MP3 Various Artists - Popskull & High Art
Producers Max Drake and Emily Edwards bring together the talents of leading Piedmont, North Carolina blues musicians to lead you on a roots-blues musical tale about the rural South and the business of moonshine.
13 MP3 Songs in this album (51:30) !
Related styles: BLUES: Piedmont Blues, FOLK: Folk Blues
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Details:
With multi-talented musicians, Max Drake (guitar/mandolin), Matt Hill (guitar/lap steel/banjo), and Chuck Cotton (drums/percussion), providing the basic “mash” for this distillation, Julie Bean (vocals), FJ Ventre (upright bass), Theresa Drake (percussion), Logie Meachum (guitars/vocals), Scott Manring (banjo/mandolin), and Juan Fernandez (vocals) add backing to the high shots, tempering “Popskull & High Art” to 100 proof. The result is an intriguing chronicle of legends and tall tales with superb musicianship from all involved.
Max Drake, Matt Hill and Chuck Cotton’s long pedigrees include playing with such blues greats as Bob Margolin, Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Big Jack Johnson, Carey Bell, Jimmy Rogers, Nappy Brown, and Big Bill Morganfield to name just a few.
With this talented mix of blues artists, “Popskull & High Art” gives us tasty samplings of what would be classified as Blues-Americana.