Screamin’ & Hollerin’ The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton, by Charlie Patton (CD box set on Revenant)

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One of the founders of Mississippi Delta Blues, Patton (1891-1934) was already the long-reigning kingpin of delta bluesmen when Johnson was still in short pants. take a listen and hear why many consider Patton the best there ever was.  Possessor of a driving, percussive guitar style, a gravel-encrusted holler, often improvised lyrics, complex rhythmic dynamics, an unequalled ‘talking’ bottleneck and a deep reservoir of melodic hooks, Patton conjured up songstuffs that gave vent to both a restless artistic temperament and a palpable, lingering rage. A Triple Grammy winning 7-cd primer on Mississippi Delta Blues with charley patton as the central, generative figure, this set features 5 cds with all issued and unissued recordings by patton and sessionmates son house, willie brown, louise johnson, henry ‘son’ sims, bertha lee, delta big four, buddy boy hawkins, edith north johnson, and even talent scout hc speir; a 6th cd of artists in charley's "orbit" like ma rainey, howlin’ wolf, poor boy lofton, kid bailey, walter rhodes, rube lacy, blind joe reynolds (newly discovered track!), tommy johnson and pops staples; and a 7th cd of interviews with patton associates staples, wolf, speir and patton protégé booker miller. all tracks are fully remastered and pitch-corrected from the best possible sources, resulting in the definitive versions of this material. also included are a freestanding reprint of john fahey's 1970 patton book, 128 pages of exhaustive new notes by fahey and blues scholars david evans, dick spottswood, and ed komara, complete lyric transcriptions,  all housed in a deluxe ‘78 album’ hardcover book and slipcase. dimensions: 11 x 13 x 3.5", weight is something short of 3 kg, -128 pages (10 x 10" each)  -housed in hardcover 78 album with the following all bound into the spine: 128 pgs of text first, then reproductions of the 6 1929 paramount ads, actual size on white butcher paper, then 11 pages of record label stickers featuring labels of all paramount, vocalion, herwin and blank test records, then seven 78 sleeves (a mix of paramount, vocalion, and blank sleeves),  containing fake 78s on which the 7 cds are center-mounted, the face of  each cd (and fake 78 surface beneath it, and the reverse of the fake 78) containing a representative record label from a track on that cd (the 78 sleeves have a center-cut hole, of course, so you can see the labels on both sides of the fake 78s/cd surfaces).  -pocket in front of book houses an exact repro of fahey's original patton book -pocket in back houses a xerox of the original immortal charlie (sic) patton notes from the ojl lp release  -colors are maroon/red, green and gold, with green cloth on spine of 78 album and maroon leather on book front and back, with gold foil stamp/embossed back, front and spine -hardcover book slips into a hardcover slipcase, which is all the same  green cloth with gold foil plus embossing  -outside of green slipcase is masked marvel theme, which is "unmasked" to  be charley patton when you slip it out of the slipcase.

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