Buddy Moss 1930-41
Released : Jan 16, 1996
Label : Travelin Man
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Eugene "Buddy" Moss was, in the estimation of many blues scholars, the most influential East Coast blues guitarist to record in the period between Blind Blake's final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller's debut in 1935. A younger contemporary of Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver, Moss was part of a near-legendary coterie of Atlanta bluesmen, and one of the few of his era lucky enough to work into the blues revival of the '60s and '70s. A guitarist of uncommon skill and dexterity, he was a musical disciple of Blind Blake, and may well have served as an influence on Piedmont-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. Although his career was halted in 1935 by a six-year jail term, and then by the Second World War, he lived long enough to be rediscovered in the '60s, when he revealed a talent undamaged by time or adversity.
Tracklist :
01 - I'm On My Way Down Home
02 - Diddle-Da-Diddle
Buddy Moss vocal, guitarBarbecue Bob vocal, guitar, Curley Weaver vocal, guitar
Recorded Atlanta 7 December 1930
03 - She Looks So Good
04 - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar Barbecue Bob vocal, guitar, Curley Weaver vocal, guitar
Recorded Atlanta 8 December 1930
05 - Bye Bye Mama
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Fred McMullen guitar, Ruth Willis vocal
Recorded New York 17 January 1933
06 - Cold Country Blues
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, probably Curley Weaver guitar
Recorded New York 17 January 1933
07 - Jealous Hearted Man
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, probably Fred McMullen guitar
Recorded New York 19 January 1933
08 - Joker Man
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Fred McMullen guitar
Recorded New York 19 January 1933
09 - Stop Hanging Around
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Josh White guitar
Recorded New York 23 August 1935
10 - Red River Blues
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar
Recorded New York 17 January 1933
11 - Tampa Strut
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Fred McMullen guitar
Recorded New York 19 January 1933
12 - Who Stole De Lock
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Fred McMullen guitar,
Recorded New York 19 January 1933
13 - Dough Rolling Papa
14 - Some Lonesome Day
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar
Recorded New York 8 August 1934
15 - Worrysome Woman
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Josh White guitar
Recorded New York 21 August 1935
16 - Mistreated Boy
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Josh White guitar
Recorded New York 28 August 1935
17 - You Need A Woman
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Josh White guitar
Recorded New York 28 August 1935
18 - Joy Rag
19 - I'm Sittin' Here Tonight
20 - Unfinished Business
Buddy Moss vocal, guitar, Brownie McGhee piano (track 18 )
George Washington or Robert Young washboard, Sonny Terry harmonica
Recorded 23 October 1941
