Andy Cohen - Built Right On The Ground (2010)

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Andy Cohen has studied and played old music all his life, wandering North America as a songster. He lives by playing old songs. On this CD, Andy plays acoustic guitar, piano, dulceola and sings. On some pieces he is accompanied by his wife Larkin Bryant, on haunting vocals and mandolin. Here are unadulterated songs from the early days of the blues - 2 piano rags done as guitar pieces, 3 blue country songs, 2 piano boogies, one of which has passed between the piano and guitar for over seventy years. The rest are a variety of blues numbers, including a talking blues by Woodie Guthrie, 2 tough ones by Memphis Minnie, 1 each by Big Bill Broonzy, Teddy Darby, and Henry Spaulding. For Andy, these songs are some of the central chunks of his troubadour life, especially Cairo Blues, the weirdest blues ever composed, by a barber from central Illinois.

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Tracklist

01. Built Right On The Ground
02. Railroad Blues
03. Cairo Blues
04. Honky Tonk Train
05. Soo Cow Soo
06. Jim Dickinson Stomp
07. My Old Pal
08. Temptation Rag
09. Mopper's Blues
10. Miss The Mississippi And You
11. Grandpa's Spells
12. Me And My Chauffeur
13. Shake-A-You-Boogie
14. Mean Talkin' Blues
15. Tennessee Blues