Virtuoso Guitar 1925-1934

by Scrapper Blackwell

Overview

It's for recordings like this that a lot of blues guitar fans started listening to the music in the first place. The definitive Blackwell collection to date, featuring not only his best extant solo sides, but also his work in association with Leroy Carr, Black Bottom McPhail, and Tommy Bradley. The 14 songs here all have something to offer in the playing -- and generally the singing as well -- that will give the listener pause, a run, an arpeggio, a solo passage that makes you say, "Whoa, what was that?" The sound is surprisingly good, and one only wishes there were more than 14 songs here, although it's hard to imagine anything that could follow the last track, Leroy Carr's "Barrelhouse Woman No. 2." ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	01/15/2013
Label:	City Hall
UPC:	0725543357717
Rank:	81803

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Scrapper Blackwell   Primary Artist,Guitar
Tommie Bradley   Primary Artist,Guitar
Black Bottom McPhail   Primary Artist,Vocals
Leroy Carr   Primary Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Black Bottom McPhail   Performer
Scrapper Blackwell   Composer,Performer
Bessie Smith   Composer
Tommie Bradley   Performer
Stewart   Liner Notes
Clarence Williams   Composer
Nick Perls   Cover Art,Mastering,Liner Notes
Jerry Epstein   Liner Notes
Stephen Calt   Liner Notes
Michael Stewart   Liner Notes
W.R. Calaway   Composer
Leroy Carr   Performer,Composer
Robert Vosgien   Digital Mastering