| Down Home Blues | ||||
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| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | August 22, 1960 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 38:57 | |||
| Label | Bluesville BVLP 1002 | |||
| Producer | The Sound of America Inc. | |||
| Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry chronology | ||||
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Down Home Blues is an album by blues musicians Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label. [1] [2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
AllMusic reviewer Bruce Eder stated: "the music itself stands outside of time. McGhee's strumming and singing have enough polish to pass as a commercial recording, but at its best, it's still sufficiently unaffected so as to be regarded as authentic country-blues. It's Terry's harp, however, that really pulls this body of music back to its roots ... the dominant elements of this album are the charm and honesty that Terry and McGhee offer, whatever their particular style on a specific song; they had portions of both to spare by the bucketload, which accounts for the 15 years that they held audiences in their spell". [3]
All compositions by Brownie McGhee except where noted
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