Southern Train

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Southern Train

Original Recording Resolution Analog

Label 2xHD - Storyville

Artist Brownie McGhee

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Consider the music of Walter McGhee, characterised by easy, flowing guitar and the warmest voice in the blues, instantly recognisable. It’s a voice astonishingly rich in texture, although he can give it a cutting edge when the material demands it, and its expressive tonal qualities have even improved over the years, as these 1971 performances show.

Tracklist

Total time: 40:26

1. Southern Train

05:04

2. I Can't Sleep at Night

02:47

3. Key to the Highway

05:21

4. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down

04:10

5. We Have No Friends

04:08

6. Sporting Life

03:42

7. Death of Blind Boy Fuller

02:38

8. My Last Suit

03:52

9. Howdy Blues

04:43

10. Worried Life Blues

04:01

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Additional Information

Label

2xHD - Storyville

SKU

2XHDST1127

Qualities

DSD 128, DSD 256, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz, DSD 64

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artist

Brownie McGhee

Composers

McGhee, Carr, Broonzy

Genres

Blues

Original Recording Format

Analog

Instruments

Drums, Guitar, Harmonica

Release Date

October 16, 2018

Not Available on SACD

Reviews

Jazz Journal

Jazz Journal

This album is particularly rich in examples of how Brownie McGhee can bring his originality to bear on traditional material and the compositions of other bluesmen. Howdy Blues is a variant of Good Morning Blues, and here the Brownie McGhee lilt has replaced the near ferocity of the famous versions by Leadbelly.

Mean Old Frisco is performed here as Southern Train, in an interpretation more relaxed than the usual train blues, but still evocative of its subject. On both of these and the tender reading of Leroy Carr's In The Evening, Brownie receives the most sensitive support from Sonny Terry's harmonica.

Big Bill Broonzy's Key to the Highway provides Brownie with a chance to prove that he can fashion a completely new guitar part for a well-worn piece, but perhaps the best guitar playing of the date is on Can't Sleep at Night, a tremendously fluent and swinging performance.

Although Brownie might miss out a bar now and again if the mood takes him, his chord vocabulary is wide, he makes all the changes, and his style is among the most melodically appealing in all blues. And, typical of his confidential story-teller's approach, he adds new words arising out of his immediate circumstances to the standard choruses of Key to the Highway:

˜I might get my breakfast here in Denmark,
Might get my dinner in New Orleans
I'm the highway walkingest man the world has ever seen.'

A reflective and moving Sporting Life Blues makes a satisfying end to an intimate and very accomplished recital.

Southern Train

Southern Train

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