Furry Lewis & Mississippi Joe Callicott - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions. Dble CD. (Blue Horizon - 88697041792) This 2CD collection sees the artists’ complete recordings whilst on The famous Blue Horizon label remastered for optimum sound quality. In addition, the package also includes ten previously unreleased tracks,sure to be sought after by the Blues fans.Both artists were born in Mississippi in the early 1900’s with separate recording careers until the onset of the The Depression of 1929 when their recording careers and thatof many blues artists came to an abrupt end. Their paths met for the first time when they were both invited to perform at The 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival . It was after this appearance that Mike Vernon signed them and these tracks were recorded over an exhaustive 24 hours in the studio and later released as separate artist albums under the series name 'Presenting the Country Blues'Thirteen tracks were recorded by Furry that day, eleven making it on to the original album. The tworemaining tracks remained unreleased until now. The Joe Callicott collection includes a total of eightprevioulsy unreleased tracks. The first time this particualr material has been available in the digitalformat along with previously unreleased out takes.

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