VA - Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Work Songs and Street Music (1999)
FLAC (tracks) - 403 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 MB
1:08:44 | Blues, Jazz | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
FLAC (tracks) - 403 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 MB
1:08:44 | Blues, Jazz | Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Blues Routes is a resonant almanac of blues styles and blues-related music and musicians including: Memphis barrelhouse and Harlem parlor piano players; blues guitarists from the Delta and Piedmont, San Francisco and Chicago; Kansas City and New Orleans jazz masters; hambone call-and-response and Mardi Gras Indian chants; Texas jump blues and Louisiana Creole zydeco; minstrel and jazz banjomen; street go-go bucket-drummers and railroad track-lining gandy dancers. In this fin de siècle collection, the diversity of American blues and blues-influenced styles and the unity of their African ancestral heartbeats can be heard in great performances recorded live at the influential Folk Masters concert and radio series.