When I first heard Saw Mill Man, the recording released by the then 79 year old singer back in 2005, it stopped me in my tracks. It’s a rough recording – nothing slick here – just stark, tough, stripped down performances of a set of inspired songs. Here’s one of them I found on YouTube:

I had read that Cast King had recorded a dozen sides on Sun Records back in the day, and sure enough I found a couple of them easily enough.