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artist: j.b. lenoir
title: martin scorsese presents the blues
date: 2003
label: MCA
genre: Blues
rls. date: Mar/03/2004
tracks: 15
bitrate: VBRkbps
size: 52,4 MB
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Most of the CD compilations released in conjunction with the
major television documentary series The Blues were devoted to
famous bluesmen or blues-rockers. So those who administered the
CD companion volumes are to be applauded for taking a chance
and including an installment on Lenoir, who ù unlike most of
the rest of the spotlighted performers ù will probably not be
familiar to many, perhaps most, of the series' viewers. This
anthology could well be subtitled "J.B. Lenoir at Chess," for
though his career did take in work at several different labels,
all but two of these 1950s tracks were first released on Chess.
Frankly, it doesn't make a case forLenoir as a blues giant;
it's good but second-division '50s electric Chicago blues, a
little monotonous in flavor, distinguished by his
so-high-pitched-it-could-be-a-woman vocals. It does have the
Lenoir songs that have proved to be his most enduring, those
being his political commentaries "Eisenhower Blues" and "Korea
Blues," "Mama Talk to Your Daughter," and "Don't Touch My
Head"; "Eisenhower Blues" and "Mama Talk to Your Daughter,"
both originally released on Parrot, are the two non-Chess
pieces on offer. It's too bad, however, that it doesn't license
any of his mid-'60s socially conscious acoustic tracks, which
demonstrate there was considerably more range to Lenoir's music
and artistry than was displayed in his 1950s recordings. ù
Richie Unterberger
-All Music Guide
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01-eisenhower blues [02:53]
02-korea blues [02:55]
03-mama talk to your daughter [02:25]
04-sitting down thinking [03:00]
05-give me one more shot [02:19]
06-natural man [02:36]
07-don't dog your woman [03:14]
08-low down dirty shame [02:26]
09-if you love me [02:52]
10-don't touch my head [02:18]
11-mama, what about your daughter [02:31]
12-when i am drinking [02:41]
13-five years [01:48]
14-good looking woman [02:08]
15-voodoo boogie [01:59]
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38:05 min
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