Mississippi Blues [Import]

Bukka White | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Aim Records
• ASIN: B0000020SY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #448,134 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Shake 'Em on Down

2. I Am in the Heavenly Way

3. Atlanta Special

4. Drunk Man Blues

5. Army Blues

6. Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues

7. Baby Please Don't Go

8. New Orleans, Streamline

9. Parchman Farm Blues

10. Poor Boy Long Way from Home

11. Remembrance of Charley Patton

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in 1969 on John Fahey's Takoma record label, Mississippi Blues is one of the finest albums White produced during his later period, after being rediscovered by the folk revival of the 1960s. A pre-war country-blues artist of the highest order, White, like many of his contemporaries had lived in obscurity for many years, but his great talent remained. This acoustic blues classic is back in print on CD for the first time in years thanks to Water. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential blues recording, January 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mississippi Blues (Audio CD)

In 1964, University of California at Berkeley college students John Fahey, and Ed Denson, both blues enthusiists, sent a letter soley addressed to "Booker T. Washington Wite (Old Blues Singer) c/o General Delivery, Aberdeen".Amazingly, the letter found its way to relatives of Booker (Bukka) who then passed it on to Booker himself. Two hours after recieving a letter from Booker, Fahey and Denson were in their car on the way to Memphis. They located his rooming house and were surprised to find that after 35 years of forced silence (prison), Bukka still played with the same fire and intensity of his younger days. The recording they made that historic day in'64 became this disc.The version of "Poor Boy Long Way From Home" is filled with the same passion and energy of an earlier,1930 version. You'll picture Bukka standing in his prison uniform, exhausted and broken as he sings"...When can I change my clothes.." from the classic cut "Parchman Farm Blues".No doubt life was rough for Bukka on the Parchman Farm Prison Work Camp and you can fell his heartache and misery in that song as if you were the unlucky one in prison stripes. At age 55, Bukka surely thought his time as a recording artist were over. But the two young white men who traveled across country to meet this legend breathed new life into an old tired soul.Fell the passion as he sings "Baby Please Don't GO". You'll think you really are on the "New Orleans Streamline" or "The Atlanta Special".You'll thrill to the complex arrangement of "Poor Boy Long Way From Home" done just as it was for Alan Lomax back when Bukka was still in Parchman.What we have here is a true slice of history.Relive is life through songs such as "Army Blues" and "Shake 'Em On Down".Yes, this cousin of B.B. King is a true American original whose timeless recordings should be treasured by generations to come.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bukka White Mississippi Blues album, LP format, April 18, 2011

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Sample the Dog "regular dude" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mississippi Blues (Audio CD)

I bought this album at a local record store in Denton Texas.
It is a new 190 gram vinyl pressing from 4 men with beards.
Playing this on my record player through my home system the sound is excellent.
So any one complaining about the sound quality should go the album route.
This is one of the definitive acoustic blues albums of all time.
This is the real deal.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music, so so sound quality, January 29, 2009

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Banjosareus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mississippi Blues (Audio CD)

I've had this on tape for years and finally got it on CD. It' one of the first blues albums I bought and it is great. The sound quality is poor for its '60s recording date (of course compared to 78s it's perfect), I wonder if that's how it was recorded or if it's Aim Records - I don't recall it being this bad. Anyway, great music and you should have it, in some form.