BLUES BOTHER

/ 08 January 2009

Re the British Blues article (RC358). Sleepy John
Estes didn’t compose Milk Cow Blues, it was
Kokomo Arnold. The Muddy Waters At Newport
paragraph suggests Muddy went on to record
Mannish Boy and Hoochie Coochie
Man (composed by Muddy and not Dixon) but
he’d already cut them in the 1950s. The Real
R&B album tracks were generally known as
‘swamp blues’ and not delta blues. It was nice to see all those album covers again, but Barry’s comments
suggest a preference for British, watereddown
versions of the classic blues. And surely
Champion Jack Dupree’s finest moment was Blues
From The Gutter on London American/Atlantic?

Reviewed by David Edser-Lands
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22 March 2013

Full marks for an interesting investigative article (RC 410) on prices charged by charity shops. Here in Macclesfield, a shop had a couple of bargain LPs in their window. The George Mitchell Minstrels, both priced at a bargain £10 each. Don’t all rush, I have my eyes on them! Alan Lord, by email

PLAY OR PRESERVE PART II

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19 September 2007

Regarding Tony Dawson Hill’s Seatrain
letter (RC 338), yes indeed Demon/Edsel
UK issued the first album on CD (ED
CD 196) in 1986, and I recently
acquired a copy.

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