Bukka White

Advantages Fantastic music, His voice, BOB DYLAN has arrived!
Disadvantages none!

.... No heavy production, nobody being able to tell him how to do his job. He wasn't a puppet in a place, he was the puppet master and that shines through in this album. You have Bob Dylan with his Acoustic Guitar and his Harmonica and of course his wonderfully unique voice. That's what you feel with this album and that's all there is: Bob Dylan, and although the title was no doubt picked for introductory reasons - it is the perfect title for this album! Track Listing 1) She's No Good (Jesse Fuller) 2) Talkin' New York (Bob Dylan) 3) In My Time Of Dyin' (Bob Dylan) 4) Man Of Constant Sorrow (Arr by Dylan) 5) Fixin' To Die Blues (Bukka White) 6) Pretty Peggy-O (arr by Dylan) 7) Highway 51 Blues (C. Jones) 8) Gospel Plow (arr by Dylan) 9) Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Ric Von Schmidt) 10) House Of The Risin' Sun 11) Song... Read review

Advantages May be the best contemporary white female blues singer and acoustic guitarist you'll ever hear.
Disadvantages None

...a way to express this to him other than playing the old songs for him. I was 15 at the time.” ********** A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK: Alan Block’s sandal shop in the shadows of Washington Square Park near the crossroads of hip, Bleeker and McDougal Streets, was a meeting place for Village types, especially musicians. The likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Stefan Grossman and John Sebastian would hang out at Block’s and pick and sing with House, the Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Bukka White, to name just a few of the blues men who came through the shop. (A New Yorker myself, in high school at the time, I only went there once, but the day I popped in Al Kooper , the musical genius behind the first and only worthwhile -- pre-David Clayton Thomas -- incarnation of “Blood, Sweat and Tears” was in the store. I just stood... Read review

Advantages Slick blues sound, sounds absolutely top notch. BEWARE! Geniuses at work!
Disadvantages None. No - none at all.

...B. King) was born on September 16th 1925 in Indianola, Mississippi. He spent much of his youth working as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta – blues country – and singing at the local church. It wasn't until 1946, when King was in his twenties, that he had his first foray into the world of blues, when he looked up his cousin Bukka White in Memphis. This was where King began – he spent 10 months learning the art of blues guitar from his cousin. He returned to Memphis in 1948 to make his first real break into the industry – he joined a radio station to broadcast his music live, as local club owners preferred acts who did this, because they could plug their performances at the club on air. King's handle became the 'Beale Street Blues Boy', which was later shortened to simply 'Blues Boy', and finally to simply... Read review