Hot Foot Powder (album)

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Hot Foot Powder
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Released17 April 2000
Recorded2000
Genre Blues
Length42:50
49:40 (with bonus tracks)
Label Crown / Artisian, Snapper Music
Producer Peter Green Splinter Group
Peter Green Splinter Group chronology
Destiny Road
(1999)
Hot Foot Powder
(2000)
Time Traders
(2001)
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Hot Foot Powder is an album by the British blues band the Peter Green Splinter Group, led by Peter Green. Released in 2000, this was their fifth album. Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member of that group from 1967 to 1970, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Contents

Like one of the group's previous albums, The Robert Johnson Songbook , Hot Foot Powder consisted of songs written by Robert Johnson, and included contributions by a number of notable blues musicians, including Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Otis Rush, David Honeyboy Edwards, Joe Louis Walker and Dr. John. It was re-released in 2004 by Snapper Music with bonus tracks.

Track listing

All tracks written by Robert Johnson unless stated:

  1. "I'm a Steady Rollin' Man" – 3:34
  2. "From Four Until Late" – 3:02
  3. "Dead Shrimp Blues" – 2:49
  4. "Little Queen of Spades" – 3:01
  5. "They're Red Hot" – 3:51
  6. "Preachin' Blues" – 2:44
  7. "Hellhound on My Trail" – 3:31
  8. "Traveling Riverside Blues" – 4:08
  9. "Malted Milk" – 3:12
  10. "Milkcow's Calf Blues" – 3:32
  11. "Drunken Hearted Man" – 3:22
  12. "Cross Road Blues" – 2:56
  13. "Come On in My Kitchen" (Johnson, Woody Payne) – 3:08

Bonus tracks (Japanese release)

  1. "Terraplane Blues – 3:47
  2. "Honeymoon Blues" – 3:04

Personnel

Peter Green Splinter Group

Additional musicians

Technical

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References

  1. Griggs, Tim. "Hot Foot Powder - Peter Green | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 November 2011.