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When the Sun Goes Down 1: Walk Right In
Various Artists
When the Sun Goes Down 1: Walk Right In
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
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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 va...  more »

     
   
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: When the Sun Goes Down 1: Walk Right In
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: RCA Victor Europe
Release Date: 8/20/2002
Album Type: Original recording remastered, Import
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Classic Country, Western Swing, Traditional Blues, Regional Blues, Memphis Blues, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Folk, Swing Jazz, Oldies, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 090266398621

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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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Will do for blues what o brother did for bluegrass
boston403 | rockville, md United States | 08/24/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"outstanding engineering for old recordings for modern ears.
the problem with old recordings has always been the poor sound.
you wont hear any old recordings(1920's and 1930's) that sound better than this!"
"The Secret History Of Rock 'n' Roll"
Docendo Discimus | Vita scholae | 12/04/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)

"This first item in Bluebird's "When The Sun Goes Down" series, "Walk Right In", collects 79 minutes worth of blues and blues-related material from the RCA Victor label.

Opening with Robert Petway's 1941 single "Catfish Blues", it includes the original versions of often re-recorded songs like "Baby Please Don't Go", "The Midnight Special" and "Walk Right In", as well as an unusual but very interesting choir performance of "St Louis Blues".



The sound is generally very good considering that all of these songs were committed to tape between 1927 and 1941...most of them actually between '27 and '34. Huddie Ledbetter is here, doing "Ham An' Eggs" and the aforementioned "Midnight Special"; Big Bill Broonzy performs the swinging "Mississippi River Blues", and other highlights include "Walk Right In", "Catfish Blues", little-known singer/guitarist Frank Crumit's rather urban version of "Frankie And Johnny", Trixie Butler's jazzy "Just A Good Woman Through With The Blues", and of course Delta legend Tommy Johnson's eerie, masterful "Cool Drink Of Water Blues" from 1928.



There are four volumes in this series, available individually or as a box set, plus six volumes dedicated to individual artists (like Blind Willie McTell, Arthur Crudup, and Leadbelly, whose entry is one of the very best), and an eleventh volume of gospel music titled "Sacred Roots Of The Blues".

The entire series is subtitled "The Secret History Of Rock 'n' Roll", and while not everything here is straight-ahead twelve-bar blues, everything has the feeling of the blues.

Casual listeners may well feel that this is too far from Muddy Waters and B.B. King for their liking, but this musically quite varied and rather well annotated disc, and indeed the entire series, is recommended to everyone and anyone who is interested is American roots music. And vol. 2, 3 and 4 only get bluesier!"
Great music, unbelievable sound quality
jonathan schlackman | 09/24/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm not an audiophile, but I found the sound quality on this CD amazing. Soulful, trance-inducing, 100% real music."