2008-10-06
This CD brings together artists who were legendary in the Nashville, Tennessee blues scene years ago. The 18 cuts are all rather banal down-home-blues style tunes (think Z.Z. Hill or Clarence Carter without their spunk) and many of the tunes are disappointingly predictable. For example, on track #12, Girlfriend Blues, Johnny Jones describes discovering his girlfriend in bed with another woman (who “ironically” is a woman he was having an affair with) and of course, he wraps up the song with the hope of joining in.SHAWN HOLT AND THE TEARDROPS
Daddy Told Me
TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS
STOMPIN' GROUND
Laurence Jones
Take Me High
DEVON ALLMAN
RAGGED AND DIRTY
VARIOUS
Louisiana Swamp Stomp
HERITAGE BLUES ORCHESTRA
AND STILL I RISE
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