Big Mama Thornton - The Way It Is (1969)
Blues | EAC rip | FLAC: TRACKS+CUE+LOG -> 272 MB | mp3 (VBR V0) -> 94 MB
48:00 min | scans | 3% recovery | NF & FF | Mercury Records 314 558 550-2
Blues | EAC rip | FLAC: TRACKS+CUE+LOG -> 272 MB | mp3 (VBR V0) -> 94 MB
48:00 min | scans | 3% recovery | NF & FF | 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…