by Bruce Eder
Ten songs recorded by McDowell when he was appearing in England during the mid-'60s, and originally released on the Transatlantic album In London, Vol. 2 and the Archive of Folk Music album Mississippi Fred McDowell. He performs these numbers, including &You Got to Move,& &Levee Camp Blues,& &I Heard Somebody Call,& &Fred's Worried Life Blues,& and &The Train I Ride,& with a good deal of forcefulness and tension, although the repertory is hardly unique. The cleaning up of the sources has done a lot of good, although there is some evidence on certain tracks that vinyl sources were used for some of this.