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Paramount Blues: Lock and Key Blues

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    Showers of Rain Blues – Edward Thompson 02:49
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    Seven Sisters Blues – Edward Thompson 02:58
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    Mamlish Blues – Bell, Ed 02:36
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    Last Kind Words Blues – Geeshie Wiley 03:02
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    Skinny Leg Blues – Geeshie Wiley 03:15
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    Touch Me Light Mama – Williams, George "Bullet" 02:48
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    So Lonesome – Ramblin' Thomas 02:46
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    Lock and Key Blues – Ramblin' Thomas 02:37
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    Barbershop Rag – William Moore 02:57
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    Raggin' the Blues – William Moore 02:59
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    Mississippi Jail House Groan – Reverend Rubin Lacy 03:24
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    Jailhouse Fire Blues – Hawkins, Walter "Buddy Boy" 02:31
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    Shaggy Dog Blues – Hawkins, Walter "Buddy Boy" 02:34
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    Tired of Being Mistreated, Pt. 1 – Gibson, Cliford 03:10
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    Eagles on a Half – Geeshie Wiley 03:06
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    Pick Poor Robin Clean – Geeshie Wiley 03:15
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    Pistol Blues – Bo Weavil Jackson 03:01
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    Why Do You Moan? – Bo Weavil Jackson 03:04
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    Tom Cat Blues – Sprull, Freddie 03:07
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    Woman Woman Blues – Ishman Bracey 03:25

The Paramount record label of the 1920s and '30s started out as an a side venture of the Paramount Furniture Company in Grafton, WI, a way to sell the company's line of phonograph players by featuring a line of cheaply made 78s to play on them. Luckily, the Southern blues musicians the company recorded at the time just happened to be pretty vital, and such country-blues legends as Charley Patton, Skip James, Blind Blake, and Blind Lemon Jefferson all recorded classic sides for Paramount, as did dozens of lesser known and obscure figures, many of whose recordings are collected here on this 20-track compilation. There aren't any big country-blues names here, but there are plenty of little gems, including Geeshie Wiley's stark and haunting "Last Kind Words Blues" from 1930, Ramblin' Thomas' poignant "So Lonesome" from 1928, Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins' "Shaggy Dog Blues" from 1927, and Freddie Spruell's "Tom Cat Blues" from 1928. Wiley's "Last Kind Words Blues" aside, none of these sides is absolutely essential to any blues collection, but they won't diminish one, either. Steve Leggett, Rovi

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  • Online Item #: 11377669
  • Store Item Number (DPCI): 244-01-4630
  • Made in the USA or Imported