Track Listing

1. Climbin' On Top Of The Hill
2. Louise
3. My Father's Words
4. Backwater Blues
5. Wine Headed Woman
6. Careless Love
7. Playing With The Blues
8. I Can't Sleep At Night
9. My Baby's Leavin'
10. Lose Your Money
11. Jet Plane Blues
12. Rainy Day
13. I'm A Stranger
14. Women On My String
15. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
16. Key To The Highway
17. You'd Better Mind
18. Walk On

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55857 in Music
• Released on: 1999-08-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
Few blues partnerships were ever as successful and satisfying as the union of Sonny Terry's down-home harmonica work and Brownie McGhee's polished guitar lines. This generous, 18-tune live session catches the late acoustic blues brothers in their physical prime and at their musical best, rolling through an energetic set of conversational blues with casual virtuosity and seemingly telepathic interplay. Terry, a stone-cold traditionalist, contributes a raw-boned, backwoods feel with his heavily textured singing and harp solos while the modern McGhee's smooth vocals and clean picking provide a perfectly compatible counterpoint and complement. Either artist could carry the show by himself, but when the divergent styles musically intertwine they create a wonderful blues synthesis unlike any other the blues has known. The dynamic duo jumps right in with a reconfigured rendition of "Sittin' on Top of the World" and doesn't let up until the end. With Terry whooping and hollering between harp breaks and McGhee opening songs with comic asides the session is an unusually personable one. It's all undeniably authentic and eminently enjoyable, as well as positive blues proof that on very rare and fortunate occasions the whole is much greater than just the sum of the two parts. --Michael Point