Bluff City Backsliders
  • .44 Blues
  • Pony Blues
  • Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
  • Let Me Play with Yo’ Yo-Yo
  • All Around Man
  • Everybody’s Talking about Sadie Green
  • Careless Love Blues
  • Saint James Infirmary
  • Stay on the Right Side, Sister
  • Boll Weevil Blues
  • Step It Up and Go
  • Everybody Ought to Make a Change
  • .44 Blues
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:23) [7.76 MB]
  • Pony Blues
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (04:11) [9.59 MB]
  • Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (05:00) [11.44 MB]
  • Let Me Play with Yo’ Yo-Yo
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:14) [7.39 MB]
  • All Around Man
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (05:29) [12.57 MB]
  • Everybody’s Talking about Sadie Green
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (02:25) [5.54 MB]
  • Careless Love Blues
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (04:41) [10.7 MB]
  • Saint James Infirmary
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:19) [7.6 MB]
  • Stay on the Right Side, Sister
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (02:21) [5.37 MB]
  • Boll Weevil Blues
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:41) [8.43 MB]
  • Step It Up and Go
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:42) [8.46 MB]
  • Everybody Ought to Make a Change
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (04:28) [10.23 MB]
Biography
I fell asleep listening to this CD and dreamed I was drunk in a whorehouse..."
-- from the liner notes by Jim Dickinson

The self-titled debut from the Memphis-based Bluff City Backsliders delivers high-powered, hip-shaking, barrelhouse hoodoo music that's as profane as it is glorious.

Finger-plucked guitar, high-dollar fiddle, vamping banjos, bottleneck and lap-style resonator guitar, dog-bite mandolin, sliding trombone, and stride and strut pianos produce a joyous cacophony of early jazz, jug band, old-time country, and proto-bluegrass sounds, reaching from Memphis to Appalachia and all the way down to New Orleans, often all at once.

Something archetypal in the band's music thrills music lovers of all kinds, old and young. Feet stomp. Throats howl. Grandparents dance with grandchildren. Joy abounds.

"A rootsy acoustic brew that evokes the city's sweet, lazy, jazzy past..."
--Chris Herrington, The Memphis Flyer

"In a town with more blues bands than you can shake a porkpie hat at, the Bluff City Backsliders truly stands out as something unique."
--Mark Jordan, The Commercial Appeal

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Jason Freeman: Throaty vocals & finger-plucked guitar

"Blind Dog" Clint Wagner: High-dollar fiddle & vamping banjo

Mark Lemhouse: Slide lap-style guitar that makes ex-convicts cry & sweet harmony

Memphis Graber: Dog-bite mandolin, barking kazoo & sweeter harmony

Mike "Trombone" Powers: Sliding sonorous metal mating calls

John C. Stubblefield: Extra large fiddle

Adam "Wigglehead" Woodard: Stride and strut keys

Steve Barnat: Snare and kick drums, gew gaws & cheap suit





WARNING! Side effects may include: spontaneous whooping, extended periods of euphoria, falling in love, uncontrollable foot stomping, elation and joy, boogie fever, and a temporary healing of all worldly ills.

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