Virginia Traditions: Tidewater Blues

Virginia Traditions (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Global Village
• ASIN: B000001XKI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Leaving You Mama

2. Albemarle County Rag

3. I'd Feel Much Better

4. Blind Love

5. Barbershop Rag

6. King Kong Blues

7. Black Rat Swing

8. Going Down the Road Feeling Good

9. War Blues

10. Blues

11. Sweet Woman Blues

12. Motorcycle Swing

13. Pleading Blues

14. Poor Boy Blues

15. Richmond Blues

16. One Way Gal

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent music from an oft-neglected region, June 15, 2007

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HBW "B" (Abingdon, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Virginia Traditions: Tidewater Blues (Audio CD)

As an enthusiast of Virginia's traditional music (as well as a fiddler and banjo player), I was orginially drawn to this album by little more than my interest in the provenance - hoping to learn something more about a tradition that is close to home yet oft-neglected, blues in Virginia's Tidewater. I was not only generously satisfied in this aim, but also introduced to some truly powerful music on its own terms - many tracks standing up to comparision with such greats as Blind Lemon Jefferson or Charlie Patton by my estimation. Though I am no blues scholar, the sound struck me as having more in common with such Deep South bluesmen than the Piedmont Blues sound that is more commonly associated with Virginia and the Carolinas. All in all an eye-opening collection of some truly excellent music.