Bessie & The Blues: Riverwalk Live, Vol. 3

Bessie & The Blues: Riverwalk Live, Vol. 3 Artist: Jim Cullum & David Holt
Label: Riverwalk Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 705417950329
EAN: 0705417950329
ASIN: B0000010K2


Release Date: 2000-06-26

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Tracks:

  1. Nightspell / Introduction
  2. Downhearted Blues
  3. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  4. At a Georgia Camp Meeting
  5. Narrative
  6. Good Old Wagon
  7. On Revival Day
  8. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  9. West End Blues
  10. St. Louis Gal
  11. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
  12. Narrative
  13. St. Louis Blues

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Unique narrative and re-creation of Bessie Smith's sound!.......2005-01-19

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!

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