Blues With a Message (Arhoolie) [FLAC] {MKOP} torrent

Blues With A Message (Arhoolie) [FLAC] {MKOP}

Blues With a Message isn't just about lost love and the toils of specific lives, the blues (particularly within the folk-blues traditions) spent some time dealing with sociopolitical issues on the side, primarily before the rise of electric blues. Here, Arhoolie has compiled a set of pieces related to a surprisingly large number of issues. Among them: Minstrel shows, the mechanization of cotton farming, and its related exodus to the North, sharecropping, segregation, the Korean War, the influenza epidemic, the New Deal, civil rights movements, Chicago employment opportunities -- all are given a song or two here. The music quality is roughly equivalent to many of the folk-blues recordings available, though the "big name" artists are largely absent from this one (Lightnin Hopkins does make an appearance singing about sharecropping, however). The songs are deliberately focused on the issues more than the music, but the music can still carry its soul. This one probably won't be on many highest-sales lists in the blues, but it's both historically important and musically enjoyable.~Adam Greenberg (Allmusic)

01. Sam Chatman - I Have to Paint My Face
02. John Jackson - John Henry
03. Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turn Rows
04. Mance Lipscomb - Tom Moore's Farm
05. Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues
06. Lowell Fulson - River Blues Parts 1 & 2
07. Fred McDowell - Levee Camp Blues
08. Essie Jenkins - The 1919 Influenza Blues
09. Willie Eason - Why I Like Roosevelt
10. Doctor Ross - Little Soldier Boy
11. Robert Pete Williams - Prisoner's Talking Blues
12. Johnie Lewis - I Go To Climb A High Mountain
13. Herman E. Johnson - Depression Blues
14. Johnny Young & Big Walter Horton - Stockyard Blues
15. Juke Boy Bonner - What Will I Tell The Children
16. Juke Boy Bonner - It's Enough
17. Bee Houston - Things Gonna Get Better
18. Big Joe Williams - Back Home Blues

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