Down Home (Z. Z. Hill album)

Down Home
Studio album by
Z. Z. Hill
Released1982
GenreBlues
LabelMalaco[1]
ProducerTommy Couch, Wolf Stephenson

Down Home is an album by the American blues musician Z. Z. Hill, released in 1982.[2][3] "Down Home Blues", the album's first track, was a crossover hit, and is regarded as a blues standard.[4][5] The song is said to be the best selling blues single of the 20th century.[6]

The album peaked at No. 209 on the Billboard 200.[7] It has sold more than 500,000 copies; for a time, it was Malaco Records' biggest seller.[8][9]

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  5. ^ Harper, Alan (February 15, 2016). Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252098284 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Moser, Daniel R. (2 Apr 1999). "Collection of Soul". Ground Zero. Lincoln Journal Star. p. 19.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2010). Top Pop Albums (7th ed.). Record Research. p. 354.
  8. ^ Ollison, Rashod (25 May 2016). "ZZ Hill, King of Southern Blues". The Virginia Pilot.
  9. ^ Morse, Steve (16 Feb 1986). "Black, 'Pop' Still Separate, and Unequal". The Boston Globe. p. B1.