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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: DOSCD-9003
- Format: CD
- UPC: 714298900323
- Street Date: 08/20/21
- PreBook Date: 07/02/21
- Label: Document Records »
- Genre: Blues
- Run Time: 59:54 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2004
- Box Lot: 15
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
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My Babe: Some Of The Very Best In American Roots Music
Document Records' 3rd Sampler: "This album is a parade of excellence."
- List Price: $7.99
- Your Price: $4.95
- In Stock: 49
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Intended as a sampler of Document's vast catalogue, Gary Atkinson obviously had great fun programming it and he has indeed come up with 'some of the very best in American Roots Music'. That the most primitive' track (One String Sam) is also the latest (1956), as well as among the most passionate, is just for starters. Few of us need to be told that some of these performances are immortal classics, but it is easy to take them for granted and I wondered when I had last actually heard Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Mellow Chick Swing' for one. Marilyn Scott's wonderful bit of bawdy with backchat still resists belief that it was recorded in a studio. Imaginative choices show that Gary knows his catalog. Jazzbo Tommy probably wouldn't have sprung to most people's minds and still less The Four Blazes' five-minute plus medley of current jive tunes from AFRS Jubilee 234. Professor Hull's track, unissued in 1935, comes on like the missing link between Louis Dumaine and George Lewis. The other jazz tracks are just as well chosen. Of the two country tracks, the Williamson is a storming, but lightweight reading of 'John Henry', which sounds startlingly like a skiffle version. This album is a parade of excellence.
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