Charlie Patton - Primeval Blues Rags and Gospel Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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.

The MVcremona tag, which has always been committed to enhancing the musical heritage of the city of Cremona, presents this CD dedicatedto the precious Maineri-Acerbi organ of the church of San Sigismondo, a wonderful church located just outside the city.The first documented news of the construction of this monumental organ dates back to 1567 but the organ only began service in 1572.After an eighteenth-century intervention which partially modified it's phonic structure, a restoration which took place in 1860 by the organbuilder Luigi Vincenzo Acerbis, he configured the current phonic structure, where all the original sixteenth-century pipes both in metal andwood are still present. This makes the instrument very versatile and suitable for performing a wide musical repertoire. The Cremonese organistPaolo Bottini, already a protagonist in the valorization of other historical organs of Cremona through numerous recordings for variousrecord labels, presents in this CD a series of pieces by composers who worked in the Cremona area, starting from himself and going to backin time to Claudio Monteverdi, born in Cremona in 1567, the year in which construction of the organ began.The church and monastery of San Sigismondo in Cremona are governed by an order of cloistered nuns and therefore the Maineri-Acerbiorgan is used only for liturgical purposes this makes this CD even more precious because it allows you to listen to the voice of this historicorgan in a repertoire of exceptional stylistic variety.

23 tracks from the man generally considered to be the founder of the delta blues! Sharecroppers would put down their farm tools and gather from miles around to see this guy play; includes Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues; Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues; High Water Everywhere Part 1; Pony Blues; Pea Vine Blues; I'm Goin' Home; Rattlesnake Blues; Down the Dirt Road Blues; I Shall Not Be Moved; Banty Rooster Blues, and more.