Artist.......: J. B. Lenoir Album........: Vietnam Blues: Complete L & R Recordings Label........: Evidence Genre........: Blues Catnr........: 26068-2 source.......: CDDA rip.date.....: Dec-10-2005 str.date.....: Jan-01-2004 quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo Url..........: n/a track title time 01. Alabama 03:14 02. Mojo Boogie 02:18 03. God's Word 03:41 04. The Whale Has Swallowed Me 02:26 05. Move This Rope 03:36 06. I Feel So Good 01:54 07. Alabama March 02:54 08. Talk To Your Daughter 02:45 09. Mississippi Road 03:00 10. Good Advice 02:44 11. Vietnam 02:41 12. I Want To Go 01:41 13. Down In Mississippi 03:17 14. Slow Down Woman 01:34 15. If I Get Lucky 03:01 16. Shot On James Meredith 02:47 17. Round And Round 02:53 18. Voodoo Music 02:26 19. Born Dead 03:47 20. Leavin' Here 01:38 21. Vietnam Blues 03:05 22. How Much More 02:34 23. Tax Payin' Blues 02:21 24. Feelin' Good 03:00 Runtime 65:17 min Size 79,10 MB Release Notes: VIETNAM BLUES combines two full-length albums, ALABAMA BLUES and DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI. Producer: Horst Lippmann. Unlike any blues music released in the 1960s, the idiosyncratic acoustic forms created by J.B. Lenoir during his tenure with L&R Records recall traditional country blues while simultaneously pushing the genre in new directions. Miles removed--in conception and feel--from the electric Chicago blues of his early career, Lenoir's L&R work is wholly acoustic, intensely personal, and seems to pulse and surge to its own uniquely designed metronome. VIETNAM BLUES collects Lenoir's last two albums (before his untimely death in 1967), 1965's ALABAMA BLUES and 1966's DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI, both of which were produced under the supervision of blues icon Willie Dixon. The music on VIETNAM BLUES is quite stark, with the focus on Lenoir's mesmerizing open chords, syncopated embellishments, and high, soulful tenor. On several tracks, Dixon provides additional vocals and drummer Freddie Below lends his brushwork (on what sounds like a lone snare drum) to the shuffling, driving rhythms, further heightening the intimate, front-porch feel. But what really strikes the listener is Lenoir's songwriting, which fearlessly takes on issues like racial discrimination and the Vietnam War with eloquence and passion. Politically committed and performed with searing intensity, Lenoir's last recordings are the finest of his career, the crowning achievement of his overlooked legacy.