Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down: The Best of the Mississippi Sheiks | 
| Artist: Mississippi Sheiks
Label: Sony
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 25279
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 65709
UPC: 074646570920
EAN: 0074646570920
ASIN: B0002199AY
Release Date: May 4, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Still I'm Traveling On - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter | | • | Please Don't Wake It Up - Mississippi Sheiks, Jacobs | | • | Stop and Listen Blues No. 2 - Mississippi Sheiks, | | • | Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks, Vinson, W. | | • | The Jazz Fiddler - Mississippi Sheiks, Jacobs, W. | | • | Seen Better Days - Mississippi Sheiks, Alexander, T. | | • | Driving That Thing - Mississippi Sheiks, Jacobs | | • | Bed Spring Poker - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter, L. | | • | When You're Sick With the Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter, L. | | • | I've Got Blood in My Eyes for You - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter, L. | | • | Things About Comin' My Way - Mississippi Sheiks, Jacobs | | • | Livin' in a Strain - Mississippi Sheiks, Jacobs | | • | Last Stage Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, Alexander, T. | | • | Frost Texas Tornado Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, Alexander, T. | | • | Your Good Man Caught the Train and Gone - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter | | • | Unhappy Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter | | • | Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down - Mississippi Sheiks, | | • | Ramrod Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, | | • | West Jackson Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter, L. | | • | Bootlegger's Blues - Mississippi Sheiks, Carter |
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| Customer Reviews:
Wonderful Band, Decent Collection December 17, 2005
Megan Romer (Breaux Bridge, LA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
The Mississippi Sheiks are the missing link, so to speak, between what we now know as Delta Blues and traditional rural black stringband music. Their songs have been recorded by everyone from the Camp Creek Boys to Bob Wills to the Grateful Dead (Stop and Listen Blues is the predecessor to Smokestack Lightnin').
Although our romantic notions of early Delta blues want to make Robert Johnson the hero of this time period in American music, Johnson was actually quite unpopular in his time. The Sheiks were the reigning heroes and should be remembered as such.
Fiddle players should listen carefully to this record, as Lonnie Chatmon uses several odd cross-tunings that aren't common in any fiddle repertoire. Guitar players should simply sit in awe at Bo Chatmon's (aka Bo Carter's) guitar playing on the selected tracks where he sits in, and marvel at the sparse delicacy of Walter Vinson's guitar playing.
The Mississippi Sheiks were truly their own chapter in American music history, there was no other band quite like them nor will there ever be. This record is a fairly nice representation of them. I do regret that the original Stop and Listen blues was not included, but the less charming Stop and Listen #2 (the sequel, so to speak) was, instead. If you can, get a collection with Stop and Listen Blues on it (the original one!).
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