....The rain runs from the wind and splatters on the windows. Its raw outside. Inside its nice & warm while Mississippi Fred McDowell and his bone-chillin guitar warm things up. In performance Mr McDowell & his guitar shared equal billing...he's certainly a stylistic godfather to, among others, Duane Allman & Bonnie Raitt. & yes, Ms Raitt can easily stand alongside Mr Allman as a slide guitari...
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......... I started today with this song....as done by Dr John & Mavis Staples...So I'm gonna finish it with this version....by Mississippi Fred McDowell, who takes the song out to the sharecropper's shack....the backyard on a Friday night. His distinctive keening, yearning guitar is in great form here.
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"Mississippi" Fred McDowell was born and grew up in Rossville, Tennessee (pop. 291), a small farming community just east of Memphis and just north of the Mississippi border. The "Mississippi" designation came later in life, after he moved down to Como, Mississippi (pop. 1,391), about 40 miles south of Memphis on the 51 Highway, in his late thirties. McDowell was born about 1904 or 1905, and wor...
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"This got me thinking":http://mog.com/Inscrutable/blog_post/142171#commentsCertainly no discussion of the old masters can be had without mentioning **"Mississippi" Fed McDowell**. His slide playing is awesome. (And I use that absurdly over abused term advisedly). He draws on and enlarges the vocabulary of giants. **Willie McTell**, **Barbeque Bob** and others echo in Fred McDowell's sound. Th...
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From Bloom County To Outland to your own starring roll, what a long strange trip its been.Mississippi Fred McDowell was the real deal. He had the rich soil of the delta beneath his fingernails & the haunts of the deep south in his soul. A guitar in his hands became a ghostly haunted banshee,a moaning spirit of defiance. Many a "rock star" would mine old MFD for licks n riffs to wow new gene...
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| 2 The Girl I'm Loving |
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| 3 Going Down South, Carry My Whip |
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| 4 Goin' Over the Hill |
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| 5 Diving Duck Blues |
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