Live: Cafe au Go Go 1965

by Skip James, Bukka White

Overview

The Cafe au Go Go was a basement club, owned by Howard Solomon, on Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village that featured folk, blues, jazz, and rock acts from 1964 until it closed its doors in 1969. This set, recorded in November of 1965, features two rediscovered country blues legends, Bukka White and Skip James, both of whom, unlike Son House and some of the other old blues players rediscovered by the folk and blues revival, still had their singing and guitar-playing skills intact. White, who preferred to be called Booker rather than Bukka, plays his resonator guitar and sings with a raspy roar while James stands at the polar opposite, singing in a delicately high voice with a delicate guitar style to match. It's a nice archival set featuring two of the old country blues' most unique performers. One quibble, though, is that the song "Roadhouse Blues" is attributed to James, when it's clearly White singing and playing it. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	07/22/2014
Label:	Rockbeat Records / Smore
UPC:	0089353325121

Tracks

1. I'm Going Home
2. Aberdeen
3. Old Folks Twist
4. Please Write My Mother
5. Going to New Orleans
6. Jitterbug Swing
7. Saturday Night Blues
8. Old Man John
9. Aberdeen
10. Going to New Orleans
11. Midnight Blues
12. Roadhouse Blues
13. I'm Worried
14. Hard Head
15. Cruel Jane
16. Cherry Bough
17. No Special Rider
18. Would You Like to Be My Baby

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bukka White   Primary Artist
Skip James   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Mary Katherine Aldin   Liner Notes
Michael "St. Louis Slim" Larkin   Composer
Randy Perry   Mastering
James Austin   Cover Design
Jimmy Hole   Package Design
Skip James   Composer
Bukka White   Composer