Various Artists - Detroit Blues 4 x CDs (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (Mega Blowout Sale)
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23-JSP 7736
“Folks came to Detroit from states east and south drawn by the promise of work in car plants or steel mills. They brought their music with them.
Detroit never achieved the fame and reputation of nearby Chicago and there are two principal factors. First, Detroit was a union town and untutored musicians had little chance of joining a musicians' union; the second was that until the late 1950s there were no major record labels in town, just a network of small independents. As James 'Rabbit' Johnson put it, ‘That always been the problem with Detroit . . . local cat got a record out and many people don't even know about it!’”
“This set makes the point that John Lee Hooker was originally from Detroit before he went to Chicago, devoting a whole album to the legendary bluesman, while at the same time making the point that there were many other excellent blues artists in the city in this period, such as his collaborator Eddie Kirkland and Baby Boy Warren, who had a style all his own. Some of the tracks are raw and quite chaotic, but overall this is an excellent anthology of the blues from this musical powerhouse.”