Classic Cuts 1946-1953

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Total Tracks: 113   Total Length: 313:17

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Michelangelo Matos

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04.22.11
This collects documents the winning streak of an impossible-to-nail-down bluesman
Label: JSP Records / The Orchard

You can't nail Lowell Fulson down in a line or two. He was a bluesman who recorded for countless labels, and he hit a winning streak not long into his career: "Three O'Clock Blues," a later standard for B.B. King, "Every Day I Have the Blues," and his sole R&B No. 1, "Blue Shadows." Interestingly, given Fulson's well-deserved rep with a guitar, he elects to sing this one over baleful late-night piano, sax, bass and drum, and with a dry throat he more than sells the heartbreak: "If you got a good woman/You better take my advice/Always treat her like an angel/Keep her home at any price."

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Another fantastic value

mr. mark

Over 100 tracks of excellent and varied blues-urban and rural, prison songs and love songs, good times and hard,slow blues and boogies,Christian and Voodoo, telegraph and television. Mostly good sound. Hats off to JSP, and check out their Buddy Guy and Phillip Guy albums from the 80's.

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