Suzy Thompson – Stop & Listen CD 517

Description

CD 517

Suzy Thompson dishes up hillbilly fiddle rags and soulful blues songs a mélange of 1920’s and 30’s material plus some great originals. Recorded LIVE on April 10 2004 at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage.

Suzy Thompson – vocals and fiddle guitar on #3 4 6 and 14 with the Thompson String Ticklers: Eric Thompson – guitar on #1 3 4 5 10 12 15 tenor banjo on #16 cuatro on #14; Ben Sigelman – cello on everything except #7 8 14; Dave Murray – mandolin on #1 5 10 15 16; Dan Kluger – banjo-uke on #1 5 10 15 16; Dan Warrick – guitar on #1 5 10 15 16 vocal on #16; and also featuring: Del Rey – resonator guitar on #3 4 11 17 resonator ukulele on #12 17 vocal on #3 and 17; Larry Hanks – jew’s harp on #7 10 bass vocal on #16; Kate Brislin – vocal on #16.

1. Drunken’s Man’s Dream
2. The Sign Of Memphis Minnie
3. Black Rat Swing
4. Easy Come Easy Go Blues
5. Kennedy Rag
6. In The Pines
7. Mike In The Wilderness
8. Stop & Listen
9. Everybody Two Step – Intro
10. Everybody Two Step
11. North Memphis Cafe
12. Love Nuggets & Gravy
13. No Mockingbird – Intro
14. No Mockingbird
15. Duck Shoes
16. Sweet Loving Old Soul
17. How Can You Have The Blues

REVIEW

“A testament to the prowess of Thompson as an old-time fiddler a solid Cajun fiddler and an exciting blues fiddler…A long-time fixture in the Bay Area acoustic music scene Ms. Thompson shows us why she is a force to be reckoned with.  Her vocals and fiddle are right on as the title track displays…If your taste runs past the mundane old-time and you desire something more exciting this may be just the release you have been looking for.”

-Bob Buckingham Fiddler Magazine