His nickname says everything Genuine real barrelhouse blues performed by one of these dark names blues history has given us to enjoy again and again Barrelhouse Thomas Buck Mcfarland, aka Barrelhouse McFarland was born in 1903 and died in 1962 when he was only 59, a deep lost for piano singer lovers His instrumental and vocal charm is totally impressive Buck was a direct heir of such legendary piano players as Peetle Wheatstraw, Henry Brown or Cow Cow Davenport He was also gifted with a heartbreaking voice and a passionate flaming piano playing He used to play with simple heavy hammering left hand bass paterns while he drew melodies with the right hand specially using ‘single notes’ technique and sometimes combining it with chords hammering, widely used among twenties and thirties juke joint and barrelhouse piano players Sixteen amazing songs, recorded in 1961 by a real piano master got back by Delmark Records for the pleasure of blues lovers who will greatly appreciate them