The Consoling Blues for J. D. Short

by Ragtime Frank

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1.
Tar Road Blues 05:36
2.
Make Me a Pallet 04:20
3.
Flaggin' It To Georgia 04:00
4.
Telephone Arguin' Blues 04:30
5.
So Much Wine 04:52
6.
Don't You Leave Me 04:00
7.
It's Hard Time 06:18

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FJ012: Stretched Blues, unplugged, plenty of room. Ragtime Frank brings out his old resonator guitar and interprets several tunes by
J. D. Short, possibly one of the more obscure and mysterious Delta bluesmen to have graced a studio back in the day. Following on from a string of raucous electrified releases on Negative Guest List, Chemical Imbalance, Black Petal and most recently Ever/Never, often with one or more excellent drummers along for the ride, this solo acoustic outing is definitely a bit of a departure. I do recall seeing RF do the acoustic thing in live settings when he first relocated to Hobart after fronting the mighty Lost Domain in Brisbane for 20-plus years but this is the first unplugged release that I’m aware of. In some ways, the material on ‘The Consoling Blues…’ is more bent or more ‘out’ than his electric work (which is saying something) and it’s the kind of outside playing that only comes from really getting inside the music to begin with. It’s about the idiosyncratic spoken vocals, the sliding notes ringing out, occasional percussive sounds on the guitar body and importantly the spaces in between that allow you to hear something else, another narrative perhaps, between the lines: What Frankie does with one of the most elemental and loaded forms of the last hundred or so years, is he gives the songs space to breathe.
- Tim P.


Further info at: www.facebook.com/Ragtime-Frank-397006600390712/

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released April 14, 2019

Ragtime Frank: voice, resonator guitar, recording & mastering

Recorded April 2018

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