Charlie Patton - Best of Charley Patton - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Folk legend, union organizer, songwriter and raconteur Utah Phillips, who recently passed away, was one f the great songwriters of the folk genre and his songs have been covered from everyone from Flatt & Scruggs, Kate Wolf and Joan Barz to Emmylou Harris, Ani diFranco and Tom Waits. But the foremost interpreter of his music has always been his old friend Rosalie Sorrels, a folk legend in her own right. Just before his death, Rosalie began creating this wonderful tribute with many songs that have never been recorded. Supporting Rosalie are great artists like Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Bryan Bowers, Peggy Seeger, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Madcat Ruth, the Sorry Muthas, Willie Murphy and Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith.

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.

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