''Hot Foot Powder'' is an album by the British

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band the

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, led by Peter Green. Released in 2000, this was their fifth album. Green was the founder of

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and a member of that group from 1967 to 1970, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Like one of the group's previous albums, ''

The Robert Johnson Songbook ''The Robert Johnson Songbook'' is an album by the British blues band the Peter Green Splinter Group, led by Peter Green. Released in 1998, this was their second album. Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member of that group from 19 ...

'', ''Hot Foot Powder'' consisted of songs written by

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, and included contributions by a number of notable blues musicians, including

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Otis Rush Otis Rush Jr. (April 29, 1934 – September 29, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. His distinctive guitar style featured a slow-burning sound and long bent notes. With qualities similar to the styles of other 1950s art ...

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and

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. It was re-released in 2004 by

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with bonus tracks.

Track listing

All tracks written by Robert Johnson unless stated: #"I'm a Steady Rollin' Man" – 3:34 #"From Four Until Late" – 3:02 #" Dead Shrimp Blues" – 2:49 #"Little Queen of Spades" – 3:01 #"

They're Red Hot "They're Red Hot" is a song written and performed by Delta blues musician Robert Johnson. The song was recorded on November 27, 1936, in an improvised studio in Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. Vocalion Records issued it on a 78 rpm record, wit ...

" – 3:51 #"Preachin' Blues" – 2:44 #"

Hellhound on My Trail "Hellhound on My Trail" (originally "Hell Hound on My Trail") is a blues song recorded by Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson in 1937. It was inspired by earlier blues songs and blues historian Ted Gioia describes it as one of Johnson's "bes ...

" – 3:31 #" Traveling Riverside Blues" – 4:08 #"Malted Milk" – 3:12 #"Milkcow's Calf Blues" – 3:32 #"Drunken Hearted Man" – 3:22 #"

Cross Road Blues "Cross Road Blues" (also known as "Crossroads") is a blues song written and recorded by American blues artist Robert Johnson in 1936. Johnson performed it as a solo piece with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues-style. The song ...

" – 2:56 #"

Come On in My Kitchen "Come On in My Kitchen" is a blues song by Robert Johnson. Music writer Elijah Wald has described it as "a hypnotic lament" and "his first unquestionable masterpiece". A sometime traveling companion and fellow musician, Johnny Shines, recalled th ...

" (Johnson, Woody Payne) – 3:08 *Recorded at Roundel Studio,

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; Zero 1 Studio; Battery Studios,

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; Chicago Trax; and

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Studio,

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Bonus tracks (Japanese release)

Terraplane Blues "Terraplane Blues" is a blues song recorded in 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, by bluesman Robert Johnson. Vocalion issued it as Johnson's first 78 rpm record, backed with "Kind Hearted Woman Blues", in March 1937. The song became a moderate regional ...

– 3:47 #"Honeymoon Blues" – 3:04 *Recorded live at

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on 5 April 1998. Both tracks were previously released on the ''

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'' album in 1999.

Personnel

Peter Green Splinter Group

* Peter Green –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

* Nigel Watson – guitar,

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, vocals * Roger Cotton – guitar,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Pete Stroud – acoustic

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Larry Tolfree –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest) ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Additional musicians

– guitar (track 3) *

– guitar (tracks 1, 4) *

– guitar (track 12) *

– guitar (track 8) *

– piano (tracks 2, 5)

Technical

* Peter Green Splinter Group –

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* Stuart Taylor –

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(US) * Roger Cotton, Matthew Ollivier, Bill Hill –

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(Roundel Studio) * Tim Donovan and Shane Stoneback – engineers (Battery Studios) * Van Christie, Larry Sturm, Tom Arnold & Bryon Rickerson – engineers (Chicago Trax) * Howard Johnson, Justin Lieberman – engineers (Different Fur) * Martin Celmins –

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* 9th Planet, London and the Lucky Mojo Curio Company,

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– design

References

{{Authority control 2000 albums Tribute albums Robert Johnson Peter Green Splinter Group albums