[.ca] Aint A Gonna Lie To You

Great North Mississippi/Memphis style blues:
Joe Callicot, who died a few years after these recordings were made at his home in Nesbit, Mississippi in the late 1960s, played guitar and sang in a less intense style than that of the classic Delta bluesmen. These fingerpicked blues, ballads and spirituals are more in the style of Mississippi John Hurt or the older Memphis songsters like Jim Jackson. All the songs are enjoyable; the best of them, like "Laughing to Keep From Crying" and "France Chance" (covered by Ry Cooder) are really outstanding and moving. Callicot was the teacher of Kenny Brown, best known as R. L. Burnside's second guitarist; on his recent Fat Possum CD "Stingray" Brown covers four of these songs. A great CD, but beware: six of these tracks appeared on Arhoolie's "Mississippi Delta Blues: Blow My Blues Away Vol. 2," although the sound is more vibrant here. The Arhoolie CD, if you can still get it, contains five Callicot tracks which do not appear on "Ain't A Gonna Lie To You."

• Frankie and Albert
• Fare Thee Well Blues
• Laughing to Keep from Crying
• Lonesome Katy performed
• Come Home to Me Baby
• Fare You Well Blues
• France Chance
• Roll and Tumble
• Good Time Blues
• Goodbye Baby Blues
• Down to the River Jordan
• Let Your Deal Go Down