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BLUES HOOT LIVE at the Ash Grove 1961

BLUES HOOT Live at the Ash Grove 1961
Classic Blues Show!
Lightnin' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry
BLUES HOOT LIVE at the Ash Grove 1961
CD
SKU: MRD 105
Genre: 
Blues
Price: $0.00

TRACKS
1 Introduction to Big Car Blues
   Lightnin’ Hopkins     4:01
2 Big Car Blues
   Lightnin’ Hopkins     3:16
3 Coffee House Blues
   Lightnin’ Hopkins     2:18
4 Stool Pigeon Blues
   Lightnin’ Hopkins     3:17
5 Ball of Twine
   Lightnin’ Hopkins     3:35
6 Blues for Gamblers
   Lightnin’ Hopkins with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee
   & Big Joe Williams     6:59
7 Right on That Shore
   Lightnin’ Hopkins with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee
   & Big Joe Williams     2:52
8 Early Morning Blues
   Lightnin’ Hopkins with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee
   & Big Joe Williams     5:22
9 Walk On
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 3:14
10 Blues for the Lowlands
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 4:49
11 Down by the Riverside
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 3:20
12 Blowin’ the Fuses
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 6:09
13 Po’ Boy
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 2:46
14 I’m a Stranger Here
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 4:13
15 Trouble in Mind
   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 3:26

Producer: David Hubert
Mastered by: Kevin Gray, Steve Hoffman

BLUES HOOT LIVE at the Ash Grove
Hollywood, CA 1961
Lightnin' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and more...
"Pretty cool live recording of some all-time blues greats!"

Lightnin' Hopkins is the star of this live recording, made at an August 1961 concert at the Ash Grove in Hollywood featuring Hopkins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (with Big Joe Williams sitting in on three numbers). The CD joins a long list of club recordings by all three, although it's obscure enough that collectors welcomed the CD. The sound is excellent, and the original master tape has yielded BONUS TRACKS including one extra Terry/McGhee track ("Po' Boy") and one extra Hopkins/Terry/McGhee song ("Early Morning Blues") from the same show--the producers have also added on two more songs ("I'm A Stranger Here," "Trouble In Mind") from an L.A. Troubador show by Terry and McGhee, bringing the running time up to 60 minutes. The sound is excellent, the performances are spirited enough, and the addition of the ominous "Early Morning Blues" shifts the record more toward blues "Blues For the Lowlands" is the best of the Terry/McGhee tracks, beautifully showcasing their harmonica/guitar interplay.