Songs From the Southland

Hans Theessink | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Minor Music
• ASIN: B00008RGCO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,514 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #80 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Netherlands

Track Listings

1. St. James Infirmary

2. My Girl

3. Mercury Blues

4. A Hundred and Ten in the Shade

5. From Four Till Late

6. 61 Highway

7. He Was a Friend of Mine

8. Green Green Rocky Road

9. Hard Time Killing Floor

10. M&O Blues

11. Rained Five Days

12. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

13. Hesitation Blues

14. Frankie & Albert

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Blues From Far Away, But The Real Deal, November 24, 2006

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Michael Z. Jody "Psychoanalyst, amateur music... (NYC & East Hampton, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs From the Southland (Audio CD)

I never meant to be a chauvinist, but I thought you had to be American to play great blues. Boy was I ever wrong. Hans Theessink is the real deal, despite being Dutch. His blues is exactly what the blues is supposed to sound like: full of heart and sadness. On this album (his best by far IMHO), he does a number of traditional blues songs including a tremendous St. James Infirmary, a melancholic song which has never been done better, despite being covered by Louis Armstrong, Dr. John, Doc Watson, Lou Rawls, and Dave Van Ronk (if you wanna know a few more versions check out my list of great versions of St. James Infirmary on Amazon).

Theessink, whose Dutch accent is almost undetectable, does versions of "My Girl" (Leadbelly), John Fogerty's "One Hundred and Ten in the Shade", some Robert Johnson, Skip James, and etc. Real blues, often done with solo acoustic guitar accompaniment, and nothing but his deep, DEEP baritone. Beautiful album.