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| 1. Gonna Stick To You Baby | |||
| 2. I'm A Mojo Man | |||
| 3. I Stood By | |||
| 4. Don't Go | |||
| 5. Lonely Lonely Me | |||
| 6. You Know I Love You | |||
| 7. Learn To Treat Me Better | |||
| 8. Lonesome Lonely Blues | |||
| 9. I'm Glad She's Mine | |||
| 10. Sundown Blues | |||
| 11. My Home Ain't Here | |||
| 12. What You Wanna Do It For | |||
| 13. I Woke Up Cryin' (Oh What A Dream) | |||
| 14. When I Had I Didn't Need (Now I Need, Don't Have A Dime) | |||
| 15. I'm A Samplin' Man | |||
| 16. Hoo Doo Woman Blues | |||
| 17. I'm A Young Man | |||
| 18. It's Easy When You Know How | |||
| 19. I Got A Broken Heart | |||
| 20. Don't Say A Word | |||
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1-Gonna Stick To You Baby 2-I'm A Mojo Man 3-I Stood By 4-Don't Go 5-Lonely Lonely Me 6-You Know I Love You 7-Learn To Treat Me Better 8-Lonesome Lonely Blues 9-I'm Glad She's Mine 10-Sundown Blues 11-My Home Ain't Here 12-What You Wanna Do It For 13-I Woke Up Cryin' (Oh What A Dream) 14-When I Had I Didn't Need (Now I Need, ...) 15-I'm A Samplin' Man 16-Hoo Doo Woman Blues 17-I'm A Young Man 18-It's Easy When You Know How 19-I Got A Broken Heart 20-Don't Say A Word 21-Lost Without Love 22-Leave My Money Alone 23-My Home Is A Prison 24-Lonesome Whistler (1956-64 'Excello')(60:56/24) Cornelius Green alias Lonesome Sundown war einer der ungewöhnlichsten Künstler, die für 'Excello' produziert wurden. Er konnte alles spielen, von Lowdown Blues bis Pop. Seine Bluestitel leben von einer inneren Spannung und sind beste Beispiele für den erfolgreichen Blues aus Louisiana jener Tage / this guy was one of the most unsual and unique recording artists that entered Jay Miller's studios in Crowley, La. He could play anything from lowdown blues to pop his music is hearftfelt, intense and passionate. Great compilation!
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The late Lonesome Sundown (real name, Cornelius Green) singer, songwriter and guitarist, was one of the more versatile of the Excello roster of artists. Though he was prone to use a variant on Lightnin' Slim's slow blues structure - when he did it was respectful rather than mere copycat style - he would also fashion numbers very much the way he wanted. Part of this possibly came from his early career when he lived in Port Arthur, Texas, and worked in the band of the renowned accordionist Clifton Chenier alongside another Port Arthur resident, the great (and also late), Texan guitarist, Phillip Walker. So it's quite likely that touches of both zydeco and Texan guitar blues had rubbed off on him. This album contains most of the tracks he recorded for Excello outside of a few singles.
His very first single is here; it's "Lost without Love" . This was the one contained on the demo tape that he took to Jay Miller, the Excello producer in Crowley, Louisiana. It's a slow blues with a repeated guitar riff as intro, and it's one we're to hear many more times on this album - there are seven in total. The titles give an idea of the serious, sometimes tragic subject matter, "I stood by", "Lonely, Lonely Me", "Sundown Blues", "I woke up cryin' (oh what a dream)", "Hoodoo Woman Blues", "Lost without Love", "My home is a prison". The last named is possibly his most famous with Lazy Lester backing up beautifully on mouth harp but I rather like "Sundown Blues" as a name since it seems so apt. Vocally Sundown delivers with passion but doesn't go overboard. Instrumentation varies and the effect is not as repetitive as one might have thought. This is Sundown's version of the archetype slow swamp blues. Lightnin' Slim has his own archetype which is very similar. Occasionally Sundown does produce a different format slowie but he treats his archetype as a comfortable but worn overcoat.
He varies his medium and fast tempo numbers to a much greater degree than the slow blues. There's not the usual reliance on Jimmy Reed shuffles that we've got used to from Excello artists. Some tracks sound almost as if they could have come from Chicago - the fast "I'm a mojo man" is an obvious answer to "I've got my mojo working". Alternatively, there are a few, usually those without a harpist, which could well have come from Texas - "Learn to treat me better" and ""My home ain't here" are good examples - a sax creeps in on the latter but mouth harp is more typical accompaniment for the fast stuff. There's usually a piano present as well, from Talton Miller or Katie Webster. There's one rather poppy item, "It's easy when you know how" recorded very late in his career at Excello.
And yes, I did mention zydeco. Well, when the last number "Lonesome Whistler" starts you could swear there's a touch of the New Orleans "bon ton roulay" as our man launches into his whistling act. A nice way to close a very good album.
His very first single is here; it's "Lost without Love" . This was the one contained on the demo tape that he took to Jay Miller, the Excello producer in Crowley, Louisiana. It's a slow blues with a repeated guitar riff as intro, and it's one we're to hear many more times on this album - there are seven in total. The titles give an idea of the serious, sometimes tragic subject matter, "I stood by", "Lonely, Lonely Me", "Sundown Blues", "I woke up cryin' (oh what a dream)", "Hoodoo Woman Blues", "Lost without Love", "My home is a prison". The last named is possibly his most famous with Lazy Lester backing up beautifully on mouth harp but I rather like "Sundown Blues" as a name since it seems so apt. Vocally Sundown delivers with passion but doesn't go overboard. Instrumentation varies and the effect is not as repetitive as one might have thought. This is Sundown's version of the archetype slow swamp blues. Lightnin' Slim has his own archetype which is very similar. Occasionally Sundown does produce a different format slowie but he treats his archetype as a comfortable but worn overcoat.
He varies his medium and fast tempo numbers to a much greater degree than the slow blues. There's not the usual reliance on Jimmy Reed shuffles that we've got used to from Excello artists. Some tracks sound almost as if they could have come from Chicago - the fast "I'm a mojo man" is an obvious answer to "I've got my mojo working". Alternatively, there are a few, usually those without a harpist, which could well have come from Texas - "Learn to treat me better" and ""My home ain't here" are good examples - a sax creeps in on the latter but mouth harp is more typical accompaniment for the fast stuff. There's usually a piano present as well, from Talton Miller or Katie Webster. There's one rather poppy item, "It's easy when you know how" recorded very late in his career at Excello.
And yes, I did mention zydeco. Well, when the last number "Lonesome Whistler" starts you could swear there's a touch of the New Orleans "bon ton roulay" as our man launches into his whistling act. A nice way to close a very good album.
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No National Hits - But A Louisiana Legend of Swamp Blues Nonetheless
18 Dec 2011
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You won't find Lonesome Sundown (born Cornelius Green on December 12, 1928 at the Dugas Plantation not far from Donaldsonville, Louisiana) in the history of any national musical charts, but he was something of a local legend in the annals of what became known as Swamp Blues. That off-spring of Louisiana Blues, itself a morphing of New Orleans blues, traditional Cajun music, zydeco and soul, developed in and around Baton Rouge, was embraced by Green in the early 1950s as he worked at various jobs in the state.
A fan of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, his dabbling in music, and especially his guitar work, caught the ear of Clifton Chenier who, sometime in 1955, asked him to join his Zydeco Ramblers, and for the next few months toured with them as far away as Chicago and L.A. Later that year, however, he left the band and returned to Louisiana where, while sitting in here and there with local groups, he began writing his own material. After putting a couple on a demo tape, he approached a local producer named J. D. "Jay" Miller in Crowley, Louisiana.
Miller liked what he heard on Leave My Money Alone and Lost Without Love so much that he convinced Green to take on the stage name Lonesome Sundown, and then leased both sides in 1956 to Excello Records, which had been launched in Nashville in 1953 by Ernie Young as a blues subsidiary of the Gospel label Nashboro. Released as Excello 2092, it created enough of a stir locally that Green would become a mainstay with the label right through to 1965, with something like 16 singles.
And while none ever made the national charts, they were always popular with devoted fans of what became widely known as "The Excello Sound" epitomized by the likes of Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Lazy Lester, Arthur Gunter, Carol Fran, Louie Brooks & The Hi-Toppers, Silas Hogan, Roscoe Shelton, Guitar Gable, Leroy Washington, Lillian Offitt, The Gladiolas, Shy Guy Douglas, and many more.
And, of course, Lonesome Sundown, who is joined on many of these sides by Lazy Lester on harmonica, pianist Katie Webster, and tenor saxophonist Lionel Prevost. As is the norm with Ace of London products, the sound is excellent, and the liner notes informative. Certainly a must for any devoted fan of the Swamp Blues, and highly recommended to anyone wanting to experience that unique "Sound" for the first time. For your added information I have listed his complete Excello singles catalogue in the Comments below, with an asterisk (*) in front of those sides included in this volume that were issued as singles.
Green passed away at age 67 on April 23, 1995.
A fan of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, his dabbling in music, and especially his guitar work, caught the ear of Clifton Chenier who, sometime in 1955, asked him to join his Zydeco Ramblers, and for the next few months toured with them as far away as Chicago and L.A. Later that year, however, he left the band and returned to Louisiana where, while sitting in here and there with local groups, he began writing his own material. After putting a couple on a demo tape, he approached a local producer named J. D. "Jay" Miller in Crowley, Louisiana.
Miller liked what he heard on Leave My Money Alone and Lost Without Love so much that he convinced Green to take on the stage name Lonesome Sundown, and then leased both sides in 1956 to Excello Records, which had been launched in Nashville in 1953 by Ernie Young as a blues subsidiary of the Gospel label Nashboro. Released as Excello 2092, it created enough of a stir locally that Green would become a mainstay with the label right through to 1965, with something like 16 singles.
And while none ever made the national charts, they were always popular with devoted fans of what became widely known as "The Excello Sound" epitomized by the likes of Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Lazy Lester, Arthur Gunter, Carol Fran, Louie Brooks & The Hi-Toppers, Silas Hogan, Roscoe Shelton, Guitar Gable, Leroy Washington, Lillian Offitt, The Gladiolas, Shy Guy Douglas, and many more.
And, of course, Lonesome Sundown, who is joined on many of these sides by Lazy Lester on harmonica, pianist Katie Webster, and tenor saxophonist Lionel Prevost. As is the norm with Ace of London products, the sound is excellent, and the liner notes informative. Certainly a must for any devoted fan of the Swamp Blues, and highly recommended to anyone wanting to experience that unique "Sound" for the first time. For your added information I have listed his complete Excello singles catalogue in the Comments below, with an asterisk (*) in front of those sides included in this volume that were issued as singles.
Green passed away at age 67 on April 23, 1995.
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