(Blues) Lightnin' Wells - Bull Frog Blues

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Styles: Folk-Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues
Released: 1995
Label: New Moon


1. Jump Little Children - 3:20
2. Bull Frog Blues - 2:16
3. Keep Your Hands Off Her - 2:52
4. Gospel Train - 3:04
5. Air Plane Blues - 3:22
6. One Way Gal - 3:02
7. Spank the Baby #2 - 4:33
8. Walkin' My Troubles Away - 4:10
9. Jack & Jill Blues - 3:47
10. Bull City Rag - 2:08
11. Keep It Clean - 3:30
12. Graveyard Digger's Blues - 4:13
13. Step It Up and Go - 3:09
14. Wabash Blues - 3:19
15. Billy the Weaver - 1:27
16. How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done - 3:03
17. Your Red Wagon - 2:36
18. Sittin' On Top of the World - 3:46



Personnel:
Lightnin' Wells - Guitars, Vocals
Arney Pilgrim - Fiddle
Ben Palmer - Bass (Acoustic)
Calvin "Loudmouth" Johnson - Bass
Max Drake - Slide Guitar

Notes: Mike Lightnin' Wells produced the first commercial recordings of the N.C. blues veterans Big Boy Henry, Algia Mae Hinton and George Higgs. He has traveled and performed extensively with these musicians and has documented their backgrounds and musical histories for future generations. He is also a life-long student and devotee of the pioneering performers in the piedmont blues tradition which once thrived in the Carolinas, including such artists as Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis and Elizabeth Cotton; deceased musicians whose influence seems only to grow with time.

His first solo recording Bull Frog Blues established his blues credentials while his sophomore effort Ragtime Millionaire strengthened his association with the Carolina-piedmont styles of blues. His most recent release Ragged But Right stretches out to explore more facets of American folk music including old-time, country, jazz, ragtime and early popular music as well as piedmont style blues selections.