Woody Mann - Been Here And Gone

In the early seventies seventeen-year-old Woody Mann faces a nearly unbelievable opportunity: he is asked to back up Delta-Blues-legend Eddi “Son” House on the guitar during a studio session. The maestro himself doesn’t feel like playing, he prefers just to sing. What a challenge for the young student of Reverend Gary Davis! Only short time later the events repeat, just with a changed cast. British singer Jo Ann Kelly, she became famous during the British blues revival, relies on Mann’s guitar playing. Fourteen rare tracks resulting from those recording sessions are finally accessible for all blues fans on “Been Here and Gone”, some of the tracks are released for the very first time. “Been Here and Gone” is, no doubt about it, an impressive blues record offering two outstandig vocalists and - notwithstanding his youth - an amazingly brilliant Woody Mann who, moreover, adds seven brand new songs as, what we may refer to, “interludes”.