2007 live blues album
Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas Released February 12, 2007 (2007-02-12 ) Recorded October 16, 2004, at the Majestic Theatre , Dallas, Texas, United States Genre Delta blues Length 76 :32 Language English Label The Blue Shoe Project Producer Jeffry Dyson and Michael Dyson
The Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas hosted this historic performance
Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas is a live blues album, recorded in Dallas, Texas , in October 2004 by Henry James Townsend , Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins , Robert Lockwood Jr. and David "Honeyboy" Edwards . At the event, the four blues legends were from 89 to 94 years old and represented the last performers of Delta blues from the 1920s. The concert was arranged by the 501(c)(3) non-profit The Blue Shoes Project, which aims to preserve and spread awareness of roots music amongst students.[ 1]
Two years after the concert, both Lockwood and Townsend were dead, and by early 2011, only Edwards was still alive. He died later that year.
In 2007, the album was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album[ 2] and won the following February at the 50th Grammy Awards .[ 3] It was also nominated for a Blues Music Award for Traditional Blues Album of the Year.[ 4] By January 2009, the album had sold less than 1,000 copies.[ 1]
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "King Biscuit Time " (McKinley Morganfield ) – 2:55
Pinetop Perkins – "Chicken Shack" (Ike Turner ) – 4:42
Henry Townsend – "It's Got to End Somewhere" (Tonwsend) – 3:56
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Catfish Blues" (Robert Petway ) – 2:58
Pinetop Perkins – "Down in Mississippi" (J. B. Lenoir ) – 3:36
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "Hangin' On" (Robert Lockwood, Jr. ) – 5:17
Henry Townsend – "All My Money's Gone" (Roosevelt Sykes ) – 4:57
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Sweet Home Chicago " (Robert Johnson ) – 3:09
Pinetop Perkins – "Kansas City " (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ) – 4:53
Henry Townsend – "If I Asked You" (Townsend) – 6:08
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "Got to Find Me a Woman" (Lockwood) – 4:56
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Country Boy" (Muddy Waters ) – 3:13
Pinetop Perkins – "Got My Mojo Working " (Preston Foster ) – 5:11
Henry Townsend – "If You Don't Want Me" (Townsend) – 5:59
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "For You My Love" (Lockwood) – 4:37
David "Honeyboy" Edwards – "Apron Strings" (Edwards) – 1:49
Henry Townsend – "Blind Girl Blues" (Townsend) – 4:21
Robert Lockwood Jr. – "See See Rider " (Lena Arnet and Ma Rainey ) – 3:55
David Honeyboy Edwards
Robert Lockwood Jr.
Pinetop Perkins
Henry Townsend
Technical personnel