V.A.Country Negro Jam Sessions Butch Cage & Willie B.Thomas and Others 1959/1993

V.A.Country Negro Jam Sessions Butch Cage & Willie B.Thomas and Others 1959/1993
Label: Arhoolie

Blues

“The title is accurate to a time and place: Southwestern Louisiana between 1959 and 1962. The folklorist Harry Oster did a series of field recordings, informal `jams'with a group of obscure blues men and women, only one of whom, Robert Pete Williams, won fame.
Williams was singular in composing stream-of-consciousness blues, support-ed by a guitar style as jarring for blues as Monk was for jazz piano. But Williams sounds nearly traditional compared to others in these recordings. Butch Cage plays fiddle in a nineteenth-century style now gone. And Cage himself sounds nearly conventional compared to the unknown resident of a state mental hospital who does a high-pitched whoop (a la Sonny Terry) into a Coke bottle while other inmates bang wood blocks. (*)
In case you're wondering how a seventy-seven-minute disc with such diversity can cohere, let me assure you it does, and plenty. I've never heard a better, `rootsier' blues collection in my life, and when I wore out my vinyl album, I sadly wondered, who would ever bother to release this on disc? It's here, and if you have a taste for relaxed, funky, real-gone, real back-porch blues, it's a must.”
(Norman Weinstein — Los Angeles Reader)

All recordings made by Dr. Harry Oster in Louisiana 1959/1960 and 1962
except 19,22,23,24 and 25 made by Chris Strachwitz and Paul Oliver in 1960
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01. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - 44 Blues
02. Robert Pete Williams And Robert J. Welch - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
03. Clarence Edwards Cornelius Edwards And Butch Cage - Smokestack Lightnin'
04. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Who Broke The Lock
05. Clarence Edwards Cornelius Edwards And Butch Cage - You Don't Love Me
06. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - It's The Sign Of The Judgement
07. Ben Douglas - Foxhunt
08. Sally Dotson Smoky Babe And Hillary Blunt - Your Dice Won't Pass
09. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Jelly Roll
10. Rebecca Smith Tom Miller And Ruth Miller - I've Got Religion
11. Smoky Babe - Going Downtown Boogie
12. Clarence Edwards Cornelius Edwards And Butch Cage - Stack O'Dollars
13. Butch Cage Martha Thomas And Willie B. Thomas - Brown Skin Woman
14. Napoleon Strickland Lucius Bridges And Leslie Anders - I Won't Be Your Low Down Dog No More
15. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - The Piano Blues
16. Smoky Babe - Cotton Field Blues
17. Otis Webster - The Farm Blues
18. Otis Webster - The Boss Man Blues
19. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Whoa Mule
20. Otis Webster - Boll Weevil Blues
21. Clarence Edwards Cornelius Edwards And Butch Cage - Thousand Miles From Nowhere
22. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Dead And Gone
23. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Called For You Yesterday
24. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Me And My Chauffeur
25. Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Baby Please Don't Go
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