Pure Detroit urban blues from the artist who was first introduced on the compilations "Hastings Street Grease, Vol. 1 & 2" - his solo album features the return of Little Junior Cannaday on guitar, along with Blues Insurgents.
Although Seward "Harmonica" Shah has blossomed as a musician in the last five years living in the Detroit ghetto, his musical training has come throughout his whole life. Shah was born in Oakland, CA in 1946 and split his youth between there and Sommerville, TX where his mother's family lived. In Texas he lived with his grandparents and listened to his grandfather, Sam Dawson, play guitar. Dawson had recorded some songs for Alan Lomax, and young Seward listened very closely. But when he was 16 he got into some trouble and went back to live with his mother in Oakland. There he got the chance to frequent Slim Jenkins' club on 7th St, near the shipyards. The Bay Area was full of blues performers; Lowell Fulson and Big Mama Thornton were around, and George "Harmonica" Smith, B. B. King and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee came through. Shah has always been in awe of his predecessors and he followed them closely.
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1. Dirty Old Bastard (4:58)
2. Detroit Playboy (6:33)
3. My Baby Left Me, Left Me A Mule (3:52)
4. Old Hound Dog (5:30)
5. Big Boss Man (4:39)
6. One Eyed Woman (6:47)
7. My Old Time Used To Be (4:30)
8. The Sky Is Crying (3:34)
9. Jam at Long Tooth John's Junkyard (5:10)
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Year : 2000
Bitrate : 192K/s
Total Playing Time: 45:35
Total Size : 62.6 MB
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