戦前テキサスカントリーBluesを代表する巨人の'26年-'29年に録音されたBest盤。現在 一般的にBluesと呼ばれる音楽形式が確立される以前(と言うかこうした巨人達によりBluesが形成されて行ったんですが・・・)の録音の為、フィールドハラー・ワークソング・カントリー・ラグ等が渾然一体となった哀歌が聴ける。
#1はロカビリアン〜Beatlesに受け継がれた有名曲。
ギターの腕前が恐ろしく#6何て低音部〜高音部を行き来しトレモロ演法、カッティングと繊細で多彩な表現に驚く。#17等のモーン(呻き)系の歌に代表される歌声は地の底から聞こえて来る様で震えが来る。
何故Bluesが「悪魔に魂を売って・・・」と言った伝説が囁かれるかが、痛感させられる。
不定形で不安定な奇妙な音が此処には詰まっています。
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仕様 | 価格 | 新品 | 中古品 |
CD, リミックス含む, インポート, 1998/6/19
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート, リミックス含む |
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曲目リスト
1 | Match Box Blues |
2 | That Crawlin' Baby Blues |
3 | Hot Dogs |
4 | Corinna Blues |
5 | Rambler Blues |
6 | Rabbit Foot Blues |
7 | Dry Southern Blues |
8 | 'Lectric Chair Blues |
9 | One Dime Blues |
10 | Got the Blues |
11 | See That My Grave's Kept Clean |
12 | He Arose from the Dead |
13 | Black Horse Blues |
14 | Prison Cell Blues |
15 | Booster Blues |
16 | Bed Spring Blues |
17 | Jack O' Diamond Blues |
18 | Beggin Back |
19 | Wartime Blues |
20 | Easy Rider Blues |
21 | How Long How Long |
22 | Long Lonesome Blues |
23 | I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart |
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- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 15.7 x 15.6 x 0.99 cm; 98.09 g
- メーカー : Yazoo
- EAN : 0016351205728
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 2000
- SPARSコード : DDD
- レーベル : Yazoo
- ASIN : B00004Y9XC
- 原産国 : 英国
- ディスク枚数 : 1
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 181,128位ミュージック (ミュージックの売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 42位アーバン・テキサスブルース
- - 144位ミシシッピデルタ・カントリーブルース
- - 34,932位ロック (ミュージック)
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トップレビュー
上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2008年1月24日に日本でレビュー済み
2004年9月6日に日本でレビュー済み
戦前のカントリー・ブルーズといえば、残された肖像写真の印象などもあって、どうしてもモノトーンなイメージを抱いてしまう。
しかし、このブラインド・レモン・ジェファスンのギターの音色は、レコーディングされた最も初期のカントリー・ブルーズマンであることが信じられぬほどに、カラフルで多彩な響きを持っている。
やや高音の歌声と、ギターが一体となって変幻自在に躍動する楽しさを、多くの人に味わってもらいたい。
このCDは選曲も見事で、選者の小出さんのライナーもわかりやすく面白い。戦前ブルーズに興味のある方は、是非聴いてください。
しかし、このブラインド・レモン・ジェファスンのギターの音色は、レコーディングされた最も初期のカントリー・ブルーズマンであることが信じられぬほどに、カラフルで多彩な響きを持っている。
やや高音の歌声と、ギターが一体となって変幻自在に躍動する楽しさを、多くの人に味わってもらいたい。
このCDは選曲も見事で、選者の小出さんのライナーもわかりやすく面白い。戦前ブルーズに興味のある方は、是非聴いてください。
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tommaso varisco
5つ星のうち4.0
The Best of BLJ Yazoo Records
2015年12月20日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
La Yazoo records mette subito le mani avanti nelle note del booklet dove indica le incisioni di BLJ come fra le più "problematiche" a livello di rumori e fruscii vari (di sottofondo). Nonostante ciò il mio ascolto del cd fila via liscio, indice del buon lavoro fatto dalla stessa. Ho scelto quest'edizione in quanto dopo alcune "ricerche" e ascolti, possibili anche qui su amazon, la Yazoo risulta essere la sola a garantire un buon ascolto di incisioni così vecchie e "approssimative".

Fred Camfield
5つ星のうち5.0
Chicago Blues from 1926 to 1929
2012年6月23日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Blind Lemon Jefferson was another brief candle on the stage. His first recording was in early 1926 and he died from an apparent heart attack in December 1929. He lived large while the royalties were coming in, dressing nice, having his own car and chauffeur, and he was said to be a ladies man (a woman, claiming to be his wife, cleaned out his bank account after his death). His exact birth date is not known, and could have been as early as the 1880s. He came from the Texas cotton belt south of Dallas, and is generally said to have been born near Wortham, a small whistlestop town on the railroad, 16 stops south of Dallas. His early playing was confined to the small towns in that cotton belt. Like most early bluesmen, he was self-trained, and had his own style. A merchant from Dallas took him to Chicago to introduce him to Paramount records in 1925, and his first recording, "Long Lonesome Blues," was released in May 1926 and was an immediate success.
His playing style is said to be hard to duplicate. His first recording is said to be a startling work - to quote from the booklet in the jewel case, "its elongated phrases produce a 16 1/2 bar opening stanza; its speed and sheer number of riffs come close to setting a blues record." About his voice, "He had a huge voice for a tenor, and he used the full extent of his resources, traveling some two octaves (Bb-c2) on his 89 recordings" A would be imitator, Tom Shaw, said that Blind Lemon Jefferson told him, "Get the sound in your head first, so that sound'll stay with you, day and night. Then you learn to do somethin'. Until you get that sound in your head, you ain't gonna do nothin'." He changed the nature of the music recording business, playing his own music rather than using house writers.
The recording quality of the late 1920s was not good. Richard Nevins and Yazoo should be commended for the remastering of the 23 songs in this collection from the original 78s, eliminating recording noise while keeping the instrumental guitar music and the vocals (which were sometimes weak in the originals).
The 23 tracks on this CD are:
Match Box Blues
That Crawlin' Baby Blues
Hot Dogs
Corinna Blues
Rambler Blues
Rabbit Foot Blues
Dry Southern Blues
'Lectric Chair Blues
One Dime Blues
Got the Blues
See That My Grave's Kept Clean
He Arose From the Dead
Black Horse Blues
Prison Cell Blues
Booster Blues
Bed Spring Blues
Jack O'Diamond Blues
Beggin Back
Wartime Blues
Easy Rider Blues
How Long How Long
Long Lonesome Blues
I Want to be Like Jesus in My Heart
Blind Lemon Jefferson was a contempory of Blind Blake Best Of Blind Blake who was recording in Chicago at the same time. For further information on Blind Lemon Jefferson see Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, and His Legacy (although available copies seem to be quite expensive).
His playing style is said to be hard to duplicate. His first recording is said to be a startling work - to quote from the booklet in the jewel case, "its elongated phrases produce a 16 1/2 bar opening stanza; its speed and sheer number of riffs come close to setting a blues record." About his voice, "He had a huge voice for a tenor, and he used the full extent of his resources, traveling some two octaves (Bb-c2) on his 89 recordings" A would be imitator, Tom Shaw, said that Blind Lemon Jefferson told him, "Get the sound in your head first, so that sound'll stay with you, day and night. Then you learn to do somethin'. Until you get that sound in your head, you ain't gonna do nothin'." He changed the nature of the music recording business, playing his own music rather than using house writers.
The recording quality of the late 1920s was not good. Richard Nevins and Yazoo should be commended for the remastering of the 23 songs in this collection from the original 78s, eliminating recording noise while keeping the instrumental guitar music and the vocals (which were sometimes weak in the originals).
The 23 tracks on this CD are:
Match Box Blues
That Crawlin' Baby Blues
Hot Dogs
Corinna Blues
Rambler Blues
Rabbit Foot Blues
Dry Southern Blues
'Lectric Chair Blues
One Dime Blues
Got the Blues
See That My Grave's Kept Clean
He Arose From the Dead
Black Horse Blues
Prison Cell Blues
Booster Blues
Bed Spring Blues
Jack O'Diamond Blues
Beggin Back
Wartime Blues
Easy Rider Blues
How Long How Long
Long Lonesome Blues
I Want to be Like Jesus in My Heart
Blind Lemon Jefferson was a contempory of Blind Blake Best Of Blind Blake who was recording in Chicago at the same time. For further information on Blind Lemon Jefferson see Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, and His Legacy (although available copies seem to be quite expensive).

Scott Hedegard
5つ星のうち5.0
historic and intriguing early blues
2013年2月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Blind Lemon Jefferson is one of the giants of the early rural or country blues. Hailing from Texas as opposed to the Mississippi Delta, he nonetheless became a huge star in the mid South, predominately Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. He sold thousands of records, all on 78 RPMs, and remains one of American music's most influential and prophetic artists, his guitar playing far advanced for its day, with not just blues but strong hints of folk music as well.
Why a rock fan should care about Jefferson or his other contemporaries, such as Robert Johnson, Charley Patton or Son House, is answered in the roots of the music itself. No modern American music has branched out from a single genre as early blues, without whom rock and roll and even some country would be impossible. We all know the admiration British rockers held for pioneers like Jefferson, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds and Rolling Stones to name a few. Their versions of the old blues was amped up and rocked out, but there would be an inevitable translation loss between the decades.
To really understand Blind Lemon Jefferson, one has to first have an open mind, and a love for history and historical music. These tunes were recorded cheaply on 78 records, that simply were not built to last. In fact, some songs on this collection were sung and played into huge cones or horns, and the needle at the end of the horn would scratch the acetate demo with the vibrations from the voice and instrument. On those, Jefferson's voice is scratchier and sounds worse. He did live long enough to use crude microphones in his latter recordings, and the sound was improved. However, as the Yazoo label tells us in the liner notes, it was only possible to clean the old records up just so much. However, I consider that primitive sound fascinating. On the highway yesterday, just for a brief moment while this CD was on, I caught a whiff of what all music sounded like then, and one could almost hear the years in the music, making it almost a three dimensional experience.
Some songs are well known in the blues pantheon, like "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean", but one cut "Hot Dog" shows off some dandy picking and a vocal that had both talking and singing. That tune alone was a harbinger of folk that wouldn't appear for years. Plus, his penchant for unorthodox tempos, if he bothered with them at all, and a strong tenor made Blind Lemon Jefferson compelling. "Electrocution Blues" will send chills up your spine, and "How Long How Long" for whatever reason also has a piano that is hideously out of tune, but it somehow adds to the charm.
Plug him in and drive down a lonely dirt road, preferably in the Mississippi Delta and see if you don't suddenly have a feeling that the sharecroppers and other poor blacks in pre-Depression America must have felt. It's amazing stuff.
Why a rock fan should care about Jefferson or his other contemporaries, such as Robert Johnson, Charley Patton or Son House, is answered in the roots of the music itself. No modern American music has branched out from a single genre as early blues, without whom rock and roll and even some country would be impossible. We all know the admiration British rockers held for pioneers like Jefferson, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds and Rolling Stones to name a few. Their versions of the old blues was amped up and rocked out, but there would be an inevitable translation loss between the decades.
To really understand Blind Lemon Jefferson, one has to first have an open mind, and a love for history and historical music. These tunes were recorded cheaply on 78 records, that simply were not built to last. In fact, some songs on this collection were sung and played into huge cones or horns, and the needle at the end of the horn would scratch the acetate demo with the vibrations from the voice and instrument. On those, Jefferson's voice is scratchier and sounds worse. He did live long enough to use crude microphones in his latter recordings, and the sound was improved. However, as the Yazoo label tells us in the liner notes, it was only possible to clean the old records up just so much. However, I consider that primitive sound fascinating. On the highway yesterday, just for a brief moment while this CD was on, I caught a whiff of what all music sounded like then, and one could almost hear the years in the music, making it almost a three dimensional experience.
Some songs are well known in the blues pantheon, like "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean", but one cut "Hot Dog" shows off some dandy picking and a vocal that had both talking and singing. That tune alone was a harbinger of folk that wouldn't appear for years. Plus, his penchant for unorthodox tempos, if he bothered with them at all, and a strong tenor made Blind Lemon Jefferson compelling. "Electrocution Blues" will send chills up your spine, and "How Long How Long" for whatever reason also has a piano that is hideously out of tune, but it somehow adds to the charm.
Plug him in and drive down a lonely dirt road, preferably in the Mississippi Delta and see if you don't suddenly have a feeling that the sharecroppers and other poor blacks in pre-Depression America must have felt. It's amazing stuff.

Kevin J. Bouffard
5つ星のうち4.0
Great name, great music
2014年12月4日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I enjoyed hearing classic blues. Some may appreciate this CD preserves the sound of 78 LPs, but I prefer more of the background noise being cleaned up.

ANH
5つ星のうち3.0
Listen to the original 78 sound
2012年1月5日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This is an excellent set for the money and little needs to be said about Blind Lemon Jefferson if you are a fan of the Blues, but this set is probably best regarded as being aimed more at collectors than anyone else.
If you have ever listened to a 78 on original equipment, then that is exactly the sound you get here - surface noise and crackle is all part of the experience. BLJ's voice and the instruments tend to emerge from a sea of hiss on most of the tracks, which actually adds to the atmosphere in some ways - listening makes me want to sit on the front porch with a shot of Bourbon.
This CD is a time machine back to the late '20s; just don't buy it expecting an audiophile experience, because the sound reproduction is best described as "recessed". Given how old these recordings are and the way they were recorded, it is a miracle that they exist at all.
If you have ever listened to a 78 on original equipment, then that is exactly the sound you get here - surface noise and crackle is all part of the experience. BLJ's voice and the instruments tend to emerge from a sea of hiss on most of the tracks, which actually adds to the atmosphere in some ways - listening makes me want to sit on the front porch with a shot of Bourbon.
This CD is a time machine back to the late '20s; just don't buy it expecting an audiophile experience, because the sound reproduction is best described as "recessed". Given how old these recordings are and the way they were recorded, it is a miracle that they exist at all.