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Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 Complete Recordings of Robert Petway, Mississippi Matilda, Sonny Boy Nelson
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Mississippi Blues Vol. 3
Robert Petway, vocal, guitar.
“Mississippi” Matilda, vocal.
“Sonny Boy” Nelson (Eugene Powell ) , vocal guitar.
With contributions by;
Bo Carter, guitar.
Alfred Elkins, stand-up bass.
Willie Harris, vocal, guitar.
Genre; Mississippi “Country” Blues.
Informative booklet notes by Chris Smith.
Detailed discography.
Robert Petway made the first recording of Catfish Blues, and there’s a good case for believing that he composed it: ‘He just made that song up and used to play it at them old country dances. He just made it up and kept it in his head,’ says Honeyboy Edwards, who learned the song from Petway in person.
The first bars of 'Catfish Blues' locate his music squarely in the gravel-voiced, rhythm-dominated tradition usually thought of as typical of the Mississippi Delta; the song chugs implacably on, powered by a monochordal riff. Petway was no guitar virtuoso, but he ably exploited his National steel guitar’s capacity for volume, and made effective use of the trademark triplet runs which can be heard in many of his songs; during Ride ‘Em On Down he varies the device, providing instead an exciting rush of sixteenth notes. Like McClennan, Robert favoured a dramatic vocal delivery, growling out the lyrics, bearing down hard on the beat, and encouraging himself with spoken asides. Continued...
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