Lonesome Sundown ‎– Lonesome Sundown (1969)

A1 	Love Me Now 	
A2 	Learn To Treat Me Better 	
A3 	Lonesome Lonely Blues 	
A4 	Do What You Did 	
A5 	I'm Glad She's Mine 	
A6 	I Woke Up Cryin' 	
B1 	Please Be On That 519 	
B2 	I Had A Dream Last Night 	
B3 	If You See My Baby 	
B4 	Hoo Doo Woman Blues 	
B5 	When I Had I Didn't Need 	
B6 	I'm A Mojo Man

Bass Guitar – Bobby McBride, Rufus Thibodeaux
Drums – Austin Broussard, Warren Storm
Guitar – Lonesome Sundown
Harmonica – Dee Dee Gradnier, Lazy Lester
Piano – Katie Webster, Mert Thibodeaux
Tenor Saxophone – Lionel Prevo
Vocals – Lonesome Sundown

Unlike many of his swamp blues brethren, the evocatively monikered Lonesome Sundown (the name was an inspired gift from producer J.D. Miller) wasn't a Jimmy Reed disciple. Sundown's somber brand of blues was more in keeping with the gruff sound of Muddy Waters. The guitarist was one of the most powerful members of Miller's south Louisiana stable, responsible for several seminal swamp standards on Excello Records. The former Cornelius Green first seriously placed his hands on a guitar in 1950, Waters and Hooker providing early inspiration. Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier hired the guitarist as one of his two axemen (Phillip Walker being the other) in 1955. A demo tape was enough proof for Miller -- he began producing him in 1956, leasing the freshly renamed Sundown's "Leave My Money Alone" to Excello.

There were plenty more where that one came from. Over the next eight years, Sundown's lowdown Excello output included "My Home Is a Prison," "I'm a Mojo Man," "I Stood By," "I'm a Samplin' Man," and a host of memorable swamp classics, all of which preceded his 1965 retirement from the blues business to devote his life to the church. It was 1977 before Sundown could be coaxed back into a studio to cut a blues LP; Been Gone Too Long, co-produced by Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker for the Joliet imprint, was an excellent comeback entry but sales were disappointing (even after being reissued on Alligator). Scattered live performances were about all that was heard of the swamp blues master after that. ---Bill Dahl, Artist Biography

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