MOSE ANDREWS

 

   Sabeis que en ocasiones resulta dificil contrastar informaciones acerca de los bluesmen ó bien intentar ofrecer imágenes que realmente no existen. Este es uno de estos casos . Os dejamos con lo que hemos podido conseguir. 

Biography appears in https://www.last.fm/music/Mose+Andrews

From the Mississippi Blues Vol. 1 (1926 ~ 1937)…Mose Andrews made one issued Decca session in 1937 when he recorded Tommy Johnson's famed Big Road Blues as Ten Pound Hammer (Decca 7338 B) and Young Heifer Blues (Decca 7338 A)….Different from other artists at his time, Mose Andrews' unique vocals and superb picking skills cemented his name into shadowy Delta mythology.

Mose Andrews - Vocals & Guitar

Recorded in Chicago on May 5, 1937

"In 1937 Mose Andrews recorded "Ten Pounds Hammer" (Decca 7338), a blues which contains the melody, guitar part, and refrain of "Big Road Blues" but has a thematic text in which the singer's hammer is obviously a phallic symbol. This song and the piece on the other side of Andrew's record, "Young Heifer Blues" appear to have been inspired by the text of Charley Patton's 1934 "Jersey Bull Blues" (Vocalion 02782). One of the stanzas in "Young Heifer Blues" also occurs in variant form in Willie Brown's "M & O Blues" (Paramount 13o90). In 1935 Andrews recorded two unnissued pieces, "Mississippi Storm", indicating a probable connection of the singer with that state, and "I Love My Stuff", possibly a version of Charley Patton's "Love My Suff", the song on the other side of the record of Patton's "Jersey Bull Blues". No biographical information on Andrews has ever been reported. Probably he had heard Patton's record and had somewhere encountered a form of "Big Road Blues" or "Stop And Listen Blues" and decided to combine elements of each. On the other hand, his connection with the Drew tradition may have been more intimate." ~ David Evans (Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues)