Asie Payton Discography of CDs

Asie Payton discography Asie Payton died in 1997 at the age of 60. He was a hard-working farmer who lived below the poverty level. Most Saturday nights he could be found playing the blues at one of the two small grocery stores that were among the only businesses to be found in his north Mississippi hometown. After much coaxing, he agreed to be recorded during two different sessions. Originally recorded as demos, these were the only sessions Asie Payton ever recorded. He suffered a fatal heart attack while driving his tractor on the same fields he'd been working for almost his entire life. WORRIED became his ...

Asie Payton songs This posthumous complement to Payton's only studio disc is something of a revelation. Not only does it confirm that he was a great blues and soul singer (just check out "Back to the Bridge," with its "In the Midnight Hour" riff, or the lazy groove of "I Got a Friend," with its percolating wah-wah guitar line), but it shows the man could play funk too -- "1000 Years" roars out of ...

Asie Payton CD discography Track Listing of songs: Boxcar Blues; I Love You; Come On In; She Asked Me So I Told Her; My Baby's Gone; Sleepwalkin'; Everything Is Broken; Junior's Place; Long Way Home; Goodbye; Spiritual; Jayne's Blue Wish;