Showing posts with label CEPHAS AND WIGGINS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CEPHAS AND WIGGINS. Show all posts

Friday, September 17, 2010

Cephas & Wiggins - 1992 - Flip, Flop & Fly [320]

Similar to the songsters of the '20s and '30s, Cephas and Wiggins are able to move easily between ragtime, blues, jazz and Piedmont-style folk music. Flip, Flop & Fly, the title track being the old Joe Turner hit, treads ground on all the above genres and styles. In particular "Darkness On the Delta" and "Banks of the River" showcase the emotional depth capable in Cephas' voice, and the original composition "The Backbiter" is modern acoustic blues at its best.
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Cephas & Wiggins - 1989 - Guitar Man [320]

Cephas is even more wondrous here than on the Washingtonian's earlier album. Through voice and guitar he commandingly brings the songs of Blind Blake, Furry Lewis, and Blind Boy Fuller into the present. Wiggins turns in a winning, work- manly performance. Their music is sunshine flashing off wet mountain foliage at the break of dawn.
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