Calvin Conway - By Rail[EP]

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2014 
Time: 12:20 
Size: 28,7 MB 
Label: Self-Released
Styles: Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Let's Meet in Memphis - 3:14
 2. Like a King - 2:11
 3. Bracelet Baby - 3:20
 4. Mud Bug - 3:35

Chicago has always been an important part of blues history. It is where people first began to buy blues recordings in significant numbers. The demand sent every man with a microphone into the fields of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas recording any and all musicians they could find. Often the recording took place right in the field while men picked cotton, hoed rows, or cut hay to the rhythm being recorded.
Calvin Conway  released an EP titled By Rail which is the product of a personal journey that in many ways mimicked the trip from Chicago to Texas so many men looking for blues gold followed early in the 20th century. It seems this period of reflection and discovery so moved Calvin that he wrote and recorded By Rail while the memories were still at the front of his mind.Living in Austin I can certainly understand how immersing yourself in the music of Texas would get the creative juices flowing. Calvin is a talented harp player with songwriting skills and a laid back, easy blues voice. All four songs on By Rail are upbeat, easy songs that sound much like I suspect his journey felt like most of the time.

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