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11 Years. Waiting On An Old Favorite Music Blog To Return
Why did Honey, Where You Been So Long? left without a goodbye?
On May 24th, 2010, a favorite blog of ours Honey Where Have You Been? posted three .mp3s of Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats from 1939 and then never posted again. So I am left wondering if they got abducted by their own post-war selves or the pressure of Texas blues, work song, Hokum, or the field recordings these guys so passionately found was just too much.
There is no goodbye post, no notes, and not even a Twitter so we could pester them. And this is all they had to say on the above song:
Two tracks today from Charlie Burse & his Memphis Mudcats. Burse isn’t known outside of his work with the Memphis Jug Band as a guitar player and sometimes spoon player. Document’s new release of his complete record works outside of the Memphis Jug Band show a versatile talent and one that’s equally Lonnie Johnson as Skip Jones.
Let us go ahead and give them a spam attack (if they even live on this dimension as of now) by sending them love letters to pkpatnaik at prewarblues.org. Maybe they will wake up and bring us back to the gospel heyday once again.
1,240 comments on the final post. Get out of the foxhole, people!
We give it to you. You win!
