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Artist: The North Mississippi Allstars
Album: Things About Comin’ My Way: A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks
Label: Black Hen Music
Year: 2009
Genre: RootsRIAA Radar Status: UNKNOWN
Encoder: LAME 3.98
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Codec: LAME
Avg Bit Rate: 216 kbpsPosted by: cowpuncher
Description / Review:
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Even the name of this group is interesting. The name the Mississippi Sheiks was coined by members of the group as a playful double meaning. Mississippi is where they came from, but in the parlance of the day, a “sheik” was a man out “lookin’ for some tush,” as ZZ Top would say. [This meaning of the name ‘sheik’ was originally attributed to film star Rudolph Valentino, who starred in The Sheik, a silent film smash from 1921.] The Sheiks wanted it known that they were adventurous in both mind and body, and their music reflected it to some degree.The Sheiks were one of the most popular musical groups in existence in the US at the height of their fame, touring heavily in the South and extensively in the North, too. Three of the group’s members were named Chatmon, a name that is legendary in musicians from the era, what’s referred to as Country Blues, or Prewar Blues, indicating the period from the beginning of the 20th century until around 1940. The Sheiks recorded for three different major companies and were even invited by the President of the US at the time, Franklin Roosevelt, to play for him. Quite an accomplishment for Southern sharecroppers turned musicians.
The group went on to record some 70 original tunes, including one of the most recorded ever, “Sittin’ On Top of the World,” with performances by Ray Charles, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Chet Atkins, Bob Wills, Doc Watson, Carl Perkins, Big Bill Broonzy and Willie Nelson. Their lyrics were highly appealing to a broad cross-section of America, with references to religion as well as some which were laced with sexual word play.
Things About Comin’ My Way brings together a far-reaching group of performers including The North Mississippi Allstars, Ndidi Onukwulu, John Hammond, Bruce Cockburn, Oh Susanna, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Danny Barnes, Jim Byrnes, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux, Kelly Joe Phelps, Steve Dawson (who also is the originator of the disc), Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Del Rey, Bob Brozman, The Sojourners, and Robin Holcomb.
Track Listing
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[01/17] It’s Backfirin’ Now (3:59) 184 kbps 5.45 MB
[02/17] Things About Comin’ My Way (4:58) 219 kbps 8.01 MB
[03/17] Stop and Listen (3:47) 191 kbps 5.40 MB
[04/17] Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down (3:56) 210 kbps 6.11 MB
[05/17] Bootlegger’s Blues (3:43) 226 kbps 6.23 MB
[06/17] Sitting On Top of the World (3:17) 209 kbps 5.12 MB
[07/17] Too Long (4:00) 213 kbps 6.32 MB
[08/17] Jailbird Love Song (3:27) 235 kbps 6.02 MB
[09/17] That’s It (3:10) 238 kbps 5.61 MB
[10/17] Please Baby (4:11) 217 kbps 6.73 MB
[11/17] Livin’ in a Strain (4:46) 169 kbps 5.98 MB
[12/17] Lonely One in This Town (3:39) 227 kbps 6.14 MB
[13/17] The World Is Going Wrong (3:08) 237 kbps 5.54 MB
[14/17] We Both Are Feeling Good Right Now (2:45) 211 kbps 4.38 MB
[15/17] Somebody’s Gotta Help You (4:06) 235 kbps 7.10 MB
[16/17] He Calls That Religion (4:00) 238 kbps 7.02 MB
[17/17] I’ve Got Blood In My Eyes For You (5:21) 205 kbps 8.06 MBTotal number of files: 17
Total size of files: 105.31 MB
Total playing time: 66:13
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