Showing posts with label Cephas & Wiggins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cephas & Wiggins. Show all posts

April 25, 2023

The Super Catch-Back, vol. 6 & 7 : Papa John Creach - L.V. Banks - Sue Foley - John Cephas & Phil Wiggins - Jimmy "Duck" Holmes - Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers - Waylon Thibodeaux - Hans Olson - Tab Benoit - Jeff Ray & Hurricane Harold - V.A.-Texas Guitar Summit

... they deserved to be featured here…


Papa John Creach - Papa Blues (with The Bernie Pearl Blues Band) (1992, reissue 2015)


One last one for the road
to the next world

I discovered Papa John Creach on Hot Tuna famous album “Burgers” back in 1972. The presence of a violinist (or fiddler) on a blues album was a surprise but a good one. Actually, if the fiddle was one of the primary instruments of Old time music (pre-bluegrass Appalachian folk, early Cajun music, country & western, jug bands…), it was also used in the early times of Blues.

Before WWII, Lonnie Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy in the first years of his career, Lonnie Chatmon of the Mississippi Sheiks, did play violin, and of course later, the great Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.