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Tampa Red - 1928 - 1946

Tampa Red – 1928 – 1946

Original price was: € 13,30.Current price is: € 4,99.

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Track Listing:
1. The Alley Crap Game - 3:04   2. It's Tight Like That - 3:04   3. Gold Tooth Papa Blues - 2:41   4. Death Bell Blues - 2:52   5. You Can't Come In - 3:07   6. Train Time Blues - 3:24   7. How Long, How Long Blues - 3:04   8. It's Tight Like That - 2:48   9. Come and Go to That Land - 2:53   10. Hold to His Hand - 3:00   11. Whiskey Drinkin' Blues - 3:15   12. Doggin' Me Around Blues - 3:08   13. Black Hearted Blues - 3:00   14. You Rascal You No. 2 - 2:38   15. Stop and Listen Blues - 3:00   16. Down in Spirit Blues 3:08   17. Worried Devil Blues - 3:24   18. She Don't Know My Mind, Pt. 2 - 3:44   19. Stormy Sea Blues - 2:51   20. Blue Devil Blues - 3:08   21. I'm Gonna Get High - 3:06   22. I'll Try to Forget - 2:57   23. She Loves Just Right - 3:05   24. Maybe Someday - 2:39

Personnel included:
Tampa Red (vocals, kazoo, guitar) , Georgia Tom (piano) , Madlyn Davis (vocal) , Willie B. James (guitar) , Blind John Davis (piano) , Big Maceo (piano) , Alfred Elkins (bass) , ...

Reviews:
 
1. All Music -  Cub Koda
This early compilation of Tampa's work both as soloist and sideman covers a good 20-year period, from his early hokum recordings with Georgia Tom and his jug band to his later sides for Bluebird. Highlights include his liquid slide guitar work behind Jenny Pope on "Whiskey Drinkin' Blues" and when he accompanies the Gospel Camp Meeting Singers on "Hold to His Hand" and "Come and Go to That Land." Unfortunately, the set also suffers from excessively noisy transfers, making some of these rarities much harder to listen to than need be. Some tracks fare better than others, and the set gets better as it moves on chronologically, but you may have to a-b this with other collections to get better-sounding versions of these seminal sides.