Payton, Asie – Worried - New LP

the hip stand on their high horses and folks crowd around them all crazy with admiration and chuck them buckets of money...musicians trying to do what Payton did so much without getting credit or money....so so much better...rural blues: yes...gut-bucket boogie: yes...killer rock n roll...rawbone rhythm & blues...Asie does all that, often all that at the same time. -- winchWorried by Asie PaytonRecorded 1994Asie Payton died of a heart attack on May 19, 1997, in Holly Ridge, Mississippi. It occurred in the early afternoon, while he was driving a tractor in the same fields he’d worked most of his sixty years. For all of 1995 and most 1996, Fat Possum tried unsuccessfully to convince Asie that the world outside Mississippi needed to hear him. But despite living below the poverty level and desperately needing the easy money of a gig, he could not be lured away from Washington County for more than a couple of hours. Fat Possum succeeded in recording Asie twice: once at Junior Kimbrough’