El violín tiene una significativa importancia en los comienzos del
blues, esta antología intenta acercarnos a ese sonido primigenio, que
por ser tal, todavía conlleva en muchos casos el corte rural o country
del que provenía.
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The violin had a more prominent role in early blues than has often been
supposed. Violins were far more apt to be played than guitars in the
19th century, and even when the blues began to be recorded in the 1920s,
violins were still often used, although they weren't as apt to be
featured on disc as the guitar and other instruments were. This 24-track
compilation (with only one cut dating from after 1935) includes some
fairly recognizable blues names like Peg Leg Howell, Howard Armstrong,
Cow Cow Davenport, the Mississippi Sheiks, the Memphis Jug Band, Charley
Patton (accompanying Henry Sims), and Big Joe Williams (a 1935 version
of his signature tune "Baby Please Don't Go"), although many of the
performers are far more obscure. The material tends toward the more
good-timey and folky side of the rural blues tradition; the violins can
get into a hoedown kick, as on Peg Leg Howell's "Beaver Slide Rag," or
get into a rapid ragtime mode, as on Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan's
"Ted's Stomp." Because of the chronological span and wide roster of
artists represented, it's a good overview of violin-informed early
blues, a subgenre that hasn't gotten a whole of attention. And check out
Frank Stokes' "Right Now Blues" to get your head spun around when you
hear a lyric that was repeated in Chuck Berry's classic "Reelin' and
Rockin'."
~Review by Richie Unterberger
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