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Genre: Blues
Release Date: 03/24/2009
Run Time: 0:00

A collection of 22 mostly blues tracks that either influenced or were covered by Nick Cave, this set works just fine as an anthology even without the Cave connection. And it isn't all blues, either, with songs like Screamin' Jay Hawkins' voodoo-tinged R&B masterpiece "I Put a Spell on You" and Hobart Smith's and Texas Gladden's string band and fiddle-based Appalachian murder ballad "Down in the Willow Garden" also included. Most of this set, though, is comprised of darkly themed vintage country blues and field hollers, and tracks like Blind Willie Johnson's urgent and harrowing "John the Revelator," Leadbelly's sparse field shout "Black Betty," and Mississippi John Hurt's gentle retold cautionary tale "Stack O'Lee" are classics by any definition and influenced a whole lot more folks than just Nick Cave. Cave took this material, and without changing much at all, brought its dark, desperate vision into a modern format. The original template is here.

~Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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Dave Henderson - Liner Notes

Feel Like Going Home
    Original Soundtrack / CD / 2004
Roots of the White Stripes
    Various Artists / CD / 2009
Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 3: Early American Rural Music
    Various Artists / CD / 1999
Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 1
    Various Artists / CD / 1997
Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 7: Early American Rural Music
    Various Artists / CD / 2003
Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1923-1942
    Various Artists / CD / 2007
Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 2
    Various Artists / CD / 1997

Release Date: 03/24/2009
Genre: blues
Run Time: 0:00