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Steve Cheseborough : Ham Hocks & Gravy
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Sounding eerily like an old 78 record, Mississippi bluesman Steve Cheseborough re-creates the sounds of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bo Carter, Robert Johnson and other legendary blues artists of the 1920s and '30s.
Genre: Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date: 2003
Ham Hocks & Gravy Record Label: Chezz-Tone
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
My Baby 3:32 Album Only
Spike Driver Blues 4:05 Album Only
Big Road Blues 3:03 Album Only
Special Rider 4:05 Album Only
Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me 3:21 Album Only
Lord, I Want You to Help Me 4:24 Album Only
Kind Hearted Woman 2:48 Album Only
Old Devil 3:30 Album Only
What Have I Done? 4:02 Album Only
Ham Hound Crave 3:16 Album Only
Don't Do It No More 4:08 Album Only
Pony Blues 3:23 Album Only
Got the Blues, Can't be Satisfied 2:58 Album Only
Don't Mash My Digger So Deep 2:54 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 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

Steve Cheseborough demonstrates that he’s a hell of a performer as well as a blu
author: Blues Revue, Dec. 03/Jan. 04 (Tom Hyslop, reviewer)
On Ham Hocks & Gravy, Steve Cheseborough demonstrates that he’s a hell of a performer as well as a blues authority. It’s full of unadorned prewar blues from the repertoires of Tommy Johnson, Bo Carter, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, and Rubin Lacy. Cheseborough plays with the lyric on Carter’s “Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me,” but most of this is straight-ahead (sometimes too reverential, as his attempt to duplicate Skip James’ falsetto sounds painful) and successful, with string-snapping bass, slurred chords, and clear fingerpicking.
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Robert Johnson blended with the humor and sexual innuendo of Monty Python.
author: Jackson Free Press (Herman Snell, music editor, reviewer)
1920s and ’30s-style acoustic blues in the Delta tradition of Robert Johnson blended with the humor and sexual innuendo of Monty Python. Sure to make you blush!
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I loved the CD Ham Hocks & Gravy.
author: Lonnie Bunch, president, Chicago Historical Society
I loved the CD Ham Hocks & Gravy.
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AWESOME. Love it.
author: John Kane, attorney, Denver
Ham Hocks & Gravy is AWESOME. Love it. The sound is phenomenal, your playing is great as always, and your singing has gotten even better.
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