Homemade (Cephas & Wiggins album)
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| Homemade | ||||
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| Released | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Blues, Piedmont blues | |||
| Label | Alligator | |||
| Producer | Joe Wilson | |||
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Homemade is an album by the American musical duo Cephas & Wiggins, released in 1999.[1][2] It was their second album for Alligator Records.[3] The duo supported the album with a North American tour.[4] Homemade was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award for best "Traditional Blues Album".[5]
The album was produced by Joe Wilson, who also cowrote a couple of the songs.[6] Cephas helped write eight of the songs; Wiggins worked on one.[7] Wiggins considered the selections to be enlivening rather than sad or depressing.[8] The album opens and closes with covers of Blind Boy Fuller tunes.[9] "Slow Blues" is a version of the instrumental Reverend Gary Davis song.[10] Two originals, "Jelly Roll" and "Meeting the Mule", explore the differences between life, and women, in the metropolitan North and country South.[6] "I Was Determined" is an autobiographical song about wanting to play the blues after hearing neighbors singing blues standards.[11]
