Mississippi Blues | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Putumayo World Music
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 77869
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 196
UPC: 790248019628
EAN: 0790248019628
ASIN: B00005Y1TU
Release Date: February 12, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Part Time Love - Luther Allison | | • | Come On In This House - Junior Wells | | • | Mean Ol' Frisco - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup | | • | The More You Lie To Me - Artie White | | • | 3 O'Clock In The Morning Blues - Ike & Tina Turner | | • | St. James Infirmary - Bobby Bland | | • | Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor - Mississippi John Hurt | | • | Come On In My Kitchen - Chris Thomas King | | • | Baby Don't Do Me Wrong - John Lee Hooker | | • | I Got To Make A Change Blues - Memphis Minnie | | • | Stewball - Memphis Slim |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This well-chosen 11-track collection succeeds admirably in its attempt to represent the Mississippi, the river of blues. This deep, wide, multihued collection of blues combines an expansive chronological and stylistic sweep with a commendable attention to entertainment value through its emphasis on the unexpected. Bobby "Blue" Bland's awe-inspiring vocal on "St. James Infirmary," a masterpiece of American music, is an expected highlight, but selections like Ike and Tina Turner's 1969 take on the B.B. King standard "3 O'clock in the Morning" and the electrifying Luther Allison's "Part Time Love," a Motown gem from early in his career, provide satisfying surprises. Chris Thomas King's subtle but significant modernization of Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen," a performance both rootsy and progressive, is a perfect fit for the collection. Much of the music has a folksy feel, especially the work of Mississippi John Hurt, an acoustic purist until the end, who rolls through a back-to-the-basics "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," and that of voluntary European exile Memphis Slim, whose piano-powered "Stewball" features the legendary Willie Dixon on bass. Other legends, including John Lee Hooker and Junior Wells, are well represented, but it's Memphis Minnie, a seminal guitar star of the 1930s, who steals the show with her empowered "I Got to Make a Change Blues." --Michael Point
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| Customer Reviews:
just good blues January 18, 2007
S. Howe (Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
bought it as a gift for my hubby, but I love it too.
Mississippi Blues is a must have! January 10, 2007
Lou Brown (Moscow, ID USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you like good old Delta blues....then you'll LOVE this CD. I have one and gave one as a gift and the entire family listened to it over Christmas and everyone loved it.
Another good blues collection March 25, 2006
Fred Camfield (Vicksburg, MS USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is another good CD I found at my friend Regina's shop, Art and Soul, in Vicksburg, MS (the south end of the Delta). It is a sampling of 11 vocalists, with various instrumental (guitar, harmonica, and/or keyboard with backup on drums, etc.). It is one of the collections put together by Putumayo, and includes a small bonus booklet inside the CD case giving a brief background of the musician/vocalists included - some are deceased, i.e., Luther Allison in 1997, Junior Wells in 1998, John Lee Hooker in 2001, and Memphis Minnie in 1963. I have it playing on my Windows media player as I write this. Playing time of the individual selections ranges from 2:23 (Bobby Bland) to 5:53 (Junior Wells).
That soothes me ... September 11, 2005
FrizzText (Wuppertal)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
After hurricane Katrina has raged in this region the Sound of the Mississippi delta music became all the more precious. Of course "St. James Infirmary", the standard ballad for all New Orleans funerals, is represented. It talks about the pain of a man who has seen his wife a last time: "so sweet, so cool, so fair, stretched out on a long white table" in the hospital. What a music will arise now, after the dead bodies are "disposed of" with so few care. I still have a photo in my mind as a woman (near the flooded Canal Street) shoves her dead husband, whom she has bound on a door, through the water. Only the music with this Mississippi feeling, no further newspaper report, will soothe me in such moments. But if I hear the calming voice of Mississippi John Hurt again - or the infectious energy of Tina Turner - then, I think, it will go on again...
Great Gritty Blues Sampler July 10, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I heard this cd while shopping and EVERY TUNE was so hot I had to have it! Every track is unique, the artists soulful and exude the blues from their bones. This CD takes you to another place and time where it is good to feel the blues!
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