Series: Blue Horizon Remastered
Release Date: June 5, 2006.
Recording Date: July 1968.
Release Info: Blue Horizon - 82876851232, 2 x CD, Compilation, Remastered.
Complete Blue Horizon Sessions is a two-CD set featuring Bukka's 1968 performance at the Memphis Country Blues Festival on Disc One and his complete Blue Horizon studio sessions on Disc Two. Although Bukka's career as a blues artist began in the '30s, his huge influence on Blues was not properly acknowledged until nearly 30 years later, when Bob Dylan recorded his version of Bukka's 'Fixin' To Die Blues'. Only then did people stand up and take notice of the amazing talents of this Mississippi bluesman. These recordings show an artist still gifted with the talents that made him one of the finest around.
Credits: Art Direction – Simon Cantwell; Coordinator (All Orginal Releases Co-Ordinated By) – Richard Vernon; Design (Sleeve Design), Artwork (Original Album Artwork [Page 14]), Photography By [Page 14] – Terrence Ibbott; Engineer (Recording Engineer) – John Fry (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13), Margaret Tucker (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10); Executive-Producer – Seymour Stein
Mastered By – Duncan Cowell; Photography By (Original Front Cover Photography Of 'The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival' Album [Shown On The Back Cover Of Booklet]) – Margaret Tucker; Photography By (Rev. Robert Wilkins Photo) – Chris Strachwitz; Producer, Reissue Producer, Liner Notes – Mike Vernon; Transferred By (From Vinyl) – Duncan Cowell (tracks: 12, 13); Transferred By (Transferred From The Original Two Track Analogue Tapes) – Duncan Cowell (tracks: 1 to 11).
Personnel: Bukka White - Vocals, Guitar; Anchor - Double Bass (String Bass); Bill Barth - Guitar; Douglas Wilkins - Vocals, Cymbal (Cymbals), Tambourine; Harmonica Boy - Harmonica; Jim Crosthwait - Washboard; Joe Callicott - Vocals, Guitar; Joe Gray - Drums; John Wilkins - Bass Guitar; Nathan Beauregard - Vocals, Guitar; Robert Wilkins - Vocals, Guitar; Trevor Koehler - Piano.
Tracklist:
- The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival
- 1-01. Nathan Beauregard - Highway 61 (5:54)
- 1-02. Nathan Beauregard - Kid Gal Blues (4:04)
- 1-03. Bukka White - Hello Central, Give Me 49 (5:01)
- 1-04. Bukka White - Baby Please Don't Go (2:36)
- 1-05. Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues (5:17)
- 1-06. Robert Wilkins - In Heaven, Sitting Down (4:04)
- 1-07. Robert Wilkins - What Do You Think About Jesus (4:45)
- 1-08. Joe Callicott - You Don't Know My Mind (6:57)
- 1-09. Joe Callicott - Great Long Ways From Home (6:00)
- 1-10. Bukka White - My Mother Died (5:42)
- Bukka White: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
- 2-01. Bukka White - Bed Spring Blues (2:51)
- 2-02. Bukka White - Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues (3:09)
- 2-03. Bukka White - Drifting Blues (3:55)
- 2-04. Bukka White - (Brand New) Decoration Day (6:00)
- 2-05. Bukka White - Baby Please Don't Go (3:43)
- 2-06. Bukka White - Give Me An Old, Old Lady (2:32)
- 2-07. Bukka White - Got Sick And Tired (6:34)
- 2-08. Bukka White - World Boogie (2:41)
- 2-09. Bukka White - School Learning (5:37)
- 2-10. Bukka White - Old Man Tom (2:39)
- 2-11. Bukka White - Gibson Town (3:31)
- 2-12. Bukka White - Drifting Blues [Master Version Without Reverb] (3:51)
- 2-13. Bukka White - Old Man Tom [Complete Master Version Without Reverb] (4:32)
Disc 1: Recording made in conjunction with Sire Records (NYC), Blue Horizon Records (London) and the Memphis Blues Society. Recorded at The Municipal Shell, Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday, July 20th, 1968. Originally released on the album "The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival" (Blue Horizon 7-63210).
Disc 2: A Blue Horizon (US) Production. Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday, July 21st, 1968. Originally released on the album "Memphis Hot Shots" (Blue Horizon 7-63229) except for 2-12 and 2-13, both originally released in that format, on the album "Stars of the 1969-1970 Memphis Country Blues Festival" (Sire (US) SES 97015).
Digitally mastered at Sound Mastering. All titles transferred from the original two track analogue tapes except for Tracks 2-12 and 2-13 which were transferred from vinyl.