With only a few copies left, the Darker Blues book would make a great holiday gift for
any music fan.
Darker Blues is a 100+ page book of photographs of the musicians of Fat Possum Records. For
more than a year now David Raccuglia has been travelling the country getting photos of everyone
from R.L. Burnside, Kenny Brown, and the rest of the Mississippi guys to the west to get Bob
Log III and Solomon Burke. Classic photos of the musicians also appear throughout the book.
In addition to the photos, Joe Sacco's now-classic story, "The Rude Blues" is printed here,
as a stand alone comic book. It's the first appearance of the story since it showed up in
Details magazine several years ago. Barry Hannah and John Barry have both contributed essays
to the book as well.
A book about music that contains no music just seemed wrong, so we included two CDs packaged
into the book as well. The 16 tracks on CD1 show what we're up to at the moment. The 7 tracks
on CD2 are something special: Seven never before released tracks of R.L. Burnside music.
Several are remixes, and two are from R.L.'s first ever recording, done by George Mitchell in
1968.
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Tracklisting:
CD 1
1. Asie Payton - Do Me Right
2. Junior Kimbrough with Charlie Fetters - Release Me
3. T-Model Ford - To the Left to the Right
4. Paul Jones - Goin' Back Home
5. Hezekiah Early - Let it All Go
6. Elmo Williams - Mother's Dead
7. 20 Miles - All My Brothers, Sisters Too
8. Bob Log III - Log Bomb
9. Solomon Burke - None of Us Are Free
10. Johnny Farmer - Death Letter
11. Robert Belfour - Pushin' My Luck
12. Kenny Brown - Fare Thee Well
13. CeDell Davis - Coon Can Mattie
14. Scott Dunbar - Easy Rider
15. Robert Pete Williams - Goddbye Slim Harpo
CD 2
1. R. L. Burnside - Boogie Intro
2. R. L. Burnside - Poor Me
3. R. L. Burnside - Go to Jail
4. R. L. Burnside - Bird Without a Feather
5. R. L. Burnside - Black Mattie
6. R. L. Burnside - I'm Goin With You Babe
7. R. L. Burnside - Detroit Boogie