‘Slide that Thing !’ The very best of American Blues slide guitar 1920s – 1940s – DL121
Released: 5th Dec 2016 – DOWNLOAD ONLY
Slide guitar is the art of placing an object called a slide (usually a tube made from metal or glass) across the strings of a guitar to achieve wide sweeping expressions which lift and smear the notes. This atmospheric and often eerie sound was perfect for Blues Artists in the 1920’s/30’s trying to express their own anguish and suffering in the deep South.
Although it’s origins go way back the slide guitar is just as popular today and has been used by such guitar greats as George Harrison, Bonnie Raitt,Steve Miller and The Allman Brothers Band. The first musician to feature slide guitar on a recording was Sylvester Weaver, he is featured here as well as other prominent slide guitar pioneers such as Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson and many many more. Another essential Viper release!
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| TRACKS | PRESS |
| 1. Bukka White – Fixin’ to Die Blues 1940 2. Kokomo Arnold – The Twelves 1935 3. Blind Willie Johson – Nobody’s Fault but Mine 1927 4. Big Joe Williams – Baby Please don’t Go 1935 5. Charley Patton – A Spoonful Blues 1929 6. Josh White – Jesus Gonna Make up my Dying Bed 1933 7. Ruth Willis – Experience Blues 1931 8. Barbecue Bob – Goin’ up the Country 1927 9. Sylvester Weaver – Pile Blues 1927 10. Robert Johnson – Travelling Riverside Blues 1937 11. Oscar Woods – Lone Wolf Blues 1936 12. Son House- My Black Mama pt 1 1930 13. Rev. Blind Gary Davis – Cross and Evil Woman Blues 1935 14) Buddy Woods – Don’t sell it ( Don’t give it away ) 1937 15. Blind boy Fuller – Homesick and Lonesome Blues 1935 16. Hambone Willie Newborn – Roll and Tumble Blues 1929 17. Leadbelly – Packin’ Trunk Blues 1935 18. Tampa Red – Things ‘Bout Coming my Way 1931 19. Blind Willie McTell – It’s a Good Little Thing 1933 20. Robert Lockwood Jr – Little Boy Blue 1941 |
