Along the Blues Highway (2003)

About this title: This split CD of live performances from Chris Thomas King and Blind Mississippi Morris features two excellent, but very different, approaches to the blues. King's acoustic set was recorded at the Kalamazoo Blues Festival in 2001. On King's excellent set he tackles seven originals on slide guitar, including "Red Mud," "I'm on Fire," and "O' Brother Where Art Thou." Morris was caught the same year but at a different location: the Sunflower Blues Festival in Clarksdale, MS. Backed by his working band, this set features electric workouts on the originals "Beale Street Tonight," "You Know I Like ... read more

Tracks:

1. Red Mud [King]
2. Why [King]
3. Soon This Morning Blues [King]
4. I'm on Fire [King]
5. Alive [King]
6. Me, My Guitar and the Blues [King]
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou? [King]
8. Dust My Broom [James/Johnson]
9. You Know I Like That [Webb/Cummings/Cochr]
10. Willie [Webb/Cummings/Cochr]
11. Beale Street Tonight [Webb/Cummings/Cochr]
12. Bad to Worse [Webb/Cummings/Cochr]
13. Night Roads [Webb/Cummings/Cochr]
14. Going Back to Louisiana [Osborn]

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