(Blues) Bukka White - Sky Songs

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Styles: Delta Blues
Released: 1989
Label: Arhoolie


1. Bald Eagle Train - 7:28 **
2. Single Man Blues - 5:42 **
3. Georgia Skin Game - 7:53 **
4. Jesus Died on the Cross to Save the World - 7:45 *
5. Sugar Hill - 12:39 *
6. My Baby - 14:41 *
7. Alabama Blues - 7:13 *



Personnel:
Bukka White - vocals, guitar, piano
Big Willie Wayne - washboard (1, 7)

Notes: All of the songs from
* Sky Songs Vol. 1 (Arhoolie F 1019) and
** Sky Songs Vol. 2 (Arhoolie F 1020), both recorded in 1963, released 1965.

Bukka White's music is truly unique. His ability to improvise at the drop of a hat was exploited to the full here, resulting in seven long, extraordinary songs. Songs of travel, women, gambling, religion and music develop over White's mesmerically rhythmic guitar and, on two tracks, piano.