Rating: 5/5
Review: A brilliant collection
This is absolutely fantastic. It's a superb collection of great music in
great performances which have been well remastered so they sound pretty clean
but still thoroughly authentic.
Before I heard this, my knowledge of blues women of this
period didn’t extend much beyond Bessie Smith so I'm no expert, but there is
some simply brilliant stuff here.
There's a variety of styles including solo guitar or solo piano accompaniment
(often excellently played), New Orleans-style jazz band and plenty of
others. I'd never heard of many of these
women and, having heard this collection, I am heartily ashamed of the
fact. When I got to Track 3, Pick Poor
Robin Clean by Geeshie Wiley, it stopped me in my tracks and plenty of others
have had a similar effect. There are
some truly excellent performances here and I find the whole thing a delight.
I don't know what a true aficionado would make of this, but
to this very amateur enthusiast it's an utterly brilliant collection of gems of
which I was almost completely unaware.
If you have any interest whatsoever in this period of blues/jazz, don't
hesitate. This is a monumental bargain
which I can recommend wholeheartedly.
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