Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas

Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas is a live recording with Henry James Townsend

Henry Townsend (musician)

Henry 'Mule' Townsend was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist.-Career:Townsend was born in Shelby, Mississippi and grew up in Cairo, Illinois. He left home at the age of nine because of an abusive father and hoboed his way to St. Louis, Missouri...

, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins

Pinetop Perkins

Joseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music...

, Robert Lockwood, Jr. and David Honeyboy Edwards

David Honeyboy Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South. Edwards was the last Delta bluesman before his 2011 death.-Life and career:Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi...

, playing in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, October 2004. At the event the four blues legends were from 89 to 94 years old.

Awards

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award

50th Grammy Awards

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2008. Kanye West received the most nominations, with eight. Amy Winehouse was the big winner, winning a total of five awards. Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year,...

, and won in February, 2008 (category: Best Traditional Blues Album). It was also nominated for the W. C. Handy Award.

Track listing

King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time is the longest-running daily American radio broadcasts in history. The program is broadcast each weekday from KFFA in Helena, Arkansas, United States and has won the George Foster Peabody Award for broadcasting excellence and is currently broadcast from the KFFA studio located in...
Chicken Shack
It's Got to End Somewhere
Catfish Blues
Hangin' On
All My Money's Gone
Sweet Home Chicago
Sweet Home Chicago
"Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form. It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson...
Kansas City
If I Asked You
Got To FInd Me A Woman
Country Boy
Got My Mojo Working
Got My Mojo Working
"Got My Mojo Working" is a 1956 song written by Preston Foster and first recorded by Ann Cole, but popularized by Muddy Waters in 1957. Waters' rendition of the song was featured on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #359 and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of...
If You Don't Want Me
For You My Love
Apron Strings
Blind Girl Blues
CC Rider

External links

The Blue Shoe Project

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