SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE  CRIPPLE CREEK
Label: NotNow
Released[CD]:2009
Format:Mp3@320



Sometimes, if you're not careful, precious little gems slip by. Because this isn't any old Sonny & Brownie reprint, it's the glorious Folkways recordings! 
On this 2CD set you get the full tracks of four Folkways 10" LPs plus eight bonus cuts taken from various parts of their career. Choice stuff indeed and rare too. If you were to bid for the four albums included, you'd need around £400 to win them. 
CD 1 contains the 1952 album ‘Get On Board',  the seven cuts from the 1956 Folkways album ‘Washboard Band-Country Dance Music' - a kind of a Almanac Singers gung-ho session supervised by the ubiquitous and as-always-over-enthusiastic Pete Seeger plus four blues from the 1940s. 
On CD 2 ‘Brownie McGhee's Blues' (Folkways 2030) from 1955 sits alongside the historic ‘Sonny Terry's Washboard Band' (Folkways 2006) which supposedly features Sonny playing all the instruments. But the notes on my 10" LP copy clearly states (in 59 year old pen and ink admittedly) that it's Alex Seward on washtub bass and JC Burris on bones! Then you get a further 5 tracks including a raucous Blind Boy Fuller's ‘Custard Pie Blues' and a buoyant harp instrumental ‘Lonesome Train' - a rampant boisterous workout ringing with Sonny's expressive harp and plenty of his trademark whoops and hollers. This music was recorded at a time when Sonny & Brownie were wowing the New York music crowd with their authentic traditionally based material. 


Tracklist

Disc 1
GET ON BOARD

1. The Midnight Special 2:35
2. Rising Sun 2:41
3. In His Care 2:34
4. Preachin' 1:07
5. I Shall Not Be Moved 2:22
6. Pick A Bale Of Cotton 2:31
7. A Man Is Nothing But A Fool 3:20
8. Mamma Blues #2 2:34
9. Raising A Ruckus Tonight 2:50

WASHBOARD BAND - COUNTRY DANCE MUSIC

10. Cindy 6:00
11. Bottle Up And Go 5:08
12. Cripple Creek 4:45
13. John Henry 4:09
14. Old Joe Clark 3:17
15. Skip To My Lou 3:06
16. Green Corn 4:16[/color]
BONUS TRACKS
[color=lime]17. Working Man's Blues 2:47
18. Big-Legged Woman 2:42
19. Bad Blood 2:54
20. Back Home Blues 2:55

Personnel:[Disc 1:
Sonny Terry - Harp,Vocals
Brownie McGhee - Guitar,Vocals
Coyal McMahan - Maracas
Pete Seeger - 5-String Banjo
William Edward - Washboard
Frank Robertson - Bass


Disc 2
BROWNIE McGHEE BLUES

1. Careless Love 3:15
2. Good Morning Blues 3:48
3. Sporting Life 3:37
4. Me And Sonny 2:48
5. Pawnshop Blues 2:57
6. Move To Kansas City 3:05
7. Betty And Dupree 4:00

SONNY TERRY'S WASHBOARD BAND

8  The Woman Is Killing Me 2:26
9. Custard Pie Blues 2:50
10. Diggin My Potatoes 2:56
11. Crazy Man Blues 3:09
12. Wine-Headed Woman 2:24
13. My Baby Done Changed That Lock On The Door 3:33
14. Sonnys Jump 3:10
15. Louise 4:13[/color]
[b]BONUS TRACKS[/b]
[color=lime]16. Custard Pie Blues (Bonus) 2:58
17. Shakedown Blues 2:51
18. Mean Ole Frisco 2:40
19. Lovin With A Feeling 2:25
20. Lonesome Train 3:32 


Personnel:[Disc 2:]
Brownie McGhee - Guitar,Vocals
Sonny Terry - Harp,Vocals,Bones,Rying Pans,Washboard,Washtub Bass