Legendary Paramount recordings from Charlie Patton – mostly recorded in Richmond, Indiana in 1929 – but easily some
of the most important Mississippi blues
of the time! The package features a wealth
of seminal songs from the June, 1929 session that really helped launch the Patton legacy – tracks that are arguably as important to the development
of blues as the work
of Robert Johnson, and which quite possibly circulated even more at the time. Patton's got a slightly folksy approach, and a sense
of darkness that really makes most
of these numbers very riveting, even all these many decades later – an acoustic brilliance that's had folks
coming back to his music time and time again over the years.. CD features 20 titles in all – and tracks include "Screamin & Hollerin The Blues", "Pea Vine Blues", "Hammer Blues", "Dry Well Blues", "Poor Me", "Hang It On The Wall", "Down The Dirt Road Blues", "Mississippi Boweavil Blues", and "Tom Rushen Blues".