| | George Higgs Tarboro Blues CD George Higgs Discography of CDs
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George HiggsGeorge Higgs was born in 1930 in a farming community in Edgecombe County near Speed, North Carolina ("a slow town with a fast name" as he is fond of saying. ) He learned to play the harmonica as a child from his father, Jesse Higgs, who enjoyed playing favorite spirituals and folk tunes at home during his spare time. George got to catch the medicine showman and harmonica player Peg Leg Sam playing locally in Rocky Mount during the tobacco market season and he made a lasting impression on the young harp player. He was later attracted to the guitar as a teenager and reluctantly sold a favorite squirrel dog to a neighbor to raise funds to purchase his first. As a result of their close proximity the dog spent more time at George's home than at his new owner's, so he got to have the guitar and keep the company of his dog.
Author: Timothy Duffy.
Photographers: Axel Kuestner; Timothy Duffy.
Arranger: George Higgs.
Personnel: George Higgs (vocals, guitar, harp).
Liner Note Author: Lightnin' Wells.
Down Beat (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Matching the anguished finesse of his singing to the ache of his acoustic guitars and harmonica..." George Higgs Tarboro Blues Songs Tarboro Blues Music Review Purchase Tarboro Blues CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Susan Tedeschi Back To The River CD (2008)
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Liner Note Author: Jeff Hannusch.
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| | John Mayall Tough CD (2009)
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| | Essential Odetta CD (1973)
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| | Gospel Classics, Vol. 2 CD (1994)
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| | Indub Bongo Rock CD (1973) (Import) Bonus Tracks; Japan
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Indub's BONGO ROCK contains the songs "Let There Be Drums," "Apache," and "Sing Sing Sing."
The Japanese issue comes with two bonus tracks, one of which is Grand Master Flash's remix of "Apache."
There's a fun story behind this album, retold in detail in the liner notes. In 1972, Michael Viner was an executive at MGM Records. Asked to put together some music for the soundtrack of an upcoming B-movie horror film, The Thing with Two Heads, he called on songwriter Perry Botkin, Jr., and the two of them whipped up a pair of songs called "Bongo Rock" and "Bongolia." By the middle of 1973, the songs, attributed to the Incredible Bongo Band, began to take off, both in Canada and on the U.S. R&B and pop charts, so Viner and Botkin took the concept to the next obvious level and cut an album, also titled Bongo Rock. Successful enough to scrape into the bottom of the Billboard album chart, the pair put together The Return of the Incredible Bongo Band in 1974 before fizzling out. There are some other pertinent details worth knowing, for example, that Jim Gordon, of Derek & the Dominos fame, was one of the key drummers on the project, and that Ringo Starr supposedly stopped in to bang out a few beats. But some of the best stuff happened long after the demise of the IBB, when early hip-hop DJs such as Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash, and then the Sugarhill Gang, Massive Attack and others, discovered the Incredible Bongo Band's recordings and began using samples from them. What started as a tossed-off filler session for a crummy flick took on a life of its own. This CD reissue contains not all, but most of the tracks from the two original albums, plus two remixes, "Apache (Grand Master Flash Remix)" and "Last Bongo in Belgium (Breakers Mix)." Interesting as it is to hear how the bongo-centric beats were toyed with by the hip-hoppers, the original recordings stand up on their own as classically kitschy cheese-rock. Bongos aren't the only sound heard, naturally, and fans of both lounge-rock and that crisp, reverby guitar sound prominent in old spy movies and Ventures records will dig what the IBB were all about. Their version of "Apache," the classic '60s instrumental ...
| | Martin Scorsese Feel Like Going Home Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Feel Like Going Home CD (2003) Original Soundtrack
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Drawn from the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's seven-part television documentary on the blues, Feel Like Going Home documents the roots behind the roots, traveling from the American South to West Africa and back again, resulting in a remarkable collection that spotlights the past, present, and future of this historically important musical genre. From early 78s by seminal figures Charley Patton ("High Water Everywhere"), Son House (his early version of "Death Letter," here called "My Black Mama"), and Robert Johnson ("Hellhound on My Trail"), through field recordings collected by the venerable Alan Lomax (an early Muddy Waters tune called "Rosalie," which includes ...
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| | Mitsuo Iwata Core CD (2007) (Import)
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