''Free Again'' is an album by blues musician

Robert Pete Williams Robert Pete Williams (March 14, 1914 – December 31, 1980) was an American Louisiana blues musician. His music characteristically employed unconventional structures and guitar tunings, and his songs are often about the time he served in pris ...

recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label in July the following year.Robert Pete Williams Discography
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Reception

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stated: "Despite the constant, restless movement of Williams' guitar lines, these recordings have a stillness to them, as if the reverberation of his blunt, heavy attack might be the only sound for miles around. Intimately recorded by Oster himself, these ten solo guitar and vocal performances represent some of the finest of Williams' career and some of the best the blues has to offer".

Track listing

All compositions by Robert Pete Williams except where noted # "Free Again" – 5:03 # "Almost Dead Blues" – 4:05 # "

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" (Traditional) – 4:49 # "Two Wings" – 4:50 # "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" – 5:17 # "Thumbing a Ride" – 4:38 # "I've Grown So Ugly" – 2:50 # "Death Blues" – 5:16 # "Hobo Worried Blues" – 4:10 # "Hay Cutting Song" – 4:13

Personnel

Performance

– guitar, vocals

Production

Kenneth S. Goldstein Kenneth S. Goldstein (March 17, 1927 – November 11, 1995) was an American folklorist, educator and record producer and a "prime mover" in the American Folk Music Revival. Early life and education Goldstein was born in Brooklyn to Tillie Horowit ...

– producer *

Harry Oster Dr. Harry Oster (April 12, 1923 – January 19, 2001) was an American folklorist and musicologist. Biography Oster was the firstborn of Jacob and Sarah, Russian-Polish Jews, who emigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts. After one year in college ...

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References

{{Authority control Robert Pete Williams albums 1961 albums Bluesville Records albums