Name: Hear Me Howling! Blues, Ballads & Beyond
Brand: Arhoolie
SKU: 18338311
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Hear Me Howling! Blues, Ballads & Beyond

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Album: Hear Me Howling! Blues, Ballads & Beyond
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Hump in My Back	More Info...
2)	Brother Lowdown	More Info...
3)	Berkeley's Junko Partner	More Info...
4)	Tight Like That	More Info...
5)	Moose March	More Info...
6)	Highway 49	More Info...
7)	Oakland Blues	More Info...
8)	Greystone (Alameda County Jail) Blues	More Info...
9)	I Know You Didn't Want Me	More Info...
10)	Night Shirt Blues	More Info...
11)	Stop Time	More Info...
12)	Hear Me Howling	More Info...
13)	Stand Alone Blues	More Info...
14)	Brenda	More Info...
15)	Changed the Lock On My Door	More Info...
16)	Bald Eagle Train (Take 1)	More Info...
17)	Tom Moore's Farm	More Info...
18)	Up On Telegraph Avenue	More Info...
19)	Lady Luck	More Info...
20)	The Beatles Are in Town	More Info...

Album: Hear Me Howling! Blues, Ballads & Beyond
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Hump in My Back	More Info...
2)	Brother Lowdown	More Info...
3)	Berkeley's Junko Partner	More Info...
4)	Tight Like That	More Info...
5)	Moose March	More Info...
6)	Highway 49	More Info...
7)	Oakland Blues	More Info...
8)	Greystone (Alameda County Jail) Blues	More Info...
9)	I Know You Didn't Want Me	More Info...
10)	Night Shirt Blues	More Info...
11)	Stop Time	More Info...
12)	Hear Me Howling	More Info...
13)	Stand Alone Blues	More Info...
14)	Brenda	More Info...
15)	Changed the Lock On My Door	More Info...
16)	Bald Eagle Train (Take 1)	More Info...
17)	Tom Moore's Farm	More Info...
18)	Up On Telegraph Avenue	More Info...
19)	Lady Luck	More Info...
20)	The Beatles Are in Town	More Info...

Performer Notes

Recording information: Barbara Dane's House, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Cabale, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Chris' Apartment, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Chris' Cabin (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Dave Fredrickson's House, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Funky Features, San Francisco, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Jesse Fuller's Home, West Oakland (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Newman Center, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Pauley Ballroom, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Radio Station KAL, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Sasil 'N, San Francisco, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); Sierra Sound Lab, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970); UC's Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA (06/15/1954-11/06/1970).
Editors: Chris Strachwitz; Adam Machado.
Photographers: Chris Strachwitz; Adam Machado; Barry Olivier; Bill Carter ; Tony Ray Jones; Stephen Fenerjian; Marguerite Rice; Lew Tyrell; T.G. Humbead; Robert Krones; Patti Prout; Paul Oliver; John Byrne Cooke.
Hear Me Howling! is an anthology of recordings made by Chris Strachwitz in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1954 and 1971 in the early days of his Arhoolie record label. Arranged chronologically over four discs and 72 tracks, and packaged with a 136-page hardcover book, these sides (many of them previously unreleased) were recorded at coffeehouses, festivals, and living rooms, and sometimes in professional studios, and they reveal an intimate history of what has come to be seen as the Bay Area folk and blues revival. That alone makes this set a valuable historical archive, but the music itself is wonderful too, and includes rare performances by Lonnie Johnson ("Stand Alone Blues"), Bukka White ("Bald Eagle Train"), Lightnin' Hopkins ("Tom Moore's Farm"), Barbara Dane ("Deportees"), Fred McDowell ("Shake `Em on Down"), Skip James ("Peace in the Valley"), and Big Mama Thornton ("Hound Dog"), among many others. It captures a time. It also poses the template that Strachwitz would follow with his Arhoolie label, presenting and preserving roots music in an onrushing world where pop trends were being brought up and tossed off like so much confetti. Music needs community to survive in good health. This delightful set documents such a community. ~ Steve Leggett

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.69) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] stark blues by Lightnin' Hopkins, Fred McDowell and Skip James....It is the sound of a scene -- and a great label -- being born."