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Released January 22, 2002

Recorded by Amos Harvey at the Zelda Station -- the living room of longtime friends Cathy and Fred Fussell -- Precious Bryant's Fool Me Good is a unique field recording of sorts. A performer in varying degrees of formality for over 30 years, Bryant had never recorded or released a full-length record of her rural Georgia blues, though she had been documented numerous times. Armed with an acoustic guitar, Bryant wends her way through the highlights of the repertoire she has accumulated over the span of nearly 60 years, collecting songs from family, friends, and fellow musicians. Her voice is oddly sweet for the blues, with a guitar style to match, rarely encroaching on even remotely gruff territory, nor is too refined. She works best on pop standards like "Fever," which finds a middle ground between the genres. As a female blues singer, she is a rarity, and an enjoyable one at that. One can almost imagine her voice rising off of old shellac 78s coated in a layer of crackle and hiss. ~ Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Broke and Ain't Got a Dime
2. Black Rat Swing
3. Blues All Around My Bed
4. Fool Me Good
5. Precious Bryant Staggerin' Blues
6. Don't Let the Devil Ride
7. You Don't Want Me No More
8. Don't Mess Up a Good Thing
9. Don't You Wanna Jump
10. Wadn't I Scared
11. Fever
12. Ups and Downs
13. Peepin' Out My Window
14. When the Saints Go Marching In
15. Georgia Buck

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