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Ishman Bracey Complete Recordings (1928 30)(2003)[EAC FLAC][Colombo bt org]

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Ishman Bracey was born in Byram, Mississippi, and learned how to play the guitar at a young age and by 1910, he was playing in local dance halls, juke joints, fish fries and other events in rural Mississippi. He also worked as a waterboy on the Illinois Central Railroad. He first recorded in Memphis in 1928 for the Victor label, with Charlie McCoy on second guitar, recording two sessions in February and August that year. In August 1928, he returned to Memphis once again to record some more material for Victor.

At that time his style had not fully formed and his performances varied considerably, probably in his attempts to become more commercially successful. Bracey\'s \"Saturday Night Blues\" and \"Left Alone Blues\" used interesting variations in the usual three line verse form.

When he recorded in 1930 his voice had darkened and he tried to use a falsetto voice in \"Woman Woman Blues\" with an octave leap in the second line, but the effect was clumsy and unsteady. He recorded again in 1931 for Paramount Records with a group called the New Orleans Nehi Boys, which included guitarist Charles Taylor. Bracey\'s total recorded output is only 16 songs, and original copies of his 78-rpm records are among the most valued items sought by blues collectors. \"Trouble Hearted Blues\" and \"Left Alone Blues\" are his best known songs.

He was an associate of Tommy Johnson, and the pair performed together in medicine shows in the 1930s. By the time he was \"rediscovered\" in the late 1950s, he had become a preacher and a performer of religious songs, and was uninterested in recording or discussing his time as a blues performer. However, he did help in the rediscovery of his contemporary Skip James.


Here are his complete recordings



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Track List

# Saturday Blues
# Left Alone Blues
# Leavin\' Town Blues 1
# Leavin\' Town Blues 2
# My Brown Mamma Blues 1
# My Brown Mamma Blues 2
# Trouble Hearted Blues 1
# Trouble Hearted Blues 2
# The Four Day Blues 1
# The Four Day Blues 2
# Jake Liquor Blues
# Family Stirving
# Mobile Stomp
# Farish Street Rag
# Woman Woman Blues 1
# Woman Woman Blues 2
# Suitcase Full Of Blues
# Bust Up Blues
# Pay Me No Mind

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