Oh Run Into Me But Don't Hurt Me (CD)

There are a couple of names here, like Memphis Minnie and Lucille Bogan, that will be familiar to fans of the early blues on this interesting collection of female blues singers who recorded between 1923 and 1930, but most of these singers will be unknown to all but the most serious blues scholars and collectors. Most of them recorded sparingly, often cutting only the two sides of a single 78, before vanishing into the mists of history, remaining now only as vocal ghosts in the digital glow of the 21st century. Those voices, however, remain amazingly powerful, and the honest coarseness and barely veiled sexual themes of these songs is oddly refreshing and hopeful, and the directness of some of these sides seems bold even by today's standards. The little-known Margaret Johnson is a case in point. Her two-sided 78, which included the to-the-point-and-suffer-no-fools "Dead Drunk Blues," a song that could only be called a blues dirge, and the bright-sounding (but not really) "Second-Handed Blues," explores the universal themes of the wages and costs of love with all the subtlety of a hammer thrown through a pane of glass. The directness is startling, revealing, redemptive, and even a little frightening. In other words, it's everything the blues should be. ~ Steve Leggett

General

Label:	Forced Exposure
Release date:	April 2008
Originally released:	April 2008
Recorded by:	Various Artists
Dimensions:	125 x 136 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Categories:	Music > Blues Music > Pop / Rock Promotions
LSN:	X4P-PTK-0QF-3
Barcode:	5411867112686

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Disk 1

1	Trixie Blues - Anna Jones
2	Low Down Despondent Blues - Lena Henry
3	Get It Fixed - Rosa Henderson
4	I'm Gonna Get Me A Man, That's All - Virginia Liston
5	Come Get Me Papa Before I Faint - Margaret Carter
6	I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan
7	Somebody's Been Lovin' My Babe - Monette Moore
8	Stole My Man Blues - Martha Copeland
9	Dead Drunk Blues - Margaret Johnson
10	Second Handed Blues
11	Down South Blues - Coletha Simpson
12	Third Alley Blues - Ivy Smith
13	Sad And Blue
14	You'll Never Miss Your Jelly - Lil Johnson
15	Never Let Your Left Hand Know
16	Pot Hound Blues - Lucille Bogan
17	Coffee Grindin Blues
18	Doggin Me Around Blues - Jenny Pope
19	Whiskey Drinking Blues
20	Bull Frog Blues - Jenny Pope
21	Tennessee Workhourse Blues
22	Black Angel Blues - Lucille Bogan
23	Tricks Ain't Walking Anymore
24	I'm Talking About You No. 2 - Memphis Minnie

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