Cephas & Wiggins

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Burn Your Bridges 04:22 Tools
Action Man 00:00 Tools
Ain't Seen My Baby 00:00 Tools
Mamie 00:00 Tools
Going to the River 00:00 Tools
Sick Bed Blues 00:00 Tools
I Did Do Right 00:00 Tools
Seattle Rainy Day Blues 00:00 Tools
No Ice In My Bourbon 00:00 Tools
Broke and Hungry 00:00 Tools
Three Ball Blues 00:00 Tools
Christmas Day Blues 00:00 Tools
The Blues Three Ways 00:00 Tools
big boss man 00:00 Tools
Hard Liquor 00:00 Tools
Catfish Blues 00:00 Tools
John Henry 00:00 Tools
Dirt Road 00:00 Tools
Suzie Q 00:00 Tools
Dog Days Of August 00:00 Tools
All I Got Is Them Blues 00:00 Tools
Right of Way Blues 00:00 Tools
Slow Blues 00:00 Tools
Richmond Blues 00:00 Tools
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 00:00 Tools
Reno Factory 00:00 Tools
Stack and The Devil 00:00 Tools
Forgiveness 00:00 Tools
Last Fair Deal Gone Down 00:00 Tools
black rat swing 00:00 Tools
The Blues Will Do Your Heart Good 00:00 Tools
Trouble In Mind 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues 00:00 Tools
Cool Down 00:00 Tools
Bowling Green Strut 00:00 Tools
Walking Mama 00:00 Tools
Railroad Bill 00:00 Tools
I Won't Be Down 00:00 Tools
Something Smells 00:00 Tools
Special Rider 00:00 Tools
Illinois Blues 00:00 Tools
Piedmont Blues Jam 00:00 Tools
Trouble On My Mind 00:00 Tools
Staggerlee (Stackolee) 00:00 Tools
Nine Pound Hammer 00:00 Tools
Walkin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Worried Life Blues 00:00 Tools
Me and My Chauffeur 00:00 Tools
The Pimp In the Pink Suit 00:00 Tools
Darling Cora 00:00 Tools
Jelly Roll 00:00 Tools
Man Without a Future 00:00 Tools
Twelve Gates to the City 00:00 Tools
Caroline In the Morning 00:00 Tools
prison bound blues 00:00 Tools
Crow Jane 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby 00:00 Tools
Meeting the Mule 00:00 Tools
Screaming & Crying 00:00 Tools
Darkness On the Delta 00:00 Tools
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 00:00 Tools
Key to the Highway 00:00 Tools
Pigmeat 00:00 Tools
Mama Let Me Lay It On You 00:00 Tools
Step It Up And Go 00:00 Tools
Somebody Told the Truth on Me 00:00 Tools
careless love 00:00 Tools
A Lot of Them Blues 00:00 Tools
Great Change 00:00 Tools
Spider Woman 00:00 Tools
Pigmeat Crave 00:00 Tools
Black Cat on the Line 00:00 Tools
Leaving Blues 00:00 Tools
Sounds of the Blues 00:00 Tools
I Saw the Light 00:00 Tools
I Was Determined 00:00 Tools
Goin Down The Road Feelin Bad 00:00 Tools
Blue Day Blues 00:00 Tools
No Lovin' Baby Now 00:00 Tools
Broke And Hungery 00:00 Tools
Police Dog Blues 00:00 Tools
Chicken Can't Roost Too High For Me 00:00 Tools
Cherryball 00:00 Tools
Evil Twin Blues 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
The Backbiter 00:00 Tools
One Kind Favor 00:00 Tools
Somebody Told the Truth 00:00 Tools
Reno Factor 00:00 Tools
Brownsville 00:00 Tools
Roberta 00:00 Tools
Rising River Blues 00:00 Tools
Jesus is Mine 00:00 Tools
guitar and harmonica rag 00:00 Tools
Eyesight To The Blind 00:00 Tools
pony blues 00:00 Tools
st. louis blues 00:00 Tools
Staggerlee 00:00 Tools
I'm A Pilgrim 00:00 Tools
Guitar Man 00:00 Tools
the little red rooster 00:00 Tools
Prison Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues 00:00 Tools
Flip, Flop, And Fly 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bitter Blues 00:00 Tools
louise 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got No Lovin' Baby Now 00:00 Tools
Too Old To Dream 00:00 Tools
Standing At Judgement 00:00 Tools
Banks Of The River 00:00 Tools
West Carey Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Piedmont Rag 00:00 Tools
Today I Started Loving You Again 00:00 Tools
Devil Got My Woman 00:00 Tools
a shanty in old shanty town 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off Her 00:00 Tools
broke down engine 00:00 Tools
One Kind Flavor 00:00 Tools
The Things I Used To Do 00:00 Tools
Hoodoo Woman 00:00 Tools
good morning little school girl 00:00 Tools
Blake's Rag 00:00 Tools
Goin' to the River 00:00 Tools
Running And Hiding 00:00 Tools
Louisiana Chase 00:00 Tools
Highway 301 00:00 Tools
Staggerlee (Stackolee) - John Cephas and Phil Wiggins 00:00 Tools
Bowling Green Rag 00:00 Tools
weeping willow 00:00 Tools
The Brownsville Blues 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Baby 00:00 Tools
Sickbed Blues 00:00 Tools
Rusticity 00:00 Tools
Last Fair Deal 00:00 Tools
corrine 00:00 Tools
John Hentry 00:00 Tools
Robert 00:00 Tools
Louise Blues 00:00 Tools
Roberta, A Thousand Miles From Home 00:00 Tools
Brownsville Blues 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
Roberta A Thousand Miles from Home 00:00 Tools
blakes rag 00:00 Tools
06 - Too Old To Dream - 1992 - Flip, Flop And Fly 00:00 Tools
Richmond Blues [Richmond Blues] 00:00 Tools
Going to the River [Richmond Blues] 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 00:00 Tools
Black Cat on the Line (live) 00:00 Tools
The Blues Three Ways [Live] 00:00 Tools
John Cephas; Phil Wiggins / Action Man 00:00 Tools
Illinois Blues (Skip James) 00:00 Tools
I Was Determined (Cephas) 00:00 Tools
John Henry - John Cephas and Phil Wiggins 00:00 Tools
The Blues Three Ways (live) 00:00 Tools
Piedmont Medley: Home Sweet Home/Hand Me Down My Walking Cane/Going Down The Road Feeling Bad/Careless Love/Railroad Bil 00:00 Tools
goin to the river 00:00 Tools
Ain´t Seen My Baby 00:00 Tools
Going To The River (Fats Domino cover) 00:00 Tools
Jesse Fuller / Screaming And Crying 00:00 Tools
Careless Love [Richmond Blues] 00:00 Tools
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby [Richmond Blues] 00:00 Tools
All I've Got Is Them Blues 00:00 Tools
Guitar & Harmonica Rag 00:00 Tools
Little Red Rooster 00:00 Tools
Rising River 00:00 Tools
Catfish Blues - Shoulder To Shoulder 00:00 Tools
John Cephas; Torrance / Man Without A Future 00:00 Tools
Phil Wiggins / Cool Down 00:00 Tools
Phil Wiggins / No Ice In My Bourbon 00:00 Tools
Phil Wiggins / The Blues Will Do Your Heart Good 00:00 Tools
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They met at a D.C. folk festival sponsored by the Smithsonian back in 1977, and performed a simple but sweet brand of laid back folk blues, the Piedmont Blues. John Cephas played a unique six string style featuring alternating thumb and finger, with the thumb creating a steady, loping bass line underneath as the melody is simultaneously picked out on the treble strings. Since their first recordings together Living Country Blues and Sweet Bitter Blues, in 1981 for the German L&R label. they’ve been official US ambassadors of the blues and toured internationally under auspices of the US State Dept. They've received numerous accolades including the “W.C. Handy Blues Entertainers of the Year” award and “Best Traditional Album of the Year” for their album Dog Days of August in 1987. The continued success of more recent releases like COOL DOWN, HOMEMADE, and 2002's SOMEBODY TOLD THE TRUTH helped establish Cephas & Wiggins as key figures in the resurgence of interest in country blues, The Washington Post has declared, "Cephas & Wiggins are giants, weaving Wiggins' harmonica and Cephas' voice and guitar together so seamlessly that one mind seems to govern both mouth and all four arms…a marvelous and essential journey." Guitarist John Cephas was born in Washington, D.C. in 1930 and died in 2009. Harmonica player Phil Wiggins was nearly a quarter-century his junior, was also born in Washington, D.C. in 1954. The call-and-response interplay between the harmonica and guitar, the complimentary rhythms, and the microtonal slurs generated by “stretched” guitar strings and “bent” harmonica notes are all quintessentially African. Cephas served on the Executive Committee of the National Council for the Traditional Arts, received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989 and was a founder of the D.C Blues Society. In 1996, after two successful albums for Flying Fish, Cephas & Wiggins, Alligator Records signed these two guys, who’ve now been playing together for over three decades. www.cephasandwiggins.net Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.