Artist: Cephas & Wiggins

Title: Richmond Blues

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2008

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 093074017920

Genre: Blues

Album Tracks

1. Richmond Blues
2. Going to the River
3. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
4. Black Rat Swing
5. Mamie
6. Crow Jane
7. Dog Days of August
8. John Henry
9. Pigmeat Crave
10. Prison Bound Blues
11. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
12. Careless Love
13. Great Change
14. Reno Factor
15. Step It Up and Go
16. Step It Up and Go

In RICHMOND BLUES, guitarist/singer John Cephas and his harmonica-player partner Phil Wiggins personify the century-old blues sound of the Piedmonth, the Appalachian loothills running from Richmond to Atlanta. Drawing from rhythm and blues and more, RICHMOND BLUES is a musical roadmap of the Virginia Piedmont tradition. While Cephas calls it "part of my heritage, part of my soul," their sound is at the same time distinctly release in the ongoing Smithsonian Folkways African Legacy series, co-presented with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.