London Calling [Import]

Mississippi Fred McDowell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Snapper UK
• ASIN: B000BJ63BK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,489 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 61 Highway

2. Red Cross Store

3. When I Lay My Burden Down

4. Evil Hearted Woman

5. I Asked For Whiskey, She Brought Me Gasoline

6. Standing at the Burying Ground

7. Glory Hallelujah

8. Write Me a Few Lines

9. My Baby Done Me Wrong

10. Shake 'Em on Down

11. Louise

12. My Babe

13. Waves of the Water

14. Kokomo

Editorial Reviews

A powerful set from the mayfair hotel in 1969 from one of the last original fathers of the Delta Blues. Raw recordings by one of the last great country bluesmen, acknowledged as a prime influence on such artists as the Rolling Stones and Bonnie Rait. A new addition to the acclaimed budget-priced Complete Blues Series in digipack format with a twelve page booklet with comprehensive sleeve notes.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Live McDowell Album, June 19, 2008

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D. B Pepper "neonx83" (Plainview, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: London Calling (Audio CD)

This album is much better than McDowell's work at the Gaslight Cafe. His playing on this record is ferocious and his singing is excellent. The lyrics are of great meaning and reach way back to the very beginnings of the Blues. Unfortunately, the last track, "Kokomo Blues", is cut off at the end. Despite this minor setback, this album is deserving of five stars. The packaging is also very nice, and is complete with spelling and grammar errors that we've all come to find in Blues albums' liner notes. I urge everyone to pick up "Live at the Mayfair Hotel" or "London Calling", which is the same record. This is truly excellent music that I couldn't stop tapping my feet to. "Standing at The Burying Ground" is one of the greatest songs McDowell ever recorded, and perhaps one of the best of the Blues Revival period.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mayfair Hotel set in London, May 12, 2010

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Dennis M. Heath (alameda, ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: London Calling (Audio CD)

Fred is always a joy to listen to but live is just majical to me. He interacts with the audience and the whole cd has a wonderful quality, feels like listening to a performance on the radio live. If you have never listened to Fred McDowell this is a good one for a performance in the later years of his performing.