Lightnin Wells
& Big Boy Henry

Lightnin' & Big Boy - 1993

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LW - Keep It Clean
BB- Shake It

Big Boy at the Eno River Fest 1994
with the Ministers of Sinister

"A veritable bottomless pit of songs and techniques, Wells should be declared a state resource..."

 

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Big Boy Henry - Poor Man's Blues - NMC 9508
"The best down-home blues CD of 1995."- Living Blues
"A gentle and articulate man, Big Boy Henry composes by regularly borrowing lines and chords from traditional blues repertoire as he comments on the world around him." - Tom Rankin, Southern Changes Magazine
Big Boy Henry is often called "the patriarch of Carolina blues." Big Boy learned to play and sing the blues on the streets of eastern North Carolina, from the traveling musicians of the day in the late forties. During the blues revival of the 80's he was "discovered" and has gone on to inspire a whole new generation of blues musicians. His prolific songwriting and poetic sensibility seem boundless. Pickin' protege Lightnin' Wells and members of the Ministers of Sinister serve as his backup band here. This is Piedmont style country blues at its best.

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Lightnin' Wells

"A veritable bottomless pit of songs and techniques, Wells should be declared a state resource, placed on an endangered species list, and given his own habitat to practice his craft." - Bob Burtman, Spectator Magazine, NC

"Fine, hard blues!" - Anthony Adler, Chicago Reader

Lightnin' Wells has been called "a national treasure." He knows hundreds, no probably a thousand old blues songs. He can tell you who wrote them, the label they recorded for and when. But more importantly he can sing and play those songs. For over twenty years Lightnin' Wells has been a working musician and that experience and the confidence it brings show up on this album. Sixteen classic, somewhat obscure old songs, and two new tunes get that special Lightnin' Wells treatment with accompaniment by members of the Ministers of Sinister and a guest appearance by his mentor, Big Boy Henry.