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Spencer Bohren : Down the Dirt Road Blues
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Follows an old-timey song from its origins through many different sounds and variations including delta blues, chicago blues, rock and roll and folk music.
Genre: Spoken Word: With Music
Release Date: 2005
Down the Dirt Road Blues Record Label: Zephyr Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Africa 0:30 Album Only
Slavery Days 1:51 Album Only
Homemade Banjo 2:37 Album Only
Birth of the Blues 2:50 Album Only
Delta Slide 3:12 Album Only
Jug Band Music 2:45 Album Only
Take to the Hills 2:27 Album Only
Blue Yodel 2:01 Album Only
Back to the Delta 1:54 Album Only
Nashville Bound 2:08 Album Only
North to Chicago 2:24 Album Only
Urban Shuffle 2:02 Album Only
Rock 'n' Roll 1:40 Album Only
English Invasion 2:06 Album Only
Folk Boom 2:11 Album Only
Full Circle 3:31 Album Only
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Album Notes

This story can be told many ways.

My version is something like a historical novel. The larger story is true, and many of the artists mentioned are, or were, real people, but because cultural dispersion is, by nature, an inexact process, I have taken certain liberties in service of the storyline.

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REVIEWS

Down the Dirt Road Blues
author: David Quelch
For someone is has a great interest in blues and its history, I find this to be a wonderful concept. The changes in instrumentation, voice and genre are very appealing.
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Short history lesson of the blues
author: Sally
This CD is unusual because it covers a lot of territory. Volumes have been written about the history of the blues, but I have never heard it done musically before. Spencer takes one song and traces its development from its earliest form in Africa to what it might be like today. It is organic because the blues is an organic art form. Spencer makes this point very clearly. His instrumentation and his voice change as the song changes. I like this CD a lot.
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