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Steve Cheseborough : Outstanding Blues
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1920s-30s-style acoustic blues, sounding eerily like an old 78 record, but without the scratches
Genre: Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date: 1997
Outstanding Blues
Steve Cheseborough
Record Label: Chezz-Tone Records
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1. Screamin' and Hollerin' 3:22 Album Only
2. What Do You Want Your Daddy To Do? 3:01 Album Only
3. Cigarette Blues 4:11 Album Only
4. My Black Mama 4:08 Album Only
5. You've Got Something There 3:42 Album Only
6. Trouble Man Blues 3:21 Album Only
7. Turn Your Money Green 3:22 Album Only
8. Untrue Blues 4:06 Album Only
9. Over The Hill 2:59 Album Only
10. Mr. Crump Don't Like It 3:05 Album Only
11. Come On In My Kitchen 3:35 Album Only
12. Drinkin' Water From A Hollow Log 3:51 Album Only
13. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me 2:36 Album Only
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Album Notes

Catch Steve Cheseborough in the Black Starz! feature documentary by Robert Mugge (of Deep Blues fame), Last of the Mississippi Jukes, which also features Morgan Freeman, Chris Thomas King, Bobby Rush, Greg "Fingers" Taylor and others. And see Steve hosting "Blues Breaks" on your local public television station.
Also look for Steve's new CD, Ham Hocks & Gravy, on Chezz-Tone Records; and for his previous release Outstanding Blues.
A consummate performer and a respected authority, musician/speaker Steve Cheseborough takes the acoustic country blues off of old 78s and brings it to life. He presents lecture/performances on early blues at museums, schools, festivals and riverboats, as well as straight music performances at clubs, restaurants and parties.
Singing and playing a shiny metal guitar, sometimes adding touches of harmonica or percussion, Cheseborough (pronounced CHEZZ-bro) re-creates the music of 1920-30s blues legends such as Blind Boy Fuller, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Bo Carter.
Besides playing the blues, Cheseborough writes for Living Blues, South, Delta and other magazines, and is the author of the acclaimed guidebook Blues Traveling: the Holy Sites of Delta Blues (University Press of Mississippi). He is a longtime Mississippi resident with a master's in Southern Studies and a knowledge of the blues from its beginnings to the present.
"Steve did such a good job capturing the emotions associated with Southern blues, I was tempted to ask him if the CD came with collard greens." - Acoustic Scene

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REVIEWS

Outstanding Blues by Steve Cheseborough
author: Virgil Ovall
                            
This is the CD is exactly what I have been looking for. Steve absolutely nails the original blues sound that made the blues a lasting tradition in American music. I love this CD and will get the rest of Steve's collection.
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demonstrating an uncommon command of both Delta and East Coast ragtime styles
author: Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Bill Ellis, reviewer)
                            
Cheseborough knows how to pick all the right tunes, demonstrating an uncommon command of both Delta and East Coast ragtime styles. He even blows some hot Jaybird Coleman-inspired blues harp.
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Thank you Steve Cheseborough for keeping us all in touch with our heritage.
author: Southwest Music Monitor (Suane Grubbs, reviewer)
                            
Thank you Steve Cheseborough for keeping us all in touch with our heritage.
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reminiscent of one of blues historian Alan Lomax’s impromptu recording sessions
author: The Daily Mississippian (Justin Showah, reviewer)
                            
Cheseborough reels off country blues tunes by the likes of Charley Patton and Bo Carter. It creates a set of music reminiscent of one of blues historian Alan Lomax’s impromptu recording sessions complete with thick sandpaper vocals, homemade instruments and plenty of “uh-huhs” and “aw, yeahs.”
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