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One-Dime Blues | 
 enlarge | Artist: Etta Baker
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 98603
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 2112
UPC: 011661211223
EAN: 0011661211223
ASIN: B0000002ZG
Release Date: February 14, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | Never Let Your Deal Go Down | | • | One-Dimes Blues | | • | Knoxville Rag - Etta Baker, Baker, Etta | | • | Broken Hearted Blues - Etta Baker, Baker, Etta | | • | Lost John | | • | Dew Drop | | • | Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Etta Baker, Traditional | | • | Near the Cross I Watch and Pray | | • | Spanish Fandango | | • | Round My Back Door Selling Coal | | • | But on the Other Hand Baby - Etta Baker, Charles, R. | | • | Crow Jane | | • | John Henry - Etta Baker, Traditional | | • | Alabama Wagonwheel - Etta Baker, Traditional | | • | Bully of the Town - Etta Baker, Traditional | | • | Going to the Race Track | | • | Police Dog Blues - Etta Baker, Baker, Etta | | • | Marching Jaybird | | • | Railroad Bill - Etta Baker, Traditional | | • | Carolina Breakdown - Etta Baker, Traditional |
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Album Description
Etta Baker is a virtuoso performer in a style heard infrequently these days--the finger-picked guitar tradition known as the Piedmont blues. Using a two- and three-fingered technique similar to that of other North Carolina guitarists such as Elizabeth Cotten, Rev. Gary Davis, and Blind Boy Fuller, Etta creates music that is remarkable in its range and depth. These recordings--her first since 1956--are masterworks from an exceptional artist.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Another Five Stars For Ms. Baker June 18, 2008
One-Dime Blues, Etta Baker, Rounder Records, 1991
Recently I mentioned in reviewing Elizabeth Cotton's Freight Train album from Folkways that there was something appealing about these North Carolina style guitar pickers. It is different from the Delta pick, for sure. They pick cleanly, simply but with verve. The Delta is a little more heavy-handed reflecting, I think, the woes of picking that cotton all week. Damn, I would be guitar picking like Keith Richards under those conditions. Ms. Baker shows her stuff here on this almost exclusively instrumental album from Rounder Records. The one vocal that she does do here -Broken-Hearted Blues- makes me wish that she had done more vocals but the guitar can carry her through on this album- no problem. Highlights here include some old country blues classics-John Henry, Crow Jane, Railroad Bill, Spanish Fandango and so on. Nice, nice touch. Nice, nice music.
Absolutely the best January 21, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Love her style of blues guitar picking. Love the mix of songs on the CD. Love her story. She's just an amazing woman. This CD must have for all blues fanatics.
I'm so sorry she isn't with us any longer.
Fans of Hot Tuna will love this! December 18, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you enjoy Jorma Kaukonen's fingerpick style, then you really will love Etta Baker. Just listen to her version of "Police Dog Blues." She was truly a fantastic musician who should have been better-known in her lifetime.
Blew my socks off!! June 18, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Wow - fabulous fingerpicking here. What a talent. Lively stuff that somehow leaves you with a real peaceful feeling. Mostly instrumentals, but a real heartfelt and poetic vocal in Brokenhearted Blues. I still find many of the tunes luring me into a zone even after listening to them countless times. Technically this is in the Piedmont Blues category, but you don't have to be a fan of this genre to fall for this album.
Can't stop smilin March 18, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is one awesome lady. It's infectious. I dare anyone to listen to her play and not tap your feet to the beat.
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