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Robert Pete Williams
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0045778034925
Label: Fat Possum
Manufacturer: Fat Possum
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Fat Possum
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Studio: Fat Possum
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Rating: - It Doesn't Get Much Better
He lacks Robert Johnson's technique, but Robert Pete Williams probably is the most sublime blues guitarist since the Master. Don't be put off by the chunky, clunky playing - listen deeply. His musical vocabulary is wholly original (and a powerful influence on Captain Beefheart) and his sense of form and structure is unparalleled. The interplay between voice and guitar is extraordinary.
These essentially are field recordings and sound like it. But the immediacy and sense of time and place ... Read More
Rating: - deepest blues
Robert Pete Williams, who died on December 31, 1980, in Rosedale, Louisiana, was one of the South's great deep bluesmen. This Fat Possum reissue of field recordings -- the crowing chicken and passing train in the background testify to the literalness of that phrase -- is more than a welcome reminder of the power and passion Williams brought to his music. It is also the finest recording, artistically and acoustically, released under his name. Though the titles are largely familiar from the folk-blues ... Read More
Rating: - Pure Blues Bliss!
Haunting and piercing Blues. Takes you on a journey. This is one of the few Delta Blues cd's that I have heard in it's entirety over and over even though I only received it about 10 days ago! Not a bad song, they flow one after each other adding to the whole cd. I am partial to "Goodbye Slim Harpo" since Harpo is one of my favorite artists and I believe he died in the early 70's, around the time this cd was first recorded. Play him often on The Crazy Coyote Blues and Jazz Power Show 1490 KOTY ... Read More
Rating: - Robert Pete Williams: New Orleans acoustic blues at its best
By now the story of Robert Pete Williams is quite familiar to blues fans throughout the world. Born in Zachary, Louisiana in 1914, he has lived in and around this Baton Rouge area all his life and now lives in Maringouin. He was convicted of murder in 1956 and was sent to Angola State Prison. In 1959 Robert Pete was paroled primarily through the efforts of a Denham Springs farmer who had been deeply impressed by his first Folk-Lyric album “Angola Prisoners’ Blues.”
Since his full ... Read More
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