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The Complete Bukka White | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bukka White
Label: Sony
Category: Music
Buy New: $245.50
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 150910
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 074645278223
EAN: 0074645278223
ASIN: B0000028PN
Release Date: May 10, 1994
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Condition: Mint -- still in shrink wrap, never touched by human hands! This seems to be the last remaining NEW copy of this incredible blues CD, in the entire civilized world (and this one is absolutely NEW)! You will find some incredibly moving and authentic music on this disk -- you will not be disapointed. Order now and we will ship within the hour! All our CDs come from a private estate and have been lovingly cared for. We absolutely guarantee all of them and will work hard to make you happy! Free upgrade to First Class shipping, Delivery Confirmation and we pack securely! International orders welcome. \
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| Tracks:
| • | Pinebluff, Arkansas | | • | Shake 'Em on Down | | • | Black Train Blues | | • | Strange Place Blues | | • | When Can I Change My Clothes? | | • | Sleepy Man Blues | | • | Parchman Farm Blues | | • | Good Gin Blues | | • | High Fever Blues | | • | District Attorney Blues | | • | Fixin' to Die Blues | | • | Aberdeen Mississippi Blues | | • | Bukka's Jitterbug Swing | | • | Special Streamline |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Using the simplest melodies as his canvas, Delta bluesman Bukka White painted vivid pictures of his own life in the rural South, punctuating his words with a highly percussive steel-guitar attack. Among his subjects: trains, booze, sex, prison, and death. After shooting an old Mississippi rival during a roadside showdown, White had allegedly jumped bail to record his first two songs in 1937. The bawdy "Shake 'Em On Down" was a hit, but White spent two years in prison for his indiscretion. When White returned to Chicago in 1940 to record again, producer Lester Melrose rejected his roster of cover tunes, giving him two days to come up with his own material. Under the gun, White created the 10 autobiographical gems that round out this collection. --Marc Greilsamer
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| Customer Reviews:
 Powerful blues! March 22, 2007
Vic (Himalayas, India)
What did Bukka White have on his mind when he recorded this session ? A lot. But he managed to put it down into 12 tracks! (plus the first 2 from another session).
This was my first introduction to Bukka White, and also probably my first introduction to classic Blues. It all began with getting Iggy Pop's Nude and Rude, wherein he mentioned listening to Bukka White in his hotel room when he was approached with his 'best of' project. 'Bukka' just got stuck on me somehow and as destiny would have had it, I found this album dumped in the movie section of a store.
It would be another week before I listened to it. At first it sounded all weird, too profound and maybe a bit too earthy. But as I reached to 'Strange Place Blues' I could feel I'm officially hooked. This song had something too personal about it, it just made too much sense to me.... something felt different. Anothe song I'd talk about is 'Sleepy Man Blues' , which is such a powerful song, because it is so simple, it gets right into your head and refuses to leave! And I will omit saying anything about Fixin' to Die, because a lot has been written and said about it, my contribution wouldnt take away or give anything to it.
This album, is one of the most compelling sessions ever recorded. It cant be made to look cheap by clinically comparing it with other recordings of Bukka or any other bluesman.
If you have a knack for good music, then this album would do you good.
Bukka The Poet! November 11, 2006
Devon C. Wendell (USA)
The most common themes in blues are whiskey, women, and hard times.
These themes are often used as metaphors to mean something more profound.
Blues is poetry of the highest order and with that being said, Bukka White was like the T.S. Elliot of the blues.
The Complete Bukka White is an example of Bukka's prolific lyrics and brilliantly complex bottle-neck guitar style.
On this essential compilation, there are 14 tracks recorded between 1937 and 1940. Bukka deals with such themes as serving time, sex, alcoholism, as well as depression. SLEEPY MAN BLUES is on of the earlest and most eloquent songs about the physical reaction to depression. Bukka asks himself; "I Wonder what's the matter with my right mind, it keeps me sleeping all the time." FIXIN' TO DIE BLUES is about the paranoia of death. Bob Dylan covered this tune on his very first record.
All of the tunes on the Complete Bukka White still stand up today. SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN has been covered by everyone from Leadbelly to Mississippi Fred Mcdowell.
The Complete Bukka White should be in any music lover's collection.
He was pure, direct, and way ahead of his time.
 An underrated bluesman April 5, 2006
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's too bad that this 14-track collection omits Booker White's earliest sides, including the two religious songs that he recorded for Victor in May, 1930. Catfish's 20-track compilation "Shake 'Em On Down" and Document's similar "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues" are better choices, really, since they include the six non-Vocalion sides that this collection does not.
But having said that, this is indeed an impressive 39 minutes of music. Booker White (his name was misspelled by the label) sang in a loud, very rough baritone voice, and played his steel-bodies National guitar like a stringed drum, and he penned some truly classic country blues tunes. People often forget about White when they throw names like Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson and Tommy Johnson around, and that's a shame, because everybody with an interest in "classic" country blues ought to hear B.B. King's older cousin Booker White and his powerful, strongly rhythmic guitar playing.
The best of these 20 tunes belong in the all-time pantheon of prewar blues songs, and if anything could ever match the intensity of Son House's razor-edged "Death Letter", it must be the sound of Booker T. Washington White growling the incredibly stark, personal, open-wound lyrics to the desperate "When Can I Change My Clothes" and the hopeless "Parchman Farm Blues" in his ragged, raspy voice.
"Shake 'Em On Down" is another classic, and White displays some impressive slide guitar prowess on the 1939 Library of Congress recording of "Po' Boy"...
Oh no, wait, the L of C recordings are missing as well.
Come on, just get the Document compilation instead.
A Consumate Blues Man January 25, 2004
Alan Beggerow (Rock Falls, IL USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first song I heard by Bukka White was 'Fixin' To Die Blues' on a blues anthology disc. With his rhythmic playing and voice that expresses a wide range of emotion, he was one of the consumate blues men. He had quite a story to tell, and there isn't a single song on this disc that doesn't lure you in to his telling of the human condition. A must for anyone that can appreciate what this Black American art form truly is...emotions and strife set to music. Recommended!
Songs from a Blues Master November 15, 2002
Richard M. Affleck (Lake Hopatcong, NJ USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I first heard Booker "Bukka" White on a compilation and finally got around to picking up this CD awhile back. What the listener is treated to is good, old-fashioned, country blues, highlighted by White's strong, straight-ahead rhythms and vocal intensity. His raspy/quavery vocals are a perfect accompaniment to his chugging guitar style, and White is backed up on most of these songs, recorded mainly in 1940, by Washboard Sam, who provides strong rhythmic counterpoint to the sound White gets from his National steel guitar. Although I like all the tracks on this CD, "Parchman Farm Blues", the first Bukka White song I ever heard, is still my favorite.
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