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Johnny Shines - Court Coffeehouse 11/30/70 (1970)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Intro/ Instrumental 2:12
  2. Sweet Home Chicago 4:01
  3. Nameless Song 5:10
  4. Tell me Baby (Pony Blues) 3:26
  5. Ground covered with Snow 3:25
  6. Little Girl 4:10
  7. Stormy Monday Blues 3:17
  8. Shake ´em on Down 4:10
  9. What´s the matter Now 3:53
  10. I´ve got the Blues 3:10
  11. Instrumental 1:29
  12. I love the World 4:19
  13. Worried Blues 3:03
  14. What´s on Your Mind 4:16
  15. Rollin´ & Tumblin´ 3:16
CD2
  1. Instrumental 2:33
  2. Hello Centrum 2:41
  3. You don´t have to Go 2:06
  4. Gonna surprise me Baby 3:41
  5. High Road 5:19
  6. What´s on your Mind (Milk Cow Blues) 3:45
  7. Top Cat 4:30
  8. Try a little Tenderness 5:10
  9. Instrumental 2:53
  10. Crossroads 7:12
  11. Terraplane Blues 2:41
  12. Statesboro Blues 5:02
  13. Hound Dog 3:33
  14. Dust my Broom 2:26

Notes

Johnny Shines: Court Coffeehouse, Tacoma WA, USA 11/30/70

Johnny Shines started playing in 1932! His main influences then, were Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Lonny Johnson, Scrapper Blackwell and Charlie Patton!

Arround 1934 he met ROBERT JOHNSON and travelled Arkansas,Tennessee and Missouri, working the Country Suppers and Dances, sometimes playing together and sometimes playing opposite each other. They split up a few months before Robert´s death and Johnny left for Chicago in 1941,
where he formed his own group!

Disgusted with the record business he stopped being a proffesisonal musician in the 50´s. Arround 1965 he was rediscovered and did some fine albums:
" Last night´s dream" 1968 (Blue Horizon) w/Otis Spann & Shakey Horton,
and two great 1974 Albums: "Country Blues"(XTRA) and " Johnny Shines"(Advent) amoung others.

In Tacoma he played an solo acc. set and was accompanied by an unknown washtub bass player on the electric set!

Johnny´s playing here is an absolute outstanding lecture in Country Blues!
Contrary to too many other Blues Players , his playing here is not the usual sloppy Blues style, but very distinguished, you wont hardly notice him, hitting a wrong note!
His singing here is absolutely outstanding and there are not too few moments( especially on the Robert Johnson songs) when the listener could immagine how the great Robert Johnson might have sounded recorded with great eqipment........