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CHARLES WALKER
CHARLES WALKER BAND
JIMMY WALKER
JOE LOUIS WALKER
JOHNNY "BIG MOOSE" WALKER PHILLIP WALKER
ROBERT "BILBO" WALKER
T-BONE WALKER
SIPPIE WALLACE

CHARLES WALKER Black Magic 9040 I'm Available ● CD $22.98

Nashville blues and soul singer.

CHARLES WALKER Zane 1019 Number By Heart ● CD $17.98

13 tracks, 59 mins, highly recommended
Superb new album of deep soul from veteran Nashville vocalist who has been plying his craft since the late 50s. There are ten new songs from various writers along with three carefully chosen covers. Walker's vocals are powerful and expressive and production by the talented Fred James is outstanding with horn driven instrumental work and soulful vocal backup. Among the highlights are the wrenching title song co-written by Walker, the hard driving One Man's Poison and a beautiful cover of Percy Sledge's It Tears Me Up written by Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham but it's all truly fine - not a dud in sight. (FS)

CHARLES WALKER BAND Lucky 13 1817 The World & Things ● CD $13.98

10 tracks, recommended
Fine set of modern blues with a retro flavor by band from Milwaukee led by alto and tenor sax player Charles Walker (no connection to bluesmen of the same name in New York and Nashville). The band is excellent with guitarist Dr. Emre Alp, bass guitarist Kent "Dice" Hamele, keyboard player Rob Waters and drummer Nic Fugate. Vocals are taken by the very fine Miss Shanna Jackson and the songs are all originals by Walker. A couple of cuts feature harmonica player Steve Cohen for a more down home feel. Some of the instrumental breaks go on a bit long but none of it is excessive and this album is definitely worth a listen. (FS)

JIMMY WALKER Wolf 120 712 Small Town Baby ● CD $15.98

JIMMY WALKER & ERWIN HELFER Testament 5011 Rough & Ready ● CD $11.98

20 tracks, 62 min., recommended Recorded when Chicago Pianist Jimmy Walker was in his 60s, this album (a reissue of Testament 2202 with 6 previously unreleased cuts) explores the boogie woogie duet form which gained prominence in the '40s and then effectively died. Walker and 28-year-old white pianist Erwin Helfer (trained by Cripple Clarence Lofton!) have a musical rapport that only time and mutual respect could produce, the two having played together for 2 years before these recording were made. Some tracks feature Walker by himself, sometimes singing, sometimes not. Willie Dixon adds his bass to Helfer's piano on 4 Helfer compositions, including Fringe Benefit/ Give Me 10 Cents Worth Of Love. (JC)

JOE LOUIS WALKER Blues Express 4001 Live On Broadway ● CD $24.98

DVD featuring 90 minutes of live performances including a 60 minute show at the Broadway nightclub in San Francisco.

JOE LOUIS WALKER Hightone HCD 8006 Cold Is The Night ● CD $11.98

JOE LOUIS WALKER Hightone HCD 8012 The Gift ● CD $11.98

Second album from one of the great blues finds of the last few years. Production on this one is little slicker than the first with a cleaner studio sound and use of The Memphis Horns on several tracks but the emphasis is on Joe's tough singing and powerful guitar playing. Although his playing is not particularly unique it is fiery and imaginative. Most of the songs on the album were written by Joe or by the bassist with his band the Boss Talkers, Henry Oden and often deal with the problems of urban life. Particularly good are Thin Line, the risqué Shade Tree Mechanic, and the soulful 1/4 to 3 (no relation to the U.S. Bonds song) with a rare example of Joe's splendid slide guitar playing. Occasionally the songs get a little preachilly moralistic as on the title song but they are generally good. (FS)

JOE LOUIS WALKER Hightone HCD 8019 Blue Soul ● CD $11.98

JOE LOUIS WALKER Telarc 83541 In The Morning ● CD $16.98

10 tracks, 53 minutes, good. Walker's long-term deal is over with Verve and his latest is an up-and-down affair. Just About To Lose Your Clown has modern funk underneath distorted guitar and while the title track begins strong, it's dragged into a bog with repetitive background vocals. Joe's Jump offers bristling guitar in short bursts and jazz flavors spice Leave That Girl Alone which steers aside for Where Jesus Leads, but Strange Loving shows Walker's grating falsetto vocals for a third time in six tracks. Do You Wanna Be With Me? gets soul treatment but lyrics lack an imaginative edge, something the guitar sports in spades and the irritating vocals spoil the Jimmy Reed-like If This Is Love. 2120 South Michigan Avenue is a loaded shuffle with churning licks and Strangers In Our Home is an acoustic offering, again with JLW's vocal histrionics, this time proving it wasn't needed anywhere else. (CR)

JOHNNY "BIG MOOSE" WALKER Evidence 26082 Blue Love ● CD $12.98

PHILLIP WALKER Delta Groove 115 Going Back Home ● CD $15.98

13 tracks, 43 mins, highly recommended
After more than 50 years performing, Phillip Walker continues to deliver quality music with expressive soulful vocals and superb, but never flashy guitar and this new album is no exception. He is accompanied by solid group of West Coast musicians including guitarist Rusty Zinn, drummer Richard Innes, pianist Fred Kaplan, sax player David Woodford and others. The material is heavily dominated by covers but are carefully chosen to avoid over familiarity along with a few excellent new songs from producer Randy Chertoff. There are several nods to the down home blues of his youth with his cover of Lightnin' Hopkins Don't Think Cause You're Pretty, a couple of songs from his mentor Lonesome Sundown and the acoustic flavored Sweet Home New Orleans written by the harmonica player on this track Al Blake. Phillip's low key approach means that he probably doesn't get the attention of some of the more histrionic performers out there but he is assuredly one of the best. (FS)

PHILLIP WALKER Hightone HCD 8013 Blues ● CD $13.98

Phillip Walker is a fine artist who consistently delivers high quality soulful vocals and expressive guitar. This new album delivers just what the title promises - 10 blues with Phillip accompanied by a solid rhythm section, occasional horns from the Memphis Horns and crisp production from Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker who have produced most of Phillips recordings over the past 15 years. The album is mostly new songs written by Dennis Walker, David Amy and others. Phillip also turns in fine versions of Howling Wolf's How Many More Years and Lonesome Sundown's I Had A Dream. Nothing really spectacular here just good solid blues by one of the most consistent artists around. (FS)

PHILLIP WALKER Hightone HCD 8020 The Bottom Of The Top ● CD $13.98

A most welcome reissue of the first album from 1973 by this outstanding Los Angeles based singer and guitarist. In many ways this is his best album with his strongest and most assured singing and expressive guitar playing including some dazzling flet fingered work which in spite of speed is always in good taste. The songs were recorded over a 3 year period and are tremendously varied with several fine originals including the wonderful loping Louisiana rocker Hello My Darling and the fine soulful ballad It's All In Your Mind. His covers include the familiar Tin Pan Alley which sounds fresh in his hands, a gorgeous version of Lightnin' Hopkins' Hello Central with solo guitar accompaniment only and fine versions of Long John Hunter's Crazy Girl (with some of his most fiery guitar) and Jimmy Johnson's The Bottom Of The Top. There is even a remarkably effective blues drenched version of Buck Owens' classic Crying Time. Excellent production from the indefatigable Bruce Bromberg, newly remastered by Bernie Grundman and with informative notes by Pete Welding. Now's your chance to replace your old worn out Playboy album or to pick up for the first time on an outstanding album. (FS).

PHILLIP WALKER Hightone HCD 8032 Someday You'll Have These Blues ● CD $13.98

Cassette and CD reissue of album originally issued in 1977 on Joliet and some years later on Alligator. Walker is a very fine and soulful singer and an outstanding and imaginative guitarist and is backed here by various top notch Southern California musicians on 10 songs recorded at various sessions in 1975 and '76. Most of the songs were written by Phillip and/or David Amy and/or Dennis Walker and include the hard driving title song, the intense Beaumont Blues, the unexpected gospel song When It Needs Getting Done with vocal backup by The Melody Kings and the wonderfully loping If We Can Find It. The two covers - Breakin' Up Somebody's Home and Part Time Love are give excellent rendering - particularly the latter. Recommended. (FS)

PHILLIP WALKER Hightone 8157 Heritage Of The Blues - Best Of Phillip Walker ● CD $11.98

Another fine release in Hightone's budget priced "Heritage Of The Blues Series" - this one featuring superb California singer/ guitarist Phillip Walker. Drawn from various sessions covering a span of 20 years it features some great songs like I'm Tough/ Hello My Darling/ Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark/ If We Can Find It/ Go Ahead And Take Her/ Someday You'll Have These Blues and more.

PHILLIP WALKER MC Records 47 Live At Biscuits & Blues ● CD $15.98

12 tracks, recommended
While Phillip Walker might not be getting any younger, his guitar playing remains as taut and sharp as a man half his age. Recorded in front of an appreciative audience in San Francisco at a popular blues nightspot, there's a full band with a four-piece horn section in support. Walker's playing ignites from small embers into full-bore blazing attack and the mix of shuffles, slow blues, and soul-fused burners make for an entertaining set. Vocally, he's perhaps a step below some of his earlier work, but simply put, the man still delivers with all cylinders humming. (CR)

ROBERT "BILBO" WALKER Fedora 5005 Rompin' & Stompin' ● CD $15.98

Mississippi bluesman.

T-BONE WALKER Atlantic 8020 T-Bone Blues ● CD $9.98

15 tracks, 47 mins, essential
This compact disc features all of T. Bone's recordings made for Atlantic in 1955 (Chicago), 1956 & 1957 (both Los Angeles). This includes tracks not previously on LP along with what appears to be several previously unissued titles. T-Bone was in great form on these sessions and was accompanied by top session musicians like Plas Johnson, Earl Palmer, Lloyd Glenn, Eddie Chamblee, Barney Kessel and others. A couple of the tracks have a more down home feel with Jimmy Rogers/ guitar and Junior Wells/ harmonica - the latter gets to do a fine solo on the previously unissued T-Bone Blues Special. All these sessions were beautifully recorded and this comes over on this well remastered compact disc. This one is a must! (FS)

T-BONE WALKER BGO BGOCD 116 Funky Town ● CD $18.98

Repro of T-Bone's 1968 Bluesway session where he and producer Bob Theile tried to cash in on the youthful soul and rock market. The funk is a little obvious on cuts like Long Skirt Baby Blues, which mourns the passing of the mini-skirt. But Bone's deep musicality makes most of these 9 long tracks fun and worthwhile, including a boogaloo remake of his Party Girl. Also includes Goin' To Funky Town/ Why My Baby/ Jealous Woman/ Going To Build Me A Playhouse/ Struggling Blues/ I'm In An Awful Mood/ I Wish My Baby (Would Come Home At Night). (MB)

T-BONE WALKER Delmark 633 I Want A Little Girl ● CD $11.98

8 tracks, 40 min., recommended. Cut in 1968 and released on Delmark in '73, Little Girl is Walker's last great album. The blues pioneer finds himself in the company of a small combo of sax man Hal Singer, drummer S.P. Leary, pianist Georges Arvanitas, and bassist Jackie Samson. The whole disc has that 3 A.M. feel, and except on Leaving You Behind, no one is in a hurry. On Ain't It Cold, Baby T-Bone even trades his guitar in for a piano. Jazzier blues than some might like, but probably just the way Walker wanted, and beautifully recorded too. Pull up a smoke-filled room and have a listen. (JC)
T-BONE WALKER: Ain't This Cold Baby/ Baby Ain't I Good To You/ Feeling The Blues/ I Hate To See You Go/ I Want A Little Girl/ Late Hours Blues./ Leaving You Behind/ Someone's Going To Mistreat You

T-BONE WALKER Rhino 79894 The Very Best Of T-Bone Walker ● CD $13.98

16 track collection of early T-Bone sides from Capitol, Imperial and Atlantic.

T-BONE WALKER Wounded Bird 6483 Very Rare ● CD $18.98

20 tracks, 66 mins, recommended
Reissue of two LP set from 1973 featuring T-Bone's last studio recordings produced by Leiber & Stoller. Though T-Bone was not in the best of health by this time (he died two years later) and only plays occasional guitar his voice is still fine and the producers have made a fine effort to give him a worthy send off. He is surrounded by an incredible array of great blues, jazz and rock musicians including Charles Brown, James Booker, David "Fathead" Newman, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Bennett, Paul Humphrey and others plus vocal backup by the Sweet Inspirations on a couple of cuts. Rather than just reprising his most famous songs he is featured on some fine songs by Leiber & Stoller along with some excellent covers. Songs include Striking On You Baby/ The Last Clean Shirt/ The Come Back/ Don't Give Me The Runaround/ Person To Person/ Three Corn Patches/ Just A Little Bit/ Been Down So Long/ Kansas City/ Stormy Monday, etc. A few of the songs are over arranged but for the most part this is a very worthwhile album. (FS)

SIPPIE WALLACE Alligator 4810 Women To Be Wise ● CD $15.98

SIPPIE WALLACE Document DOCD 5400 Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 : 1925-1945 ● CD $15.98

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CHARLES WALKER	Black Magic 9040	I'm Available	● CD $22.98
Nashville blues and soul singer.

CHARLES WALKER	Zane 1019	Number By Heart	● CD $17.98
13 tracks, 59 mins, highly recommended Superb new album of deep soul from veteran Nashville vocalist who has been plying his craft since the late 50s. There are ten new songs from various writers along with three carefully chosen covers. Walker's vocals are powerful and expressive and production by the talented Fred James is outstanding with horn driven instrumental work and soulful vocal backup. Among the highlights are the wrenching title song co-written by Walker, the hard driving One Man's Poison and a beautiful cover of Percy Sledge's It Tears Me Up written by Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham but it's all truly fine - not a dud in sight. (FS)

CHARLES WALKER BAND	Lucky 13 1817	The World & Things	● CD $13.98
10 tracks, recommended Fine set of modern blues with a retro flavor by band from Milwaukee led by alto and tenor sax player Charles Walker (no connection to bluesmen of the same name in New York and Nashville). The band is excellent with guitarist Dr. Emre Alp, bass guitarist Kent "Dice" Hamele, keyboard player Rob Waters and drummer Nic Fugate. Vocals are taken by the very fine Miss Shanna Jackson and the songs are all originals by Walker. A couple of cuts feature harmonica player Steve Cohen for a more down home feel. Some of the instrumental breaks go on a bit long but none of it is excessive and this album is definitely worth a listen. (FS)

JIMMY WALKER	Wolf 120 712	Small Town Baby	● CD $15.98

JIMMY WALKER & ERWIN HELFER	Testament 5011	Rough & Ready	● CD $11.98
20 tracks, 62 min., recommended Recorded when Chicago Pianist Jimmy Walker was in his 60s, this album (a reissue of Testament 2202 with 6 previously unreleased cuts) explores the boogie woogie duet form which gained prominence in the '40s and then effectively died. Walker and 28-year-old white pianist Erwin Helfer (trained by Cripple Clarence Lofton!) have a musical rapport that only time and mutual respect could produce, the two having played together for 2 years before these recording were made. Some tracks feature Walker by himself, sometimes singing, sometimes not. Willie Dixon adds his bass to Helfer's piano on 4 Helfer compositions, including Fringe Benefit/ Give Me 10 Cents Worth Of Love. (JC)

JOE LOUIS WALKER	Blues Express 4001	Live On Broadway	● CD $24.98
DVD featuring 90 minutes of live performances including a 60 minute show at the Broadway nightclub in San Francisco.

JOE LOUIS WALKER	Hightone HCD 8006	Cold Is The Night	● CD $11.98

JOE LOUIS WALKER	Hightone HCD 8012	The Gift	● CD $11.98
Second album from one of the great blues finds of the last few years. Production on this one is little slicker than the first with a cleaner studio sound and use of The Memphis Horns on several tracks but the emphasis is on Joe's tough singing and powerful guitar playing. Although his playing is not particularly unique it is fiery and imaginative. Most of the songs on the album were written by Joe or by the bassist with his band the Boss Talkers, Henry Oden and often deal with the problems of urban life. Particularly good are Thin Line, the risqué Shade Tree Mechanic, and the soulful 1/4 to 3 (no relation to the U.S. Bonds song) with a rare example of Joe's splendid slide guitar playing. Occasionally the songs get a little preachilly moralistic as on the title song but they are generally good. (FS)

JOE LOUIS WALKER	Hightone HCD 8019	Blue Soul	● CD $11.98

JOE LOUIS WALKER	Telarc 83541	In The Morning	● CD $16.98
10 tracks, 53 minutes, good. Walker's long-term deal is over with Verve and his latest is an up-and-down affair. Just About To Lose Your Clown has modern funk underneath distorted guitar and while the title track begins strong, it's dragged into a bog with repetitive background vocals. Joe's Jump offers bristling guitar in short bursts and jazz flavors spice Leave That Girl Alone which steers aside for Where Jesus Leads, but Strange Loving shows Walker's grating falsetto vocals for a third time in six tracks. Do You Wanna Be With Me? gets soul treatment but lyrics lack an imaginative edge, something the guitar sports in spades and the irritating vocals spoil the Jimmy Reed-like If This Is Love. 2120 South Michigan Avenue is a loaded shuffle with churning licks and Strangers In Our Home is an acoustic offering, again with JLW's vocal histrionics, this time proving it wasn't needed anywhere else. (CR)

JOHNNY "BIG MOOSE" WALKER	Evidence 26082	Blue Love	● CD $12.98

PHILLIP WALKER	Delta Groove 115	Going Back Home	● CD $15.98
13 tracks, 43 mins, highly recommended After more than 50 years performing, Phillip Walker continues to deliver quality music with expressive soulful vocals and superb, but never flashy guitar and this new album is no exception. He is accompanied by solid group of West Coast musicians including guitarist Rusty Zinn, drummer Richard Innes, pianist Fred Kaplan, sax player David Woodford and others. The material is heavily dominated by covers but are carefully chosen to avoid over familiarity along with a few excellent new songs from producer Randy Chertoff. There are several nods to the down home blues of his youth with his cover of Lightnin' Hopkins Don't Think Cause You're Pretty, a couple of songs from his mentor Lonesome Sundown and the acoustic flavored Sweet Home New Orleans written by the harmonica player on this track Al Blake. Phillip's low key approach means that he probably doesn't get the attention of some of the more histrionic performers out there but he is assuredly one of the best. (FS)

PHILLIP WALKER	Hightone HCD 8013	Blues	● CD $13.98
Phillip Walker is a fine artist who consistently delivers high quality soulful vocals and expressive guitar. This new album delivers just what the title promises - 10 blues with Phillip accompanied by a solid rhythm section, occasional horns from the Memphis Horns and crisp production from Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker who have produced most of Phillips recordings over the past 15 years. The album is mostly new songs written by Dennis Walker, David Amy and others. Phillip also turns in fine versions of Howling Wolf's How Many More Years and Lonesome Sundown's I Had A Dream. Nothing really spectacular here just good solid blues by one of the most consistent artists around. (FS)

PHILLIP WALKER	Hightone HCD 8020	The Bottom Of The Top	● CD $13.98
A most welcome reissue of the first album from 1973 by this outstanding Los Angeles based singer and guitarist. In many ways this is his best album with his strongest and most assured singing and expressive guitar playing including some dazzling flet fingered work which in spite of speed is always in good taste. The songs were recorded over a 3 year period and are tremendously varied with several fine originals including the wonderful loping Louisiana rocker Hello My Darling and the fine soulful ballad It's All In Your Mind. His covers include the familiar Tin Pan Alley which sounds fresh in his hands, a gorgeous version of Lightnin' Hopkins' Hello Central with solo guitar accompaniment only and fine versions of Long John Hunter's Crazy Girl (with some of his most fiery guitar) and Jimmy Johnson's The Bottom Of The Top. There is even a remarkably effective blues drenched version of Buck Owens' classic Crying Time. Excellent production from the indefatigable Bruce Bromberg, newly remastered by Bernie Grundman and with informative notes by Pete Welding. Now's your chance to replace your old worn out Playboy album or to pick up for the first time on an outstanding album. (FS).

PHILLIP WALKER	Hightone HCD 8032	Someday You'll Have These Blues	● CD $13.98
Cassette and CD reissue of album originally issued in 1977 on Joliet and some years later on Alligator. Walker is a very fine and soulful singer and an outstanding and imaginative guitarist and is backed here by various top notch Southern California musicians on 10 songs recorded at various sessions in 1975 and '76. Most of the songs were written by Phillip and/or David Amy and/or Dennis Walker and include the hard driving title song, the intense Beaumont Blues, the unexpected gospel song When It Needs Getting Done with vocal backup by The Melody Kings and the wonderfully loping If We Can Find It. The two covers - Breakin' Up Somebody's Home and Part Time Love are give excellent rendering - particularly the latter. Recommended. (FS)

PHILLIP WALKER	Hightone 8157	Heritage Of The Blues - Best Of Phillip Walker	● CD $11.98
Another fine release in Hightone's budget priced "Heritage Of The Blues Series" - this one featuring superb California singer/ guitarist Phillip Walker. Drawn from various sessions covering a span of 20 years it features some great songs like I'm Tough/ Hello My Darling/ Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark/ If We Can Find It/ Go Ahead And Take Her/ Someday You'll Have These Blues and more.

PHILLIP WALKER	MC Records 47	Live At Biscuits & Blues	● CD $15.98
12 tracks, recommended While Phillip Walker might not be getting any younger, his guitar playing remains as taut and sharp as a man half his age. Recorded in front of an appreciative audience in San Francisco at a popular blues nightspot, there's a full band with a four-piece horn section in support. Walker's playing ignites from small embers into full-bore blazing attack and the mix of shuffles, slow blues, and soul-fused burners make for an entertaining set. Vocally, he's perhaps a step below some of his earlier work, but simply put, the man still delivers with all cylinders humming. (CR)

ROBERT "BILBO" WALKER	Fedora 5005	Rompin' & Stompin'	● CD $15.98
Mississippi bluesman.

T-BONE WALKER	Atlantic 8020	T-Bone Blues	● CD $9.98
15 tracks, 47 mins, essential This compact disc features all of T. Bone's recordings made for Atlantic in 1955 (Chicago), 1956 & 1957 (both Los Angeles). This includes tracks not previously on LP along with what appears to be several previously unissued titles. T-Bone was in great form on these sessions and was accompanied by top session musicians like Plas Johnson, Earl Palmer, Lloyd Glenn, Eddie Chamblee, Barney Kessel and others. A couple of the tracks have a more down home feel with Jimmy Rogers/ guitar and Junior Wells/ harmonica - the latter gets to do a fine solo on the previously unissued T-Bone Blues Special. All these sessions were beautifully recorded and this comes over on this well remastered compact disc. This one is a must! (FS)

T-BONE WALKER	BGO BGOCD 116	Funky Town	● CD $18.98
Repro of T-Bone's 1968 Bluesway session where he and producer Bob Theile tried to cash in on the youthful soul and rock market. The funk is a little obvious on cuts like Long Skirt Baby Blues, which mourns the passing of the mini-skirt. But Bone's deep musicality makes most of these 9 long tracks fun and worthwhile, including a boogaloo remake of his Party Girl. Also includes Goin' To Funky Town/ Why My Baby/ Jealous Woman/ Going To Build Me A Playhouse/ Struggling Blues/ I'm In An Awful Mood/ I Wish My Baby (Would Come Home At Night). (MB)

T-BONE WALKER	Delmark 633	I Want A Little Girl	● CD $11.98
8 tracks, 40 min., recommended. Cut in 1968 and released on Delmark in '73, Little Girl is Walker's last great album. The blues pioneer finds himself in the company of a small combo of sax man Hal Singer, drummer S.P. Leary, pianist Georges Arvanitas, and bassist Jackie Samson. The whole disc has that 3 A.M. feel, and except on Leaving You Behind, no one is in a hurry. On Ain't It Cold, Baby T-Bone even trades his guitar in for a piano. Jazzier blues than some might like, but probably just the way Walker wanted, and beautifully recorded too. Pull up a smoke-filled room and have a listen. (JC) T-BONE WALKER: Ain't This Cold Baby/ Baby Ain't I Good To You/ Feeling The Blues/ I Hate To See You Go/ I Want A Little Girl/ Late Hours Blues./ Leaving You Behind/ Someone's Going To Mistreat You

T-BONE WALKER	Rhino 79894	The Very Best Of T-Bone Walker	● CD $13.98
16 track collection of early T-Bone sides from Capitol, Imperial and Atlantic.

T-BONE WALKER	Wounded Bird 6483	Very Rare	● CD $18.98
20 tracks, 66 mins, recommended Reissue of two LP set from 1973 featuring T-Bone's last studio recordings produced by Leiber & Stoller. Though T-Bone was not in the best of health by this time (he died two years later) and only plays occasional guitar his voice is still fine and the producers have made a fine effort to give him a worthy send off. He is surrounded by an incredible array of great blues, jazz and rock musicians including Charles Brown, James Booker, David "Fathead" Newman, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Bennett, Paul Humphrey and others plus vocal backup by the Sweet Inspirations on a couple of cuts. Rather than just reprising his most famous songs he is featured on some fine songs by Leiber & Stoller along with some excellent covers. Songs include Striking On You Baby/ The Last Clean Shirt/ The Come Back/ Don't Give Me The Runaround/ Person To Person/ Three Corn Patches/ Just A Little Bit/ Been Down So Long/ Kansas City/ Stormy Monday, etc. A few of the songs are over arranged but for the most part this is a very worthwhile album. (FS)

SIPPIE WALLACE	Alligator 4810	Women To Be Wise	● CD $15.98

SIPPIE WALLACE	Document DOCD 5400	Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 : 1925-1945	● CD $15.98