Josh White Stories Volumes 1&2 CD

Josh White
Josh White Stories Volumes 1&2 CD

A supremely talented singer, guitarist, songwriter and actor, Josh White was a staunch civil rights activist at a time when it was both unfashionable and dangerous; but after he was denounced as a communist by the McCarthyites.
Because of this, at the peak of his popularity he was unable to work in the U.S. for more than a decade.
He subsequently became one of the first Blues musicians to reside in Europe, basing himself variously in London (where he even had his own BBC radio show), Paris and Stockholm, as the work took him.
These two albums, “The Josh White Stories Volumes 1 and 2”, were recorded in New York for ABC Records, in 1956 and 1957, during his “lost decade” and would ultimately serve to introduce him to a new, younger audience.
Neither of these LPs has previously ever appeared on CD, which makes this set a mandatory purchase for Josh White and general Blues fans alike.