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Cool Down - Cephas & Wiggins
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  1. Action Man
  2. Man Without a Future
  3. Screaming and Crying
  4. No Ice in My Bourbon
  5. The Blues Will Do Your Heart Good
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  1. Action Man
  2. Man Without a Future
  3. Screaming and Crying
  4. No Ice in My Bourbon
  5. The Blues Will Do Your Heart Good
  6. Caroline in the Morning
  7. Backwater Blues
  8. Goin' to the River
  9. Cool Down
  10. Special Rider
  11. Hard Liquor
  12. Nine Pound Hammer
  13. Right of Way Blues
  14. Twelve Gates to the City
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Cool Down is the first album the acoustic blues duo Cephas & Wiggins recorded for Alligator Records, and it ranks among their best. The spirit of the session is laid-back and eclectic, as the pair draws on everyone from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Boy Fuller to Fats Domino and Merle Travis. There are also a half-dozen originals that might not be as captivating as the covers, but they certainly elicit engaging performances from the pair. Throughout Cool Down, John Cephas dominates the music but Phil Wiggins' harmonica ...

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Cool Down 1996, Alligator Records

UPC: 014551483823

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