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Charley Patton is widely regarded as perhaps the archetypal early exponent of Mississippi Delta blues. He was a true original with a distinctive slide guitar technique, and he performed a range of blues, spirituals and ballads in a powerful, intense, even primitive, fashion which uniquely captures the style and spirit of the genre. His recording career was restricted to a few sessions between 1929 and 1934, from which around thirty double-sided '78s were released, first on Paramount and latterly on Vocalion, and that was the entirety of his recorded output before his premature death from a heart disorder in 1934 aged 45. This collection comprises the entirety of that canon, including six tracks on which he played guitar, with Henry Sims and Bertha Lee erspectively performing the vocals. Anyone seriously interested in the blues and it's history needs to have heard Charley Patton, and this anthology provides a comprehensive overview of his work. Album Tracks 1. Pony Blues 2. Banty Rooster Blues 3. Prayer of Death, Pt. 1 4. Prayer of Death, Pt. 2 5. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues 6. Mississippi Boweavil Blues 7. Down the Dirt Road Blues 8. It Won't Be Long 9. Shake It and Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) 10. Spoonful Blues 11. Pea Vine Blues 12. Tom Rushen Blues 13. Lord I'm Discouraged 14. I'm Goin' Home 15. High Water Everywhere 16. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2 17. Farrell Blues 18. Come Back Corrina 19. Rattlesnake Blues 20. Running Wild Blues 21. Be True Be True Blues 1. Tell Me Man Blues 2. Mean Black Cat Blues 3. Magnolia Blues 4. Mean Black Moan 5. Heart Like Railroad Steel 6. Green River Blues 7. Elder Greene Blues 8. Jesus Is a Dying-Bed Maker 9. I Shall Not Be Moved 10. Hammer Blues 11. When Your Way Gets Dark 12. Moon Going Down 13. Going to Move to Alabama 14. Some Happy Day 15
