Big Blind Bluesy
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Big Blind Bluesy is an album by American
guitar
ist Pat Donohue
, released in 2000. It was reissued in 1994 and again in 2007.
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The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist Pat Donohue
Pat Donohue
Patrick Donohue is an American fingerstyle guitarist born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a Grammy nominated, National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion and a songwriter. Donohue has several albums to his credit and his songs have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss, and Kenny Rogers...
, released in 2000. It was reissued in 1994 and again in 2007.
Track listing
- "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 3:39
- "I Never Cried" (Teddy DarbyTeddy DarbyTheodore Roosevelt Darby, better known as Blind Teddy Darby , was an American blues singer and guitarist....
) – 3:03 - "Long Tall Mama" (Big Bill BroonzyBig Bill BroonzyBig Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...
) – 3:09 - "Michigan Water" (Jelly Roll MortonJelly Roll MortonFerdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....
, Clarence Williams) – 4:29 - "Too Tight Rag" (Blind BlakeBlind Blake"Blind" Blake was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.-Biography:...
) – 3:00 - "Blind Lemon Extract" (Pat Donohue) – 3:23
- "Statesboro BluesStatesboro Blues"Statesboro Blues" is a blues song in the key of D written by Blind Willie McTell; the title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. Covered by many artists, the version by The Allman Brothers Band is especially notable and was ranked #9 by Rolling Stone in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar...
" (Blind Willie McTellBlind Willie McTellBlind Willie McTell , was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar...
) – 3:35 - "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. HandyW. C. HandyWilliam Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
) – 4:21 - "Old Lady" (Donohue) – 1:27
- "Weeping Willow Blues" (Fuller) – 2:58
- "Kind Hearted WomanKind Hearted Woman Blues"Kind Hearted Woman Blues" is a blues song recorded on November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. The song was originally released on 78 rpm format as Vocalion 03416 and ARC 7-03-56. Johnson performed the song in the key of A, and recorded two takes, the first...
" (Robert Johnson) – 3:58 - "Big Blind Bluesy" (Donohue) – 3:02