Hayes McMullan Everyday Seem Like Murder Here

• Hayes McMullan – This Is Hayes McMullan
• Hayes McMullan – Fast Old Train
• Hayes McMullan – Look-a Here Woman Blues
• Hayes McMullan – Back Water Blues
• Hayes McMullan – Goin' Away Mama Blues
• Hayes McMullan – Every Day In The Week
• Hayes McMullan – Playing A Juke With Patton
• Hayes McMullan – Hurry Sundown
• Hayes McMullan – How'd Your Brother Die?
• Hayes McMullan – Sugar

• 1. This Is Hayes McMullan
• 2. Fast Old Train
• 3. Look-a Here Woman Blues
• 4. Back Water Blues
• 5. Goin' Away Mama Blues
• 6. Every Day In The Week
• 7. Playing A Juke With Patton
• 8. Hurry Sundown
• 9. How'd Your Brother Die?
• 10. Sugar
• 11. Smoke Like Lightning
• 12. Goin' Where The Chilly Winds Don't Blow
• 13. The High Water
• 14. Spider On The Wall Blues
• 15. Spanish Fandango
• 16. Charley, He Was Whiskey Headed
• 17. Hitch Up My Pony
• 18. Every Day Seem Like Murder Here
• 19. Who Gonna Be Your Baby?
• 20. Discussions On A Barrelhouse
• 21. Gonna Get Me A Woman
• 22. Kansas City Blues
• 23. Patton Was A Racket Man
• 24. Bo Weevil Blues
• 25. Singing To The Children
• 26. Bout A Spoonful, Takes 1 & 2
• 27. No Triflin' Kid
• 28. Delta Walk
• 29. Roll & Tumble
• 30. I'm Goin', Don't You Wanna Go?
• 31. Patton's Death Hearsay

Born in 1902, Hayes McMullan was discovered by the renowned American roots scholar, collector and documentarian Gayle Dean Wardlow. Wardlow, author of the seminal blues anthology Chasin’ That Devil Music – Searching for the Blues, may be most famous for uncovering Robert Johnson’s death certificate in 1968, finally revealing clues to the bluesman’s mysterious and much disputed demise. Moreover, in his tireless and committed mission to preserve the Blues for future generations, he captured McMullan’s raw talent on tape and on paper. Wardlow recorded these sessions, transcribed the songs and now, writes the sleeve-notes for this landmark release.

Wardlow and McMullan met by chance on one of the former’s record-hunting trips, in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, in 1967. Having introduced himself to McMullan on a hunch, it turned out this unassuming elderly man had not only heard of Wardlow’s idol, Charley Patton, but had played alongside him in the 1920s, as part of a brief musical journey that took him from the plantation to the open roads and juke joints of the Depression-era South. Striking up a friendship that was deemed unorthodox in 1960’s Mississippi, Wardlow traveled to McMullan’s sharecropper’s shack and convinced him to play guitar for the first time since he quit the Blues for the Church in the 30’s. “Hayes was playing like no one I had ever heard,” Wardlow writes with amazement.

Wardlow visited McMullan on a handful of occasions, always taking his recorder, a guitar and some whiskey with him. It was during these visits that Wardlow captured – with surprising clarity – the songs that make up 'Everyday Seem Like Murder Here'.