Jim Cullum - Bessie The Blues Riverwalk Live Vol 3 (13 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Jim Cullum
Bessie & The Blues: Riverwalk Live, Vol. 3
Genres: Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Nightspell / Introduction - Jim Cullum, Jr., Elkins, H.
2. Downhearted Blues - Jim Cullum, Jr., Austin, Lovie [1]
3. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do - Jim Cullum, Jr., Grainger, Percy
4. At a Georgia Camp Meeting - Jim Cullum, Jr., Mills, K.
5. Narrative - Jim Cullum, Jr.,
6. Good Old Wagon - Jim Cullum, Jr., Smith, Balcom
7. On Revival Day - Jim Cullum, Jr., Razaf, Andy
8. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Jim Cullum, Jr., Warfield, Charles
9. West End Blues - Jim Cullum, Jr., King Oliver
10. St. Louis Gal - Jim Cullum, Jr., Robinson, John [Sax
11. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) - Jim Cullum, Jr., Wilson, W.
12. Narrative - Jim Cullum, Jr.,
13. St. Louis Blues - Jim Cullum, Jr., Handy, W.C.

CD Details

All Artists: Jim Cullum
Title: Bessie & The Blues: Riverwalk Live, Vol. 3
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Riverwalk Records
Release Date: 6/26/2000
Album Type: Live
Genres: Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Classic Country, Traditional Folk, Dixieland
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 705417950329, 705417950343

CD Reviews

Unique narrative and re-creation of Bessie Smith's sound!

C. Fischer | Bloomington, IN United States | 01/19/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The combination of Topsy Chapman and Jim Cullum's Band was a stroke of genius. The narration that ties it all together is quite well written and I got goose-pimples when they switched from playing Bessie's original 1923 recording of "Downhearted Blues" and Topsy Chapman's re-creation of it...same key, same tempo...and the VOICE! What could only be inferred from the tinny 1923 recording technology becomes three dimensional and really vivid.

Topsy Chapman is a totally committed blues singer here, with perfect inflections of Bessie's style and tone. I have some of her other albums and her own "voice" is excellent as both a jazz and cabaret singer, but here she really sounds as if she were born to sing the blues!"