I Didn't Need (Now I Need, Don't Have A Dime)

15. I'm A Samplin' Man

16. Hoo Doo Woman Blues

17. I'm A Young Man

18. It's Easy When You Know How

19. I Got A Broken Heart

20. Don't Say A Word

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

1994 compilation for artist who unlike many of his swamp blues brethren, the evocatively moniker Lonesome Sundown (the name was an inspired gift from producer J.D. Miller), wasn't a Jimmy Reed disciple. Sundown's somber brand of blues was more in keeping with the gruff sound of Muddy Waters. The guitarist was one of the most powerful members of Miller's south Louisiana stable, responsible for several seminal swamp standards on Excello Records. Ace.

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5.0 out of 5 stars No National Hits - But A Louisiana Legend of Swamp Blues Nonetheless, December 18, 2011

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This review is from: I'm a Mojo Man (Audio CD)

You won't find Lonesome Sundown (born Cornelius Green on December 12, 1928 at the Dugas Plantation not far from Donaldsonville, Louisiana) in the history of any national musical charts, but he was something of a local legend in the annals of what became known as Swamp Blues. That off-spring of Louisiana Blues, itself a morphing of New Orleans blues, traditional Cajun music, zydeco and soul, developed in and around Baton Rouge, was embraced by Green in the early 1950s as he worked at various jobs in the state.

A fan of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, his dabbling in music, and especially his guitar work, caught the ear of Clifton Chenier who, sometime in 1955, asked him to join his Zydeco Ramblers, and for the next few months toured with them as far away as Chicago and L.A. Later that year, however, he left the band and returned to Louisiana where, while sitting in here and there with local groups, he began writing his own material. After putting a couple on a demo tape, he approached a local producer named J. D. "Jay" Miller in Crowley, Louisiana.

Miller liked what he heard on Leave My Money Alone and Lost Without Love so much that he convinced Green to take on the stage name Lonesome Sundown, and then leased both sides in 1956 to Excello Records, which had been launched in Nashville in 1953 by Ernie Young as a blues subsidiary of the Gospel label Nashboro. Released as Excello 2092, it created enough of a stir locally that Green would become a mainstay with the label right through to 1965, with something like 16 singles.

And while none ever made the national charts, they were always popular with devoted fans of what became widely known as "The Excello Sound" epitomized by the likes of Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Lazy Lester, Arthur Gunter, Carol Fran, Louie Brooks & The Hi-Toppers, Silas Hogan, Roscoe Shelton, Guitar Gable, Leroy Washington, Lillian Offitt, The Gladiolas, Shy Guy Douglas, and many more.

And, of course, Lonesome Sundown, who is joined on many of these sides by Lazy Lester on harmonica, pianist Katie Webster, and tenor saxophonist Lionel Prevost. As is the norm with Ace of London products, the sound is excellent, and the liner notes informative. Certainly a must for any devoted fan of the Swamp Blues, and highly recommended to anyone wanting to experience that unique "Sound" for the first time. For your added information I have listed his complete Excello singles catalogue in the Comments below, with an asterisk (*) in front of those sides included in this volume that were issued as singles.

Green passed away at age 67 on April 23, 1995.