State of the Blues
by Sherman Lee Dillon back to the music
$14.98
 
 
 
   
 
    1. Stack O Lee
    2. Way Cool
    3. Little Red Rooster
    4. Maybelline
    5. Rock Me, Baby
    6. Spoonful
    7.Trouble In Mind
    8. Ashtray Taxi
    9. Crazy Little Girl
    10. Mississippi Highway 3
    11.Devil With The Blue Dress On
    12. Good Mornin' Little School Girl
    13. On The Road Again
    14. Jackson Stomp
 
      The blues is a lot more than a musical form. Among other things, it embodies the history of race relations in our country. Living in Mississippi in a mixed-race community of music and spiritual fellowship has given Sherman Lee Dillon a rare voice for understanding amid ignorance, and harmony amid discord. His own love of traditional, hand-made music – whether Black, White or Cajun in origin – informs his voice and his guitar and harmonica playing in a way few others will ever know.

    A few years back he was talking about his part in the project to identify and mark the birth sites and other significant places for seminal Mississippi blues men and women, and he was asked how the Blues were doin' nowadays in that musical form's home state. “The Blues, they's doin' quite alright, thank you,” was his answer, and then he picked up his guitar and started playing “Way Cool.”

    There's a lot of people who “cover” the blues out there today; not many who're still making it up; and almost none with Sherman's authority. Here's Sherman Lee with some new takes on an old art form, giving us an update on the “State of The Blues."
 
   
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