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Recorded1965
LabelPrestige
CatalogPR 7368
Released1965
Personnel5 credited players
Discogsmaster 495065

The record

The credits put Jesse Fuller on vocals, twelve-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, washboard and the fotdella, listed here as bass -- no other musicians are named. Twelve songs, 'Key To The Highway', 'Midnight Special' and 'Cincinnati Blues' among them. Samuel Charters produced alongside Paul Rothchild and wrote the notes; David Gahr took the photographs. Prestige PR 7368, mono, 1965.

Tracks

  1. Red River Blues
  2. How Long Blues
  3. You Can't Keep A Good Man Down
  4. Key To The Highway
  5. Tickling The Strings
  6. Midnight Special
  7. Stranger Blues
  8. Fables Aren't Nothing But Doggone Lies
  9. Brownskin Gal I've Got My Eye On You
  10. Cincinnati Blues
  11. Hump In Your Back
  12. Trouble If I Don't Use My Head

Session personnel

  • Don Schlitten — Design
  • David Gahr — Photography By
  • Paul A. Rothchild — Producer
  • Samuel B. Charters — Producer, Liner Notes
  • Jesse Fuller — Vocals, Twelve-String Guitar, Harmonica, Kazoo, Washboard, Bass [Fotdella]

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1965Prestige · PR 7368 — Vinyl LP Album Mono earliest on file
1965Stateside · SL 10154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1965Prestige · PRST-7368 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1968Transatlantic Records · PR 7368 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Reissue
1972Prestige · 7368 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1990Original Blues Classics · OBC-528 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1990Original Blues Classics · OBCCD 528-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1992Original Blues Classics · OBCCD 528-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Prestige · PRST 7368 — Vinyl, LP, Album

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