Down Home Slide (1998)

About this title: Although slide guitar compilations at times seem to proliferate like kudzu, this particular collection has much to recommend adding it to the collection. For openers, there's the inclusion of three previously unreleased live performances from Robert Nighthawk. Playing in a 1964 Chicago concert accompanied by Johnny Young on guitar and mandolin, and Little Walter on acoustic harmonica (a rarity), Nighthawk turns in stellar readings of Jimmy Rogers' "That's All Right" (a number he apparently never recorded anywhere else), Little Walter's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (set to a "Dust My Broom" ... read more

Tracks:

1. That's All Right [Rogers]
2. I Know She Didn't Love Me [Barbee]
3. Jesus Gonna Make up My Dying Bed [Traditional]
4. Roll Me over Slow [Williams]
5. Everything Gonna Be Alright [Little Walter]
6. John Henry [Traditional]
7. Jackson Town [Taylor]
8. Mad & Evil [Coleman]
9. I'm on My Way to Canaan Land [Traditional]
10. Which Way My Baby Go [Williams]
11. Hoodoo Snake Doctor Blues [Shines]
12. Slidin' [Littlejohn]
13. Walk on, Little Girl [Williams]
14. Poor Boy Long Way from Home [Traditional]
15. Anna Lee [McCullum]
16. Sweet Home Chicago [Johnson]
17. I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion [Traditional]
18. My Lonesome Bed [Williams]
19. Key to the Highway [Broonzy]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.