Release Date: March 3, 2017.
Recording Date: July 1967 - November 1968.
Release Info: 2 x Vinyl, LP (LITA 152), Limited Edition, Remastered, Field/Studio Recordings.
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues.
Bluesman, sharecropper, church deacon, civil rights activist, Hayes McMullan should be a name on every blues aficionados' shortlist. This landmark release compiles these haunting Delta Blues field recordings, along with unheard interviews with Hayes himself - all heard here for the first time 50 years after being cut to tape. 2xLP with 31 previously unreleased tracks (except track #3). Liner notes by blues historians Gayle Dean Wardlow & John Miller. Unseen photos. Gatefold Jacket.
Credits: John Baldwin - Remastering; Golden - Mastering; Hayes McMullan - Composer, Vocals, Voice, Guitar; John Miller - Liner Notes; Henry H. Owings - Design; Gayle Dean Wardlow - Engineer, Liner Notes, Photography.
Tracklist:
A1. This Is Hayes McMullan (Story) - Hayes McMullan
A2. Fast Old Train - Hayes McMullan
A3. Look-a Here Woman Blues - Hayes McMullan
A4. Back Water Blues (False Start) - Hayes McMullan
A5. Goin' Away Mama Blues - Hayes McMullan
A6. Every Day In The Week - Hayes McMullan
A7. Playing A Juke With Patton (Story) - Hayes McMullan
A8. Hurry Sundown - Hayes McMullan
A9. How'd Your Brother Die? (Story) - Hayes McMullan
B1. Sugar - Hayes McMullan
B2. Smoke Like Lightning - Hayes McMullan
B3. Goin' Where The Chilly Winds Don't Blow - Hayes McMullan
B4. The High Water (Story) - Hayes McMullan
B5. Spider On The Wall Blues - Hayes McMullan
B6. Spanish Fandango - Hayes McMullan
B7. Charley, He Was Whiskey Headed (Story) - Hayes McMullan
B8. Hitch Up My Pony - Hayes McMullan
C1. Every Day Seem Like Murder Here - Hayes McMullan
C2. Who Gonna Be Your Baby? - Hayes McMullan
C3. Discussions On A Barrelhouse (Story) - Hayes McMullan
C4. Gonna Get Me A Woman (aka Sunday Woman) - Hayes McMullan
C5. Kansas City Blues - Hayes McMullan
C6. Patton Was A Racket Man (Story) - Hayes McMullan
C7. Bo Weevil Blues - Hayes McMullan
D1. Singing To The Children (Story) - Hayes McMullan
D2. 'Bout A Spoonful, Takes 1 & 2 - Hayes McMullan
D3. No Triflin' Kid - Hayes McMullan
D4. Delta Walk - Hayes McMullan
D5. Roll And Tumble - Hayes McMullan
D6. I'm Goin', Don't You Wanna Go? - Hayes McMullan
D7. Patton's Death Hearsay (Story) - Hayes McMullan
All tracks previously unreleased (except track A3). Remastered from original tapes.
Issued in gatefold sleeve with booklet. Liner notes by blues historians Gayle Dean Wardlow & John Miller.
Recorded at Hayes' living room, Tutwiler, MS, July 1967 and in a recording studio in Jackson, MS, November 1968.