Johnny Shines - Standing At The Crossroads (1971) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 281 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 128 MB | Covers - 3 MB
Genre: Country Blues, Delta Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Testament Records (TCD 5022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 281 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 128 MB | Covers - 3 MB
Genre: Country Blues, Delta Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Testament Records (TCD 5022)
This is one of several albums this artist made in the early '70s that stand as a masterpiece of the acoustic country blues genre. Johnny Shines had begun recording in the mid-'60s, the albums done with electric guitar and full-combo backup, one of them reportedly cut after he hadn't picked up an instrument in years. It was as if he reinvented himself in the following decade, playing pristine and flawless acoustic slide guitar pieces complete with shuffling, stuttering, and stimulatingly complicated tempos. The message was that he had been a young sidekick to Robert Johnson and had absorbed everything, although no deal had been made with the Devil. Shines was a steady, dependable, religious, and forthright chap who lived in Tuscaloosa, AL, and held down a steady job as a construction foreman…