Louisiana Red & Sugar Blue – Red Funk N’ Blue-the Complete 1978 Recordings – 2CD

April 1978. Louisiana Red had made his first English appearance just a few months before at the end of 1977. It was only the second tour I had booked incidentally. But Red was the artist who said: “Give me some money and let’s make an album.” And so a label was born. So here we are, warts and all so to speak, but the ‘beauty’ shines through.

Louisiana Red was a great bluesman who was the youngest of the postwar generation of legends and absolutely at his peak. Sugar Blue was then a young man starting out who plays with real originality, no copyist. This album is a document of an evening in London that will never come again.

Track Listing:

CD1:
1. Lamplight Baby -   2. When My Mama Was Living -   3. The Women That I’ve Known -   4. Look At The Children Run -   5. New Jersey Women -   6. Sugar’s Harmonica Boogie  -   7. Cadillac Blues -   8. Why Don’t You Come On Home -   9. Soon Forgotten -   10. The Whole World -   11. Sweet Elesse -

CD2:
1. King Bee -   2. Dead Stray Dog -   3. Sweet Blood Call -   4. Pretty Woman -   5. Death Of Ellesse -   6. Rockin’ Red -   7. Rollin’ & Tumblin’ -   8. Louisiana Boogie -   9. Midnight Rambler -   10. Ride On –

Personnel:
Louisiana Red (vocals, guitar) , Sugar Blue (harmonica, vocals)
Live recording: 100 Club, London 1978