Country Blues
(Revenant) 2xLP $40.00
Over sixty minutes of music including Boggs’s twelve tracks from 1927 and 1929 and five previously unreleased outtakes. Clear vinyl from 2004. Sealed
American Primitive Vol. 1 - Raw Pre-War Gospel 1926-1936
(Revenant) Used CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
Twenty-six-track, Fahey-compiled 1997 collection of music from 78s, much of which was originally recorded for “race” labels like Paramount and Vocalion. Diabolically great gut-bucket, early gospel from Austin Coleman with Joe Washington, Blind Joe Taggart, Blind Mamie Forehand, Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother, Blind Willie Davis, Bo Weavil Jackson, Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers, Eddie Head and his Family, Elder J.J. Hadley, Elder Otis Jones, Frank Palmes, Jaybird Coleman, Luther Magby, Patton And Lee, Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist), Rev. I.B. Ware with Wife and Son, Washington White, William and Versey Smith. Twenty-four-page book with copious info about each track and an essay by Fahey.