VA - Mississippi Saxophone 1937-2011 - 2CD 2012 torrent

Some call it a ‘Mississippi Saxophone’ or a ‘tin sandwich,’ others simply refer to it as a ‘harp.’ Whatever the name, the harmonica is an essential Blues instrument. For various reason the harmonica was a most natural instrument of choice for Southern African-Americans in the development stages of the Blues. It was small, inexpensive, robust, portable, and user-friendly for a novice to approach. Furthermore it had the ability to imitate everything from the human voice to trains, animals, and whistling, as well as others instruments such as the accordion, a clarinet or cornet, and saxophone.

This double album features a number of artists who took a simple folk instrument and reinvented it as the wailing instrument, playing the Blues-harp sounds we know. These Legendary players were (are) significant in the development of the Modern Blues harmonica style.
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VA - Mississippi Saxophone - 1937-2011
(2CD Music Avenue 2012)

1. Sonny Boy Williamson I / Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. Sonny Boy Williamson I / Shake the Boogie
3. Sonny Terry / Whoopin' the Blues
4. Sonny Terry / Telephone Blues
5. Big Walter Horton / Easy
6. Big Walter Horton / Walking by Myself
7. Little Walter / Juke
8. Little Walter / My Babe
9. Elmore James/Junior Wells / Hoodoo Man
10. Elmore James/Junior Wells / Junior's Wail
11. Howlin' Wolf / Sitting on Top of the World
12. Howlin' Wolf / I've Been Abused
13. Jimmy Reed / Honest I Do
14. Jimmy Reed / Caress Me Baby
15. Sonny Boy Williamson II / Fattening Frogs for Snakes
16. Sonny Boy Williamson II / Nine Below Zero
17. Slim Harpo / One More Day
18. Slim Harpo / Buzz Me Baby
19. Paul Butterfield / Got My Mojo Working
20. Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson/Canned Heat / I'd Rather Be the Devil
21. Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson/Canned Heat / I Wish You Would
22. James Cotton / Creeper Creeps Again
23. James Cotton / Rocket 88
24. Muddy Waters/Jerry Portnoy / Garbage Man
25. Muddy Waters/Jerry Portnoy / Jerry Portnoy's Boogie
26. Groundhogs/Billy Boy Arnold / Dirty Mother F.
27. Groundhogs/Billy Boy Arnold / Riding the El
28. John Mayall / Why Worry
29. John Mayall / Roadshow
30. King Biscuit Boy / Step Back Baby
31. King Biscuit Boy / Done Everything I Can
32. John Mayall,Bluesbreakers/Charlie Musselwhite / I Got a Rich Man's Woman
33. Big Gilson/Bruce Ewan / Blue and Lonesome
34. Big Gilson/Bruce Ewan / Judgement Day
35. Kim Wilson/Big Jack Johnson / Humming Blues
36. Kim Wilson/Marie Knight / Death Don't Have No Mercy
37. Keillie Rucker / Love and War
38. Keillie Rucker / Mississippi Rain
39. Giles Robson / Twenty Gallons of Muddy Water
40. Giles Robson / Keep on Diggin'