Artist: Clarence Edwards
Album: Baton Rouge Downhome Blues
Label: Wolf Records International
Year Of Release: 2023
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
01. Every Night About This Time (3:50)
02. Dealing from the Bottom of the Deck (4:18)
03. Crawling King Snake (4:01)
04. All Your Love (5:55)
05. Down Home Blues (5:39)
06. Well, I Done Got over It (3:44)
07. Still a Fool (3:33)
08. I’m the One (4:31)
09. Rocky Mountain Blues (3:36)
10. Don’t Make Me Pay for His Mistakes (4:52)
11. I Want You to Love Me (4:46)
12. Hoochie Coochie Man (5:29)
13. Everybody Has Their Ups and Downs (4:16)
14. The Things That I Used to Do (3:50)
15. It’s Love Baby (4:14)
16. Highway 61 Blues (4:29)
“Clarence Edwards: Baton Rouge Downhome Blues” is a CD featuring 16 tracks recorded in the USA. The core musicians are Clarence on guitar and vocals, Steve Coleridge on bass and Ronnie Houston on drums. The tracks feature various local musicians and were recorded in Fort Worth, St. Louis, Edwardsville, and Montgomery, Alabama. The album received positive reviews, with Norman Darwen praising Clarence’s strong and authentic singing. Steve Coleridge partially identified locations and musicians based on his recollections.
Clarence Edwards was a blues guitarist born in Lindsay, Louisiana in 1933. He learned to play guitar at a young age and played with various local blues bands in the 1950s and 1970s. He disappeared from the blues scene in the 1970s and 1980s and worked day jobs, but was rediscovered in the late 1980s by UK musician Steve Coleridge, who recorded his first full-length album “Swamp’s The Word”. Between 1990 and 1993, Steve recorded Clarence in the studio and on live shows, which featured Clarence on guitar and vocals, Steve on bass, and Ronnie Houston on drums. Some tracks were recorded with violinists Gina Forsyth and Scott Shipman, and guitarists Pat Morrison.
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