Artist: James Cotton
Title: Fire Down Under The Hill
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Telarc
Genre: Blues, Harmonica Blues, Modern Blues
Quality: FLAC (log,tracks+cue)
Total Time: 0:51:46
Total Size: 322 Mb (covers)
Tracklist:
01. Cotton Jump Boogie [0:05:48.07]
02. That's All Right [0:03:53.18]
03. Young Fashioned Ways [0:04:07.42]
04. Boot Knockin' Boogie [0:04:35.65]
05. Lightning [0:03:53.18]
06. Feel Like Going Home [0:05:51.15]
07. Fire Down Under The Hill [0:10:36.37]
08. Woman Wanted [0:04:22.58]
09. Reconsider Baby [0:03:01.37]
10. Something To Remember You By [0:05:36.68]
Musicians:
James Cotton - vocals & harmonica
Rico McFarland - guitar
David Maxwell - piano
Darrell Nulisch - vocals
Recorded September 1999 at The Studio, Portland, Maine.
American Musician and Songwriter. Cotton, a blues harmonica player, made his initial recording, 'Cotton Crop Blues', for Sun Records in 1953 at age 15, before rising to fame as a sideman for Muddy Waters during a 12-year stint into the 1960s. Over the years, he would record and perform with such acts as Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, Keith Richards, B.B. King, Santana, Cream, Little Feat, Steve Miller and many others. In a span of seven decades, he wrote and recorded over two dozen albums, among them 'The James Cotton Blues Band' (1967), 'Taking Care of Business' (1970), '100% Cotton' (1974), 'High Compression' (1984), Harp Attack!' (1990), 'Living the Blues' (1994), 'Seems Like Yesterday' (1998), 'Fire Down Under the Hill' (2000), 'Giant' (2010) and 'Cotton Mouth Man' (2013). Cotton, who was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2006, died on March 16, 2017 in Austin, Texas, after a bout with pneumonia. --Louis du Mort
