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Lead Me On (Kelly Joe Phelps album)

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Released
  
May 1994

Length
  
70:22

Release date
  
May 1994

Genres
  
Blues, Country blues

Recorded
  
Dead Aunt Thelma's

Artist
  
Kelly Joe Phelps

Label
  
Burnside Records

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Lead Me On is the debut album of American blues singer and guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps. It is his first release on the Burnside label before moving to Rykodisc Records.

Contents

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Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Roch Parisien wrote of the album "This is the real deal — Phelps performs with the full authority and authenticity of the Delta blues tradition without ever once sounding like a Folkways museum piece."

Track listing

All songs written by Kelly Joe Phelps except as noted.

  1. "I've Been Converted" (Traditional) – 6:16
  2. "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues" (Skip James) – 5:24
  3. "Where Do I Go Now" – 5:33
  4. "Love Me Baby Blues" (Joe Calicott) – 4:41
  5. "Lead Me On" – 4:46
  6. "Jesus Make up My Dying Bed" (Traditional) – 5:17
  7. "Leavin' Blues" (Herman Johnson) – 5:54
  8. "Marking Stone Blues" – 4:58
  9. "The Black Crow Keeps Flying" – 4:17
  10. "I'd Be a Rich Man" – 4:44
  11. "Someone to Save Me" – 6:35
  12. "Motherless Children" (Traditional)– 7:24
  13. "Fare Thee Well" – 4:33

Personnel

  • Kelly Joe Phelps - vocals, guitar, stomp box
  • Engineered by Mike Moore
  • Executive producer – Terry Carrier
  • Photos by James Rexroad, Project 47

    • Songs

    1I've Been Converted6:20
    2Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues5:27
    3Where Do I Go Now5:37

    References

    Lead Me On (Kelly Joe Phelps album) Wikipedia
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