Fourth & Beale - BONUS TRACKS
Released: May 2, 2006
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Released: May 2, 2006
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Fourth and Beale is a remarkably intimate session, recorded at Furry Lewis' rooming house in Memphis on March 5, 1969 with Lewis (he was approaching 80-years-old at the time) playing guitar and...
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Party! At Home: Recorded in Memphis 1968
Released: May 18, 2004
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Released: May 18, 2004
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Party! At Home: Recorded in Memphis 1968 is a fascinating document of two old country blues players, Bukka White and Furry Lewis, playing and talking in a completely relaxed, small-party session,...
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Heroes of the Blues: The Very Best of Furry Lewis
Released: Aug 26, 2003
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Released: Aug 26, 2003
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Furry Lewis recorded several strikingly intimate 78s in the 1920s and 1930s and when he was rediscovered by blues scholar Sam Charters in the 1960s, he proved adept at entertaining his new...
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Good Morning Judge
Released: Jul 8, 2003
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Released: Jul 8, 2003
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Recorded in informal sessions with blues archivist George Mitchell in 1967 (except for two songs recorded in similar circumstances in 1962), Good Morning Judge captures the aging Furry Lewis in...
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Blues Magician
Released: Feb 9, 1999
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Released: Feb 9, 1999
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Recorded in Lewis' apartment in the summer of 1969, this record is an honest and unusual glimpse at the blues great. While the disc begins a little too ragged, Lewis rises to the occasion with...
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Take Your Time
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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Memphis bluesman Furry Lewis was pushing 80 (depending on which of the various dates of birth you go by) when this recording was made in October, 1969. Lewis, coaxed out of retirement after a...
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Canned Heat Blues: Masters of Memphis Blues
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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This 21 song three-artist collection (with Tommy Johnson and Ishmon Bracey) is a good introduction to Lewis' work (or that of the others) for those unwilling to spring for $15 for one of the Yazoo...
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