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fave it Acoustic Blues | Delta Style
16 tracks | 58 minutes
Released Oct 2006
on Blue Beet
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:02 Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl lyrics BUY MP3 04:02 Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:02 Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:14 Cool Cool Place To Go lyrics BUY MP3 03:14 Cool Cool Place To Go lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:14 Cool Cool Place To Go
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:44 Friar's Point Blues lyrics BUY MP3 02:44 Friar's Point Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:44 Friar's Point Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:38 Oh Red lyrics FREE 02:38 Oh Red lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:38 Oh Red
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:08 Cocaine Blues lyrics BUY MP3 04:08 Cocaine Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:08 Cocaine Blues
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 That's Alright lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 That's Alright lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 That's Alright
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:10 Keep Your Hands Off Her lyrics BUY MP3 03:10 Keep Your Hands Off Her lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:10 Keep Your Hands Off Her
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:23 Sail On lyrics BUY MP3 04:23 Sail On lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:23 Sail On
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:52 Big Road Blues lyrics BUY MP3 03:52 Big Road Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:52 Big Road Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:09 Early In The Morning lyrics BUY MP3 04:09 Early In The Morning lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:09 Early In The Morning
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:23 You Can't Get That Stuff No More lyrics BUY MP3 03:23 You Can't Get That Stuff No More lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:23 You Can't Get That Stuff No More
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:45 Baby Please Don't Go lyrics BUY MP3 02:45 Baby Please Don't Go lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:45 Baby Please Don't Go
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:07 Diggin' My Potatoes lyrics BUY MP3 04:07 Diggin' My Potatoes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:07 Diggin' My Potatoes
acoustic blues / country blues
Bio / Background
Richard Ray Farrell & Steve Guyger
“Down Home Old School Country Blues”
“Old Fashions please me best.”
-Bianca in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew
Depending on the musical genre, the term “old school” means different
things to different people. To the aficionado of acoustic blues, it generally refers
to the heyday of unamplified country blues between 1920 and 1960. The pantheon
of influential blues artists from this period has cast a long shadow. The 16 covers
herein showcase the diversity of this enduring genre. Contemporary duos like Santa Barbara’s Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan, Virginia’s John Cephas & Phil Wiggins, and
Boston’s Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, all cast in the mold of legendary country blues torchbearers Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, have performed and recorded this style of blues with substantial success for several decades.
↓ more ↓The Bucks County, PA based tandem of guitarist Richard Ray Farrell and harpist Steve Guyger, with a combined 65 years of performance experience and several critically acclaimed albums each, can now take their place with the aforementioned dynamic duos with this labor of love. There are so many surprises here as only five tunes on this old school musical classroom are familiar standards
(John Lee Williamson’s, a.k.a. Sonny Boy I, “Good Mornin’ Little Schoolgirl” and
“Early in the Morning,” Big Joe Williams’, “Baby Please Don’t Go,” Tommy Johnson’s “Big Road Blues,” and Robert Lockwood’s “That’s Alright”).
It takes veteran virtuosos like Farrell & Guyger to render this timeless music true to the spirit of its progenitors while keeping it fresh and personal with deft, fervid picking, fluid, wailing harmonica and unpretentious vocals. By doing so they maintain its sparse, soulful simplicity, pristine minimalism, and, most importantly, its emotional urgency. In this age of synthetic everything, savor the unadulterated real deal of Down Home Old School Country Blues.
Thomas J. Cullen III
Bucks County Blues Society President, Senior Writer Blues Revue, Blues & Soul Agitator
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