CD 1: Blue like me part 1 (5:34) -- Twilight at Terezín (4:24) -- No 5 no flats no sharps blues (6:20) -- (Bull Connor sees) darkies on the Delta (3:23) -- Huh/sublime and funky love part 1 (3:16) -- No more blues (the sins of the mother) (4:13) -- Manhattan moan (3:58) -- Carnovsky's blues/The whores' dance (2:24) -- The children of Ella Mae Wiggins (3:47) -- Blue interlude (3:23) -- Ras speaks 1 (4:51) -- Pete Brown's blues (3:02) -- Sweet Joe pye weed (2:57) -- Mama, mercy comes in spurts part 1 (3:54) -- In a Harlem ashram (4:45) -- Five out of four blues (3:21) -- Blues in shreds(2:50).
CD 2: Blues and transfiguration (5:35) -- I hate blues (1:51) -- My clinch mountain blues (3:33) -- The trapeze artist's anxiety at the first note the jazz band blows, or Jim Crow eyes in no man's land (3:17) -- I will sing me a parable under water (7:08) -- Temperance march (2:43) -- Entrance no exit (3:48) -- Electro convulsive blues (3:00) -- In da sunset of your love (4:51) -- Speckled shaw crippled Pete boogie (4:04) -- Mama, mercy comes in spurts part 2 (4:35) -- The lost (2:33) -- Seasons of the witch doctor (2:50) -- Pauli Murray, at the back of the bus, suddenly realizes she has the blues (5:50) -- I hate blues, too (6:11) -- Blue like me part 2 (5:38) -- Blue interlude 2 (6:20) -- My confession: ode to Doris Day (the last embrace) (4:12).
CD 3: Near a baptist meeting (4:14) -- Old man blues (4:48) -- Elvis died with his sins intact (5:27) -- No 5 no flats no sharps blues part 2 (6:11) -- The moon is setting on the whore eye zone (3:38) -- One trane running (2:40) -- Ras speaks part 2 (4:56) -- Williamsburg blues (3:21) -- Cold bed blues (3:00) -- Blue collage: don't put off salvation (3:03) -- Schildkraut on 52nd Street (3:26) -- In the realm of the blue (4:00) -- Reconstruction dreams (the ballad of blind Tom) (11:16) -- Blood on the mirror (3:37) -- I am a Delta terrorist (4:00) -- Ras speaks part 3 -- I hate blues again (6:37).
Note
All works composed and arranged by Allen Lowe.
Event (note)
Recorded Oct. and Dec. 2009, Apr.-June and Dec. 2010, and Jan. 2011.
Author
Lowe, Allen, 1954-
Title
Blues and the empirical truth.
Publisher
Kensington, Calif. : Music and Arts Programs of America, [2011]
Copyright date
℗2011
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Performer
Allen Lowe, saxophones, guitar ; Marc Ribot, Ray Suhy, guitar ; Spike Sikes, alto saxophone ; Jessie Hautala, Chris Day, Derek Reynolds, bass ; Jake Millet, electronic drums ; Matthew Shipp, piano, Farfisa organ ; Lewis Porter, piano ; Roswell Rudd, trombone ; Todd Hutchisen, vocals.
Event
Recorded Oct. and Dec. 2009, Apr.-June and Dec. 2010, and Jan. 2011.