If You Take Me Back: Document Shortcuts 2 / Various

Artista: If You Take Me Back: Some of the Very Best / Var

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: DCU

Catalogo: 9002

Faixas: 1.1 Fixin’ to Die Blues – Bukka White
1.2 Give It Up – Jewel Paige ; Her Brown Brownies
1.3 Illinois Blues – Skip James
1.4 Lint Head Stomp – Phebel Wright
1.5 Rockaway – Jimmy Peters ; Ring Dance Singers
1.6 Signifying Woman – Jazz Gillum
1.7 Golden Street – Rev. Lonnie Farris ; the Gospel Flames
1.8 New Dirty Dozen – Memphis Minnie
1.9 Hard Day Blues – Muddy Waters
1.10 Halam Improvisation – Thyam Sy Griots
1.11 Don’t Let You Deal Down – Fiddlin’ John Carson
1.12 Shake Boogie – Carolina Slim
1.13 You Need Some Loving – Johnny Dunn ; His Band
1.14 Guitar Swing – the Brown Bombers of Swing
1.15 Children Go Where I Send You – Harmony Four
1.16 The Last Scene of the Titanic – Frank Hutchinson
1.17 If You Take Me Back – Big Joe (McCoy) ; His Washboard Band
1.18 Olds ’98’ Blues – Johnnie Temple
1.19 Lonesome Trail Blues – Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim)
1.20 She’s Gone – Alonzo Scales
1.21 Magic Carpet – Blind John Davis

Document’s second budget sampler, lovingly put together selections, with no didactic agenda, whose one and only purpose is to offer an hour or so of unmitigated good listening. The compiler of this anthology knows a good record when he hears it, as it offers one stunner after another. If you like variety in American Roots Music, you’ll find it here, and guaranteed high quality at the same time.