True Blues - Fight On! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Three of today's deepest, most decorated acoustic blues masters reunite to summon ancestral spirits with songs both long remembered and newly created. Even as they step back in time, Guy Davis, Corey Harris and Alvin Youngblood Hart-who met at the 1996 Chicago Blues Festival and won ardent acclaim for their first True Blues project in 2013-prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that African American blues remains as vital and vibrant as ever. Recorded separately in Virginia, Mississippi and New York, these soul-stirring performances include a Jimmy Strother banjo song migrated to Piedmont-style guitar (Harris's InchFight OnInch), an inspired reworking of Elizabeth Cotten's InchShake Sugaree,Inch reimagined as if Blind Willie McTell were playing the guitar (Davis's InchEverything I Got Is Done In PawnInch), and the first Charley Patton song that Hart ever learned, InchScreamin' and Hollerin'.Inch Even the original compositions here are steeped in history, albeit personal history. Harris wrote InchWhat's That I Smell?Inch with his time spent in New Orleans in mind-specifically, his nights playing in a joint called The Funky Butt. Davis laments the necessity of a life on the road, away from family, in the disarmingly confessional InchSee Me When You Can.Inch And Hart drew inspiration from another great bluesman, his friend Henry Townsend (who died in 2006 at the age of 96), to write InchIf the Blues Was Money,Inch which he performs here on a Sears Silvertone-branded 1950s Kay flat-top guitar. Raw, heartfelt and sounding absolutely nothing like a dusty museum piece, Fight On! True Blues Vol. 2 is a loving celebration of shared music and friendship, a long-dreamed-about project that now, countless tours and conversations later finally arrives. Album Tracks 1. We Are Almost Down to the Shore (Fight on) 2. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues 3. See Me When You Can 4. Wh