New - V/A - Introduction To Living Country Blues USA: Field Recordings from Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Virginia, etc. - 2xLP

Double LP gatefold vinyl with MP3 download included. Country blues, as raw and original as it can get! Living Country Blues USA is a series of albums on L+R Records. The material was collected by German blues experts Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner on an extended trip thru the south of the USA in the fall of 1980, in the form of so-called "Field-Recordings" -- recordings made in the natural surroundings of the artists and not in the studio. Travelling 10,000 miles by car in two and a half months, they used 180,000 feet of tape and took hundreds of photographs to document various aspects of country blues, as well as work songs, fife and drum band music, field hollers and rural Gospel music, performed by 35 artists, some of whom appear on record for the first time. Featuring Guitar Frank, Memphis Piano Red, Flora Molton And The Truth Band, Lottie Murrell, Sam Chatmon, James "Son" Thomas & Cleveland "Brooman" Jones, Hammie Nixon, Cora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell, Walter Brown, Archie Edwards, "Bowling Green" John & "Harmonica" P. Wiggins, Lonny Pitchford, Sam "Stretch" Shields, Joe Savage, Arzo Youngblood, "Big G" Davis, Guitar Slim, Boyd Rivers, and Boochie Bill Webb.

Track Listing:
01. Guitar Frank - Lonesome Road Blues
02. Memphis Piano Red - The Train Is Comin'
03. Flora Molton And The Truth Band - What's The Matter Now
04. Lottie Murrell - Trouble Late Last Night
05. Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On The Top Of The World
06. James "Son" Thomas & Cleveland "Brooman" Jones - Rock Me, Mama
07. Hammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna
08. Cora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell - Talkin' Bout Jesus
09. Walter Brown - So Hard To See
10. Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues
11. "Bowling Green" John & "Harmonica" P. Wiggins - Reno Factory
12. Lonny Pitchford - My Babe
13. Sam "Stretch" Shields - Bluebird Blues
14. Sam "Stretch" Shields - The Titanic
15. Flora Molton And The Truth Band - Mean Ol'frisco
16. Joe Savage - I Can't Be Successful
17. Arzo Youngblood - I Don't Know Why
18. "Big G" Davis - Tango Twist
19. Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen
20. Guitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town
21. Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move
22. Boochie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues