Blues

Memphis Minnie – Killer Diller Blues (2018)

2018-12-14T14:58:21Z

Memphis Minnie – Killer Diller Blues (2018)


1: 	Bumble Bee 		
2: 	Memphis Minnie Jitis Blues 		
3: 	Plymouth Rock Blues 		
4: 	New Bumble Bee 		
5: 	Frankie Jean 		
6: 	Crazy Cryin' Blues 		
7: 	Where Is My Good Man 		
8: 	My Butcher Man 		
9: 	Hustlin' Woman Blues 		
10: 	Doctor, Doctor Blues 		
11: 	Hoodoo Lady Blues 		
12: 	Down In The Alley 		
13: 	I Hate To See The Sun Go Down 		
14: 	Has Anyone Seen My Man? 		
15: 	Nothing In Rambling 		
16: 	In My Girlish Days 		
17: 	Me And My Chauffeur Blues 		
18: 	This Is Your Last Chance 		
19: 	I Am Sailin' 		
20: 	Fashion Plate Daddy 		
21: 	Moaning Blues 		
22: 	Killer Diller Blues 		
23: 	Down Home Girl 		
24: 	Kissing In The Dark 

Memphis Minnie – guitar, vocals

Although highly-regarded by those in the know, it is perhaps surprising that Memphis Minnie is not better known. Born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, on 03 June 1897, Minnie was a fabulous singer, a sharp songwriter and a magnificent finger-style guitarist. She recorded over 200 songs in a career that lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s. She played with the likes of Willie Brown (author of “Future Blues” and friend and musical partner of both Charley Patton and Robert Johnson) and slide guitar wizard, Casey Bill Weldon, to whom she was also briefly married in the 1920s. She was also an innovator, being one of the first blues players to use a steel-bodied National guitar in 1929, and playing an electric wood body National and various other electric guitars in the 1940s.

Killer Diller Blues is a collection of 24 tracks from across Minnie’s career from the esteemed Austrian blues record label, Wolf Records. It is possible to distinguish three clear strands to her musical evolution through her recording career, and the CD contains representative tracks from each era. Her initial recordings with her second husband, Kansas Joe McCoy in the late 1920s and early 1930s (here represented by seven tracks, including the classic “Bumble Bee”) were essentially acoustic guitar duets. This led on to the more sophisticated swing band sound of the late 1930s and early 1940s where she played with the likes of pianist Black Bob, mandolin player Charlie McCoy and drummer Fred Williams. Killer Diller Blues contains six songs from this era, including “I Hate To See The Sun Go Down” which borrows heavily from WC Handy’s earlier “St Louis Blues”. The third phase began around 1941, when she started playing with Little Son Joe on second guitar, often with a stand-up bass and drums. Minnie’s single note lines on tracks like “Moaning Blues” and “Down Home Girl” augured and influenced the subsequent electric stylings of Jimmy Rogers and Johnny Shines.

The sparse liner notes to the CD, written by Hannes Folterbauer, are perhaps most notable for incorrectly referring to Willie Brown as “Henry Brown” and for repeating the story from Big Bill Broonzy’s autobiography about a cutting contest between Broonzy and Minnie in Chicago in 1933 for the prize of a bottle of wine and a bottle of gin. Broonzy wrote that Minnie won the prize by playing “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” and “Looking the World Over”. As noted by Paul and Beth Garon, however, in their excellent Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues, this story at best is an amalgamation of different contests, since both of the songs alleged to have been played by her date from the 1940s rather than the 1930s. Indeed, “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” borrows the melody of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Good Morning, School Girl”, itself only from 1937. Killer Diller Blues contains Minnie’s 1941 recording of “Me And My Chauffeur Blues” but sadly does not include “Looking The World Over” (later magnificently covered by BB King on his My Kind Of Blues album).

Given the sheer number of songs Minnie recorded during her career, there will always be room for healthy debate as to what are her best 24 songs. Obvious omissions include “When The Levee Breaks” (yes, that is where the Led Zeppelin song comes from), “What’s The Matter With The Mill?” and “Black Rat Swing”. With excellent remastering by Fabian Wessely at Soundborn Studio, however, the tracks on Killer Diller Blues are certainly a fine introduction to one of the indisputable all-time blues greats and Wolf Records are to be congratulated on another fine reissue. ---Rhys Williams, bluesblastmagazine.com

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Memphis Minnie - Hot Stuff 1930-1941 (1996)

2017-06-15T12:18:05Z

Memphis Minnie - Hot Stuff 1930-1941 (1996)


1 Hot Stuff, 3:02 
2 I Hate to See the Sun Go Down, 2:43 
3 Memphis Minnie-Jitis Blues, 3:20 
4 Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool), 2:49 
5 She Put Me Outdoors, 2:47 
6 I Don't Want That Junk Outta You, 2:22 
7 Biting Bug Blues, 3:19 
8 Moonshine, 2:46 
9 Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing), 3:14 
10 Down by the Riverside, 2:31 
11 I Called You This Morning, 2:58 
12 Man, You Won't Give Me No Money, 2:56 
13 Keep on Sailing, 3:01 
14 It's Hard to Be Mistreated, 3:05 
15 New Bumble Bee, 2:50
16 Me and My Chauffeur Blues, 2:44
17 Good Morning, 2:57
18 Ice Man (Come on Up), 2:58

Memphis Minnie - Banjo, Composer, Guitar, Vocals
Blind John Davis - Piano
Little Son Joe – Guitar
Ransom Knowling – Bass
Fred Williams – Drums
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Unknown Artists

Memphis Minnie began performing with Joe McCoy, her second husband, in 1929. They were discovered by a talent scout for Columbia Records, in front of a barber shop, where they were playing for dimes. She and McCoy went to record in New York City and were given the names Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie by a Columbia A&R man. Over the next few years she and McCoy released a series of records, performing as a duet. In February 1930 they recorded the song "Bumble Bee" for the Vocalion label, which they had already recorded for Columbia but which had not yet been released. It became one of Minnie's most popular songs; she eventually recorded five versions of it. Minnie and McCoy continued to record for Vocalion until August 1934, when they recorded a few sessions for Decca Records. Their last session together was for Decca, in September. They divorced in 1935.

An anecdote from Big Bill Broonzy's autobiography, Big Bill Blues, recounts a cutting contest between Minnie and Broonzy in a Chicago nightclub on June 26, 1933, for the prize of a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of gin. Each singer was to sing two songs; after Broonzy sang "Just a Dream" and "Make My Getaway," Minnie won the prize with "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" and "Looking the World Over". Paul and Beth Garon, in their biography Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, suggested that Broonzy's account may have combined various contests at different dates, as these songs of Minnie's date from the 1940s rather than the 1930s.

By 1935 Minnie was established in Chicago and had become one of a group of musicians who worked regularly for the record producer and talent scout Lester Melrose. Back on her own after her divorce from McCoy, Minnie began to experiment with different styles and sounds. She recorded four sides for Bluebird Records in July 1935, returned to the Vocalion label in August, and then recorded another session for Bluebird in October, this time accompanied by Casey Bill Weldon. By the end of the 1930s, in addition to her output for Vocalion, she had recorded nearly 20 sides for Decca and eight sides for Bluebird. She also toured extensively in the 1930s, mainly in the South.

In 1938 Minnie returned to recording for the Vocalion label, this time accompanied by Charlie McCoy, Kansas Joe's brother, on mandolin. Around this time she married the guitarist and singer Ernest Lawlars, known as Little Son Joe. They began recording together in 1939, with Son adding a more rhythmic backing to Minnie's guitar. They recorded for Okeh Records in the 1940s and continued to record together through the decade. By 1941 Minnie had started playing electric guitar, and in May of that year she recorded her biggest hit, "Me and My Chauffeur Blues". A follow-up date produced two more blues standards, "Looking the World Over" and Lawlars's "Black Rat Swing" (issued under the name "Mr. Memphis Minnie"). In the 1940s Minnie and Lawlars continued to work at their "home club," Chicago's popular 708 Club, where they were often joined by Broonzy, Sunnyland Slim, or Snooky Pryor, and also played at many of the other better-known Chicago nightclubs. During the 1940s Minnie and Lawlars performed together and separately in the Chicago and Indiana areas. Minnie often played at "Blue Monday" parties at Ruby Lee Gatewood's, on Lake Street. The poet Langston Hughes, who saw her perform at the 230 Club on New Year's Eve, 1942, wrote of her "hard and strong voice" being made harder and stronger by amplification and described the sound of her electric guitar as "a musical version of electric welders plus a rolling mill." ---revolvy.com

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Memphis Minnie - Blues Collection 76 - Let's Go To Town (1995)

2013-06-01T16:18:33Z

Memphis Minnie - Blues Collection 76 - Let's Go To Town (1995)


01 I'm Going Back Home
02 Georgia Skin
03 Bumble Bee Blues
04 Meningitis Blues
05 New Dirty Dozen
06 Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)
07 What's The Matter With The Mill
08 North Memphis Blues
09 Let's Go To Town
10 Moaning The Blues
11 Sylvester And His Mule Blues
12 Joe Louis Strut
13 Doctor Doctor Blues
14 Nothing In Rambling
15 In My Girlish Days
16 Me And My Chauffeur Blues
17 I'm Not A Bad Gal
18 You Got To Get Out Of Here
19 Looking The World Over
20 Black Rat Swing

Tracking down the ultimate woman blues guitar hero is problematic because woman blues singers seldom recorded as guitar players and woman guitar players (such as Rosetta Tharpe and Sister O.M. Terrell) were seldom recorded playing blues. Excluding contemporary artists, the most notable exception to this pattern was Memphis Minnie. The most popular and prolific blueswoman outside the vaudeville tradition, she earned the respect of critics, the support of record-buying fans, and the unqualified praise of the blues artists she worked with throughout her long career. Despite her Southern roots and popularity, she was as much a Chicago blues artist as anyone in her day. Big Bill Broonzy recalls her beating both him and Tampa Red in a guitar contest and claims she was the best woman guitarist he had ever heard. Tough enough to endure in a hard business, she earned the respect of her peers with her solid musicianship and recorded good blues over four decades for Columbia, Vocalion, Bluebird, OKeh, Regal, Checker, and JOB. She also proved to have as good taste in musical husbands as music and sustained working marriages with guitarists Casey Bill Weldon, Joe McCoy, and Ernest Lawlars. Their guitar duets span the spectrum of African-American folk and popular music, including spirituals, comic dialogs, and old-time dance pieces, but Memphis Minnie's best work consisted of deep blues like "Moaning the Blues." More than a good woman blues guitarist and singer, Memphis Minnie holds her own against the best blues artists of her time, and her work has special resonance for today's aspiring guitarists. ---Barry Lee Pearson, Rovi

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Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) [1991]

2010-03-23T16:57:27Z

Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) [1991]


1. Down in the Alley  - 3:00
2. Has Anyone Seen My Man? - 2:46
3. I Hate to See the Sun Go Down - 2:45
4. Ice Man (Come on Up) - 2:59
5. Hoodoo Lady - 3:04
6. I'm a Bad Luck Woman - 3:03
7. Caught Me Wrong Again - 2:56
8. Black Cat Blues - 2:56
9. Good Morning - 2:59
10. Man, You Won't Give Me No Money - 2:59
11. Keep on Eatin' - 2:40
12. I've Been Treated Wrong - 2:54
13. Good Biscuits - 2:42
14. Ain't No Use Tryin' to Tell on Me (I Know Something on You) - 3:16
15. My Butcher Man - 3:00
16. My Strange Man - 3:00
17. If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home) - 3:17
18. My Baby Don't Want Me No More  - 2:49
19. Please Don't Stop Him  - 2:57
20. I'm Going Don't You Know  - 2:58

Personnel:
Memphis Minnie - Guitar, Vocals
Blind John Davis - Piano
Black Bob Hudson - Piano
Charlie McCoy - Mandolin
Arnett Nelson - Clarinet
Fred Williams – Drums

Memphis Minnie held her own in a genre famous for its casualties, and as a blues guitarist, few players in the 1920s could cut her, and that, coupled with Minnie's natural showmanship and a penchant for marrying her guitar duet partners (Casey Bill Weldon, Kansas Joe McCoy, Ernest Lawlars), makes her one of the most colorful figures in blues history. This set brings together key tracks that she recorded for Columbia Records between 1933 and 1937, but it's just a small part of this musician's prolific recording catalog (she also recorded for the Bluebird, OKeh, Vocalion, Regal, Checker, and JOB imprints during her four-decade career). The sound is good, though, which makes this a nice place to start. ---Steve Leggett, Rovi

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Memphis Minnie – Queen Of The Blues – Mojo Workin’ (1997)

2009-10-29T14:17:16Z

Memphis Minnie – Queen Of The Blues – Mojo Workin’ (1997)


1.When the levee breaks (3:09) – 
2.Joliet bound (3:06) – 
3.He's in the ring (3:07) – 
4.Joe Louis strut (2:49) – 
5.New Orleans stop time (2:59) – 
6.Blues everywhere (2:49) – 
7.Please don't stop him (2:54) – 
8.Has anyone seen my man? (2:43) – 
9.I'd rather see him dead (2:47) – 
10.Call the fire wagon (2:23) – 
11.Bad outside friends (2:28) – 
12.Lonesome shack (2:51) – 
13.Pig meat on the line (2:33) – 
14.Looking the world over (2:36) – 
15.When you love me (2:42) – 
16.Love come and go (2:38) – 
17.Fashion plate daddy (2:58) – 
18.Killer diller blues (2:29).

"Queen of the blues?," you may ask. After you check out this CD, you'll understand why. There were many outstanding female blues vocalists of the first half of the 20th Century, but Minnie not only sang, she was also an accomplished guitarist and wrote many of her songs.

This is evidenced by "When the Levee Breaks," which starts off this eighteen track set. Minnie co-wrote and plays guitar on the song, but the lead vocals are by her husband, co-writer "Kansas" Joe McCoy. It's the same song that was later recorded by Led Zeppelin on their fourth album (the same one that included "Stairway to Heaven"). It also seems to be Kansas Joe singing on "Joliet Bound," which immediately follows the first track.

Vocally, it's pretty much Minnie throughout the rest of the CD, although sometimes it's hard to tell because of her husky singing voice. This is an area where the liner notes could really have been helpful, but this is mere nit-picking.

In addition to those songs mentioned, other stand out cuts are "New Orleans Stop Time," "Call the Fire Wagon," and the unabashedly sexual, "I'd Rather See Him Dead." Also of note are "He's in the Ring" and "Joe Louis Strut," which are both tributes to the former heavyweight champion.

Memphis Minnie is the real thing. She's raw, bold and can play some mean guitar. Her playing ranges from "gut bucket" (a la Robert Johnson) to a more "rocking" style, later popularized by the likes of Chuck Berry (who is rumored to have recorded a jam session with her). Simply put, this CD should be a part of any comphrensive blues collection. ---Ibochild, amazon.com

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Memphis Minnie – Crazy Crying Blues (2002)

2009-10-29T14:15:39Z

Memphis Minnie – Crazy Crying Blues (2002)


1.Bumble bee  	   	 	
2.Can I do it for you (part 1) 	  		
3.Memphis Minnie-jitis blues 	  		
4.New dirty dozen 	  		
5.Frankie Jean (that trottin' fool) 	  		
6.I called you this morning 	  		
7.What's the matter with the mill 	  		
8.North Memphis blues 	  		
9.Crazy cryin blues 	  		
10.Tricks ain't walking no more 	  		
11.Pickin' the blues 	  		
12.Soo cow soo 	  		
13.After awhile blues 	  		
14.Joliet bound 	  		
15.Where is my good man 	  		
16.Drunken barrel house blues 	  		
17.You got to move (you ain't got to move / part 1)   		
18.Let me ride 	  		
19.Nothing in rambling 	  		
20.Finger print blues 	  		
21.Ma Rainey 	  		
22.In my girlish days 	  		
23.Me and my chauffer blues 	  		
24.Pigmeat on the line 	  		
25.Can't afford to lose my man
 
Performer:
Memphis Minnie - Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
Kansas Joe McCoy - Guitar, Vocals

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Memphis Minnie – Black Widow Stinger 1935 – 1941 (1999)

2009-10-29T14:14:12Z

Memphis Minnie – Black Widow Stinger 1935 – 1941 (1999)


01.	Don’t Bother It
02.	Today Today Blues
03.	Outdoor Blues
04.	My Butcher Man
05.	Too Late
06.	Squat It
07.	Moanin’ The Blues
08.	Sylvester And His Mule Blues
09.	Reachin’  Pete
10.	Biting Dog Blues
11.	You Ain’t Done Nothing To Me
12.	Black Cat Blues
13.	Good Morning
14.	It’s Hard To Be Mistreated
15.	Walking And Crying Blues
16.	You Caught Me Wrong Again
17.	I Hate To See The Sun Go Down
18.	Black Widow Stinger
19.	Don’t Lead My Baby Wrong
20.	It’s Hard To Please My Man
21.	Down By The Riverside
22.	I Got To Make A Change Blues
23.	This is Your Last Chance
24.	You Got To Get Out Of Here

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