The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134452   Message #3058159
Posted By: Bob the Postman
20-Dec-10 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: Review: Willie McTell lps - which one to buy?
Subject: RE: Review: Wllie McTell lps - which one to buy?
The "Last Session" is absolutely outstanding. They brought him in off the street corner where he'd been busking, sat him down in front of a reel-to-reel, poured him a drink and kept on pouring, and he laid down some of his core repertoire. He's not completely sober, he's not completely flawless, but he's GREAT. The circa 1930 stuff is slicker, the Lomax recording is more educational, but the Last Session is valedictory--the distilled essence of a lifetime as a working musician, a very talented, very intelligent man who came through what must have been a pretty hard life with style and dignity. The tape was forgotten in a storeroom and miraculously salvaged from a rubbish bin.