Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

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Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton
Box set by Charley Patton
Released October 23, 2001
Recorded 1924-1969
Genre Blues
Label Revenant

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton is a boxed set collecting Charley Patton's recorded works. It also features recordings by many of his friends and associates, as well as supplementary interviews and historical data. At the 45th Grammy Awards the set won three awards for Best Historical Album, Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, and Best Album Notes.

Contents

[edit] Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 5/5 stars[1]
Entertainment Weekly (A) [2]

In his review of the box set, music critic Richie Unterberger called it "Perhaps the most sumptuous, nay incredible, box set package ever devised for a blues artist." He also cautions that some of the tracks "sometimes suffer from unavoidably poor sound quality due to the extremely rough shape of the only surviving original copies."[1]

Scott Schinder of Entertainment Weekly states Revenant "has topped itself with this lavish seven-CD box honoring the gravelly howl, inventive guitar work, and vivid songwriting of seminal Delta bluesman Patton." and calls Fahey's essay on Patton "illuminating" and "fascinating".[2]

[edit] Track listing

Disc 1

By Charley Patton:

  1. "Pony Blues"
  2. "A Spoonful Blues"
  3. "Down The Dirt Road Blues"
  4. "Prayer Of Death Part 1"
  5. "Prayer Of Death Part 2"
  6. "Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues"
  7. "Banty Rooster Blues"
  8. "Tom Rushen Blues"
  9. "It Won't Be Long"
  10. "Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)"
  11. "Pea Vine Blues"
  12. "Mississippi Boweavil Blues"
  13. "Lord I'm Discouraged"
  14. "I'm Goin' Home"

By Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins:

  1. "Snatch It And Grab It"
  2. "A Rag Blues"
  3. "How Come Mama Blues"
  4. "Voice Throwin' Blues"
Disc 2

By Charley Patton:

  1. "I Shall Not Be Moved" (take 1; uniss.)
  2. "Hammer Blues" (take 1; uniss.)
  3. "High Water Everywhere-Part I"
  4. "High Water Everywhere-Part II"
  5. "I Shall Not Be Moved"
  6. "Rattlesnake Blues"
  7. "Going To Move To Alabama"
  8. "Hammer Blues (take 2)"
  9. "Joe Kirby"
  10. "Frankie And Albert"
  11. "Devil Sent The Rain Blues"
  12. "Magnolia Blues"
  13. "Running Wild Blues"
  14. "Some Happy Day"
  15. "Mean Black Moan"
  16. "Green River Blues"

By Edith North Johnson:

  1. "That's My Man"
  2. "Honey Dripper Blues No. 2"
  3. "Eight Hour Woman"
  4. "Nickel's Worth Of Liver Blues No. 2"
Disc 3

By Charley Patton:

  1. "Elder Greene Blues (take 2; uniss.)"
  2. "Some These Days I'll Be Gone (take 1; uniss.)"
  3. "Jim Lee-Part I"
  4. "Jim Lee-Part II"
  5. "Mean Black Cat Blues"
  6. "Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker"
  7. "Elder Greene Blues (take 1)"
  8. "When Your Way Gets Dark"
  9. "Some These Days I'll Be Gone (take 2)"
  10. "Heart Like Railroad Steel"
  11. "Circle Round The Moon"
  12. "You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die"
  13. "Be True Be True Blues"

By Henry "Son" Sims:

  1. "Farrell Blues"
  2. "Tell Me Man Blues"
  3. "Come Back Corrina"
Disc 4

By Charley Patton:

  1. "Some Summer Day"
  2. "Bird Nest Bound"

By Willie Brown:

  1. "Future Blues"
  2. "M&O Blues"

By Son House:

  1. "Walkin' Blues (uniss.)"
  2. "My Black Mama-Part I"
  3. "My Black Mama-Part II"
  4. "Preachin' The Blues-Part I"
  5. "Preachin' The Blues-Part II"
  6. "Dry Spell Blues Part I"
  7. "Dry Spell Blues Part II"

By Louise Johnson:

  1. "All Night Long Blues (take 1)"
  2. "On The Wall"
  3. "All Night Long Blues (take 2; uniss)"
  4. "By The Moon And Stars"
  5. "Long Ways From Home"
Disc 5

By Charley Patton:

  1. "Dry Well Blues"
  2. "Moon Going Down"

By Delta Big Four:

  1. "We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun"
  2. "Moaner Let's Go Down In The Valley"
  3. "Jesus Got His Arms Around Me"
  4. "God Won't Forsake His Own"
  5. "I'll Be Here"
  6. "Where Was Eve Sleeping?"
  7. "I Know My Time Ain't Long"
  8. "Watch And Pray"

By HC Speir:

  1. "Paramount Test 1-4/19/30 headlines"
  2. "Paramount Test 2-4/12/30 headlines"

By Charley Patton:

  1. "High Sheriff Blues"
  2. "Stone Pony Blues"
  3. "Jersey Bull Blues"
  4. "Hang It On The Wall"
  5. "34 Blues"
  6. "Love My Stuff"
  7. "Poor Me"
  8. "Revenue Man Blues"

Performer as noted:

  1. "Troubled 'Bout My Mother" (Patton and Lee (Charley Patton and Bertha Lee))
  2. "Oh Death" (Patton and Lee (Charley Patton and Bertha Lee))
  3. "Yellow Bee" (Bertha Lee)
  4. "Mind Reader Blues" (Bertha Lee)
Disc 6

Performer as noted:

  1. "Booze And Blues" (1924)" (Ma Rainey)
  2. "The Crowing Rooster" (1927)" (Walter Rhodes)
  3. "I Will Turn Your Money Green" (1928)" (Furry Lewis)
  4. "Ham Hound Crave" (1928)" (Rube Lacy)
  5. "Bye Bye Blues" (1928)" (Tommy Johnson)
  6. "Maggie Campbell" (1928)" (Tommy Johnson)
  7. "Big Road Blues" (1928)" (Tommy Johnson)
  8. "Kansas City Blues" (1928)" (William Harris)
  9. "Rowdy Blues" (1929)" (Kid Bailey)
  10. "Mississippi Bottom Blues" (1929)" (Kid Bailey)
  11. "Cold Woman Blues" (1929)" (Blind Joe Reynolds)
  12. "Sitting on Top of the World" (1930)" (Mississippi Sheiks)
  13. "Just A Spoonful" (1930)" (Charley Jordan)
  14. "Banty Rooster" (1934)" (Blind Pete And George Ryan)
  15. "My Grey Pony" (1935)" (Big Joe Williams)
  16. "Dark Road Blues" (1935)" (Willie Lofton Trio)
  17. "Blues" (1936)" (Unknown Convict)
  18. "Sic 'Em Dogs On" (1939)" (Bukka White)
  19. "Po' Boy" (1939)" (Bukka White)
  20. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" (1941)" (Willie Brown)
  21. "County Farm Blues" (1942)" (Son House)
  22. "Saddle My Pony" (1952)" (The Howlin' Wolf)
  23. "Forty Four" (1954)" (The Howlin' Wolf)
  24. "Too Close" (1957)" (Roebuck "Pops" Staples & Staple Singers)

[edit] Personnel

  • Dean Blackwood – compilation producer
  • Scott Colburn – audio production, tape transfer
  • John Davis – transfer
  • Potsy Duncan – illustrations, digital manipulation
  • David Glasser – mastering, audio restoration
  • Christopher C. King – coordination, transfers, sound director
  • Alan Lomax – engineer
  • John Work – engineer
  • Charlie Pilzer – audio restoration
  • Matt Sandoski – mastering engineer
  • Steven Smolian – transfers
  • Dr. David Evans – liner notes
  • John Fahey – book
  • Richard K. Spottswood – liner notes
  • Chris Strachwitz – interviewer
  • Ernest C. Withers – photography
  • Henry H Owings – design, layout design
  • Susan Archie – art direction

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r555300. Retrieved April 20, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Schinder, Scott (November 2001). "Review: Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,355365,00.html. 

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