Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent compilation
Amazon seem to have conflated reviews from a variety of
discs here; to be clear, this is a brief review of The Rough Guide To Ragtime
Blues.
It's brief because all that really need be said is that this
is another excellent selection from Rough Guide. The music is simply fantastic and a reminder,
if one were needed, of what phenomenal guitarists and performers so many of
those old blues players were. There's
lots of terrific stuff here from people I knew but some more obscure gems which
I didn’t know, like the Allen Brothers and Pillie Bolling, for example. It's enormously enjoyable stuff throughout.
The sound quality is pretty good in general, especially
considering the age and circumstances of some of these recordings, and this is
a really cracking compilation all round.
Very warmly recommended as an introduction to this wonderful blues
genre.
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