Home Sweet Home (2010)
| Artist: South Memphis String |
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Format: CD
Manufacturer: Memphis International/red
Sku: 213685309
UPC: 823862002421
UPC 14: 00823862002421
Release Date: 1/19/2010
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Jesse James ~ South Memphis String Band
2. Deep Blue Sea ~ South Memphis String Band
3. Old Hen ~ South Memphis String Band
4. Worry 'Bout Your Own Backyard ~ South Memphis String Band
5. Things Is 'Bout Coming My Way ~ South Memphis String Band
6. Let Your Light Shine On Me ~ South Memphis String Band
7. Carrier Line, The ~ South Memphis String Band
8. Bloody Bill Anderson ~ South Memphis String Band
9. Eighteen Hammers ~ South Memphis String Band
10. Bootlegger's Blues ~ South Memphis String Band
11. Dixie Darling ~ South Memphis String Band
12. Home Sweet Home ~ South Memphis String Band
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Audio Mixers: Winn McElroy; Justin Showah. |
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Liner Note Author: Jim Dickinson. |
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Recording information: Delta Recording Service, Como, MS; Sirius/XM Performance Studio, Washington, DC. |
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Photographers: Bob Bayne; Adam Smith . |
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With their 2010 debut album, Home Sweet Home, the members of the South Memphis String Band -- Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Jimbo Mathus -- have succeeded in producing a recording that sounds like it could have been made at least 80 years earlier. The trio members, each of whom has had other affiliations and recording projects, play acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro, and other string instruments, along with the occasional harmonica and kazoo, plus plenty of heavy foot-tapping for percussion, as they make their way through a series of songs credited to "Traditional" as songwriter (as well as occasional covers and originals), trading off roughly sung vocals on matters of rural concern including livestock, bootlegging, and other criminal activity. The murder of outlaw Jesse James by "that dirty little coward" Robert Ford leads things off, and other selections include "Eighteen Hammers," which sounds like it would work fine for a chain gang on a Southern highway, and the self-descriptive "Bootlegger's Blues," borrowed from the repertoire of the Mississippi Sheiks. Dickinson, Hart, and Mathus give the impression they have just gotten together in a studio to trade tunes and then released the first-take results, including count-ins and stray spoken remarks, with the musical arrangements sounding as if they were invented on the spot. It's a devoted act of preservation to seem this spontaneous. ~ William Ruhlmann |
Producer: Bill Wax; South Memphis String Band |
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Engineer: Winn McElroy; Justin Showah; Michael Taylor; Jackson MacInnis |
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Technical Info
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Release Date : 01/19/2010 |
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Original Release Date : 2010 |
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Catalog ID : 0224 |
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Label : Memphis International |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00823862002421 |
Professional Reviews
Living Blues (p.36)
- "[T]hey trade lead vocals, harmonize casually, and swap instruments: guitar, banjo, mandolin, and occasional harmonica, kazoo and fife."
- "[T]hey trade lead vocals, harmonize casually, and swap instruments: guitar, banjo, mandolin, and occasional harmonica, kazoo and fife."
