The Two Poor Boys - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order 1927-1931 - 1991

The Two Poor Boys (Joe Evans and Arthur McClain) - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order 1927-1931 [Document Records]
Жанр: blues
Страна-производитель диска: Austria
Год издания: 1991
Издатель (лейбл): Document Records
Номер по каталогу: DOCD-5044
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
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Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 58:45
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So deeply ingrained are perceptions of race and ethnicity in North American culture that certain artists who recorded during the 1920s and '30s have since been assigned to a sort of categorical limbo, as questions regarding whether a musician was of African or European ancestry continue to confound critics, discographers, and music historians. Despite the healthy diversity embodied by variably pigmented musicians capable of playing piano blues back to back with hillbilly string band music, a term like racially ambiguous has emerged to indicate that someone inadvertently violated preconceptions about who is supposed to have sounded like whom. Such is the case with mandolinist Joe Evans and guitarist Arthur McClain. Billed as the Two Poor Boys, this little-known pair of rural improvisers hailed from the eastern region of Tennessee -- where black and white players seem to have had a way of sharing musical ideas to a greater extent than was common at the time -- and left about 20 recordings for posterity to ponder. Their available works were reissued by Document in the early '90s. Had Gennett issued more than one of the seven sides this duo cut in Birmingham, Alabama during the summer of 1927, their complete works may not have fit onto one compact disc. As it is, Little Son of a Gun is a delightful bit of kazoo-driven hokum, good enough to make one wish that the people in charge at Gennett had also released titles like Midnight Creepers, I Want to Ride in Your Car, and They Wanted a Man to Lead the Lions Around.
What does survive of the Evans and McClain legacy is a marvelous blend of toe-tapping blues and struts, reflective airs, and full-throttle Appalachian-style breakdowns. It all compares nicely with the works of Chicago-based mandolin handlers Al Miller and Charlie McCoy, as well as legendary backwoods Georgians Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony. Other parallels could be drawn with Kentucky's Kessinger Brothers, Kansas City steel guitarist Casey Bill Weldon, the Dallas String Band, and the Mississippi Sheiks, source of the famous blues standard Sitting on Top of the World, which the Poor Boys waxed in 1931. (An alternate take of that blues is not included here, nor is a record they chose to title Boogity Woogity.) Recorded by the Kessingers in 1929 and by Evans and McClain two years later, Sourwood Mountain is a traditional fiddle ditty named for a towering land mass that exists northeast of Knoxville. The song would be revisited in 1962 on Frank Proffitt's album Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia. the Two Poor Boys' treatment of Down in Black Bottom is closely based upon Bert Snake Root Hatton's version of 1927. This blues appears to have originated in St. Louis, for Black Bottom was the name of that city's rough-and-tumble riverfront red-light district. It was also the inspiration for Don't Go Down in Black Bottom, a cautionary opus recorded by vocalist Black Bottom McPhail with Scrapper Blackwell in 1932 and again in 1938 with backing by Jack Newman and Blind John Davis. Hatton's original may be found on Document's fascinating compilation St. Louis 1927-1933.

Ещё один Документ, ещё одно пополнение в ваши коллекции, и опять благодаря Скворец66 и его неизвестному другу.
Замечательная фраза уважаемого arwulf arwulf в ревью - What does survive of the Evans and McClain legacy is a marvelous blend of toe-tapping blues and struts, reflective airs, and full-throttle Appalachian-style breakdowns, - скажет вам многое об этих ребятах.
И ещё одна цитата из ревью, которую уже дам в переводе - Столь глубоко укоренилось восприятие расовости и этнической принадлежности в Североамериканской культуре, что некоторые артисты, сделавшие записи в течение 1920-ых и 30-ых годов, с тех пор были обречены на своего рода категорическую неопределенность, так как вопросы относительно того, имел ли музыкант африканскую или европейскую родословную, продолжают путать критиков, составителей дискографий и историков музыки. Несмотря на здоровое разнообразие, воплощенное по-разному окрашенными музыкантами, способными играть пианинный блюз рядом с хиллбилли струнной группы, термин подобно расово неоднозначный появился, чтобы указать, что кто-то неосторожно нарушил предвзятые мнения о том, кто как должен звучать, и подобно кому.
Вот такие у нас сегодня неоднозначные ребята, которых очень приятно слушать... Они были у нас на е только в mp3, (из той - коврики, спасибо!). С ковриками пришлось немного поработать - чёрно-белый классический Документ был какого-то непонятного розово-зелёного цвета и отсканированно было всё стекло, при этом картинки лежали на нём сикись-накись
Каталог Document Records (ссылки на альбомы)