JOHN CEPHAS & PHIL WIGGINS BLUESMAN
Recorded:  10/20/1992-10/21/1992  New York, NY...
Released: 1993
Label: Chesky  CSK89
Format: Mmp3 @320
Time: 71:11



This album, consists almost entirely of cover versions, and is their probably (in my opinion) best album. The material ranges from Blind Boy Fuller and Skip James (two more splendid 'homage’s') to rhythm and blues tunes as well-known as 'Big Boss Man', 'Little Red Rooster' and 'The Things I Used To Do', but everything is confidently assimilated and reworked, with just enough flavour of the originals remaining to season the stew. On 'Blake's Rag', Wiggins's taste for the frantic pays dividends as he conjures up a harmonica analogue of Blake's guitar acrobatics

1. Big Boss Man - 5:31 
2. Mama Let Me Lay It On You - 3:07 
3. Prison Bound Blues - 5:12 
4. Jesus Is Mine - 4:23 
5. The Little Red Rooster - 5:23 
6. Blake's Rag - 3:18 
7. A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - 4:28 
8. Broke Down Engine - 5:22 
9. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - 4:17 
10. St. Louis Blues - 3:23 
11. The Things I Used To Do - 3:03 
12. Sick Bed Blues - 4:57 
13. Burn Your Bridges - 4:22 
14. Goin' To The River - 3:51 
15. Prison Blues - 6:23 
16. Keep Your Hands Off Her - 4:01


Personnel:John Cephas - Guitar, Vocals
Phil Wiggins - Harmonica