ACE / UK / CD / CDCHD1194 / 2008年08月25日 / 2,405円(税込)
After a lengthy hiatus, Downhome series returns with a package that upholds and often surpasses the standards set by the first four volumes. This one concentrates on artists from the Bay Area of California and offers some of the most unvarnished and basic downhome recordings of the whole series.
None of these tracks or takes are currently available on Ace CDs (in fact, very few have been issued prior to this release).
Jimmy McCracklin and Lowell Fulsom are the most familiar names but the other artists are very collectable with their original singles and 78s almost impossible to find and no less noteworthy musically.
A high class offering in every respect, and one that that will spur fresh interest in the previous volumes, as well as Ace's extensive Lowell Fulsom, Roy Hawkins and Jimmy McCracklin catalogues.
1. Hard Times - JOHNNY FULLER
2. It's Your Life - JOHNNY FULLER
3. I've Done Everything I Can - WALTER ROBERTSON
4. Johnny's Low Down Blues aka Train, Train Blues - JOHNNY FULLER
5. This Is The End aka The End - JAMES REED
6. My Mama Told Me - JAMES REED
7. Dr Brown - - JAMES REED
8. I Think My Time Is Here (Take 1) - JIMMY McCRACKLIN & HIS BLUES BLASTERS
9. Josephine (Take 6) - JIMMY McCRACKLIN & HIS BLUES BLASTERS
10. Beer Drinkin' Woman (Take 4) - JIMMY McCRACKLIN & HIS BLUES BLASTERS
11. I'm Prison Bound aka Doing Time Blues - LOWELL FULSON
12. My Baby Left Me aka Some Old Lonesome Day - LOWELL FULSON
13. You Had A Good Man (Take 2) - ROY HAWKINS
14. Just A Poor Boy (Take 2) - ROY HAWKINS
15. You Better Hold Me - JAMES REED
16. Oh People - JAMES REED
17. My Love Is Real - JAMES REED
18. I Walk All Night - JOHNNY FULLER
19. Back Home - JOHNNY FULLER
20. Sputtering Blues - WALTER ROBERTSON
21. Buddy - JOHNNY FULLER
22. Prowling Blues - JOHNNY FULLER
23. The End aka This Is The End (alternate take) - JAMES REED
24. Dr Brown (alternate take) - JAMES REED
25. Couldn't Be A Dream (Take 1) - JIMMY MCCRACKLIN & HIS BLUES BLASTERS
26. I'll Get A Break Someday (Take 7) - JIMMY MCCRACKLIN & HIS BLUES BLASTERS
