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