Mississippi Fred McDowell – You Got To Move / Arhoolie CD-304

Description

CD 304

Fred McDowell – vocals & guitar.

Fred’s mentor Eli Green is heard on “Brooks Run Into the Ocean” and ” Bull Dog Blues.” Recorded in 1964 & 1965. (All of ARH LP 1021 & most of 1027.) Includes the version of “You Gotta Move” heard and then recorded by the Rolling Stones on their “Sticky Fingers” album.

1. Write Me A Few Lines
2. Louise
3. I Heard Somebody Call
4. 61 Highway
5. Mama Don’t Allow Me
6. Kokomo Blues
7. Fred’s Worried Life Blues
8. You Gonna Be Sorry
9. Shake ‘Em On Down
10. My Trouble Blues
11. Black Minnie
12. That’s Alright
13. When I Lay My Burden Down
14. I Ain’t Gonna Be Bad No Mo’
15. Do My Baby Ever Think Of Me
16. Brooks Run Into The Ocean
17. Bull Dog Blues
18. Frisco Line
19. You Gotta Move

REVIEWS

“Wearing a sawed-off bottleneck on his 3rd finger Mississippi Fred McDowell created powerfully hypnotic blues and gospel. His style was a direct link to the 1930s blues of Charlie Patton and Son House. This 19-cut CD compiles his best known work… Fred’s guitar style echoes in the music of Bonnie Raitt and the Rolling Stones but his feel and field-holler voice were his and his alone.”

(Jas Obrecht — Guitar Player)

“One of the great exponents of the Mississippi Delta slide guitar style Fred McDowell was in every respect a blues poet of the very first rank. Each tune (is) a kind of short story with a form character and message of its own. This collection is a generous 60+ minutes of the best of McDowell’s work. If you’re looking for the definitive McDowell CD this is it.”

(Lawrence Hoffman — Baltimore Blues Society Newsletter)