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Asie Payton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 15, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Possum Records
• ASIN: B00000J7V4
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,588 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw Souful Blues that makes you want to move, September 20, 2000

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D. Mauer (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worried (Audio CD)

I love this record.

Everyone who I have bought a copy of this for also loves it. Yes, Asie died two years before it ever came out, and that is a shame. But he did more than most of us ever will; there's just ten songs here, and 2 of them are "remixes" (addition of some deep bass, effects and such. It actually works really well. Who'd have guessed?!) So these eight songs are what makes up Asie Payton's legacy. It's more than enough. Asie wails, moans, and plays and MAKES you understand why the mostly unknown - well face it - mostly FAT POSSUM artists - are TEN TIMES BETTER than whatever blues record is selling thousands of copies; and I don't care if it IS B.B. King and Eric Clapton - THIS stuff is better.

After you get convinced, do yourself a real favor. Check out the other Fat Possum wonders: Scott Dunbar (Like Asie, the only album he ever made. Like Asie, it's absolutely KILLER), Johnny Farmer (I believe Farmer is still alive, though I understand he is not well enough to make more records), T-Model Ford's first album, Junior Kimbrough's first three records, and the amazing Robert Belfour who played the House of Blues in LA a few months ago, and made me want to weep he was so good. Get this stuff. You won't know how much you needed it until you hear it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this CD before it is unavailable!, July 28, 2001

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Richard L. Hubbell "sandsave" (Nashville) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worried (Audio CD)

Fat Possum Records does a wonderful job as curator of lost music. Mr. Payton was recorded in only two sessions. He died not long after, taking his immeasureable talent to the grave. If not for this compilation, this world would be much poorer. Mr. Payton's blues are on par with any artist I have heard. Honest, arresting, and wrapped in emotion, his works deserve a spot in the pantheon alongside the other greats.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A tractor driver genius, April 25, 2003

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RL "RLBurnside" (Quito) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Worried (Audio CD)

I give this CD only 4 stars simply because it runs 33 minutes. Asie's story is quite incredible; the tracks from this CD were recorded in two sessions, one of which was recorded in a car parts store. They've been mixed and produced and the result is that Fat Possum/R.L Burnside sound of down home, simple yet heartfelt blues. Asie's has more class however; his voice carries more emotion and his sound has more variety compared to say, Burnside or Junior Kimbrough.

Overall, if you like these "new found" artists; Asie is one of the best. He apparently was never discovered or rewarded for his talents but he obviously had it.

This is very, very good CD.