• 1.1. cotton picking blues
  • 1.2. ambulance blues
  • 1.3. rattlesnake daddy
  • 1.4. when i was a child
  • 1.5. dead and gone
  • 1.6. girl dressed in green
  • 1.7. trouble blues
  • 1.8. i need somebody
  • 1.9. penitentiary blues
  • 1.10. my grandmother told me

tinsley, john e.

country blues roots revived

COUNTRY BLUES ROOTS REVIVED

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COUNTRY BLUES ROOTS REVIVED
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Virginia's John E. Tinsley began playing guitar at the age of 15, at the behest of his neighbor. He would go on to be influenced by other Piedmont and East Coast bluesmen such as Blind Boy Fuller, Josh White and Buddy Moss.Tinsley and friend, Fred Holland, first recorded Tinsley's repertoire in 1952. Bassett, Virginia's Mutual Records released "Truble Blues" and "Keep Your Hands Off Her" as a 78 that year. Following the poor sales of that 78, a discouraged Tinsley briefly left the world of secular music behind, playing religious music exclusively in the mid-1950s and 60s. Yet, flash forward to 1978 to find Tinsley recording the session featured on this reissue of Country Blues Roots Revived for the primarily Bluegrass label Outlet Recordings, ... read more