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2007 live blues album
Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas
Released February 12, 2007 (2007-02-12 ) Recorded October 16, 2004, at the
Majestic Theatre , Dallas, Texas, United States
Genre
Delta blues Length 76 :32 Language English
Label The Blue Shoe Project
Producer Jeffry Dyson and Michael Dyson
The Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas hosted this historic performance
Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas is a
live
blues album, recorded in
Dallas, Texas , in October 2004 by
Henry James Townsend ,
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins ,
Robert Lockwood Jr. and
David "Honeyboy" Edwards . At the event, the four blues legends were from 89 to 94 years old and represented the last performers of
Delta blues from the 1920s. The concert was arranged by the
501(c)(3) non-profit The Blue Shoes Project, which aims to preserve and spread awareness of
roots music amongst students.
[1]
Two years after the concert, both Lockwood and Townsend were dead, and by early 2011, only Edwards was still alive. He died later that year.
Critical reception
In 2007, the album was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album
[2] and won the following February at the
50th Grammy Awards .
[3] It was also nominated for a
Blues Music Award for Traditional Blues Album of the Year.
[4] By January 2009, the album had sold less than 1,000 copies.
[1]
Track listing
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "
King Biscuit Time " (
McKinley Morganfield ) – 2:55
Pinetop Perkins – "Chicken Shack" (
Ike Turner ) – 4:42
Henry Townsend – "It's Got to End Somewhere" (Tonwsend) – 3:56
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Catfish Blues" (
Robert Petway ) – 2:58
Pinetop Perkins – "Down in Mississippi" (
J. B. Lenoir ) – 3:36
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "Hangin' On" (
Robert Lockwood, Jr. ) – 5:17
Henry Townsend – "All My Money's Gone" (
Roosevelt Sykes ) – 4:57
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "
Sweet Home Chicago " (
Robert Johnson ) – 3:09
Pinetop Perkins – "
Kansas City " (
Jerry Leiber and
Mike Stoller ) – 4:53
Henry Townsend – "If I Asked You" (Townsend) – 6:08
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "Got to Find Me a Woman" (Lockwood) – 4:56
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Country Boy" (
Muddy Waters ) – 3:13
Pinetop Perkins – "
Got My Mojo Working " (
Preston Foster ) – 5:11
Henry Townsend – "If You Don't Want Me" (Townsend) – 5:59
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "For You My Love" (Lockwood) – 4:37
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Apron Strings" (Edwards) – 1:49
Henry Townsend – "Blind Girl Blues" (Townsend) – 4:21
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "
See See Rider " (
Lena Arnet and
Ma Rainey ) – 3:55
Personnel
David Honeyboy Edwards
Robert Lockwood Jr.
Pinetop Perkins
Henry Townsend
Technical personnel
References
External links