Release Date: 08 January 2021
Label: Matchbox Bluesmaster - Cd / Matchbox Bluesmaster
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 5013133601421
Genres: Blues Country-Blues
Description
The present Matchbox Bluesmaster Series has been transcribed from the 1980’s vinyl pressings by Norman White using high-end transcription techniques. The original master tapes for the vinyl releases vanished long ago. The series documented the early days of blues, hokum and gospel music from 1926 to 1934 (1950 for two tracks) and gives an insight into the way that black music was first released on record. From a commercial standpoint, records companies such as OKEH sent out talent scouts to find black singers, many of them “singing for nickels” on street corners. The market that these RACE record companies were after was the black community and they sometimes gave these newly found performers epithets such as “Peg Leg”, “Blind”, “Bo Weavil”, “Buddy Boy”, “Barbecue” or “Texas” to give them more appeal. The music of these singers formed the backbone of later urban blues, rhythm-and-blues and, of course, rock-‘n’-roll. The songs are sometimes raw and primitive in character, but some outstanding playing and singing shines through many of the performances.
Various
Mark Jones
Buddy Boy Hawkins/Jackson
