Scrapper Blackwell -- The Virtuoso Guitar Of Scrapper Blackwell LP

Original 196? US mono release on Yazoo Records (catalog # L-1019), with original Yazoo innersleeve.

AMG Review: It's for recordings like this that a lot of blues guitar fans started listening to the music in the first place. The definitive Blackwell collection to date, featuring not only his best extant solo sides, but also his work in association with Leroy Carr, Black Bottom McPhail, and Tommy Bradley. The 14 songs here all have something to offer in the playing -- and generally the singing as well -- that will give the listener pause, a run, an arpeggio, a solo passage that makes you say, "Whoa, what was that?" The sound is surprisingly good, and one only wishes there were more than 14 songs here, although it's hard to imagine anything that could follow the last track, Leroy Carr's "Barrelhouse Woman No. 2."

Tracks:

A1 Penal Farm Blues 3:23 A2 Trouble Blues Part I 3:04 A3 Trouble Blues Part II 3:01 A4 Blue Day Blues 2:49 A5 Good Woman Blues 2:59 A6 My Dream Blues 3:03 A7 Hard Time Blues 2:51 B1 Down In The Black Bottom 3:02 B2 Whiskey Man Blues 3:16 B3 Kokomo Blues 3:04 B4 Down South Blues 2:59 B5 Back Door Blues 2:51 B6 Pack Up Her Trunk Blues 2:51 B7 Barrelhouse Woman No. 2 2:41 Credits: Artwork By [Cover Art] - Duncan Scheidt Guitar - Scrapper Blackwell Mastered By, Other [Liner Notes] - Nick Perls Other [Liner Notes] - Jerry Epstein , Michael Stewart , Stephen Calt Piano - Leroy Carr (tracks: A5, B7) Vocals - Black Bottom McPhail (tracks: A6, B1, B2) , Scrapper Blackwell (tracks: A1 to A5, A7, B3 to B6, B7) , Tommie Bradley (tracks: B6)

CONDITION: Cover NM- / Vinyl NM   close to new, vinyl is near pristine.

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