Big Mama Thornton - The Way It Is (1969) [Reissue 1998]
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 267 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 113 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (314 558 550-2)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 267 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 113 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (314 558 550-2)
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton helped lay the groundwork for rock & roll in 1953 with her raw electric blues single "Hound Dog" (later covered by Elvis Presley). The Way It Is finds Thornton performing at an L.A. rock club 16 years later, after the rock revolution she and her peers inspired had effectively usurped the blues as the music of the people. Yet at a time when everyone from Muddy Waters to Buddy Guy was making concessions to the rock market in an effort to stay contemporary, Thornton stuck to her guns. For this concert, she relies on the same gritty, old-school blues sound that made her famous…