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Track Listing
1. Down the Dirt Road Blues
2. Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues
3. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
4. Stone Pony Blues
5. It Won't Be Long
6. Shake It and Break It
7. Magnolia Blues
8. Dry Well Blues
9. High Water Everywhere (Part 1)
10. High Water Everywhere (Part 2)
11. Green River Blues
12. Bird Nest Bound
13. High Sheriff Blues
14. Spoonful Blues, A
15. Moon Going Down
16. Pony Blues
17. Elder Green Blues
18. Banty Rooster Blues
19. Some of These Days
20. Tom Rushen Blues
21. 34 Blues
22. Going to Move to Alabama
23. Hammer Blues
24. Poor Me
25. When Your Ways Get Dark
26. Devil Sent the Rain
| Details | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent
Recorded between 1929 and 1934. Includes liner notes by Stephen Calt.
Digitally remastered by Robert Vosgien (1995).
For starters, Yazoo's Charlie Patton compilation FOUNDER OF THE DELTA BLUES is of great historical import. It provides a document of the man that influenced--whether directly or indirectly--every blues musician who followed him, including Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Howlin' Wolf. Beyond that, however, the music is purely brilliant. Patton played with an intensity, rhythmic sophistication, and fierce exuberance that burns across the years through the crackle of these 78s.
FOUNDER collects some of Patton's best performances, representing the full range of his repertoire, which included rags, gospel songs, ballads, and traditional blues. Featured here are "Pony Blues," "Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues," and "A Spoonful Blues," among others. In addition to Patton's gravelly, soulful singing, his guitar playing--with its spit-fire slides, chattering high/low interplay, popped and thumped bass strings, and insistent primal pulse--writes the blues guitar textbook. Dynamic, thrilling, heartbreaking, and as fresh now as when it was recorded, Patton's music will sear its way into the heart and mind of anyone fortunate enough to hear it. FOUNDER is, quite simply, one of the most important blues records in existence.
Industry Reviews
...There is nothing ingratiating about this music. Real, hard life is too often present in its tales of floods, drought and crop pests....the listener comes away filled with the sense of having met an extraordinary, indomitable man...
Mojo (04/01/2001)
5 Stars - Classic - ...His voice was a big, rough-edged baritone, heavy as lead when he wanted it to be but capable of blues singing's most rarified subtleties....Patton's guitar playing is driving, percussive, mercurial and rhythmically complex...
Rolling Stone (03/05/1992)
5 Stars - Classic - ...His voice was a big, rough-edged baritone, heavy as lead when he wanted it to be but capable of blues singing's most rarified subtleties....Patton's guitar playing is driving, percussive, mercurial and rhythmically complex...
Rolling Stone (03/05/1992)
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