708535706120

Blues On My Mind

Robert Pete Williams

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CDSBR7061

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Release Date:  18 October 2024

Label:  Sunset Blvd Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  708535706120

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    2 CD Expanded Version Of The Classic "Louisana Blues" Album Plus Previously Unreleased Studio & Live Tracks - Limited Edition Pressing / 1000 Units Worldwide.

    "The most avant-garde blues performer ever recorded. No punk rock band has ever matched the jagged acerbic fury of the riffs Williams played 35 years ago. No rapper has approached his ability to evoke the torment of life in prison or bend language to cast an eerie spell over a chance encounter with a seductive woman" New York Times
    Over 60 years since his discovery by ethnomusicologists Dr. Harry Oster and Richard Allen in the prison farm of Angola, Louisiana, what is it that makes the blues as sung and picked out by Robert Pete Williams such a singular listening experience, unequaled elsewhere in that musical form? As Peter Guralnick, in his Feel Like Going Home book writes: "It's difficult to approve the banalities of most blues singers after listening to Robert Pete Williams. The first ten tracks on this album were recorded in July 1966 in Berkeley for under the supervision of John Fahey for his Takoma imprint. The live tracks were recorded in France during the summer of 1977 and Disc 2, studio recordings were done in a marathon session in Italy in 1978, and never released outside of Europe.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 2. Somebody Help Poor Me
      • 3. Freight-Train Blues
      • 4. It's Hard To Tell
      • 5. I'm Going Down Slow
      • 6. Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
      • 7. Ugly
      • 8. So Long Boogie
      • 9. This Is A Mean Old World To Me
      • 10. High As I Want To Be
      • 11. It's A Long Old Road
      • 12. I Wrote My Woman A Letter (Live)
      • 13. Drag For You, Baby (Live)
      • 14. Mama Had A Shotgun (Live)
      • 15. I'm Goin' Away (Live)
      • 16. Wrong
      • 17. Big Fat Mama
      • 18. Chicago
      • 19. Must Be Another Man
      • 20. Promise Land
      • 21. Louise
      • 22. Gamblin' Man
      • 23. Talkin' Blues
      • 24. Match Box Blues
      • 25. Watch Yourself Boy Round By That Deep Blue Sea
      • 26. Medley: Monologue & Greyhound Blues