Search - Pearly Brown :: You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion

Bottleneck Minstrel of the Lord

Mark D. | Wisconsin USA | 05/19/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an excellent CD that I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys the bottleneck blues. Like the other reviewer I would compare Rev. Brown to the great Blind Willie Johnson who by the way is one of the greatest bottleneck players ever to put music on a disc. When you think of the rarity of recordings of this nature, especially in the outstanding fidelity represented on this disc you have to snatch these great recordings up before the recordings become obsolete. The bottleneck playing here is top notch and the singing is hauntingly beautiful. I only wish more recordings of this nature would be released from the Arhoolie vaults before the culture no longer desires to remember the great minstrels from the past. If you don't have this CD, Get it! You'll be glsd you did."