I Have To Paint My Face: Mississippi Blues - 1960

I Have to Paint My Face: Mississippi Blues -- 1960 Review

 

by Jason Ankeny

The title to the contrary, "I Have to Paint My Face": Mississippi Blues -- 1960 also includes recordings from California and Lousiana; regardless, these field recordings collected by Arhoolie label founder Chris Strachwitz are invaluable documents of gifted bluesmen who otherwise received virtually no opportunities to record their music. They include Sam Chatmon, Robert Curtis Smith, Wade Walton and Jasper Love. 

I Have To Paint My Face: Mississippi Blues - 1960

0:00 Sam Chatmon - I Have To Paint My Face 2:47 K.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues 5:15 Sam Chatmon - I Stand And Wonder 9:07 Big Joe Williams - Texas Blues 12:47 K.C. Douglas - Night Shirt Blues 14:51 K.C. Douglas with Bruce Bratton - Mercury Blues 17:38 Sam Chatmon - Hollandale Blues 22:45 Jasper Love with Columbus Jones - The Slop 26:03 R.C. Smith - Stella Ruth 29:36 Sam Chatmon - God Don't Like Ugly 33:28 Wade Walton - Rooster Blues 34:48 Wade Walton / R.C. Smith - Barbershop Rhythm 37:12 R.C. Smith - Going Back To Texas 39:55 K.C. Douglas / Sidney Maiden - Blues And Trouble 43:15 R.C. Smith - Lonely Widower 46:07 R.C. Smith - Lost Love Blues 49:59 Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues 51:56 Jasper Love - Love's Honeydripper 53:19 Jasper Love - Desert Blues 56:58 Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime 1:01:42 Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Butch's Blues 1:07:16 Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Forty Four Blues 1:11:59 Sidney Maiden / K.C. Douglas - Chicago Blues Label: Arhoolie Records – CD-432 Year: 1995