Omega: The Final Recordings [Import]

Omega: The Final Recordings [Import]

Editorial Reviews
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This rich collection of seminal country blues tunes, boogies, and ballads marks the last studio recordings of renowned Tennessee songster Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee. Born with so many other masters into the unforgettable blues "Class of 1915," of which only David "Honeyboy" Edwards and immortal stylist Robert Lockwood Jr. are alive and active today, the terminally ill McGhee somehow cooked up a fresh slew of blues, bouncing and brimming with urgency and verve. He leaves us boogeying to the Leadbelly classic "Good Morning Blues," shuffling to "Walk On" and "Stranger Blues," rocking to "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," and rolling to "Rainy, Rainy Day," with the Elmer Lee Thomas Blues Revue lending inspired support. Also outstanding among the album's many highlights are McGhee's stomping compositions "Christine" and "Jump, Little Children, Jump," plus Big Bill Broonzy's "Just a Dream" and surprising new takes on traditional stalwarts "John Henry" and "Pick a Bale of Cotton." --Alan Greenberg

Product Description
Previously released (In highly-limited form) only in Australia, this package represents the first-ever general release of this material.

Tracks:

Good Morning Blues
Jump Little Children, Jump
Walk On
Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Stranger Blues
Just A Dream
Key To The Highway
John Henry
Rainy, Rainy Day
Rock Island Line
Christine
Pick A Bale Of Cotton

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This rich collection of seminal country blues tunes, boogies, and ballads marks the last studio recordings of renowned Tennessee songster Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee. Born with so many other masters into the unforgettable blues "Class of 1915," of which only David "Honeyboy" Edwards and immortal stylist Robert Lockwood Jr. are alive and active today, the terminally ill McGhee somehow cooked up a fresh slew of blues, bouncing and brimming with urgency and verve. He leaves us boogeying to the Leadbelly classic "Good Morning Blues," shuffling to "Walk On" and "Stranger Blues," rocking to "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," and rolling to "Rainy, Rainy Day," with the Elmer Lee Thomas Blues Revue lending inspired support. Also outstanding among the album's many highlights are McGhee's stomping compositions "Christine" and "Jump, Little Children, Jump," plus Big Bill Broonzy's "Just a Dream" and surprising new takes on traditional stalwarts "John Henry" and "Pick a Bale of Cotton." --Alan Greenberg

Album Description

Previously released (In highly-limited form) only in Australia, this package represents the first-ever general release of this material.

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