David Jacobs-Strain

"First Friday Live - traditional acoustic blues"


compact disc of a live-performance recording made at the
First Friday Coffee House on the University of Oregon campus,
Eugene, Oregon, December 5, 1997.
recorded by Jim Showker
  1. Goin' To Brownsville (The Girl I Love) - Sleepy John Estes
  2. Statesboro Blues - Willie McTell
  3. Mean Ol' Frisco - Arthur Cruddup
  4. Wet Laundry Blues - Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton)
  5. Nobody's Fault But Mine - instrumental after Blind Willie Johnson
  6. Death Letter Blues - Son House
  7. Come On In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
  8. Rolling & Tumbling - Hambone Willie Newbern
  9. Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James
  10. Built For Comfort - Willie Dixon
  11. Dust My Broom - Robert Johnson

David Jacobs-Strain is a 14-year blues vocalist and acoustic guitarist
living in Eugene, Oregon.  His Willamette Valley appearances have included
the Oregon Country Fair, the Eugene Celebration, Art & The Vineyard, and 
the Springfield Filbert Festival. In 1996 he opened the featured show 
"Passing the Blues" at the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, Washington,
which was headlined by Billy Branch. David's July 4, 1997 performance at the 
Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, Oregon, was re-broadcast on the Blues 
Foundation's "Beale Street Caravan" syndicated radio program.

David has opened for guitarists Bob Brozman, Adrian Legg, and Ben Stevens, and has been a regular participant in the Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop since 1996.



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