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BLUES & GOSPEL
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MARION ABERNATHY JOHNNY ACE THE ACES JO-JO ADAMS |
TEXAS ALEXANDER LUTHER ALLISON THE ALPHABETICAL FOUR ALBERT AMMONS |
| MARION ABERNATHY | Classics 5001 | 1947-1949 | ● CD $14.98 |
| 20 tracks, 52 mins, recommended One of the first releases in a new series from the French label Classics known for it's series of more than 800 CDs featuring recordings of famous and lesser jazz artists in chronological order. This new series presumably plans to do the same for blues artists though this CD doesn't feature all of Abernathy's recordings but rather the 20 sides she recorded for King at three sessions in 1947 and '49. She is a pleasing enough singer but not an essentially distinctive one. Her sessions were held in New York, Cincinnati and Los Angeles and finds her in the company of top jazz musicians like Paul Bascomb, "Hot Lips" Page, Hal Singer, Joe Newman, Gerald Wiggins and others. Sound is excellent and there are brief notes by Dave Penny which tell us what little is known about Abernathy. |
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| JOHNNY ACE | MCA MCAD 31183 | Memorial Album | ● CD $10.98 |
| CD issue of MCA 27014 (previously Duke 40). 12 songs
including his biggest hit Pledging My Love plus Never Let Me Go/
I'm Crazy Baby/ Saving My Love For You/ How Can You Be So Mean/ Cross My
Heart, etc. |
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| THE ACES | P-Vine PCD 5514 | Chicago Beat | ● CD $23.98 |
| Reissue of French Black & Blue with four previously
unissued bonus tracks. |
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| ARTHUR ADAMS | Blind Pig 5055 | Back On Track | ● CD $14.98 |
| 11 tracks, 45 mins, recommended Best known as an L.A.
session player this is Arthur Adams' first full length solo album and it's
a good 'un. Adams is an excellent singer with a soulful gospelly style and
plays some truly fine guitar. The album covers says Arthur plays like a
man possessed which led me to think we were in for over the top blues rock
guitar - his playing is the very antithesis featuring beautifully crated
solo where ever note counts. The songs are mostly originals in the
currently popular middle class urban angst style. Arthur is given solid
backing and as a testament to his stature his guest artist is none other
than B.B. King and the duo work wonderfully well together. (FS) |
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| JO-JO ADAMS | Classics 5083 | 1946-1953 | $14.98 |
| 20 tracks from this jump blues singer from
Chicago who was popular club celebrity in Chicago in the 1940s and
1950sThese sides were recorded for a variety of labels and includes his
vocals with Freddie Williams & His Orchestra and with Floyd Smith's Combo.
Additional vocals by Adams are featured on the Classics CD of Tom Archia
(Classics 5006) |
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| TEXAS ALEXANDER | Matchbox 2002 | Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol 2 | ● CD $15.98 |
| TEXAS ALEXANDER: 'Frisco Train Blues/ Awful Moaning Blues - Part 1/ Awful Moaning Blues - Part 2/ Blue Devil Blues/ Broken Yo Yo/ Days Is Lonesome/ Double Crossing Blues/ Gold Tooth Blues/ I Am Calling Blues/ Johnny Behren's Blues/ Ninety-Eight Degree Blues (Take A)/ Ninety-Eight Degree Blues (Take B)/ Peaceful Blues/ Penitentiary Blues/ Rolling Mill Blues/ Seen Better Days/ Someday, Baby, your Troubles Is Gonna Be Like Mine/ St. Louis Fair Blues/ Tell Me Woman Blues/ Texas Special/ Thirty Day Blues/ Water Bound Blues/ When You Get To Thinking | |||
| LUTHER ALLISON | Alligator 4820 | Soul Fixin' Man | ● CD $15.98 |
| This 1994 release was Luther's first U.S. studio release in
18 years. A blues-rock outing with a hot band including guest appearances by The Memphis Horns. LUTHER ALLISON: Bad Love/ Freedom/ Gave It All/ I Want To Know/ Love String/ Middle of the Road/ Nobody But You/ Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is/ She Was Born That Way/ Soul Fixin' Man/ The Things I Used To Do/ You Been Teasin' Me |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Alligator 4834 | Blue Streak | ● CD $15.98 |
| 1995 album. LUTHER ALLISON: All The King's Horses/ Big City/ Cherry Red Wine/ I Believe In You/ Midnight Creeper/ Move From The 'Hood/ Should I Wait/ Think With Your Heart/ Walking Papers/ What Have I Done Wrong?/ What's Going On In My Home/ You Don't Know |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Alligator 4849 | Reckless | ● CD $15.98 |
| Luther's last studio album from 1997 recorded in Memphis. LUTHER ALLISON: Cancel My Check/ Drowning at the Bottom/ I'm Back/ It's a Blues Thing/ Just As I Am/ Living in the House of the Blues/ Low Down and Dirty/ Pain in the Streets/ Playin' a Losing Game (duet with Bernard Allison)/ There Comes a Time/ Will It Ever Change?/ You Can Run But You Can't Hide/ You Can, You CAn/ You're Gonna Make Me Cry |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Alligator 4869 | Live In Chicago | ● CD $22.98 |
| Two CD set featuring live sides, mostly recorded at the 1995
Chicago Blues Festival. Includes guest appearances by Otis Rush and Eddie
C. Campbell. |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Blind Pig 72287 | Serious | ● CD $14.98 |
| U.S. issue of album originally on French Encore label as
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Buda 82469-2 | Live In Paris | ● CD $16.98 |
| LUTHER ALLISON | Buda 82470-2 | Time | ● CD $16.98 |
| 8 cuts from 1980 by this high-voltage bluesman, recorded in
France. |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Delmark 625 | Love Me Mama | ● CD $14.98 |
| 14 tracks, 61 min., recommended Prior to this 1969 album
(his first), Luther S. Allison had only recorded 2 vocals in 1967 for
Shakey Jake Harris (available on Delmark 618). He also had accompanied
Robert Big Mojo Elem (Delmark,'67), Shakey Jake (Liberty, '68),
Sunnyland Slim (Liberty,'68 with George "Harmonica" Smith) and
Johnny Shines (Testament',69 with Walter Horton). For the next 2-3 years
he promoted this album until he got signed up by Motown Records. The 10
album titles are supplemented by 2 alternate takes (You Done Lost Your
Good Thing, Little Red Rooster) plus 2 unissued tracks (Every
Night About This Time, Walking From Door To Door). (EL) |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | Evidence 26015 | Love Me Papa | ● CD $12.98 |
| 9 tracks, 59 min., good. Black & Blue reissue. The
question is not whether Luther is talented, but whether he'll ever make an
album equal to his talent. Most of the songs are too long (two are over 11
minutes) and overplayed, leaning toward rock excess. While his "West
Side" guitar playing is impressive, Luther's attempts at Little
Walter-style harp on Walters' own tunes are hard to swallow. More often
than not it's his expressive and soulful vocals that are most impressive.
While it's nothing you haven't heard better elsewhere, it is a
straightforward blues album from somebody I always want a lot more from.
Maybe a sympathetic producer, and a hot band and. (RJ) LUTHER ALLISON: Blues With A Feeling/ Feelin' So Good/ Going Down/ It's Too Late/ Key To The Highway/ Last Night/ Love Me Papa/ Luther's Boogie/ Standing At The Crossroads |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | RUF 161342 | Where Have You Been? | ● CD $15.98 |
| Live in Montreux, 1976-1994 |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | RUF 161354 | Live In Paris | ● CD $15.98 |
| Hot hour-plus live set from 1979. Allison, like Buddy Guy,
is a high-voltage guitarist who owes a heavy debt to B.B. King for his
vocal style and repertoire. Some find his approach to be a little on the
hysterical side, but fans of hard rocking contemporary blues will dig this
energetic set. 10 songs, including Sweet Little Angel/My Babe/The Thril
Is Gone/Rock Me Baby. (MB) |
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| LUTHER ALLISON | RUF 161413 | Hand Me Down My Moonshine | ● CD $15.98 |
| All acoustic album recorded in Paris with Luther's son
Bernard - Good Morning Love/ Lightnin' Bolt/ Castle/ Stay With Me,
etc. |
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| THE ALPHABETICAL FOUR | Document DOCD 5374 | Complete Recorded Works, 1938-1943 | ● CD $15.98 |
| 24 tracks, 76 min., highly recommended The thoroughly welcome reissue of this important jubilee gospel quartet's entire output. Favoring instrumental imitation in the manner of the early Mills Brothers, the New York based Alphabeticals rivaled the better known Golden Gate Quartet in the late 30's. Emory Johnson normally handled lead singing chores for the group, but the six sides recorded in 1941 with an unknown female lead are also particular nice. Among the many gems are Precious Lord Hold My Hand, Get on Board Little Children, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Live Humble, Rock My Soul, Shake My Mother's Hand, I Can't Feel at Home in this World Anymore, and The Valley of Time. Wonderful music, solid sound quality for the era, and worthwhile notes by gospel expert Ray Funk. (DH) THE ALPHABETICAL FOUR: Do Not Pass Me By/ Get On Board, Little Children/ Go Down Jonah And Serve The Lord/ Go Where I Send Thee/ Have You Heard About The World Coming To An End/ He Sees All We Do And Hears All We Say/ He Was Nailed To The Cross/ I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore/ I Don't Care Where They Bury My Body/ I Just Can't Help From Crying Sometimes/ I Want Two Wings To Veil My Face/ I'm Gonna Walk Right In And Make Myself At Home/ Live Humble/ My Mother's Prayers Have Followed Me/ Noah, God's Gonna Ride On The Rainy Tide/ Precious Lord, Hold My Hand/ Rock My Soul/ Shake My Mother's Hand/ Shepherd Go Feed My Sheep/ Sleep On, Darling Mother/ The Book Of The Seven Seals/ The Old Ark's A-moverin'/ The Sun Didn't Shine/ The Valley Of Time/ We Will Understand It Better Bye And Bye/ What A Friend We Have In Jesus/ When The Moon Goes Down In The Valley Of Time/ Will The Circle Be Unbroken? |
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| ALBERT AMMONS | Acrobat ADDCD 3010 | King Of Boogie Woogie | ● CD $13.98 |
| Two CDs, 36 tracks, highly recommended A splendid collection of sides by one of the greatest of all boogie pianists. Ammons had the solidest left hand in the business and was endlessly inventive with his right hand - rarely clichéd. The set opens with five gorgeous solo cuts from 1939 and the remainder is devoted to recordings made between 1945 and 1949 (the year he died) with his group The Rhythm Kings usually with guitarist Ike Perkins, bassist Israel Crosby and a number of different drummers. There are several fine vocals from Sippie Wallace, Mildred Anderson and drummer Jack Cooley. Two cuts feature his son Gene on tenor sax. The music is consistently superb but it's a shame they couldn't have added another dozen sides which would enable them to have presented a much broader picture of Albert's career. Still for the price there is enough great music here to please just about any fan of blues and boogie piano playing. (FS) |
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| ALBERT AMMONS | ASV CDAJA 5305 | Boogie Woogie Man | ● CD $11.98 |
| Barrelhouse Boogie/ Bass Goin' Crazy/ Bedroom Blues/ Blues In The Groove/ Boogie Woogie/ Boogie Woogie Blues/ Boogie Woogie Man/ Boogie Woogie Prayer/ Boogie Woogie Stomp/ Bottom Blues/ Breaks/ Cafe Society Rag/ Chicago In Mind/ Cuttin' The Boogie/ Early Mornin' Blues/ Jammin' The Boogie/ Mighty Blues/ Shout For Joy/ Sixth Avenue Express/ St Louis Blues/ Swanee River Boogie/ Woo Woo | |||
| ALBERT AMMONS | Delmark 705 | Boogie Woogie Stomp | ● CD $11.98 |
| 14 cuts recorded in 1939 for a radio broadcast plus 4 from
1938 recorded at Frank Lyons home studio. Also features Meade Lux Lewis
& Pete Johnson. |
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| ALBERT AMMONS | Document DOCD 1008 | 1936-1946 : Alternate Takes | ● CD $14.98 |
| 23 rare Ammons titles - alternate takes, radio shows and
private home recordings - includes solo cuts, sides with his Rhythm Kings,
a version of Pinetop's Boogie Woogie with the Benny Goodman
Orchestra and one track with a band accompanying Big Joe Turner. ALBERT AMMONS: Blue Blue Blues/ Blues In The Groove No. 2/ Boogie Woogie Stomp (Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street broadcast)/ Boogie in C (Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street broadcast)/ Bottom Blues No. 2/ Bugle Boogie No. 2/ Dying Mother Blues - Part One (private home recording)/ Dying Mother Blues - Part Two (private home recording)/ Early Mornin' Blues (alt. take)/ Funky Start Boogie/ I Don't Want To See You (alt. take)/ I Had To Move That Thing (private home recording)/ Introduction - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (Camel Caravan broadcast)/ Nagasaki (alt. take)/ Reveille Boogie/ Rock Of Gibraltar Blues (alt. take)/ Shout For Joy (Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street broadcast)/ Swanee River Boogie (2nd alt. take)/ Swanee River Boogie (alt. take)/ The Boogie Rocks #2/ The Breaks No. 2/ Whistlin' Blues |
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| ALBERT AMMONS & MEADE LUX LEWIS | Blue Note 98450 | The First Day | ● CD $11.98 |
| These recordings were the first for Alfred Lion's famous
Blue Note label. That session (Jan. 6, 1939) produced 19 songs by the two
giants of blues and boogie piano, and all but one untitled cut are
presented here in the order in which they were recorded. The first four
parts of Lewis' The Blues opens the set, followed by Ammons'
powerful classics Boogie Woogie Stomp/ Chicago In Mind/ Suitcase Blues/
Boogie Woogie Blues. Along the way the two greats join forces for Twos
And Fews/ Nagasaki. The latter clocks in at 5:46 thanks to the extra
length 12" 78's favored by Blue Note. Occasional sound flaws exist
due to a very few damaged discs, but the music more than makes up for
them. Those who need further convincing are directed to Ammons' awesome Bass
Goin' Crazy. Time: 76 minutes. (JC) |
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| ALBERT AMMONS, PETE JOHNSON & MEADE LUX LEWIS | Magpie 21 | Boogie Woogie Boys | ● CD $16.98 |
| 27 tracks, 76 mins, recommended Nice compilation of tunes by
boogie woogie piano legends Ammons, Johnson and Lewis. Formats include
solo, duet and trio recordings, taken in large part from acetates of the
Carnegie Hall Christmas concerts in New York City in December 1938 and
December 1939. Also include are RCA Victor '78s featuring duets by Ammons
and Johnson from May and June 1941 as well as 16" MacGregor
transcription discs taken off the radio in Los Angeles in May 1944. Some
incredible boogie woogie and stride here, by turns tumultuous and
propulsive, bluesy and elegant. Lots of hits, including Honky-Tonk
Train Blues/ Pine Top's Boogie Woogie/ 6th Avenue Express/ Foot pedal
Boogie and St. Louis Blues. Interesting discographical notes by
Michel Chaigne regarding the redating of certain of these performances.
Check it out! (PL) |
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