Release Date: June 30, 1995.
Recording Time: 40 minutes.
Recording Date: August 12, 1961.
Release Info: Studio Recording (BVLP 1048).
Styles: Acoustic Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, Regional Blues.
Back Album Notes:
Born in Memphis, Tennessee on November 11, 1911, singer, guitarist and harmonica player William Borum worked as a professional musician only briefly-instead earning his living as a laborer-and saw the inside of a recording studio only twice in his lifetime. This album and its predecessor, Introducing Memphis Willie B. (OBCCD-573-2), were cut in his hometown in the space of a single day, August 12, 1961. "It would be difficult to express emotion with a more tensely honest simplicity and directness," producer Samuel Charters said of Willie B.'s music. The Memphis bluesman may never have achieved fame and fortune from his music, but he drew on his life's experiences to fashion blues poetry of the first order.
Credits:
Design – Don Schlitten
Liner Notes, Photography By – Samuel Charters
Producer – Kenneth S. Goldstein, Samuel Charters
Remastered By (Digital Remastering) – Phil De Lancie
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Composed By – Memphis Willie B.
Tracklist:
01. Lonesome Home Blues - Memphis Willie B.
02. L & N Blues - Memphis Willie B.
03. Hard Working Man Blues - Memphis Willie B.
04. Dying Mother Blues - Memphis Willie B.
05. Honey Maker Blues - Memphis Willie B.
06. P 38 Blues - Memphis Willie B.
07. Funny Caper Blues - Memphis Willie B.
08. Good Potatoes - Memphis Willie B.
09. I Have Found Somebody New - Memphis Willie B.
10. Uncle Sam Blues - Memphis Willie B.
11. Wine Drinking Woman - Memphis Willie B.
12. Car Machine Blues - Memphis Willie B.
Recorded in Memphis; August 12, 1961.
Digital remastering, 1995 (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley).