GUITAR SHORTY Alone In His Field - Original US LP on Trix - Country Blues Rural

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GUITAR SHORTY

Alone In His Field

Original US LP released on Trix Records in 1974.

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Shorty was born at "an unknown time" (according to the liner notes) in North Carolina; at the time he recorded for Trix in 1972 and 1973 he was "possibly in his early forties". Shorty was a farm-worker and laborer by trade. He died in 1975. Besides his Trix recordings, Shorty recorded at least two sides for Savoy in 1952, as "Hootin' Owl".

In the liner notes to Trix LP 3306, William Bentley claims that Shorty always tuned his guitar to EAEGBE, and always played with a slide on his little finger, though he didn't always use it in a given song.

In a world where the word "unique" is used too often, hearing Shorty's Trix LP is truly a unique experience. While Shorty does some songs that are straight 12 bar blues, most of his work is far from that. He seems to have started with a more or less set backing on the guitar and a lyric idea, and went on from there with unpredictable results, which included humming, whistling (he was a great whistler), scat singing, falsetto passages, a vocal imitation of a harmonica solo, and spoken asides in which he often does several different voices playing different parts.

The songs that really set Shorty apart are the ones where he gets into a guitar groove and performs a playlet, for want of a better word. "Like A Damn Fool" is a one chord "song" that revolves loosely around bears and foolish things Shorty has done, and ends with Shorty meeting the ugliest bear he's ever seen, which he eventually realizes is a mirror. In "Pull Your Dress Down", Shorty plays himself, a young girl in his house, and an FBI agent. (Rapping on guitar - "Who is that?" "FBI." "FBI? You got your clothes on" "Of course I've got my clothes on, why'd you ask?" "Well, we don't want anyone comin' in here naked.") Both songs are delivered with a frantic torrent of words.

Guitar Shorty is solidly within the country blues tradition, but he's certainly an eccentric branch of that tradition, and worth a close listen.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Easter Blues
Boogie, Now
Don't Cry, Baby
Like A Damn Fool
Jessie Jones
Whistling Blues

Side Two

Near The Cross
Pull Your Dress Down
Working Hard
Now Tell Me, Baby
Shorty's Talking Boogie

Released on 'Trix Records' in 1973

Catalogue No. 3306

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX condition

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