Homesick James Goin' Back In The Time CD

"With a career in music that spans almost 70 years, Homesick James Williamson has worked with many pivotal figures in blues, including Sleepy John Estes, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Boy Fuller, and Memphis Minnie. The recent release features James' strangely interesting guitar playing and still-strong singing on several vibrant country blues that serve as a link to a vastly rich past and a reminder of his place in the music's formative period. On the title track, James talks about friends who've gone on, while his Livin' Like A Bear, Bitin' Me And Shakin' Me All Up And Down, and Memphis Minnie's Kissing In The Dark evoke a time and place, though now gone, that live on in this powerful and magical music." -The Record Roundup"The material is superb. Homesick's covers...are both heartfelt and personalized, and is his own creations range from solid to brilliant. ...such creativity and vitality form an artist of Homesick's years is remarkable." - Living Blues

A credible, reflective return to the slide guitar veteran's country blues days. ~ Bill Dahl

Personnel includes: Homesick James Williamson (vocals, guitar), Honeyboy Edwards (guitar).

JazzTimes (11/94, p.105) - "...Homesick's vocals are plaintive but intelligible and his guitar approach is an eclectic combination of Mississippi, Texas and other influences....conjuring images of hard times and hard living..."
Option (11-12/94, p.120) - "...Hearing this is as riveting as discovering Robert Johnson recordings for the first time: it's like finding the roots of every blues guitarist twisted together in a single source..."
Living Blues (9-10/94, pp.66-67) - "...one of the most delightfully contradictory characters in blues....deliciously spontaneous...unvarnished authenticity....The material is superb. Homesick's covers...are both heartfelt and personalized, and his own creations range from solid to brilliant..."
Sing Out! (11-12/94-1/95, p.132) - "...On this recording, playing solo or with spare accompaniment from Honeyboy Edwards, he demonstrates a varied individuality that is light years away from the homogeneous sound of the vast majority of younger blues men..."