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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Fat Possum
Category: Music
List Price: $4.98
Buy New: $3.32
You Save: $1.66 (33%)
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 19930
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 045778031221
EAN: 0045778031221
ASIN: B0000061VH
Release Date: February 24, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | I'm Insane | | • | Meet Me in the City - Kimbrough, Junior | | • | Come Right In - Twenty Miles | | • | Snake Drive - Burnside, R.L. | | • | Crack Whore Blues | | • | Lonesome Road - Kimbrough, Junior | | • | Have Mercy Baby - Marks, Rose | | • | Come on In - Burnside, R.L. | | • | Been Here and Gone - Early | | • | Little Eddie Blues | | • | Your Memories |
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| Customer Reviews:
 WARNING!!!! July 1, 2008
T. McCool (Lafayette, IN United States)
WARNING: Listening to this CD will warp your perception of blues music. Anyone within earshot will conclude that you are, indeed, insane. Playing the CD with the windows open will kill your lawn. Do not handle this CD without protective gloves. Sanitize your CD player after each play.
Fat Possum has released three compilations of their stable of artists. This is the first in the series and most potent. This is rough, raw, in your face blues peformed mostly by old men who have lived hard lives. You will either love it or hate it. I love it.
You have been warned.
the best blues you never heard May 13, 2008
Daniel Pritts (Ann Arbor, MI USA)
Not everything on here is great, but if you're at all open-minded about the blues, you need to listen to this record.
It's raw, it's unfiltered, it's unproduced, it's authentic, it's brilliant in spots.
It's cheap, buy it now.
Not your father's blues May 30, 2004
Andrew McCaffrey (Satellite of Love, Maryland)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this CD from Amazon because it was shockingly inexpensive and I wanted to pad out an order. I wasn't expecting great things; I hoped merely that I hadn't wasted the meager amount of money I'd spend. Boy, was I happy when I finally played this. This is great!The blues. A genre which can communicate untold pain, depthless heartache and a universe of suffering. Or it can encompass songs like "Crack Whore Blues", which is exactly what you would expect it to be from the title. The tracks on here are vibrant and alive. This is wonderfully thrilling, foot-tapping stuff that can be serious on the few occasions that it wants to be. Since this is a sampler compilation containing disparate artists, it's difficult to sum up this album in a few paragraphs. We go all the way from rompy throwaway musical jokes right into genuinely soulful lyrics. But the one constant is quality. What many of the performers lack in technical ability, they more than make up for in enthusiasm. This is a release from a tiny record label with no terribly big names, which goes a long way towards explaining the emotion. The liner notes are absolutely hideous -- green text written on a purple background. It makes my eyes water just thinking about it. There's also a funny gag on the back, which I shall not spoil here. As a sampler, the idea is to throw as much onto the disc as possible and hope that the customer likes at least one or two selections enough to purchase a full album. They've convinced me; I have some shopping to do. Anyone with even a passing interest in the blues should pick up this one. You can do it without breaking the bank, and, unless you're familiar with the artists already, you'll be hearing the blues like you haven't quite heard them before.
Nicely off-mainline January 18, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a fan of Mr. Burnside, so getting this was easy, and enjoying it easier even. This is not revolutionary music by any means, but it is refreshingly wild and iconoclastic. Get it, it is fun
 Just plain crap October 4, 2002
Pbass92@aol.com (East Northport, ny USA)
4 out of 20 found this review helpful
As a long time blues fan and blues musician I have heard lots of blues, but rarely have I heard a steaming pile of unlistenable rubbish like this collection.As if the back cover art of some old fool wearing a nazi hat, smoking a plastic cigar and wearing a dog collar wasn't warning enough- the front cover art of someone wearing a gas mask should have been. Perhaps he got a whiff of the contents of this cd. Even at [price] it is grossly over-priced.
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