Leadbelly - Huddie Ledbetter's Best (1998)



Jedan od velikana Blues-a Huddie William Ledbetter, poznat kao Leadbelly. Dosta toga sto je on svirao nikada nije objavljeno, a ovo je nesto od njegovih starih snimaka, ripovano sa ploce. Snimak dosta dobro zvuci bez obzira sto je iz 1944. godine. 1956 su neki snimci videli svetlo dana u obliku LP ploce, a CD sa delom numara bio je izdat 80-tih. 1998 je malo doradjen snimak pa je sada malo glasniji "bogatiji" pa ne zvici bas kao mono iako to uistunu jeste.
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Leadbelly's last recording sessions for a commercial record label, held in the early fall of 1944, yielded a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuoso guitar blues ("Grasshoppers in My Pillow"), pounding piano-driven scatting ("The Eagle Rocks," with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for which he wasn't usually recognized), and familiar standards done in some startlingly different ways, including "Goodnight, Irene," "Rock Island Line," and "Ella Speed," done with the understated accompaniment of a zither (courtesy of Paul Mason Howard) as well as his own guitar. Leadbelly was in excellent voice and top form on guitar and piano -- having gone to California to test the commercial waters, he met Tex Ritter, an old friend, who arranged for Leadbelly to come to his house and, with Merle Travis playing as well and Capitol executive Lee Gillette present, auditioned then and there for the label; he was energized by the experience, and Capitol's recording caught the brightest as well as the deepest tones in his playing, thus making this record one of the very best showcases for acoustic 12-string guitar of the period. Sadly, only a handful of these tracks were issued during the man's own lifetime, thus convincing him that they were another career dead end -- in 1956 (and again in 1962) they emerged with an impassioned annotation by Dave Dexter Jr., imploring people to buy these last commercial sides by one of the most celebrated bluesmen of the century. It never sold well on vinyl, though it moved steadily for years as one of the few major-label releases by Leadbelly, and was even available very briefly on CD from Capitol at the end of the 1980s. Beat Goes On Records then released Huddie Ledbetter's Best in 1998 with an upgraded transfer (slightly richer and louder) and new annotation.

Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1998
Ripper...............: CDex 1.50b7 & Samsung CDDVDW SH-S222A
Codec................: LAME 3.96
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.0
Ripped by............: pparadiso on 22.1.2012
Posted by............: pparadiso on 22.1.2012
Included.............: NFO
Covers...............: Front Back

01. Goodnight, Irene
02. Grashoppers In My Pillow
03. The Eagle Rocks
04. Rock Island Line
05. Ella Speed
06. Backwater Blues
07. Take This Hammer
08. Tell Me, Baby
09. Eagle Rock Rag
10. Western Plain
11. Sweet Mary Blues
12. On A Christmas Day

Playing Time.........: 00:34:27
Total Size...........: 55.20 MB