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"I've been playing guitar for 50 years. I started beating on cans before I got a guitar and my mother told me I was singing since I was a baby." -Cootie Stark

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Stark has been universally praised in his first years as an international blues figure. His abrasive, percussive guitar style melds with a vocal arsenal that ranges from a roughhewn gospel shout to a tight, pretty vibrato. Both European and American concert-goers have been held captive by Stark's raw and powerful performances.

On his first recording, "Sugar Man", listeners receive the true, oral tradition of the blues. Stark's timeless versions of familiar and obscure songs show us that deep-rooted blues are still alive and vibrant.

Track Listing: 1/Metal Bottoms 2/Someday Baby 3/Jigroo 4/Padlock Blues 5/Lonely Blues 6/Cut Down That Old Pine Tree 7/Howlin' Wolf 8/Leaving here, Sure Don't Want To Go 9/Send You Back To Georgia 10/Sandyland 11/Blue Smokey Mountain 12/Were You There, When They Crucified My Lord?