Raw Mississippi Backwoods Blues circa 1940's Juke Joint

12 MP3 Songs in this album (39:58) !
Related styles: Blues: Country Blues, Blues: Juke Joint Blues, Mood: Party Music

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The gritty, primal groove Ulmer establishes on this debut "Blues Come Yonder" is a raw, original sound in a blues world full of slick pickers and harmonica tourists. The sound reminds listeners of R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Furry Lewis.
L.C. Ulmer plays a South Mississppi backwoods boogie style akin to its Northern relative, the hill country blues of North Mississippi. His music reveals the raw roots of rock n' roll, the meeting between country blues and electricity, white and black rural songbooks. Ulmer comes from the part of the world where the "raw roots of rock n'roll" emerged via the Graves Brothers of Hattiesburg, Mississippi over a decade before Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" and the official introduction of this new music.
Ulmer is an 82 year old giant, a workingman who established a one man band not long after leaving his home of Jones County, Mississippi in the 1950's.