Blues

Josh White ‎– Spirituals & Blues (1960)

2019-06-07T15:03:34Z

Josh White ‎– Spirituals & Blues (1960)


A1 	Southern Exposure 	3:15
A2 	Red Sun (L. Hughes) 	4:13
A3 	Silicosis Blues 	4:25
A4 	Black Snake 	3:42
A5 	Things About Coming My Way 	3:11
B1 	I've Got That Pure Religion 	5:14
B2 	Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 	3:41
B3 	I Know King Jesus 	3:28
B4 	Just A Closer Walk With Thee 	4:28
B5 	I Don't Intend To Die In Egypt Land 	3:28

Josh White - vocals, guitar
Bill Lee - bass
Walter Perkins - drums

To many blues enthusiasts, Josh White was a folk revival artist. It's true that the second half of his music career found him based in New York playing to the coffeehouse and cabaret set and hanging out with Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and fellow transplanted blues artists Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. In Chicago during the 1960s, his shirt was unbuttoned to the waist à la Harry Belafonte and his repertoire consisted of folk revival standards such as "Scarlet Ribbons." He was a show business personality -- a star renowned for his sexual magnetism and his dramatic vocal presentations. Many listeners were unaware of White's status as a major figure in the Piedmont blues tradition. The first part of his career saw him as apprentice to some of the greatest blues and religious artists ever, including Willie Walker, Blind Blake, Blind Joe Taggart (with whom he recorded), and allegedly even Blind Lemon Jefferson. On his own, he recorded both blues and religious songs, including a classic version of "Blood Red River." A fine guitar technician with an appealing voice, he became progressively more sophisticated in his presentation. Like many other Carolinians and Virginians who moved north to urban areas, he took up city ways, remaining a fine musician if no longer a down-home artist. Like several other canny blues players, he used his roots music to broaden and enhance his life experience, and his talent was such that he could choose the musical idiom that was most lucrative at the time. ---Barry Lee Pearson, allmusic.com

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Josh White - From New York To London Classic Recordings [CD2](2002)

2018-06-11T14:31:35Z

Josh White - From New York To London Classic Recordings [CD2](2002)


01 	I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 	3:11
02 	Take A Gal Like You 	2:56
03 	Like A Natural Man 	2:54
04 	Hard Time Blues 	3:02
05 	The Foggy, Foggy Dew 	3:15
06 	The Lass With The Delicate Air 	3:09
07 	I Want You And I Need You 	2:33
08 	Free And Equal Blues Parts 1 & 2 	4:28
09 	T.B. Blues 	2:46
10 	On Top Of Old Smokey 	2:24
11 	Barbara Allen 	3:13
12 	Lonesome Road 	2:49
13 	Waltzing Matilda 	3:00
14 	Apples, Peaches And Cherries 	3:10
15 	Call Me Darling 	2:15
16 	Molly Malone 	3:02
17 	Wanderings 	3:18
18 	He Never Said A Mumblin' Word 	2:52
19 	Black Girl 	3:02
20 	The Butterfly Song 	3:29
21 	I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues 	3:05

Norman Burns - Drums 
Fitzroy Coleman - Guitar
Jack Fallon - Bass  
J.C. Heard - Drums 
Chick Laval - Guitar 
Brownie McGhee - Guitar
Steve Race - Celeste, Piano 
John Simmons - Bass
Stargazers - Vocals
Sonny Terry - Harmonica
Bill White - Drums
Josh White - Guitar, Primary Artist, Vocals

It has been many years since Josh White received anything like his due from either Blues or Folk music fans, but there was a time when he was the world's most famous Blues musician and one of the leading lights of the Folk scene. When the recordings that make up the first disc of this set were made, Josh was in the process of introducing the mass of Americans to the existence of acoustic Blues music, and when those on the second were made he was serving as America's Folk-Blues ambassador to Europe. The number of popular artists on both sides of the Atlantic who might never have played music, or received any attention from the public without Josh's influence is beyond counting - though such disparate figures as Harry Belafonte, who started as a Josh White imitator, and John Renbourn, who first learned guitar from a John White instruction book, leap to mind. These commercial recordings, made during Josh White's period of greatest popular success, include some of his best work. His refusal to be type-cast has prevented historians from giving him his due, yet in a single song he could bring out the guitar virtuosity of a great Bluesman, the easy storytelling of the best Folk artists, and the smooth phrasing of a Nat King Cole. Josh was a true original, a great Bluesman and one of the most influential artists of the Folk revival. Jasmine present a superb 2CD set, the first containing classic commercial recordings from the 1940s, including two very rare sides with Libby Holman, the second his entire output on the London label made around 1951 plus both sides of his ultra rate UK Columbia single. ---Editorial Reviews, amazon.com

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Josh White - From New York To London: Classic Recordings [CD1] (2002)

2018-06-05T14:12:51Z

Josh White - From New York To London: Classic Recordings [CD1] (2002)


1. 	Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out 
2. 	Sometime 	
3. 	John Henry 	
4. 	Back Water Blues 	
5. 	Watercress 	
6. 	Josh And Bill Blues 	
7. 	Dip His Finger In The Water 	
8. 	Frankie and Johnny 
9. 	Jelly, Jelly 
10. 	Green Grass Growing All Around 	
11. 	The Lass With the Delicate Air 	
12. 	Evil Hearted Man 	
13. 	I Gave My Love a Cherry 	
14. 	Lord Randall, My Son 	
15. 	Molly Malone 	
16. 	The House Of The Risin' Sun 	
17. 	Strange Fruit 	
18. 	Jim Crow 	
19. 	Good Morning Blues (Bonus Track) 	
20. 	When The Sun Goes Down (Bonus Track)

Norman Burns - Drums 
Fitzroy Coleman - Guitar
Jack Fallon - Bass  
J.C. Heard - Drums 
Chick Laval - Guitar 
Brownie McGhee - Guitar
Steve Race - Celeste, Piano 
John Simmons - Bass
Stargazers - Vocals
Sonny Terry - Harmonica
Bill White - Drums
Josh White - Guitar, Primary Artist, Vocals

Josh White had a remarkable talent for self-reinvention, and his career -- which began in the 1920s and stretched essentially uninterrupted all the way into the '60s -- is an amazing story of adaptability and survival. Slick, sly, and fiercely intelligent, White became a sort of pre-Harry Belafonte black sex idol, complete with a leftist social and political agenda, during his so-called cabaret blues period in the late '40s, and when the McCarthy era led to his blacklisting, he rebounded into the folk revival period with several carefully assembled albums for Jac Holzman's Elektra label that recast him as a folk balladeer. Although some folk purists were aghast, doubting White's authenticity as a folk-blues performer (perhaps unaware of White's solid Piedmont blues background and his fine run of vintage blues 78s in the '30s), the fact remains that White was an excellent acoustic guitar player and a subtle and versatile singer who carefully selected his material, well aware of how it made him appear. This double-disc, 42-track set is drawn from White's cabaret period and features recordings he made in New York between 1944 and 1947 (disc one) and in London in 1950 and 1951 (disc two). The range of styles here is telling, as White rolls all manner of songs, from light gospel to small-combo jazz and blues, into a kind of folky high art. Among the highlights are a stark reading of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and White's small-combo jazz take on Casey Bill Weldon's classic "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town." Fiercely independent, and always in control of his own image in an era when black performers were seldom afforded that luxury, White helped pave the way for Belafonte, who followed the same sort of template to international stardom a mere half-dozen years after these recordings were made. ---Steve Leggett, AllMusic Review

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Josh White - Free And Equal Blues (1998)

2017-07-03T13:45:43Z

Josh White - Free And Equal Blues (1998)


 1. One Meat Ball - 3:11
 2. In My Time Of Dying - 3:14
 3. Free And Equal Blues - 4:29
 4. Number 12 Train - 3:39
 5. Jim Crow - 2:48
 6. Landlord - 2:37
 7. Betty And Dupree - 3:46
 8. Trouble - 2:40
 9. Beloved Comrade - 2:03
10. Hold On - 2:13
11. Jelly Jelly - 2:27
12. When I Lay Down - 2:36
13. The House I Live In - 2:31
14. Fuhrer - 3:10
15. Minute Man - 2:05
16. Take A Gal Like You - 3:10
17. Whatcha Gonna Do - 1:13
18. Josh White - Don't Lie Buddy.mp3 - 2:21  
19. Motherless Children - 2:30
20. No More Blues (No More Blues Lines) - 2:45
21. Meam Mistreatin' Woman.mp3 - 3:10  
22. Freedom Road - 2:20
23. Miss Otis Regrets - 2:58
24. Careless Love - 3:22
25. T B Blues - 3:21
26. Outskirts Of Town - 3:02

Josh White – vocals, guitar
The Union Boys – vocals (5, 10)
Pete Seeger – vocals, banjo (10)
Jimmy Butts – bass (15)
Mary Lou Williams – piano (15)
Bill Coleman – trumpet (15)
Eddie Dougherty – drums (15)
Lead Belly – vocals, guitar (18)

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Josh White (1914-1969) was a brilliant musician whose vibrant guitar and rich vocals captivated audiences for decades. Recorded at the height of his career by Moses Asch in the 1940s, he performs these 26 blues, gospel, popular, and hard-hitting topical songs solo or accompanied by such contemporaries as Lead Belly, Mary Lou Williams, and the Almanac Singers. Extensive biographical notes, photographs, archivist's remarks, bibliography, and discography. 74 minutes. Produced and compiled by Jeff Place and Elijah Wald. Additional annotation by Kip Lornell. --- folkways.si.edu

This fine 26-song compilation of material was recorded by folklorist Moses Asch in the 1940s, at a time when Josh White was beginning to reach an urban, educated audience with his mixture of blues, folk, and pop styles. What comes across particularly strong in this set is his versatility and all-around appeal; he handles topical songs about discrimination and war, spirituals, covers of blues by Leroy Carr and Victoria Spivey, folk ballads, and theatrical pieces, even extending to a cover of Cole Porter's "Miss Otis Regrets." "One Meatball" provided some of the musical inspiration for the classic Merle Travis tune "Sixteen Tons"; "Freedom Road" had lyrics by poet Langston Hughes. Because he was less earthy and not as Southern-sounding as Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy, White has been accorded less critical respect, but this anthology shows him to be one of the unquestioned linchpins of the first stirrings of the folk revival. Free & Equal Blues includes copious notes by White biographer Elijah Wald. ---Richie Unterberger, AllMusic Review

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