Goodbye Blues

Ralph Willis was born in Alabama but relocated to New York, where he fell in with the East Coast Piedmont crowd. Backed here by the legendary Brownie McGhee, the track is a beautiful example of acoustic blues interplay. McGhee, a master of the Piedmont fingerpicking style, provides a rolling, melodic counterpoint to Willis's rougher, more rural vocals. It represents the transition period when country blues musicians moved to Northern cities and began playing in small, tight combos before electricity completely took over the genre.