Black Melodies on a Clear Afternoon

by Stefan Grossman

Overview

This disc, packed to the gills, captures a very wide selection of early Black American music arranged for fingerstyle guitar. As always, Grossman plays with taste and precision, negotiating blues, rags, and piano tunes in a variety of tunings and approaches, which makes every second of this collection a totally pleasurable experience. Taken from five different Kicking Mule vinyl albums, these 34 tracks are a veritable cornucopia of fingerstyle guitar played by an absolute master of the form. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	11/26/1991
Label:	Shanachie
UPC:	0016351981127
Rank:	112471

Tracks

1. Struttin' Rag
2. Blake's Breakdown
3. Blues Ain't Dry
4. St. Louis Tickle
5. Working on the New Railroad
6. Atlanta Rag
7. Nobody's Business
8. Haag City Dance
9. Mabel's Dream
10. Spoonful
11. East Colorado Blues
12. Little Boy, Little Boy, Who Made Your Britches
13. Smokey Mokes
14. The Entertainer
15. Glory of Love
16. Slippin' Til My Gal Comes LN Partner
17. Harlem Rag
18. John Henry
19. It Won't Be Long
20. Sister Kate's Syncopated Dance
21. Silver Swan
22. Charley James
23. Buck Dancer's Choice
24. Down South Blues
25. See That Girl Sitting on the Fence
26. See See Rider
27. Powder Rag
28. Sugarbabe
29. Franklin Blues
30. A Salty Dog Rag
31. King Porter Stomp
32. Bill Bailey
33. Delta Crossroads
34. Faretheewell Titanic

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Stefan Grossman   Primary Artist,Guitar

Technical Credits

Stefan Grossman   Producer,Composer
Traditional   Composer
Steve Miller   Composer
Tom Turpin   Composer
Hughie Cannon   Composer
Sam McGee   Composer
Jelly Roll Morton   Composer
Scott Joplin   Composer
Arlo Guthrie   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Ike Smith   Composer