Jesse Fuller – Move On Down The Line
Label: Topic Records
Released: 1965
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This CD is made up of the two ten inch LPs issued by Topic Records in the sixties. The first ‘Move On Down The Line' was recorded in London in 1966 and ‘Working On The Railroad' was a collection of his very first recordings made in California in 1954. Both of the LPs were widely loved by both music fans and musicians during the folk music explosion of the sixties and his songs were quickly appropriated by popular musicians of the day. The Grateful Dead recorded a version of Move On Down The Line, San Francisco Blues was sung regularly by Bob Dylan in his early days and You're No Good was the first track on Bob's debut album.
Apart from his own material, Jesse gleefully raided ‘traditional' archives, attacking songs like John Henry and Stackolee with his own powerfully boisterous arrangements. If anyone could make a song his own, it was Jesse Fuller.
Tracklist
1 Move On Down The Line
2 Stealing
3 Ninety-Nine Years And One Dark Day
4 Animal Fair
5 Sleeping In The Midnight Cold
6 Stackolee
7 Railroad Worksong
8 Lining Up The Track
9 Hanging 'Round A Skin Game
10 Railroad Blues
11 San Francisco Bay Blues
Twelve-String Guitar, Kazoo, Cymbal, Harmonica, Vocals – Jesse Fuller
Tracks 1-6 recorded March 19, 1965 in London, England.
Tracks 7- 11 recorded ca. 1954 in El Cerrito, CA.
