tracks

Step It Up And Go
Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton
Digging My Potatoes
Bring It On Down To My House
Key To The Highway
I'm Confessing That I Love You
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Mouse On The Hill
Hey Bartender, There's A Big Bug In My Beer
Worried Life Blues
I Got A Woman
I Feel So Good
Honeysuckle Rose
Little Bit A Blues Theme

notes

℗© 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage | 750 9th St., NW, Suite 4100
Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC 20560-0953
www.si.edu/folkways

Recordings made March 6, 1993, March 19, 1994, and April 7, 1995 -- Recorded by John Tyler, Smithsonian Productions and Big Mo Mobile Recording.

Guitarist and songster Warner Williams of Takoma Park, Maryland, is one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Piedmont blues, an Eastern seaboard style that incorporates fiddle tunes, ballads, country and popular songs, ragtime. and gospel. With a jaunty, rhythmic, finger-picked guitar style and an eclectic repertoire that ranges from blues to honky-tonk, jazz crooning to children's songs. Warner Williams is an old-style community entertainer of national significance. He is joined by Maryland native Jay Summerour on harmonica and backing vocals. Together they conjure up a historic Piedmont duo like Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee as they make their on way on the blues highway.

Produced in collaboration with the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the University of New Orleans, College of Urban and Public Affairs. Underwritten by The Wallace Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

credits

Arranged By – Warner Williams (tracks: 8)
Backing Vocals – Jay Summerour (tracks: 5, 13)
Design – Joe Parisi
Guitar – Eddie Pennington (tracks: 9), Warner Williams
Harmonica – Jay Summerour (tracks: 1 to 4, 11, 12, 14)
Layout – Joe Parisi
Liner Notes [Editing] – Leslie Spitz-Edson
Mastered By – Pete Reiniger
Photography – Nick Spitzer
Producer – Nick Spitzer
Production Manager – Mary Monseur
Recorded By – Big Mo Mobile Recording, John Tyler (2), Smithsonian Productions
Research – Leslie Spitz-Edson
Supervised By – Atesh Sonneborn, Daniel Sheehy
Vocals – Warner Williams
Whistling – Jay Summerour (tracks: 5, 13)
Written-By – Al Neiburg (tracks: 6), Andy Razaf (tracks: 13), Big Bill Broonzy (tracks: 3, 5, 12), Bob Wills (tracks: 4), Charlie Segar, (tracks: 5), Doc Daugherty (tracks: 6), Ellis Reynolds (tracks: 6), Fats Waller (tracks: 13), J.B. Long (tracks: 1), Jay Summerour (tracks: 14), John Henry Barbee (tracks: 2), John Lee Williamson (tracks: 7), Maceo Merriweather (tracks: 10), Robert Brown (10) (tracks: 11), Vern Orr

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Copyright (c) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Recorded At – Wolf Trap, Vienna

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