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Down Home is an album by the American blues musician Z. Z. Hill, released in 1982. [2] [3] "Down Home Blues", the album's first track, was a crossover hit, and is regarded as a blues standard. [4] [5] The song is said to be the best selling blues single of the 20th century. [6] The album peaked at No. 209 on the Billboard 200. [7]
Arzell J. "Z. Z." Hill (September 30, 1935 – April 27, 1984) [1] was an American blues singer best known for his recordings in the 1970s and early 1980s, including his 1982 album for Malaco Records, Down Home, which stayed on the Billboard soul album chart for nearly two years. [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide was first published by Random House in 1999, with John Swenson as the editor. [ 1 ] Reviewing the book for All About Jazz , C. Michael Bailey regarded it as a consolidation of the 1985 jazz guide and the blues coverage from other Rolling Stone guides.
The editor and main writer of the Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter, [2] his 2020 album, The Gypsy Woman Told Me, a partnership with John Primer, was a finalist for traditional blues album of the year in the Blues Blast Music Awards after winning the same honor for Don't Let The Devil Ride in 2019.
"Let Me Be Your Big Dog" – 3:16 "Pawn Shop" – 3:29 "You Dont Know" – 2:51 "Betty and Dupree's Blues" – 6:18 "Back to New Orleans" (Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry) – 3:00 "Stranger Here" (McGhee, Terry) – 3:37 "Fox Hunt" (McGhee, Terry) – 2:33 "I'm Prison Bound" – 3:04 "Louise, Louise" – 4:00 "Baby, How Long" – 4:14
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Small performed at the 2005 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival [12] and at the first Julius Daniels Memorial Blues Festival in Denmark, South Carolina, in October 2010. In 2009, Small was the closing act of the first Pee Dee Blues Bash, held in Florence, South Carolina .
George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll/rock and soul singer-songwriter. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter: he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues", "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up".