BLUES
& GOSPEL
Various
Artists Collections - Post War Urban Blues, Miscellaneous - 2
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Collectables 5127 |
Collectables Blues Collection Vol. 1 |
● CD $11.98 |
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Collectables 5128 |
Collectables Blues Collection Vol. 2 |
● CD $11.98 |
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Collectables 5129 |
Collectables Blues Collection Vol. 3 |
● CD $11.98 |
As with many blues compilations this series is a welcome
addition to our inventory, but is not without its flaws. On the positive
side, each disc carries a generous 16 song selection with 3 or 4 rare
nuggets by artists who are, as far as I know, making their first CD
appearance here. Artists like Thelma Cooper, George Grant & The
Rockin' Highlanders, Daisy Mae & Her Hepcats, James Crawford, J.B.
Summers and more really up the ante for you collectors. The drawbacks of
Collectables releases have been pointed out time and again in these pages
- minimal packaging, inattention to remastering details resulting in
merely average sound quality, and no liner notes. The strangest thing
about these releases is the inclusion of Chess tracks by Howlin' Wolf,
Muddy Waters and Little Walter, and an abundance of Jimmy Reed hits,
presumably from the VeeJay label. Why don't they reissue more of the
classic material that languishes in their vaults, rather than padding out
the lineup with the most commonly heard standards from other labels? Beats
me. Anyway, get these for a great selection of hits and obscurities from
Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, Sonny Terry, Buster Brown, Screamin' Jay
Hawkins with Tiny Grimes, Champion Jack Dupree and others. (MB)
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Ace CDCHD 684 |
Ernie's Record Mart |
● CD $18.98 |
25 tracks, 62 minutes, essential
John D. "John
R." Richbourg, who opens this CD & is on the cover, is considered
one of the pre-eminent Nashville DJs, along with Bill "Hoss"
Allen (1922-1997), Herman Grizzard (1900-1971) and Gene Nobles
(1913-1989). It wasn't just their voices (and 'hep-cat' talk) that made
them famous, it was the music they played on the air. This CD is an
example of the music. Daniel Cooper, in his excellent notes, outlines John
R.'s involvement with Ernie Young's Excello label and primary outlet,
Ernie's Record Mart. Opening with the often-covered but never equalled
version of I Miss You So (Lillian Offitt,'57), the program also
includes the 1955 #2 R&B hit by Louis Brooks, It's Love Baby
(with 19 year-old vocalist Earl Gaines). Smack dab in the middle of the CD
is an infectious 1956 instrumental The Hot Patoto by Guitar Red (aka
Paul Johnson) which I'll guarantee you you'll want to press the repeat
button, and not just once. Ace has also included the original version of
one the great early black rock 'n roll records - Rudy Green's My
Mumblin' Baby (1955) - which some of us have heard by Barrence
Whitfield. Other highlights - and their are many - include unissued tracks
like the early soul title Have You Ever (by Eddie Williams) and
Ralph Harris' Slim Zilard that someone should cover. With 5
unissued tracks & compiled by John Broven & Dave Sax, this is a
"Run, Don't Walk - Don"T Even Stop For A Red Light!" CD
purchase (EL)
JIMMIE BIRDSONG: Oh How I Tried/ LARRY BIRDSONG: Pleadin' For Love/ LOUIS
BROOKS & HIS ACE00684: It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day)/ LATTIMORE
BROWN: Got Plenty Troubles/ It Hurts Me So/ Somebody's Gonna Miss Me/
CHUCK BROWN (KING KARL): Out Of Darkness/ AL GARNER: Gonna Stop My Drinkin'/
You Must Be Crazy/ RUDY GREEN: Cool Lovin' Mama/ My Mumblin' Baby/ GUITAR
RED: The Hot Potato/ ARTHUR GUNTER: Hear My Plea Baby/ We're Gonna Shake/
RALPH HARRIS WITH SKIPPY BROOKS: Slim Lizard/ TED JARRETT: Love, Love,
Love/ JOHN R: John R Theme/ KID KING'S COMBO WITH GOOD ROCKIN' SAM: Now
Listen Baby/ JERRY MCCAIN & HIS UPSTARTS: My Next Door Neighbor/
LILLIAN OFFITT: Miss You So/ THE SOLOTONES: Front Page Blues/ Pork And
Beans/ SUGAR AND SWEET: I'll Be Good/ EDDIE WILLIAMS: Have You Ever/ It's
Love Pretty Baby
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Vanguard VCD 25/26 |
Great Blues Men |
● CD $15.98 |
CD issue of VSD 25/26 - Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Big Bill
Broonzy, etc.
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Ace CDCHD 610 |
House Rockin' Blues |
● CD $18.98 |
27 tracks from the vaults of Chess, Checker & Parrot
compiled by John Broven featuring uptempo rockin' blues from John Lee
Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bo
Diddley, Buddy Guy, J.B. Lenore, Otis Rush and others.
BILLY BOY ARNOLD: Sweet On You Baby/ You Got To Love Me/ BLUE SMITTY: Date
Bait/ JOHN BRIM: Be Careful/ Rattlesnake/ G.L. CROCKETT: Look Out Mabel/
BO DIDDLEY: Little Girl/ She's Fine, She's Mine/ BUDDY GUY: Let Me Love
You Baby/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Let's Go Out Tonight/ HOWLING WOLF: I Have A
Little Girl/ Who Will Be Next/ ELMORE JAMES: Madison Blues/ J.B. LENOIR:
Mama Talk To Your Daughter/ LITTLE LUTHER: Twirl/ LITTLE WALTER: I Got To
Go/ Mellow Down Easy/ WILLIE MABON: Poison Ivy/ JIMMY MCCRACKLIN: He Knows
The Rules/ ROBERT NIGHTHAWK: Someday/ MORRIS PEJOE: Tired Of Crying Over
You/ JIMMY ROGERS: If It Ain't Me/ OTIS RUSH: I'm Satisfied/ OTIS SPANN:
I'm Leaving You/ MUDDY WATERS: Close To You/ Young Fashioned Ways/ SONNY
BOY WILLIAMSON: The Goat
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Ecko 1017 |
Juke Joint Saturday Night, Vol. 1 |
● CD $15.98 |
12 tracks of contemporary blues by stars recording for Ecko
with the main topics sung about being sex, sex, partying and sex. Includes
I'm Ready To Party by Ollie Nightingale, Doctor Thrill Good
by Bill Coday, The Fireman by Chuck Roberson (he takes his hose
everywhere), Footprints On The Ceiling by Barbara Carr and others.
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Blue Moon 4002 |
Let's Have A Party |
● CD $15.98 |
20 tracks from late 40s and early 50s - Percy Mayfield, Ruth
Brown, Joe liggins, Roy Brown, Big Joe Turner, Bobby Bland, Larry Darnell,
Floyd Dixon, Jesse Belvin, Pee Wee Crayton and others.
LAVERNE BAKER: Tweedle Dee/ JESSE BELVIN: Baby Don T Go/ Dry Your Tears/
BOBBY BLAND: No Blow No Show/ ROY BROWN: 600 Man Blues/ I've Got The Last
Laugh Now/ RUTH BROWN: Love Contest/ Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean/
RAY CHARLES: Don T You Know/ PEE WEE CRAYTON: Runnin' Wild/ LARRY DARNELL:
I'll Be Sittin', I'll Be Rockin'/ FLOYD DIXON: Hey Bartender/ Hole In The
Wall/ WYNONIE HARRIS: Down Boy Down/ CHUCK HIGGINS: Broke/ JOE LIGGINS: Do
You Love Me Pretty Baby?/ Daddy On My Mind/ PERCY MAYFIELD: Baby You're
Rich/ AMOS MILBURN: Let's Have A Party/ BIG JOE TURNER: Shake, Rattle And
Roll
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Ace CDCHD 773 |
Messing With The Blues |
● CD $23.98 |
Great collection of 25 blues sides from Atlantic including
all four sides recorded by the great Johnny Jones plus an alternate take
of Hoy Hoy. It also features Big Joe Turner (the classic TV Mama
with Elmore James), T-Bone Walker, Jack Dupree, Ray Charles, Frank
"Floorshow" Culley & His Band, Lucky davis & His Blues
KIngs, Chuck Norris, John Lee Hooker, Hal Paige & His Band and more.
RAY CHARLES: A Bit Of Soul/ Losing Hand/ Sinner's Prayer/ FRANK
'FLOORSHOW' CULLEY & HIS BAND: After Hour Session/ LARRY DALE: Drinkin'
Wine Spoo-dee-o-dee/ LUCKY DAVIS & HIS BLUES KINGS: Cold Love/ JACK
DUPREE: Bad Blood/ Junker's Blues/ JIMMY EARLE & THE JAZZ KINGS:
Climbin' Up To Heaven Blues Part 1/ JIMMY GRIFFIN & HIS BAND WITH BEAU
FAIRLEY (VO: She's A W-o-m-a-n/ TINY GRIMES & HIS SEXTET: Blue Harlem/
JOHN LEE HOOKER: Guitar Lovin' Man (lovin' Guitar Man)/ Real Real Gone/
LITTLE JOHNNY JONES: Chicago Blues/ Hoy Hoy/ Hoy Hoy (alternate Take)/ Up
The Line (doin' The Best I Can)/ Wait Baby/ CHUCK NORRIS: Let Me Know/
Messin' Up/ HAL PAIGE & HIS BAND: Break Of Day Blues/ JOE TURNER: Tv
Mama/ ODELLE TURNER WITH THE JESSE STONE ORCH: Draggin' Hours/ T-BONE
WALKER: Play On Little Girl/ T-bone Shuffle
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Smithsonian Folkways 40086 |
Mississippi - River Of Song |
● CD $29.98 |
This two CD set is part of a massive project exploring
American music at the close of the 20th century. In addition to this two
CD set of 36 performances there is a television series of 4 one hour
programs on PBS, a radio series of seven one hour programs, a book by
Boston music journalist Elijah Wald and a web site at www.pbs.org/riverofsong
! The music and series comes from performers recorded along the course of
the Mississippi River from an Ojibwe powwow in northern Minnesota to an
unaccompanied crab fisherman's song recorded on a boat near Delecroix
Island where the Mississippi flows out into the Gulf Of Mexico. Along the
way we hear Minnesota folk blues performer John Koerner, Wisconsin
concertin player Karl Hartwich, Iowa City folk singer Greg Brown, Illinois
bluegrass group The Bob Lewis Family, gospel in St. Louis by Fontella Bass
and her mother Martha, alternative country from Festus Missouri from The
Bottle Rockets, rockabilly from Swifton Arkansas by Sonny Burgess, country
blues from Clarksdale Mississippi by Big Jack Johnson, soul blues from
Greenville Mississippi by Little Milton, zydeco from Opelousas Louisiana
by Geno Delafose, New Orleans R&B from Irma Thomas and a lot more.
Comes with detailed 44 page booklet.
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Ace CDCHK 964 |
Mojo Working - The Best Of Ace Blues |
● CD $14.98 |
20 tracks, 59 min., recommended A tasty budget priced
sampler of mostly 50's blues cuts which are otherwise available on single
artist collections put out by this stellar English reissue label.
Individual tracks were chosen by British music expert John Broven, and
they include Dust My Blues by Elmore James, Boogie Chillen
by John Lee Hooker, Happy Pay Day by Little Willie Littlefield, Blues
After Hours by Pee Wee Crayton, Please Love Me by B. B. King, Lonesome
Dog Blues by Lightnin' Hopkins, The Things That I Used to Do by
Guitar Slim, I'm a King Bee by Slim Harpo, I'm a Lover Not a
Fighter by Lazy Lester, Part Time Lover by Little Johnny
Taylor, and Black Nights by Lowell Fulson. Powerful music,
excellent sound quality, and minimal notes. (DH)
DENNIS BINDER: I Miss You So/ PEE WEE CRAYTON: Blues After Hours/ LOWELL
FULSOM: Black Nights/ GUITAR SLIM: The Things That I Used To Do/ ARTHUR
GUNTER: Baby Let's Play House/ SLIM HARPO: I'm A King Bee/ SMOKEY HOGG:
Little School Girl/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Boogie Chillen/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS:
Lonesome Dog Blues/ HOWLING WOLF: Ridin' In The Moonlight/ ELMORE JAMES:
Dust My Blues/ ALBERT KING: Born Under A Bad Sign/ B.B. KING: Please Love
Me/ Rock Me Baby/ LAZY LESTER: I'm A Lover Not A Fighter/ LIGHTNIN' SLIM:
Hoo Doo Blues/ LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD: Happy Pay Day/ LONESOME SUNDOWN:
I'm A Mojo Man/ LITTLE JOHNNY TAYLOR: Part Time Love/ JOHNNY
"GUITAR" WATSON: Three Hours Past Midnight
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Stax 4132 |
Montreaux Festival: A. King/ C. Hamilton/
Little Milton |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of 1973 festival recording - Chico Hamilton does In
View, Little Milton delivers Let Me Down Easy/ We're Gonna Make It,
and Albert King plays Don't Make No Sense/ Stormy Monday/ For The Love
Of A Woman.
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Night Train 7027 |
Music From And Inspired By "Devil In A Blue
Dress" |
● CD $16.98 |
20 tracks, 57 min., recommended Don't be misled by the title
here. This is not the authorized soundtrack for the currently popular
attempt to revisit film noire. It is instead several numbers used in the
film, plus lots of other similar music, offered by the company that now
owns the rights to that music. So we get Ain't Nobody's Business by
Jimmy Witherspoon, Rain in My Eyes by Joanne Shaw, and Chic Boo
by Lloyd Glen, all of which are featured in Devil in a Blue Dress.
Additional numbers, the majority of the program, include Poor Man Blues
by the Johnny Otis Band, Back Home Blues by Lowell Fulson, Worried
Blues by Floyd Dixon, How Wrong Can a Good Man Be by Percy
Mayfield, I'll Do Anything But Work by Ray Charles, and Changeable
Woman Blues by Charles Brown. A particularly fine program all in all,
with a rather gaudy cover painting which includes a generously endowed
blond in, of all things, a blue dress. (DH)
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Blind Pig 78001 |
Prime Chops - A Blind Pig Sampler |
● CD $9.98 |
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Blind Pig 8002 |
Prime Chops Vol. 2 - A Blind Pig Sampler |
● CD $9.98 |
70 min. of blues, roots rock, gospel and zydeco from
Roy Rogers, Carey Bell, Otis Clay and others. 19 tracks
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