Music : The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: WILLIAMSON,SONNY BOY
EAN: 0008811282325
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Chess
Manufacturer: Chess
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Chess
Release Date: March 12, 2002
Sales Rank: 124223
Studio: Chess
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Media Type: CD
Artist: WILLIAMSON,SONNY BOY
Title: REAL FOLK BLUES/MORE REAL FOLK BLUES
Street Release Date: 03/12/2002
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Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL
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The biography of Sonny Boy Williamson is something of an enigma, even to ardent blues fans. Indeed, he isn't even the "real" Williamson; a shrewd businessman simply gave singer-mouth harpist Aleck "Rice" Miller the name after the 1948 murder of popular blues artist John Lee Williamson. Still, Miller/Williamson's remarkable career literally bridged Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, both his music and life embodying a free-wheeling, hard-living lifestyle that became something of a rock and blues cliché. After considerable local radio success in the Delta, Miller/Williamson ended up at Chicago's Chess Records in the mid-1950s, where all but one of these two dozen tracks originated in the early '60s. But by the time Chess originally issued the first of these ill-timed collections (belatedly compiled to cash in on a waning '60s folk boom), Williamson was six months dead. Listen and it's not hard to hear why a generation or two of blues-smitten rockers held him especially dear, be it the Allmans (the original "One Way Out," with longtime partner Robert Lockwood Jr. supplying the familiar guitar licks) or Zeppelin (a lugubrious, boogied-up take of Willie Dixon's "Bring It On Home"). Punctuated by harp blasts that could turn from sharply staccato to lyrically wrenching, Williamson's leathery voice muses over his being "Too Young to Die" or "Too Old to Think" with the self-deprecating indifference that became a trademark. Though these tracks are the cream of his last years, they're more boozy celebration than elegy. --Jerry McCulley
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SONNY BOY 11, AKA RICE MILLER. THE MOST SOULFUL OF THE CHICAGO BLUES ARTISTS. THERE WAS NO OTHER LIKE HIM. HE IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE OF THE "TRUE FATHERS OF ROCK & ROLL, NOT TO MENTION, R&B." THIS CD HAS MOST OF HI BEST, BUT IT IS MISSING A COUPLE OF MY FAVORITES, LIKE, "DON'T START ME TALKING", AND "I DON'T KNOW." OTHER THAN THAT, IT IS FULL OF GREAT BLUES THAT HAS BEEN REMASTERED BEAUTIFULLY. GREAT BUY!!
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This is the second Sonny Boy Williamson, a quirky harmonica genius. Some of his best known songs are here - "One Way Out," "Help Me," "Bring It On Home," "Nine Below Zero" - along with some, like "The Hunt," that are just plain strange. If you like blues harp, buy this CD.
I also highly recommend Sonny Boy's CDs "One Way Out" and "Down And Out Blues."
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MCA/Chess' "The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson" remains the ultimate Rice Miller-compilation, with "His Best" in second.
But this twofer-CD, which brings together all 24 tracks from Miller's two "Real Folk Blues" albums, doesn't make a bad supplement. It does repeat eight songs from "His Best", but it also has 16 songs which can't be found on that collection. Conversely, if you have the more extensive "Essential" anthology, you'll find only eight songs here that you don't already have.
The overall standart of this material is high, with "The Real Folk Blues" being slightly stronger than its companion volume.
"Help Me", "Bring It On Home", "Nine Below Zero", "Down Child", the supremely tough "Checkin' Up On My Baby", and the punchy "One Way Out" are all among Rice Miller's best most familiar songs, and numbers like "Too Young To Die", "Decoration Day" and "My Younger Days" are equally excellent. Rice Miller was by far the best songwriter of all the Chess greats of the 50s and early 60s, an awesome lyricist whose highly personal songs express sentiments ranging from pure joy to the deepest, darkest despair. Willie Dixon's way with words was impressive, but Rice Miller is something else:
"When I first met the lil' girl / I didn' know what I was doin' /
Now we all tied up / And my life is ruined!
I'm scared o' that child / I'm scared o' that child /
I'm scared o' that child / I'm too young to die!"
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