It’s been confusing to some that rather than the individual tracks from my collection I usually post, lately I’ve been putting up whole albums (and bonus tracks) from records I produced for Oblivion Records, the indie label I started with Tom Pomposello, in the 70s (here, here, here, here, and here). There’s a blog that sporadically tries to explain everything over here.
–Fred
Johnny Woods
Mississippi Harmonica
Produced by Tom Pomposello and Fred Seibert
Original 45rpm single. Click the titles to play.
1. Long Haired Doney
2. Three O’Clock in the Morning
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Oblivion Records
O#2 (1972) [45 rpm single]
Click here to read some of the stories behind this record.
And click here for covers, photographs, and other printed ephemera.
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Original credits
Johnny Woods: harmonica
Recorded Thursday, April 27, 1972, Olive Branch, Mississippi, by Tom Pomposello
Remastered by Fred Seibert
Graphics by the Oblivionettes featuring Susan DeLaney
Cover photo by Tom Pomposello
This recording was made possible by a special grant from the Dick Pennington Blues Foundation
Addition copies of this disc can be had by sending $1.00 (plus 25 cents for postage and handling) to:
Oblivion Records
P.O. Box X
Roslyn Heights, New York 11577
©(P) 1972
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Original liner notes
During the spring of 1972, I spent some time in Mississippi visiting with my friend and teacher Fred McDowell. Now Fred had promised to show me around and introduce me to a few of his musical [Read more…]
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Live In New York
Produced by Tom Pomposello, Dick Pennington, and Fred Seibert
Engineered* by Fred Seibert
Click the titles to play.
2nd edition, Spring 1972
1. Shake ‘Em On Down
2. I’m Crazy About You Baby
3. John Henry
4. You Got To Move
5. Someday
6. Mercy
7. The Lovin’ Blues
8. White Lightnin’
9. Baby Please Don’t Go
These MP3s are CD quality, 320kpbs
1999 edition; released as “Live at the Gaslight.”
Disc 1
1. Shake ‘Em On Down
2. Fred’s Worried Blues *
3. Mercy
4. Jesus is on the Mainline *
5. When The Saints Come Marchin’ In *
6. Someday Baby
7. The Lovin’ Blues
8. White Lightnin’
9. You Got To Move
10. Louise *
11. Baby Please Don’t Go
Disc 2
1. Goin’ To The River (Carry My Rocking Chair) **
2. Shake ‘Em On Down **
3. 61 Highway *
4. John Henry
5. My Babe *
6. I’m Crazy ‘Bout You Baby **
7. Red Cross Store *
8. Levee Camp Blues*
9. Good Mornin’ Little Schoolgirl *
10. Don’t Mistreat Nobody (Cause You Got A [Read more…]
