When the Sun Goes Down 2: The First Time I Met the Blues [Import, Original recording remastered]

Various Artists - Blues, Victoria Spivey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: RCA Victor Europe
• ASIN: B00006EXE4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1920s rock and roll!, August 28, 2002

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R. Riis "rriis" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When the Sun Goes Down 2: The First Time I Met the Blues (Audio CD)

Great achievement in sound on these recordings, some of which are 80 years old. Initiates will be amazed at how closely these country and jugband blues numbers border on rock & roll, and close observers will spot originals later covered by the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Canned Heat, and other disciples of the genre. Essential listening.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More "secret history of rock 'n' roll", December 5, 2004

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When the Sun Goes Down 2: The First Time I Met the Blues (Audio CD)

This is the second item in Bluebird's "When The Sun Goes Down" series, 77 minutes worth of blues and blues-related material from the RCA Victor label.
Opening with an amazingly crisp and clear "Telephoning The Blues", Victoria Spivey's 1929 single, "The First Time I Met The Blues" is more strictly blues than the first volume in this series. Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man" is still quite far away, musically anyway, but this diverse, far-reaching CD includes fine performances by early blues greats like Sippie Wallace, Sleepy John Estes, Tommy Johnson, Furry Lewis, and Blind Willie McTell.

The sound is generally very good considering that all of these songs were committed to tape between 1927 and 1936. Music from this era is often referred to as "country blues", but there is a lot of very urban blues music here, the so-called "classic female blues", jazzy performances like New Orleans singer Genevieve Davis's "Haven't Got A Dollar To Pay Your House Rent Man", which features a great clarinet solo, and "Rent Man Blues" by Edna Winston. And early jazz pioneer Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton is playing the piano on Lizzie Miles' rendition of his (Morton's) "I Hate A Man Like You".
Other highlights include Jim Jackson's bouncy, melodic "When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone", "Cocaine Habit Blues" by the Memphis Jug Band, Delta legend Tommy Johnson's eerie "Canned Heat Blues", a good-naturedly dirty "I'm A Mighty Tight Woman" by the great Sippie Wallace, Sleepy John Estes' "The Girl I Love, She Got Long Black Curly Hair", "Don't Want No Woman" by Memphis Minnie McCoy and Kansas Joe Johnson, and of course Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues".

There are four volumes in this series, available individually or as a box set, plus six volumes dedicated to individual artists (like Blind Willie McTell, Arthur Crudup, and Leadbelly, whose entry is one of the very best), and an eleventh volume of gospel music titled "Sacred Roots Of The Blues". All of these well annotated and carefully remastered discs are highly recommended to anyone with a serious interest in American roots music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Blues In The Night, September 23, 2008

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Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When the Sun Goes Down 2: The First Time I Met the Blues (Audio CD)

As one can tell by the title of this series When The Sun Goes Down, a series that has also included the work of Blind Willie McTell an artist that I have reviewed in this space previously, this is going to be a bedrock example of a thoughtful way to preserve our blues history. As in the McTell case it does not fail us here. What the folks who have produced this series and this particular CD have done is gone to the old RCA Victor vaults and selected some very nice and very representative songs (and a few obscure one, as well) from the early 1920's on. For those not aware of this history RCA and other record companies in the 1920's sent out agents throughout this country scouring the streets and byways for new sound- the foothills of Appalachia, the cotton field of the South, the honky-tonks and the Texas Panhandle. Wherever. Here they have gotten hold of some golden blues material. Listen up.

I will merely summarize this who's who of early, basically country blues. Even the barrelhouse blues of the cities and juke joints has that country flavor during this period. It is not until later when the blues moved north to Memphis and Chicago with the black migration away from the farms and, more importantly got electrified, that we get a bit of a different sound. The tunes here depend on piano, harmonica and acoustic guitar for the most part. Here is what you need to hear- Victoria Spivey (an extremely important figure in the blues business in her own right who deserves an entry of her own) on Telephoning The Blues; of course, Blind Willie McTell on the classic, no, super classic Statesboro Blues; Memphis Jug Band of Cocaine Habit Blues (before it was illegal); Sippy Wallace- The Texas Nightingale-on I'm A Mighty Tight Woman; Jimmie Rodgers on Blue Yodel#9 (hard to do by the way on a blues number); Little Brother Montgomery on the title cut; and, Blind Willie Reynolds on Married Woman Blues. You can find your own favorites out of the 25 that you have to choose from here. Nice, just very nice.