Alabama Slide Guitar

by Johnie Lewis

Overview

Eighteen songs recorded by Lewis in 1970 and 1971. If Lewis were one of the few practitioners of the Southern country slide blues guitar, this would be an important document. But the fact is that because there are so many similar performers in the style who recorded more prolifically and with greater imagination, it's just a solid journeyman entry in the field. Lewis does have an affable storytelling manner to his songwriting, and gets in some nifty laidback slide licks; a couple of the more ambitious tunes were inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	01/20/1998
Label:	Arhoolie
UPC:	0096297900727
Rank:	141856

Tracks

1. Hobo Blues
2. He Met Me on a Thursday Morning
3. Uncle Sam Ain't No Woman
4. Can't Hardly Get Along
5. My Little Gal
6. North Carolina Blues
7. I'm Gonna Quit My Baby
8. Baby, Listen to Me Howl
9. You Gonna Miss Me (About Dr. Martin Luther King)
10. Mistake in Life (Handsome Stranger)
11. I Got to Climb a High Mountain
12. My Mother Often Told Me
13. Lewis' Little Girl Done Stole a Black Cat Bone
14. The Jumpin' Jive
15. Poor Boy
16. Guitar Blues (Hound Dogs on My Track)
17. Comb My Baby's Hair
18. Oh Lord, Tell Me Right from Wrong

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Johnie Lewis   Primary Artist,Vocals,Harmonica,Guitar,Kazoo
Charlie Musselwhite   Guest Artist,Harmonica

Technical Credits

Chris Strachwitz   Engineer,Producer,Liner Notes,Photography
John Steiner   Engineer
Leon Kelert   Engineer
Johnie Lewis   Composer