When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In [Original recording remastered]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Audio CD (Aug 20 2002)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: RCA Victor Europe
ASIN: B00006EXE6

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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1. Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
2. Baby, Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
3. Ham an' Eggs - Leadbelly
4. Mississippi River Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
5. Just A Good Woman Through With The Blues - Trixie Butler
6. Garbage Man Blues - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
7. The Panama Limited - Bukka "Washington" White
8. Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
9. The Midnight Special - Leadbelly
10. Worried Man Blues - Carter Family
11. Les Blues de Voyage - Amede Ardoin & Denus McGee
12. K. C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter
13. Somebody's Been Stealin' - Rev. J. M. Gates
14. Beale Street Blues - Alberta Hunter
15. Devil In The Wood Pile - Noah Lewis
16. Walk Right In - Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers
17. Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels
18. Got Cut All to Pieces - Bessie Tucker
19. Feather Bed - Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers
20. Can't Put a Bridle on That Mule This Morning - Julius Daniels
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The first volume of this superb four-disc series, subtitled The Secret History of Rock & Roll), expands on the conventional formula that blues plus country equals rock & roll. Drawing from the RCA Victor-Bluebird vaults, it offers 25 recordings (many of them seminal, all of them choice) that predate the urban blues explosion and inform the rock music that followed. The disc-opening "Catfish Blues" by Robert Petway became "Rolling Stone" once Muddy Waters electrified it, while "Baby, Please Don't Go"--initially recorded by Big Joe Williams with only washboard and one-string fiddle for support--is a blues-rock staple. Other highlights extend from Leadbelly's chain-gang chant "Ham an' Eggs" and folk standard "The Midnight Special" to the formative country of the Carter Family's "Worried Man Blues." Also noteworthy are an exquisite "Beale Street Blues," with Alberta Hunter backed only by Fats Waller on organ, and the operatic majesty of Paul Robeson's "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." The sound quality is as superior as the selection, with digital technology eliminating the hisses and crackles so common in archival reissues, without any loss of fidelity. --Don McLeese

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1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Transfers Made Me Grind My Teeth!, Jun 27 2003

D. Slayton "replicant9732" (Deep Morgan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In (Audio CD)

I'll make this short...this disc sounds like poop. My ears were even tricked into thinking, "Yeah, it sounds pretty good." Until I matched the songs with the same songs on the Document Records label. Document's sound quality is a million times better than this disc! Take my advice, if you want inferior transfers, by all means buy this album. If you want this music to sound the way it is supposed to sound, buy Document and keep real blues music alive! End of story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A real find, Jan 5 2003

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I've been listening to blues recordings for 40 years, and this CD has some excellent things I had never heard before. The sound quality is amazing, considering the age of some of these tracks.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable sound!!, Dec 31 2002

jonathan schlackman (new york, ny United States) - See all my reviews
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the sound is amazing. I have never heard Tommy Johnson's "Cool Drink of Water Blues" sound this good. I can hear nuances in his voice that I've never heard before. It's like a new recording. Unbelievable. I'm definately going to check out the other three titles in this series.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable sound!!
The packaging is for crap, but the sound is amazing. I have never heard Tommy Johnson's "Cool Drink of Water Blues" sound this good. Read more

Published on Dec 30 2002 by jonathan schlackman

5.0 out of 5 stars Great music, unbelievable sound quality
I'm not an audiophile, but I found the sound quality on this CD amazing. Soulful, trance-inducing, 100% real music.

Published on Sep 24 2002