Erzes

SWC5S
[Tracks]

1. The Whole World 3:34
2. Had A Date With Barbara Last Night 3:23
3. First Degree 2:56
4. Sweetblood Call 2:59
5. I Was Out Walking 3:41
6. Thirty Dirty Women 2:18
7. King Bee 3:51
8. Death Of Ealase 4:37
9. Who Been Fooling You 2:40
10. Going Home 3:18
11. Too Poor To Die 2:50


[Notes]

At the time this album was recorded, the particularly intense blues artist
Louisiana Red was a prot g of the Blue Labor/Labor recording empire, which
was actually two guys, Kent Cooper and jazz arranger and composer Heiner
Stadler. Cooper's involvement with Red led, as in many cases of blues
producers and their clients, to co-authorship on some of the songs recorded.
Cooper and Stadler regarded Red as an artist cut from the same cloth as John
Lee Hooker or Lightning Hopkins, and of the same quality -- meaning an
intense, mood-setter of a bluesman with a sizzling improvisatory style. They
were certainly accurate in their appraisal of his talent, and their interest
in recording Red led to several classic blues albums. The fine studio sound
they got on these solo recordings makes for a superior album, and it was the
first Red would record unencumbered by a combo backing him up. Every nuance
of his playing is captured, and he is definitely the type of blues player
who thrives on solo work. He rarely sticks to a formula bar structure and
likes to stretch out his licks as if casting out a line for fish, but he
isn't a player who just stays on one chord like Hooker often did. One of
Red's original blues, in which he describes how his wife died of cancer, has
got to set some kind of a record for misery described in a blues song,
meaning it is the saddest of the sad.


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