J. C. BURRIS: Long Way By Myself

J. C. Burris

Long Way By Myself

© 2004 J. C. Burris (829757764023)

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Down home blues performed by an extrodinary harmonica player in the country blues traditions he learned from his uncle, Sonny Terry.

tracks

1 Long Way By Myself
2 Poor Man But A Good Man
3 Get On My Feet Afterwhile
4 Jailhouse Got Me
5 Ballin' In My Room
6 Early Morning Blues
7 Whoop And Holler
8 Black President
9 Hard Time In Jail
10 Selling Out To The Jungle
11 Further On Down The Line
12 This World Is A Jungle
13 She Sold Her Thing
14 What I Want To Know
15 If The Walls Could Talk
16 Blues Is A Feeling
17 Uneducated Fool
18 Sonny's Story
19 Lost John
20 The Blues I Play Is Me

notes

We are proud to announce the release of this long awaited music CD by "Blues Man", J.C. Burris. Like his uncle, Sonny Terry, Burris was an extraordinary harmonica player and a prolific song writer. The 20 tracks on this disc represent J.C. Burris at his best. His masterful performances are personal, intimate and captivating.

The original analog tapes were recorded almost 25 years ago at the University of Santa Cruz, California. Extremely rare and previously unreleased, these master tapes were carefully preserved in a private collection since 1979.

Over a year in production and digitally re-mastered with Apogee 24 bit converters and state of the art noise reduction, the sound quality is excellent! All of the tracks on the CD exhibit the same analog warmth and presence as the original master tapes, without the noise. In fact, the presence is so astonishing, it's like J.C. is sitting right in front of you, in your living room playing his heart out. It doesn't get much better than that!

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  • author: agberg

    Many years ago I bought the J.C. Burris album (LP) on Arhoolie records, one of these mornings. (1075). It is the sort of albums you don’t play everyday, but when you listen to it, you wonder why there is just one album from such a fine artist. Now 30 years later there is a second release. These albums are probably hard to sell, because they will not appeal to a large public. Thanks to the people of Oosik for making this one available. Sonny Terry was J.C. uncle who teach him how to play the harmonica. J.C. sounds almost the same as his uncle. But Burris made up his own (large) repertoire. Most of the songs he made up by his self, in others he used themes from other songs or artist, twisted them around and made them sound like his own. A very fine example of this is the song that was recorded in the early 60ties by B.B. King with the title “understand”. Also recorded by Skip James. But Burris probably knew the B.B. King version, changed it and made it his own. And gave it the title “Poor man but a good man”. A very catchy song. So if you like original stuff, if you like the blues, if you like good (acoustic) harmonica playing you cant go wrong on this release ! Buy it.

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