JSP Box Set Label Listing
Blues & Gospel
Various Artists
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JSP 7702 |
Charley Patton & Associates - Complete
Recordings |
● CD $28.98 |
5CDs, 92 tracks, 285 minutes,
essential
The importance of Charley Patton seems to have crested with three
box sets in the last two years. Catfish entered in early 2001 with their
well done, yet inexpensive, 3-disc set and Revenant finished out the
year with an elaborate and costly 7-CD masterpiece. JSP hands in yet
another Patton box, this time five CD's with close to five hours of
playing time. Chronologically laid out, disc one contains Patton's
fourteen tracks as well as four from Buddy Boy Hawkins dating to the
June, 1929, session in Richmond. Disc two gathers sixteen of the sides
Charley delivered in October of 1929 in Grafton, Wisconsin, along with
Edith North Johnson's four piano offerings, while the third disc in the
set also stems from the same session; Patton's even dozen are coupled
with four from Henry 'Son' Sims. Disc four compiles the stunning sixteen
tracks from the June, 1930 date, where Patton brought along Son House,
Willie Brown, and Louise Johnson. House is spellbinding for three
two-part masterpieces; My Black Mama/ Preachin' The Blues, and
Dry Spell Blues, while the test of Walkin' Blues sounds
absolutely better than ever. Brown's pairing of Future Blues and
M&O Blues is breathtaking as well, and Louise Johnson's five show
a driving pianist not afraid to get in the alley with the two-part
All Night Long. The fifth CD has a few additional Patton cuts from
the same date plus Wheeler Ford's powerful vocals fronting the Delta Big
Four in May, while the balance is made up of Charley's final sessions.
He traveled to New York in late January of 1934, and over three days, he
and Bertha Lee delivered a dozen sides. While there's not a lot of gloss
and shine to the JSP box, it does offer incredible value. With much more
included compared to the Catfish box, JSP comes out far ahead. Granted,
it doesn't measure up to Revenant's expensive polish, and although it is
a little less designed than what Catfish offers, by comparing all three
sets, "Charley Patton: Complete Recordings 1929 - 1934" wins in the
bargain sweepstakes. Sound quality on all three is far better than what
many Patton devotees have ever heard, but mastering by 'The Masked
Marvel' on the JSP set does sound better in many spots over the other
two contenders. (CR)
WILLIE BROWN: Future Blues/ M and O Blues/ THE DELTA
BIG FOUR: God Won't Forsake His Own/ I Know My Time Ain't Long/ I'll Be
Here/ Jesus Got His Arms Around Me/ Moaner Let's Go Down in the Valley/
Watch and Pray/ We All Gonna Face the Rising Sun/ Where Was Eve
Sleeping?/ WALTER "BUDDY BOY" HAWKINS: A Rag Blues/ How Come Mama Blues/
Snatch It and Grab It/ Voice Throwin' Blues/ SON HOUSE: Dry Spell Blues,
Pt. 1/ Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 2/ My Black Mama, Pt. 1/ My Black Mama: Pt.
2/ Preachin' the Blues: Pt. 1/ Preachin' the Blues: Pt. 2/ Walkin'
Blues/ EDITH NORTH JOHNSON: Honey Dripper Blues No.2/ Nickel's Worth of
Liver Blues No. 2/ That's My Man/ LOUISE JOHNSON: All Night Long Blues
(Take 1)/ All Night Long Blues (Take 2)/ By the Moon and Stars/ Long
Ways from Home/ On the Wall/ BERTHA LEE: Mind Reader Blues/ Oh Death/
Troubled 'Bout My Mother/ Yellow Bee/ CHARLEY PATTON: 34 Blues/ A
Spoonful Blues/ Banty Rooster Blues/ Bird Nest Bound/ Circle Round the
Moon/ Devil Sent the Rain Blues/ Down the Dirt Road Blues/ Dry Well
Blues/ Elder Green Blues (Take 2)/ Elder Green Blues (Take 2)/ Frankie
and Albert/ Going to Move to Alabama/ Green River Blues/ Hammer Blues
(Take 1)/ Hammer Blues (Take 2)/ Hang It on the Wall/ Heart Like
Railroad Steel/ High Sheriff Blues/ High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1/ High
Water Everywhere, Pt. 2/ I Shall Not Be Moved/ I Shall Not Be Moved/ I'm
Goin' Home/ It Won't Be Long/ Jersey Bull Blues/ Jesus Is A-Dying (Bed
Maker)/ Jim Lee: Pt. 1/ Jim Lee: Pt. 2/ Joe Kirby/ Lord, I'm
Discouraged/ Love My Stuff/ Magnolia Blues/ Mean Black Cat Blues/ Mean
Black Moan/ Mississippi Boll Weevil Blues/ Moon Going Down/ Pea Vine
Blues/ Pony Blues/ Poor Me/ Prayer of Death, Pt. 1/ Prayer of Death, Pt.
2/ Rattlesnake Blues/ Revenue Man Blues/ Runnin' Wild Blues/ Screamin'
and Hollerin' the Blues/ Shake It and Break It (But Don't Let It Fall,
Mama)/ Some Happy Day/ Some Summer Day/ Some of These Days I'll Be Gone/
Some of These Days I'll Be Gone (Take 2)/ Stone Pony Blues/ Tom Rushen
Blues/ When Your Way Gets Dark/ You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die/
HENRY "SON" SIMS: Be True, Be True Blues/ Come Back Corrina/ Farrell
Blues/ Tell Me Man Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7715 |
Legends Of Country Blues |
● CD $28.98 |
5 CDs, 104 tracks, essential
What a line up! Disc A - Skip James in 1931, recording blues so unique
they might have come from a parallel universe, followed by the
blistering intensity of Son House's Paramount session. Disc B - the
historic Son House Library of Congress recordings. Disc C - Bukka White
singing Shake 'Em On Down with the police waiting to arrest him,
later drawing on his prison experiences and producing "the last great
country blues session" with Washboard Sam. Disc D - Tommy Johnson, a man
who probably never asked for a cool drink of water in his life, at least
not if Sterno cooking fuel was available, but who nevertheless produced
beautiful, evocative blues, unerringly sung and with brilliantly
conceived and executed guitar parts. Disc E - Ishmon Bracey, Johnson's
playing partner and a fine singer who was capable of producing effective
and memorable blues in his own right. All of this material has of course
already been issued on CD, some of it on several labels, which makes
JSP's claim that the sound has been "remastered for unprecedented
listening quality" worth examining. Starting the comparison with the
Skip James, Son House, Tommy Johnson and Ishmon Bracey reissues on
Document, the recordings here have fewer clicks and pops, and a lower
level of residual surface noise. Compared to the fuller sounding (but
noisier) Yazoo reissues of Skip James, JSP still emerge well ahead on
points. In fact the quality of their remastering on sides like James'
Devil Got My Woman or Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues is so
good it is difficult to believe you are listening to Paramount
recordings. The Son House Library of Congress recordings have a similar
sound to the version on Travelin' Man CD 02, but the intrusive crackling
on those transfers has been removed. When it comes to the Bukka White
disc however, JSP's claim is harder to sustain. The studio sessions have
decent enough sound, if lacking the crispness of the long deleted
Catfish set, but there must have been a problem in sourcing the two
field recordings Sic 'Em Dogs On and Po' Boy. The sound on
these tracks is poor, whereas a good condition copy of the 78 was
available to Catfish, and to Document when preparing Mississippi Blues
and Gospel (DOCD 5320). (Document have subsequently issued all the Bukka
White sides on DOCD 5679.) Despite the problem with these two sides, JSP
have done another great service in producing a set of this quality. In
this series they are trying to extend the market for some wonderful
music, and if this shows in some of the packaging and booklet notes as
it does here we should not be too critical. (At least full
discographical information is included, which is more than some reissue
companies are able to manage.) If you already have this material, this
set offers four CDs of sound quality upgrades at a bargain price - if
you haven't, treat yourself to some of the most inspired and moving
blues ever recorded. (DPR)
ISHMAN BRACEY: Brown Mama Blues/ Brown Mama Blues/
Bust Up Blues/ Family Stirving/ Farish Street Rag/ Four Day Blues/ Four
Day Blues/ Heavy Suitcase Blues/ Jake Liquor Blues/ Leavin' Town Blues/
Leavin' Town Blues/ Left Alone Blues/ Louisiana Bound/ Mobile Stomp/ Pay
Me No Mind/ Saturday Blues/ Stranger Blues/ Suitcase Full of Blues/ Too
Damp to Be Wet/ Trouble Hearted Blues/ Trouble Hearted Blues/ Where My
Shoes At?/ Woman, Woman Blues/ SON HOUSE: Am I Right or Wrong/ American
Defense/ Camp Hollers/ Country Farm Blues/ Delta Blues/ Depot Blues/ Dry
Spell Blues, Pt. 1/ Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 2/ Fo' Clock Blues/ Government
Fleet Blues/ Jinx Blues, Pt. 1/ Jinx Blues, Pt. 2/ Key of Minor/ Levee
Camp Blues/ Low Down Dirty Dog Blues/ My Black Mama, Pt. 1/ My Black
Mama, Pt. 2/ Pony Blues/ Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 1/ Preachin' the
Blues, Pt. 2/ Shetland Pony Blues/ Special Rider Blues/ Special Rider
Blues/ Walkin' Blues/ Walking Blues/ Walking Blues/ SKIP JAMES: 22-20
Blues/ Be Ready When He Comes/ Cherry Hall Blues/ Cypress Grove Blues/
Devil Got My Woman/ Drunken Spree/ Four O'Clock Blues/ Hard Luck Child/
Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues/ How Long Buck/ I'm So Glad/ If You
Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road/ Illinois Blues/ Jesus Is a Mighty
Good Leader/ Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues/ Special Rider
Blues/ What Am I to Do Blues/ Yola My Blues Away/ TOMMY JOHNSON: Alcohol
and Jake Blues/ Big Fat Mama Blues/ Big Road Blues/ Black Mare Blues/
Black Mare Blues/ Bye Bye Blues/ Canned Heat Blues/ Cool Drink of Water
Blues/ I Wonder to Myself/ Lonesome Home Blues/ Lonesome Home Blues/
Lonesome Home Blues/ Maggie Campbell Blues/ Ridin' Horse/ Slidin' Delta/
BUKKA WHITE: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues/ Black Train/ Bukka's Jitterbug
Blues/ District Attorney Blues/ Fixin' to Die Blues/ Good Gin Blues/
High Fever Blues/ I Am in the Heavenly Way/ New Frisco Train/ Panama
Limited/ Parchman Farm Blues/ Pine Bluff, Arkansas/ Po' Boy/ Promise
True and Grand/ Shake 'Em on Down/ Sic 'Em Dogs On/ Sleepy Man Blues/
Special Stream Line/ Strange Place Blues/ When Can I Change My Clothes
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JSP JSPCD 7719 |
Big Joe Williams & The Stars Of
Mississippi Blues |
● CD $28.98 |
5 CDs, 126 tracks, highly recommended
Charlie Patton may have died in 1934, but the six hours of often intense
blues here show his spirit remained very much alive. Big Joe, whose
1935-51 work accounts for the first two discs, incorporated some of
Patton's guitar style in his bass slapping and high treble notes, but
his insistent rhythms were all his own. The unrestrained music of his
1935 sessions includes some of Joe's best work, although his vocals
sound a little tight. His third session two years later sees Joe's voice
more open and relaxed, and the start of a long association with the
brilliant Sonny Boy (John Lee) Williamson. There are several versions of
Joe's signature piece Baby Please Don't Go, autobiographical
material like Mean Step Father Blues and adaptations from Patton,
Jefferson, Estes and other luminaries. Nearly all this material was
previously reissued on Blues Documents 6003/4, but the generally very
good sound quality of those discs has been improved upon here, and an
alternate take omitted from BDCD6004 is included. Six additional tracks
from 1951 find Joe continuing to move closer to mainstream Chicago
blues. For the third disc, crank up the volume and enjoy the powerful,
impassioned vocals and emphatic guitar style of Tommy McClennan. Tommy's
limitations as a guitarist only add to the tension of his performances,
and he manages the trick (he only had one, but it's a good one) of being
exciting and amusing at the same time. Patton had a reputation for
clowning during his live performances and on this disc McClennan
delivers virtually a live performance in the studio, with self mocking
injunctions to "play it right", teasing pauses before returning to his
trademark rhythms and occasional laughter at the end of songs. The
original engineers did a great job on these recordings and the
remastering here matches the gold standard set by RCA's McClennan
reissue (67430 - now deleted) Disc four continues Mr McClennan's
assault, and includes an alternate take of Bluebird Blues omitted
from the RCA compilation. On his last recording, Boogie Woogie Woman,
he is joined by playing partner Robert Petway who had a similar (if less
frenetic) style and who was a better guitarist. Petway's complete works
take up the rest of this disc and the start of disc five - he is mainly
remembered for his composition Catfish Blues, his first recording, which
became a blues standard. His work has previously been reissued on
Document (DOCD 5671) and Wolf (WBCD 005) but the sound quality here is
better. Next up on the final disc is Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards, lighter
voiced and the most accomplished guitarist on this set. Twelve of
Edwards' 1942 Library of Congress recordings are here, in much less
blurry sound than the five previously released on Travelin' Man TM CD
07. The highlight is Water Coast Blues, a near six minute
performance which "virtually summarized what Delta musicianship of the
decade had to offer." Honeyboy knew Williams, McClennan and Petway and
his recollections form the main source for Neil Slaven's excellent
booklet notes, but little is known about Willie "Poor Boy" Lofton,
another interesting performer who concludes this set. One of his most
memorable efforts is Jake Leg Blues, a worthy contribution to the
group of songs dealing with the evils of 1930s Jamaica Ginger. Sound is
less noisy than on the Document reissue of Lofton's work (DOCD 5158), if
a little restrained. All round an excellent set, very well presented. (DPR)
DAVID EDWARDS: Army Blues/ Hellatakin' Blues/ Just A
Spoonful/ Roamin' And Ramblin' Blues/ Spread My Raincoat Down/ Stagolee/
Tear It Down Rag/ Water Coast Blues/ Wind Howlin' Blues/ Worried Life
Blues/ You Got To Roll/ You Got To Roll (levee Camp Song)/ WILLIE
LOFTON: Beer Garden Blues/ Dark Road Blues/ Dirty Mistreater/ It's
Killin' Me/ Jake Leg Blues/ My Mean Baby Blues/ Poor Boy Blues/ Rainy
Day Blues/ TOMMY MCCLENNAN: . It's Hard To Be Lonesome/ Baby Don't You
Want To Go/ Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me/ Black Minnie/ Blue As I Can
Be/ Bluebird Blues/ Bluebird Blues (take 2)/ Blues Trip Me This Morning/
Boogie Woogie Woman/ Bottle It Up And Go/ Brown Skin Girl/ Classy Mae
Blues/ Cotton Patch Blues/ Cross Cut Saw Blues (take 1)/ Cross Cut Saw
Blues (take 2)/ Deep Blue Sea Blues/ Des'e My Blues/ Down To Skin And
Bones Blues/ Drop Down Mama/ Elsie Blues/ I Love My Baby/ I'm A Guitar
King/ I'm Going Don't You Know/ It's A Crying Pity/ Katy Mae Blues/ Love
With A Feeling/ Mozelle Blues/ Mr. So And So Blues/ My Baby's Doggin'
Me/ My Baby's Gone/ My Little Girl/ New "shake 'em On Down"/ New Highway
51/ New Sugar Mama/ Roll Me, Baby/ Shake It Up And Go/ She's A Good
Looking Mama/ She's Just Good Huggin' Size/ Travelin' Highway Man/
Whiskey Head Man/ Whiskey Head Woman/ You Can Mistreat Me Here/ You
Can't Read My Mind/ ROBERT PETWAY: Bertha Lee Blues/ Catfish Blues/
Cotton Pickin' Blues/ Don't Go Down Baby/ Hollow Log Blues/ In The
Evening/ Left My Baby Crying/ Let Me Be Your Boss/ My Baby Left Me/ My
Little Girl/ Ride 'em On Down/ Rockin' Chair Blues/ Sleepy Woman Blues/
BIG JOE WILLIAMS: 49 Highway Blues/ Baby Please Don't Go/ Baby Please
Don't Go/ Baby Please Don't Go (alternate Take)/ Bad And Weakhearted
Blues/ Bad Heart Blues/ Banta Rooster Blues/ Break 'em On Down/ Brother
James/ Crawlin' King Snake/ Delta Blues/ Don't You Leave Me Here/ Drop
Down Blues/ Highway 49/ His Spirit Lives On/ House Lady Blues/ I Know
You Gonna Miss Me/ I Won't Be In Hard Luck No More/ I'm A Highway Man/
I'm Getting Wild About Her/ Jivin' Woman/ King Biscuit Stomp/ Little Leg
Woman/ Mama Don't Allow Me/ Mean Stepfather Blues/ Meet Me Around The
Corner/ Mellow Apples/ My Grey Pony/ North Wind Blues/ Overhauling
Blues/ P Vine Blues/ Peach Orchard Mama/ Please Don't Go/ Providence
Help The Poor People/ Rootin' Ground Hog/ She Left Me A Mule/ She's A
Married Woman/ Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff/ Somebody's Been
Worryin'/ Someday Baby/ Stack Of Dollars/ Stack Of Dollars/ Stepfather
Blues/ Throw A Boogie Woogie/ Vitamin A/ Wanita/ Whistling Pines/ Wild
Cow Blues/ Wild Cow Moan/ Worried Man Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7723 |
The Paramount Masters |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 100 tracks, recommended
In recent times Paramount has acquired a glamour completely at odds with
the company's reputation in the twenties. The widely reproduced Chicago
Defender ads with their superb artwork and comically naïve and
patronizing copy have helped, but the label's main appeal lies, despite
its shoddy production methods, in the variety of wonderful music it
captured. Don't be mislead by the title of this compilation though - it
is not produced from master discs [if only!] and the true "masters" of
the label - Jefferson, Blind Blake, Ma Rainey and Charlie Patton -
muster only two tracks between them. Instead each of these discs
contains a mixture of often outstanding country blues from artists such
as Bo Weavil Jackson, Ed Bell and King Solomon Hill, great piano pieces
like Wesley Wallace's No.29, and contributions from interesting female
singers such as Alice Moore ["I'm black and I'm evil, and I did not make
myself"]. Partly because of Paramount's distribution problems and a
worsening economic climate few of these records were commercially
successful, but some are high points in pre war recording. Thoroughly
enjoyable in its own terms, this "best of" compilation is a departure
from the "complete recordings" approach previously adopted in this
series of box sets. The content here is also circumscribed by JSP not
wanting to duplicate the many Paramount recordings on their previous
releases. (The one Patton track is the slower alternate take of I
Shall Not Be Moved omitted from JSP 7702.) We can only assume, and
hope, that it also constrained by planned future releases. Does the
omission of Frank Stokes point to a Memphis Blues box set? Is the fact
that Ramblin' Thomas doesn't feature, except on a near inaudible
accompaniment to Bernice Edwards, an indication of a Texas box? And is
it significant that there is a second issued take of the one Ma Rainey
track? Enough daydreaming, the sound quality here is pretty good for
Paramounts, and, as might be expected, generally better than on the
corresponding reissues on Document. The degree of improvement varies
however, and comparing a sample of these tracks against the Document
counterparts revealed one where the Document transfer was clearly
superior. Neil Slaven's notes for each disc give useful background on
some of the artists and the often eccentric workings of Paramount,
although it appears they were written before the tracklisting was
finalized. Still, the sequencing of tracks works very well, and makes
this introduction to some of blues' more obscure performers consistently
engaging. (DPR)
RAYMOND BARROW: Walking Blues/ LOTTIE BEAMAN: Honey
Blues/ Red River Blues/ ED BELL: Hambone Blues/ Mamlish Blues/ FREDDIE
BROWN: Raised In The Alley Blues/ HENRY BROWN: Deep Morgan Blues/
Eastern Chimes Blues/ BUMBLE BEE SLIM: Rough Rugged Road Blues/ JOHN
BYRD: Billy Goat Blues/ Old Timbrook Blues/ LONNIE CLARK: Broke Down
Engine/ Down In Tennessee/ BOGUS BEN COVINGTON: I Heard The Voice Of A
Pork Chop/ BEN CURRY: Boodle De Bum Bum/ The New Dirty Dozen/ TEDDY
DARBY: Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues/ My Laona Blues/ SIDE WHEEL SALLY
DUFFIE: Bunker Hill Blues/ MOANIN' BERNICE EDWARDS: Jack Of All Trades/
PIANO KID EDWARDS: Give Us Another Jug/ Piano Kid Special/ THE FAMOUS
HOKUM BOYS: Where Did You Stay Last Night/ BOBBY GRANT: Lonesome Atlanta
Blues/ Nappy Head Blues/ BLIND ROOSEVELT GRAVES: Guitar Boogie/ New York
Blues/ GEORGE HANNAH: Freakish Man Blues/ The Boy In The Boat/ THE HARUM
SCARUMS: Come On In (Ain't Nobody Here But Me)/ BUDDY BOY HAWKINS: Nuber
Three Blues/ KING SOLOMON HILL: Down On My Bended Knee/ The Gone Dead
Train/ Whoopee Blues/ JACK O'DIAMONDS: Smiling Blues/ The Ducks Yas Yas/
BO WEEVIL JACKSON: Pistol Blues/ Some Scream High Yellow/ You Can't Keep
No Brown/ PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON: Gay Cattin'/ Mama, Don't You Think I
Know/ MARY JOHNSON: Barrel House Flat Blues/ Key To The Mountain Blues/
RUBE LACY: Ham Hound Crave/ Mississippi Jail House Groan/ MEADE LUX
LEWIS: Honky Tonk Train Blues/ LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY: Vicksburg
Blues/ LITTLE BROTHER MONTOGOMERY: No Special Rider Blues/ ALICE MOORE:
Black And Evil Blues/ Prison Blues/ WILLIAM MOORE: Old Country Rock/
Raggin' The Blues/ CHARLIE 'DAD' NELSON: Cotton Field Blues/ Red River
Blues/ MARSHALL OWENS: Texas Blues/ Try Me One More Time/ CHARLEY
PATTON: I Shall Not Be Moved (Alt. Tk)/ RUBY PAUL: Last Farewell Blues/
Red Letter Blues/ ALICE PEARSON: Water Bound Blues/ ROBERT PEEPLES: Fat
Greasy Baby/ Wicked Devil's Blues/ MA RAINEY: Traveling Blues/ BLIND JOE
REYNOLDS: Nehi Blues/ Ninety Nine Blues/ Outside Woman Blues/ BOB
ROBINSON: The Preacher Must Get Some Sometime/ J.D. SHORT: Lonesome
Swamp Rattlesnake/ Telephone Arguin' Blues/ CHARLIE SPAND: Back To The
Woods Blues/ Fetch Your Water/ Soon This Morning Blues/ FREDDIE SPRUELL:
Low-Down Mississippi Bottom Man/ Tom Cat Blues/ SWEET PAPA STOVEPIPE:
All Birds Look Like Chickens To Me/ Mama's Angel Child/ ROOSEVELT SYKES:
Conjur Man Blues/ Fire Detective Blues/ Three, Six And Nine/ ELVIE
THOMAS: Motherless Child Blues/ Over To My House/ EDWARD THOMPSON: Seven
Sister Blues/ Up On The Hill Blues/ HENRY TOWNSEND: Doctor, Oh Doctor/
Jack Of Diamons Georgia Rub/ WESLEY WALLACE: Fanny Lee Blues/ No. 29/
WASHBOARD WALTER: Narrow Face Blues/ WASHBOARD WALTER: Wasn't It Sad
About Lemon/ BARREL HOUSE WELCH: Dying Pickpocket Blues/ BARRELHOUSE
WELCH: Larceny Woman Blues/ JAMES 'BOODLE IT' WIGGINS: Evil Woman Blues/
JAMES WIGGINS: Gotta Shave 'Em Dry/ JAMES 'BOODLE IT' WIGGINS: Keep
A-Knockin'/ GEECHIE WILEY: Eagles On A Half/ Pick Poor Robin Clean/
GEORGE 'BULLET' WILLIAMS: Frisco Leaving Birmingham/ Touch Me Light
Mama/ JABO WILLIAMS: Jab Blues/ Pratt City Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7737 |
Blind Willie Johnson & The Guitar
Evangelists |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 96 tracks, highly recommended
It is over ten years since the issue of "The
Complete Blind Willie Johnson" (Columbia 52835
- $28.98). For this chronological reissue of the work of the greatest of
all pre war gospel artists JSP have adopted a different format, breaking
up Blind Willie's sessions with sessions by some of his contemporaries,
in the final disc adding performances which show his influence on the
post war gospel scene. It is a format which works very well, even while
it illustrates the gulf which separates the other practitioners from Mr
Johnson. These are complete recordings except in the case of A.C and
Mamie Forehand and Reverend Edward W Clayborn, where because of space
limitations alternate takes previously issued on Document are omitted.
Clayborn, dubbed The Guitar Evangelist, opens the set, and he is an
effective performer, although his fondness for a two beat rhythm on the
bass strings can become a bit tedious. Elsewhere the single session of
husband and wife A.C and Mamie Forehand has a sedate charm, Blind Willie
Harris who opens the third disc is almost certainly Richard "Rabbit"
Brown in religious mode, and the final disc offers some fun in the form
of the Reverends Utah Smith and Anderson Johnson. Utah Smith, who has
something of Blind Willie's vocal power, is a showman, hurling notes
from his heavily amplified guitar. Reverend Johnson, until sadly tamed
by an A&R man, is also willing to test the sonic boundaries as his first
version of God Don't Like It demonstrates. Their material draws
on pre war sources and this sense of continuity gives the compilation a
satisfying cohesiveness. There is though only one star, one utterly
compelling performer. Blind Willie's magnificent first session which
closes disc one combines the power of tracks like I Know His Blood
Can Make Me Whole and If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down
with the meditative slide masterpiece Dark Was The Night - Cold Was
The Ground, later to become the become the stuff of soundtracks and
the "Sounds Of The Earth" discs carried by the Voyager satellites. This
pattern - a class act blowing away all that has gone before - repeats
itself on the subsequent discs. Discographical information is limited to
a list of recording dates, and as is often the case with this series
there is a disconnection between the notes for each CD and the artists
on it. The notes themselves, by Keith Briggs, are also hampered by the
fact that very little is known about most of these performers. Sound
quality is very good throughout, allowing for the usual acoustic
vagaries of some of the post war recordings. The only tracks with
significant noise are those by A.C and Mamie Forehand, where sound is
very similar to that on the remastered version of Document DOCD 5054.
The most important comparison though is with the Blind Willie reissue on
Columbia, and here JSP is the clear winner. The hiss on the Columbia
transfers is significantly reduced, the vocal attack seems even stronger
and the guitar is beautifully presented, a credit to the original
recording engineers as well as an excellent remastering job. There may
still be a couple of copies of Dark Was The Night in interstellar
space, but I bet they don't sound this good. (DPR)
REV. EDWARD W. CLAYBORN: A Letter From Father/ Bye and
Bye When The Morning Comes/ Come And Go With Me To My Father's House/
Death Is Only A Dream/ Everybody Ought To Treat Their Mother Right/
God's Riding Through The Land/ I Have A Home In The Sky/ I Heard The
Angels Singing/ I Shall Not Be Moved/ If My Saviour Holds My Hand I Will
Go/ In Time Of Trouble Jesus Will Never Say Goodbye/ Jesus Is Sweeter
Than Honey In The Comb/ Jesus Went On Man's Bond/ Jesus Will Make It
Alright/ Just Beyond The Jordan River/ Let Jesus Lead You/ Let that Lie
Alone/ Men Don't Forget Your Wives For Sweethearts/ O Lord I'm In Your
Care/ The Gospel Train Is Coming/ The Wrong Way To Celebrate Christmas/
Then We'll Need That True Religion/ There'll Be Glory/ This Time Another
Year You May Be Gone/ When I Lay My Burden Down/ Where Shall I Be When
The First Trumpet Sounds?/ With My Saviour I Shall Be/ You Never Will
Know Who Is Your Friend/ Your Enemy Cannot Harm You/ Your True Friends/
DENNIS CRUMPTON & ROBERT SUMMERS: Everybody Ought To Pray Some Time/ Go
I'll Send Thee/ A.C. & BLIND MAMIE FOREHAND: Honey In The Rock/ I'm So
Glad Today/ Mothers Prayer/ Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All/ BLIND
WILLIE HARRIS: Does Jesus Care?/ Where He Leads Me I Will Follow/ BLIND
WILLIE JOHNSON: Bye And Bye I'm Goin' To See The King/ Can't Nobody Hide
From God/ Church, I'm Fully Saved Today/ Dark Was The Night - Cold Was
The Ground/ Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right/ Go With Me To The
Land/ God Don't Never Change/ God Moves On The Water/ I Know His Blood
Can Make Me Whole/ I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge/ If I Had My Way
I'd Tear This Building Down/ If It Had Not Been For Jesus/ It's Nobody's
Fault But Mine/ Jesus Is Coming Soon/ Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed/ John
The Revelator/ Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning/ Let Your Light Shine
On Me/ Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying/ Mother's Children Have A
Hard Time/ Praise God I'm Satisfied/ Sweeter As The Years Roll By/ Take
Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There/ Take Your Stand/ The Rain
Don't Fall On Me/ The Soul Of A Man/ Trouble Will Soon Be Over/ When The
War Was On/ You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond/ You're Gonna Need
Somebody On Your Bond/ REV. A. JOHNSON: Death In The Morning/ Do You
Call That Religion?/ God Don't Like It/ God Don't Like It (alt.)/ I
Don't Know How To Get Along Without The Lord/ I'm Gonna Do My Best/ If I
Could Hear My Mother Pray Again/ Jesus Loves Us All/ Let That Liar Pass
On By/ Lord Will Make A Way/ Run Children Run/ The Lord Will Make A Way
Somehow/ LONNIE MCINTORSH: Arise And Shine/ How Much I Owe/ Sleep On
Mother Sleep On/ The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah/ BLIND BENNY PARIS:
Hide Me In The Blood Of Jesus/ I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me/ REV.
UTAH SMITH: Glory To Jesus, I'm Free/ God's Mighty Hand/ I Got Two
Wings/ I Want Two Wings/ Take A Trip/ Two Wings/ REV. I. B. WARE WITH
WIFE & SON: I Wouldn't Mind Dying (But I Gotta Go By Myself)/ You Better
Quit Drinking Shine/ WILLIE MAE WILLIAMS: Don't Want To Go There/ Where
The Sun Never Goes Down
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JSP JSPCD 7744 |
Chicago Is Just That Way: 1938-1954 |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 112 tracks, over 5 hours, recommended
Splendid collection of Chicago blues which focuses on the transition
from the older styles to the sound which we associate with the golden
age of Chicago blues in the early 50s. It shows that the transition was
not exclusively the province of the new arrivals from the South but also
the older performers adapting to the increasing urbanization of their
local audience. The first disc is exclusively devoted to Tampa Red whose
songs and guitar style were an influence on many up and coming artists -
we hear him in the late 40s and early 50s in the company of the
brilliant piano player Johnny Jones and drummer Odie Payne (who both
went on to work with Elmore James) and bassist Ransom Knowling. His
performances are as exciting and vital as any of the young bucks and his
last couple of RCA sessions in 1953 find him in the company of up and
coming harmonica stars Sonny Boy Williamson and Walter Horton. The other
three discs provide a mix of older and younger performers and although
much of it has been out before it's nice to hear the music in this
context and there are a number of tracks that are making their first
appearance on CD. Artists include Big Maceo, Johnny Shines (his fabulous
originally unissued Columbia recordings), Jazz Gillum, Muddy Waters (his
unissued Columbia sides and his first commercial recording issued under
the name of James "Sweet Lucy" Carter), Big Boy Crudup, Floyd Jones,
Johnny Williams, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Roosevelt Sykes,
Snooky & Moody, Lillie Mae & The House Rockers, Little Walter, Eddie
Boyd (doing the collection's theme song), Jimmy Rogers (his originally
unissued version of That's All Right), Snooky Pryor, Baby Face
Leroy Foster, Tony Hollins, Robert Lockwood and others. Sound quality is
generally fine though a few tracks exhibit excessive digital noise
reduction. Includes informative notes by Neil Slaven putting it all into
perspective. (FS)
BIG MACEO: Big City Blues/ Do You Remember/ Just Tell
Me Baby/ Kidman Blues/ One Sunday Morning/ EDDIE BOYD: Blue Monday
Blues/ Chicago Is Just That Way/ BIG BILL BROONZY: I Love My Whiskey/
Leavin' Day/ Southbound Train/ Water Coast Blues/ LEE BROWN: Horse Shoe
Boogie/ Lowland Blues/ Round The World Boogie/ Ruby Moore Blues/ ARTHUR
"BIG BOY" CRUDUP: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane/ That's All Right/ BABY
FACE LEROY FOSTER: Boll Weevil/ Red Headed Woman/ Rollin' And Tumblin'
1/ Rollin' And Tumblin' 2/ JAZZ GILLUM: A Lie Is Dangerous/ Look What
You Are Today/ Roll Dem Bones/ The Blues What Am/ JIMMIE GORDON: Jumping
At The Club Blue Flame/ My Woman's A Pearl Diver/ TONY HOLLINS: Crawlin'
King Snake/ Wine-O-Woman/ FLOYD JONES: Hard Times/ Keep What You Got/
School Days/ Stockyard Blues/ LILLIE MAE & THE HOUSE ROCKERS: Lovin' Man
Blues/ LITTLE WALTER: Bad Acting Woman/ Blue Baby/ I Want My Baby/ Just
Keep Loving Her/ ROBERT LOCKWOOD: (I'm Gonna) Dig Myself A Hole/ Dust My
Broom/ WILLIE MABON: Boogie Man/ It Keeps Rainin'/ MEMPHIS MINNIE:
Kidman Blues/ Why Did I Make You Cry/ MEMPHIS SLIM: (Now I) Got The
Blues/ Don't Ration My Love/ Grinder Man Blues/ Mistake In Life/ JIMMY
ROGERS: I'm In Love/ Little Store Blues/ Ludella/ That's All Right/
JOHNNY SHINES: Delta Pine Blues/ Evil Hearted Woman Blues/ Ride, Ride
Mama/ Tennessee Woman Blues/ SNOOKY & MOODY: Boogie/ Telephone Blues/
ST. LOUIS JIMMY: Coming Up Fast/ Going Down Slow/ I Ain't Done Nothing
Wrong/ One Doggone Reason/ SUNNYLAND SLIM: 5 Foot 4 Gal/ Brown Skin
Woman/ I've Done You Wrong/ Jivin' Boogie/ ROOSEVELT SYKES: Candy Man
Blues/ Lowland Blues/ Savoy Boogie/ Why Should I Cry/ TAMPA RED: 1950
Blues/ Big Stars Falling Blues/ Boogie Woogie Woman/ But I Forgive You/
Don't Blame Shorty For That/ Early In The Morning/ Evalena/ Got A Mind
To Leave This Town/ Green And Lucky Blues/ I Should Have Loved Her More/
I Won't Let Her Do It/ I'll Never Let You Go/ I'm Gonna Put You Down/ If
She Don't Come Back/ It's A Brand New Boogie/ It's Good Like That/ Love
Her With A Feelin'/ New Deal Blues/ Please Mr Doctor/ Pretty Baby Blues/
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is/ Rambler's Blues/ She's Dynamite/ So
Crazy About You Baby/ Sweet Little Angel/ That's Her Own Business/ Too
Late Too Long/ When Things Go Wrong With You/ SIPPIE WALLACE: Bedroom
Blues/ Buzz Me/ MUDDY WATERS: Burying Ground Blues/ Hard Day Blues/
Jitterbug Blues/ Mean Red Spider/ JOHNNY WILLIAMS: Worried Man Blues/
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: Better Cut That Out/ Bring Another Half A Pint/
JOHNNY YOUNG: Money Taking Woman/ MAN YOUNG: Let Me Ride Your Mule/ My
Baby Walked Out
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JSP JSPCD 7753 |
Shake That Thing! East Coast Blues,
1935-1953 |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 105 tracks, essential
The complete recordings
of three fine, individual but obscure East Coast country bluesman. There
are 41 tracks by Gabriel Brown, a brilliant and original singer/
guitarist from Florida who came up with some unique lyrics. It includes
10 tracks recorded for the Library Of Congresss in Florida in 1935 which
is mostly traditional material - often featuring slide. The remaining
tracks were recorded for New York entrepreneur Joe Davis between 1942
and 1952 and includes quite a few titles that were not originally
issued. There are 19 tracks recorded for Gotham in 1949 by the utterly
magnificent Dan Pickett whose background is a total mystery. Although
quite a few of Pickett's songs were drawn from the repertoire of other
bluesman his expressive vocals and stunning guitar (often using slide)
turned them into individualistic gems. The set is rounded out with 46
tracks by Ralph Willis - another biographical mystery who is thought to
be from Alabama and later moved North Carolina where he met up with
Buddy Moss, Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny & Brownie and his music shows
their influences. There are a dozen gorgeous solo sides by him revealing
him to be a superb guitarist. The remaining tracks feature his with
small groups - sometimes just bass or washboard, other times with
guitar, bass & drums - the other guitarist usually being Brownie McGhee
and on one sessions they are joined by Sonny Terry. Sound is excellent
and there are informative notes from Neil Slaven. A beautiful collection
of country blues. (FS)
GABRIEL BROWN: A Dream Of Mine/ Baby, Boy, Baby/ Bad
Love/ Black Jack Blues/ Blues/ Careless Love/ Cold Love/ Cold Mama/
Doing My Best/ Don't Worry About It/ Down In The Bottom/ Education
Blues/ Going My Way/ Good-Time Papa/ Got No Money Blues/ Hold Me Baby/ I
Am Just Hard Luck/ I Am Playing The Game/ I Get Evil When My Love Comes
Down/ I Had My Hands On It/ I'm Gonna Take It Easy/ I'm Just Crazy/ I've
Done Stopped Gamblin'/ I've Got To Stop Drinkin'/ It's Getting Soft/
It's Time To Move/ John Henry (Instrumental)/ John Henry (Vocal)/ Mean
Old Blues/ Motherless Child/ Nobody Loves Me Like My Little Girl/ Not
Now, I'll Tell You When/ Po' Boy, Long Way From Home/ Stick With Me/
Talking In Sebastopol/ That's Alright/ The Jinx Is On Me/ Tone The Bell
Easy/ You Ain't No Good/ You Have To Be Different/ Youngster's Blues/
DAN PICKETT: 99 1/2 Won't Do/ Baby Don't You Want To Go/ Baby How Long/
Chicago Blues/ Decoration Day/ Drivin' That Thing/ Drivin' That Thing
(Alt)/ Early One Morning/ I Can Shake It/ Laughing Blues/ Laughing Rag/
Lemon Man/ Number Writer/ Number Writer Take 1/ Ride To A Funeral In A
V-8/ Something's Gone Wrong/ That's Grieving Me/ You Got To Do Better/
RALPH WILLIS: Amen/ Amen Blues/ Bed Tick Blues/ Black And Tan/ Blues,
Blues, Blues/ Boar Hog Blues/ Christmas Blues/ Church Bell Blues/ Church
Bells/ Cold Chills/ Cold Chills/ Comb Your Kitty Kat/ Cool That Thing/
Do Right/ Door Bell Blues/ Eloise/ Everyday I Weep And Moan/ Goin' To
Chattanooga/ Goin' To Viriginia/ Gonna Hop On Down The Line/ Goodbye
Blues/ Hoodoo Man/ I Got A Letter, Too Late To Scream And Shout/ I Will
Never Love Again/ I'm Gonna Rock/ I've Been A Fool/ Income Tax Blues/
Just A Note/ Lazy Woman Blues/ Mama, Mama Blues/ Neighborhood Blues/ New
Goin' Down Slow/ Old Home Blues/ Salty Dog/ Shake That Thing/ So Many
Days/ Somebody Is Got To Go/ Sportin' Life/ Steel Mill Blues/ Tell Me
Pretty Baby/ Tell Me Pretty Baby/ That Gal's No Good/ Trouble Don't
Last/ Why'd You Do It/ Worried Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7754 |
Atlanta Blues - Big City Blues From The
Heartland |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 101 tracks, essential
Not sure about the subtitle
though. What about the pre-blues, country dance tunes, gospel songs, old
time medleys, vaudeville songs? Still, there are also some excellent
blues, such as My Mamma Was A Sailor by Julius Daniels, which
opens this set. Daniels was a fine singer and guitarist who must have
had an amazing repertoire, judging from the few titles he recorded. He
certainly leaves you wishing he'd recorded more. Someone who did was
Curley Weaver, and here are his complete pre war recordings, plus six
tracks from 1949. [Contrary to the impression given in Neal Slaven's
otherwise informative booklet notes, Weaver did make some further
recordings in the company of Blind Willie McTell. These were reissued,
in superlative sound, on Blind Willie McTell / Pig 'n Whistle Red,
Biograph 30171 Weaver was a talented if not particularly distinctive
performer whose first session produced No No Blues, a very
effective song with a driving guitar part and on which he sounds
remarkably like Barbecue Bob. By the time though you have heard another
three versions plus two with different lyrics you will probably have had
enough of it. Unfortunately appreciation of his pre war work is hampered
in many cases by poor sound quality. There are no such problems with
discs three and four. The third features Peg Leg Howell, whose
recordings blues historian Paul Oliver rates "among the most important
documentations of the early blues". Fair comment, but it is odd that,
apart from the complete works on Matchbox (MBCD 2004/5), Howell has been
largely neglected by other reissue companies, at least in recent times.
He had a gift for refashioning songs he had learned in rural Georgia
(including white country music) as well as for original compositions
like the excellent Low Down Rounder's Blues. On such solo sides
his fingerpicking was varied, and his heavy voice with its lugubrious
tone was well suited to his blues. Elsewhere he was supported by his
"gang" of street musicians including the rough "alley fiddle" of his
friend Eddie Anthony. Some of Howell's best work has few equivalents in
pre war blues, like Coal Man Blues with its street vendors' cries
or Please Ma'am, an "over and over" song pleading against
rejection, where the repetition of a few phrases becomes like some kind
of extended mantra. There is plenty to enjoy in all these tracks, from
Beaver Slide Rag, a perfect country dance tune, to the
acknowledged masterpiece of Skin Game Blues. The final disc
concludes Peg Leg's legacy and presents other recordings by members of
his gang. Highlights include Georgia Crawl by Henry Williams and
Eddie Anthony and the second session of Anthony (recording as Macon Ed)
with guitarist Tampa Joe, which culminates with Warm Wipe Stomp
(worth having just for the title!). Vaudeville singer "Sloppy" Henry
provides variety and a memorable Canned Heat Blues before
songster Lil McClintock delivers Furniture Man and Don't Think
I'm Santa Claus. McClintock's performances were representative of an
older style in 1930 but still sound wonderfully fresh today (an
alternate take of Furniture Man, omitted here, was on Document DOCD
5160. "Sloppy" Henry's other sessions were on Document DOCD 5380 and
5482). Sound quality shows a worthwhile improvement on corresponding
Document/Matchbox reissues, and is generally very good apart from some
worn Curley Weaver sides. The sound of two postwar Weaver tracks
duplicated on Biograph 30171 is however slightly better on the Biograph
reissue. Finally, the format of discs three and four here represents an
improvement over the Matchbox discs, in that all the Peg Leg Howell
sides are presented together rather than being split up by recordings of
his associates. Altogether this is another important set, full of
fascinating and unique recordings. (DPR)
JULIUS DANIELS: Can't Put The Bridle On The Mule This
Morning (Take 1)/ Can't Put The Bridle On The Mule This Morning (Take
2)/ Crow Jane Blues/ I'm Goin' To Tell God How You Doin'/ My Mamma Was A
Sailor/ Ninety-Nine Year Blues (Take 1)/ Ninety-Nine Year Blues (Take
2)/ Richmond Blues (Take 1)/ Richmond Blues (Take 2)/ Slippin' And
Slidin' Up The Golden Street (Tak 3)/ Slippin' And Slidin' Up The Golden
Street (Take 2)/ THE GEORGIA BROWNS: Decatur Street 81/ It Must Have
Been Her/ Joker Man/ Next Door Man (Take 1)/ Next Door Man (Take 2)/
Tampa Strut/ Who Stole De Lock/ 'SLOPPY' HENRY: Canned Heat Blues/ Long,
Tall, Disconnected Mama/ Royal Palm Special Blues/ Say I Do It/ PEG LEG
HOWELL: Away From Home/ Ball And Chain Blues/ Banjo Blues/ Beaver Slide
Rag/ Broke And Hungry Blues/ Chittlin' Supper/ Coal Man Blues/ Doin'
Wrong/ Fairy Blues/ Fo' Day Blues/ Hobo Blues/ Low-Down Rounder Blues/
Moanin' And Groanin' Blues/ Monkey Man Blues/ New Jelly Roll Blues/ New
Prison Blues/ Papa Stobb Blues/ Peg Leg Stomp/ Please Ma'am/ Rock And
Gravel Blues/ Rolling Mill Blues/ Sadie Lee Blues/ Skin Game Blues/
Tishamingo Blues/ Too Tight Blues/ Turkey Buzzard Blues/ Turtle Dove
Blues/ Walkin' Blues/ MACON ED & TAMPA JOE: Everything's Coming My Way/
Mean Florida Blues/ Tantalizing Bootblack/ Tickle Britches/ Try That
Thing/ Warm Wipe Stomp/ Worrying Blues/ Wringing That Thing/ LILLIE MAE:
Bootie Wah Bootie/ Buggy Jail House Blues/ Mama Don't Want It/ Wise Like
That/ LIL MCCLINTOCK: Don't Think I'm Santa Claus/ Furniture Man/ Mother
Called Her Child To Her Dying Bed/ Sow Good Seeds/ CURLEY WEAVER: .
Tricks Ain't Walking No More/ Baby Boogie Woogie/ Birmingham Gambler/
Black Woman/ Brown Skin Woman/ City Cell Blues/ Dirty Deal Blues/ Dirty
Mistreater/ Early Morning Blues/ Early Morning Blues/ Empty Room Blues/
Fried Pie Blues/ I Keep On Drinkin'/ It's The Best Stuff Yet/ Leg Iron
Blues/ My Baby's Gone/ No No Blues/ No No Blues (Take 1)/ No No Blues
(Take 2)/ No No Blues (W. Eddie Mapp)/ Oh Lawdy Mama/ She Don't Treat Me
Good No More/ Some Cold Rainy Day/ Some Rainy Day/ Sometime Mama/ Sweet
Petunia/ Ta Ta Blues/ Ticket Agent/ Tippin' Tom/ Trixie/ Two Faced
Woman/ Wild Cat Kitten/ You Was Born To Die/ HENRY WILLIAMS & EDDIE
ANTHONY: Georgia Crawl/ Lonesome Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7758 |
Boogie Uproar - Texas Blues Blues & R&B,
1947-1954 |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD with 103 tracks of Texas jump blues and R&B
recorded between 1947 and 1954 with an emphasis on some of the great
guitarists from that state and includes the complete recordings from
this period of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Zuzu Bollin, James Widemouth
Brown, nelson carson, R.B. Thibadeaux, Goree Carter and Lester Williams.
Most of this material has been out on CD before but it's great to have
it all in one place.
ZUZU BOLLIN: Cry, Cry,cry/ Headlight Blues/ Stayin'
Chain/ Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night/ CLARENCE
'GATEMOUTH' BROWN: 2 O'clock In The Morning/ After Sunset/ Atomic
Energy/ Baby Take It Easy/ Boogie Rambler/ Boogie Uproar/ Depression
Blues/ Didn't Reach My Goal/ Dirty Work At The Crossroad/ For Now, So
Long/ Gate Walks To Board/ Gatemouth Boogie/ Good Looking Woman/ Guitar
In My Hand/ Hurry Back Good News/ I Live My Life/ I've Been Mistreated/
It Can Never Be That Way/ Just Got Lucky/ Justice Blues/ Mary Is Fine/
Mercy On Me/ Midnight Hour/ My Time's Expensive/ Okie Dokie Stomp/ Pale
Dry Boogie Part 1/ Pale Dry Boogie Part 2/ Please Tell Me Baby/ Sad
Hour/ September Song/ She Walk Right In/ She Winked Her Eye/ Taking My
Chances/ That's Your Daddy Yaddy Yo/ Too Late Baby/ Win With Me Baby/
Without Me Baby/ You Got Money/ JAMES 'WIDE MOUTH' BROWN: A Weary Silent
Night/ Boogie Woogie Nighthawk/ NELSON CARLSON: Crazy About My Baby/
Lost/ My Baby Left Me/ Waiting For Love/ GOREE CARTER: Back Home Blues/
Bull Corn Blues/ Christmas Time/ Come On Let's Boogie/ Drunk Or Sober/
Every Dog Has His Day/ Everybody's Love Crazy/ How Can You Love Me/
Hoy-hoy/ I Just Thought Of You/ I'll Send You/ I'm Just Another Fool/
I'm Your Boogie Man/ I've Got News For You/ If It's True What Theey Tell
Me/ It Is True/ Let's Make Love/ Let's Rock/ Loney World/ Love's A
Gamble/ My Love Is Coming Down/ My Wish/ Please Say You're Mine/ Rock
Awhile/ Serenade/ Seven Days/ She's Just Old Fashioned/ She's My Best
Bet/ Sweet Ole Woman's Blues/ Tell Me, Is There Still A Chance/ True
Love Is Hard To Find/ What A Friend Will Do/ When Night Falls/ Workin'
With My Baby/ You Are My Everything/ R.B. THIBADEAUX: New Kind Of
Loving/ R.b. Boogie/ LESTER WILLIAMS: All I Need Is You/ Brand New Baby/
Don't Treat Me So Low Down/ Dowling Street Hop/ Hey Jack/ I Can't Lose
With The Stuff I Use/ I Know That Chick/ I'm So Glad I Could Jump And
Shout/ If You Knew How Much I Loved You/ Let Me Tell You A Thing Or Two/
Lost Gal/ Mary Lou/ My Home Ain't Here/ Sweet Lovin' Daddy/ Texas Town/
The Folks Around The Corner/ Trying To Forget/ Winter Time Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7759 |
The Guitar Evangelists,Vol 2 -Featuring
Rev. Gary Davis |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 101 tracks, recommended
Volume one, "Blind Willie
Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists" (JSP7737), was an impressive and
imaginatively compiled set, so how does this second installment measure
up? It starts well: Blind Joe Taggart is a more interesting performer
than the Rev Edward Clayborn, his opposite number on the first volume.
Taggart added variety to his recordings by using family members for
vocal support on some songs, as well as the young Josh White. Highlights
such as The Storm is Passing Over and Religion Is Something Within You,
both sung with real passion, are among the finest gospel recordings.
Four alternate takes on Document DOCD 5153/4 are omitted, as are five of
the six secular recordings which appear on the Document reissues as
likely to be by Taggart. Only the most likely, C &O Blues by Blind Joe
Amos, is included, and provides an incongruous interruption to the
gospel recordings. Sound quality shows a worthwhile improvement on the
Document reissues and is good apart from a few badly worn sides. Taggart
accounts for the whole of the first disc and four titles on Disc B,
after which the scene shifts to 1946 and the Two Gospel Keys. Despite
the time lapse the musically transition is fairly smooth, with the two
ladies - one playing rudimentary guitar - presenting undemanding
material in a consistent not to say uniform manner. (An alternate take
and two titles on Document's Too Late, Too Late Vol 3, DOCD 5276, are
omitted.) Much more interesting are the two wonderfully portentous
performances by Henry Green which close the disc, combining interesting
lyrics, brooding guitar and heavy vocals to great effect. Disc C is
consistently good, with the strong rhythm and slide of Blind Willie
Davis giving way to some very nicely presented songs from Eddie Head and
family, including Down On Me, later recorded by Janis Joplin. The middle
section then features some strong post war work, including two memorable
titles from the obscure Brother Willie Eason. The final sides jump back
to 1930 and Blind Gussie Nesbitt, who had some of the power and style of
Blind Willie Johnson. Despite the non chronological format this disc
works well, helped by the generally very good sound quality. The final
disc features the complete 1935-49 work of Reverend Gary Davis as
previously released on DOCD 5060. The sleeve notes by Keith Briggs
announce that Davis was "probably the greatest guitarist to emerge from
the lower strata of Black American life". In fact Davis' 1935 recordings
did not sell well, perhaps because he was not a particularly engaging
vocalist. Taken as a whole his eighteen sides here have a certain
coldness about them (the maestro also had a tendency to over elaborate
some accompaniments) which make them easier to admire than enjoy. By
contrast the Mother McCollum titles which follow are simple, artless and
charming: When I Take My Vacation In Heaven and Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane
have always been among my favourite gospel sides. Coming after the more
sophisticated Davis recordings though this running order doesn't work
very well - and the closing track from 1948 with Sister Matthews
shouting Stand By Me adds to the disjointed feeling. Sound quality of
the Davis tracks is less noisy than on the remastered Document version,
but a couple of tracks sound a little over processed to my ears. The
Mother McCollum titles sound much better than on Document DOCD 5101.
Aside from sequencing issues, packaging of this set could have been
better and would have benefited from fuller discographical information.
That said it does bring together some outstanding performances in very
decent sound, and for that reason is well worth having. (DPR)
BLIND JOE AMOS: C&O Blues/ BULL CITY RED (GEORGE
WASHINGTON): I Saw The Light/ BLIND GARY DAVIS: Civil War March/ Cross
And Evil Woman Blues/ Have More Faith In Jesus/ I Am The Light Of The
World/ I Am The True Vine/ BLIND WILLIE DAVIS: I Believe I’ll Go Back
Home/ BLIND GARY DAVIS: I Belong To The Band - Hallelujah!/ I Cannot
Bear My Burden By Myself/ I’m Gonna Meet You At The Station/ I’m
Throwin’ Up My Hands/ BLIND WILLIE DAVIS: I’ve Got A Key To The Kingdom/
BLIND GARY DAVIS: Lord Stand By Me/ Lord, l Wish I Could See/ O Lord
Search My Heart/ BLIND WILLIE DAVIS: Rock Of Ages Chicago/ BLIND GARY
DAVIS: The Angel’s Message To Me New York/ The Great Change In Me/ BLIND
WILLIE DAVIS: Trust In God And Do The Right/ BLIND GARY DAVIS: Twelve
Gates To The City/ BLIND WILLIE DAVIS: When The Saints Go Marching In/
BLIND GARY DAVIS: You Can Go Home/ You Got To Go Down/ BLIND WILLIE
DAVIS: Your Enemy Cannot Harm You/ BROTHER WILLIE EASON: I Want To Live
(So God Can Use Me)/ There’ll Be No Grumblers There/ HENRY GREEN: Storm
Thru Mississippi/ Strange Things/ EDDIE HEAD AND HIS FAMILY: Down On Me/
Lord, l’m The True Vine/ Trying To Get Home/ Within My Mind/ SISTER
MATTHEWS: Stand By Me/ MOTHER McCOLLUM: Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!/ I
Want To See Him/ Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane/ Oh Lord l’m Your Child/ When I
Take My Vacation In Heaven/ You Can’t Hide/ BLIND GUSSIE NESBIT: Canaan
Land New York/ I’ll Just Stand And Wring My Hands And Cry/ Motherless
Children/ Pure Religion/ ELIZABETH PHILLIPS: A Little Old Fashioned/
There Is Nothing Like The Holy Spirit/ BLIND JOE TAGGART: Been Listening
All The Day/ Everybody’s Got To Be Tried/ God’s Gonna Separate The Wheat
From The Tares/ Goin’ To Rest Where Jesus Is/ He Done What The World
Couldn’t Do/ I Ain’t No Sinner Now/ I Ain’t No Sinner Now/ I Will Not Be
Removed/ I Wish My Mother Was On That Train/ In That Pearly White City
Above/ I’ll Be Satisfied/ I’ve Crossed The Separation Line/ Just Beyond
Jordan/ Keep On The Firing Line/ Lord Don’t Drive Me Away/ Mother’s
Love/ Pressin’ Up That Shiny Way/ Religion Is Something Within You/
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down/ Scandalous And A Shame/ Separate The
Wheat From The Tares/ Strange Things Happening In The Land/ Take Your
Burden To The Lord/ The Half Ain’t Never Been Told/ The Storm Is Passing
Over/ There’s A Hand Writing On The Wall/ Waded In The Water Trying To
Get Home/ When I Stand Before The King/ Will My Mother Be On That
Train?/ Wonder Will My Troubles Then Be Over/ SISTER O.M. TERRELL: God’s
Little Birds/ How Long/ I’m Going To That City/ Life Is A Problem/ Lord
I Want You To Lead Me/ Swing Low Sweet Chariot/ The Bible’s Right/ The
Gambling Man/ THE TWO GOSPEL KEYS: Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down/
Charity/ Every Man Got To Lay Down And Die/ Got To Move (When The Lord
Gets Ready/ I Can’t Tarry/ I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore/ I
Don’t Want To Go Down There Part 1/ I Don’t Want To Go Down There Part
2/ I LoveTraveling/ I Want My Crown/ Jesus Met The Woman At The Well/
Precious Lord/ Precious Lord/ This Heart Of Mine/ We’re Gonna Have A
Good Time/ You’ve Got To Move/ REV. CHARLES WHITE (JAMES BUTLER): How
Long
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JSP JSPCD 7762 |
Rockin' This House - Chicago Blues
Piano, 1946-1953 |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set devoted to Chicago blues piano with the star
being the sometimes underappreciated memphis Slim who is featured on two
and half discs covering almost all the recordings he made between 1946
and 1954 where he helped define the small group Chicago style being
accompanied by musicians like Ernest Cotton, Willie Dixon, Ernest "Big"
Crawford, Alex Atkins, Ransom Knowling, Matt Murphy and others. There are
11 tracks from 1947, 1950 and 1951 recorded for Bullet and Regal by the
great Roosevelt Sykes with small groups. A bit of a puzzling inclusion -
Sykes really deserves a box to himself. The final disc features most of
the recordings made between 1947 and 1952 by the brilliant Eddie Boyd
with accompaniments from the likes of J.T. Brown, Willie Dixon, Sax
Mallard, Willie Lacey, Judge Riley, Sam Casimir, Ernest Cotton, L.C.
McKinley and others. It includes the first recording of his trademark
song Five Long Years.
EDDIE BOYD: Baby What's Wrong With You/ Blue Coat Man/
Blue Monday Blues/ Chicago Is Just That Way/ Down Beat Rhythm/ Eddie's
Blues/ Five Long Years/ Getting My Divorce/ Hard Headed Woman/ I Can
Trust My Baby/ I Gotta Find My Baby/ I Had To Let Her Go/ I'm Goin'
Downtown/ It's Miserable To Be Alone/ Kilroy Won't Be Back/ Lonesome For
My Baby/ Mr Highway Man/ Playmate Shuffle/ Rosa Lee Swing/ Something
Good Will Come To Me/ Unfair Lovers/ What Makes These Things Happen To
Me/ Why Did She Leave Me/ Why Don't You Be Wise Baby/ You Got To Leave
That Gal/ MEMPHIS SLIM: (Sometimes I Feel Like A) Motherless Child/ 5
O'Clock Blues/ A Letter Home/ A Letter Home/ Angel Child/ Back Alley/
Believe I'll Settle Down/ Blue All Around My Head/ Blue And Lonesome/
Blue Evening/ Blues And Lonesome/ Call Me Before You Go Home/ Cheatin'
Around/ Country Girl/ Darling I Miss You/ Don't Ration My Love/ Drivin'
Me Mad/ Four Years Of Torment/ Frisco Bay/ Gonna Need My Help Someday/
Got To Find My Baby/ Grinder Man Blues/ Grinder Man Blues/ Harlem Bound/
Help Me Some/ I Love My Baby/ If You Live That Life/ Jumping Bean/
Kilroy Has Been Here/ Lend Me Your Love/ Life Is Like That/ Little Mary/
Living The Life I Love/ Love At First Sight/ Mean Little Woman/ Memphis
Slim U.S.A./ Messin' Around/ Midnight Jump/ Mistake In Life/ Mistake In
Life/ Never Let Me Love/ No Mail/ Nobody Loves Me/ Now I Got The Blues/
Pacemaker Boogie/ Restless Nights/ Rockin' This House/ Sassy Mae/ She's
Alright/ Slim's Boogie/ Slim's Boogie/ The Come Back/ The Girl I Love/
The Question/ This Is My Lucky Day/ Throw This Poor Dog A Bone/ Timsy's
Whimsy/ Train Is Comin'/ Train Time/ Treat Me Like I Treat You/ Two Of A
Kind/ Wish Me Well/ You And I/ ROOSEVELT SYKES: Blues 'N' Boogie/ Candy
Man Blues/ Drivin' Wheel/ Green Onion Top/ Lowland Blues/ Mail Box
Blues/ My Country Gal/ Rock It/ Savoy Boogie/ West Helena Blues/ Why
Should I Cry/ Winter Time Blues/ Wonderin' Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7773 |
New Orleans GUitar |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set, 102 tracks, highly recommended
Some great
music though the title is a bit misleading. All of the first disc and
most of the second disc is devoted to the great New Orleans singer
Smiley Lewis featuring all his sides recorded between 1947 and 1955.
Lewis did indeed play guitar though he was rarely, if ever, featured on
a lead role on that instrument. Still this is classics R&B (some
recently reissued on Classics) with Smiley's poerful vocals accompanied
by the cream of New Orleans musicians led by Dave Bartholomew. Includes
timeless songs like Teee Nah Nah/ Dirty people/ Gumbo Blues/ Big
Mamou/ Blue Monday (the first recording of this song subsequently
turned into a giant hit by Fats Domino)/ That Certain Door/ I Hear
You Knocking And More. Disc 2 ends with four tracks by the obscure
Boo Breeding - a good singer accompanied by a good band with a guitarist
obsviously influenced by the great Guitar Slim who is the subject of the
third disc which features at least one take of almost all this great and
influential bluesman's recordings made between 1951 and 1955 with the
exception of the two sides cut in Nashville in 1952 which are being
saved for a Nashville compilation though I see no harm in including them
on both so we wouldn't have an unecsarry gap. The fourth disc features
two West Coast bluesman who were recorded in New ORleans - T-Bone Walker
with 8 sides recorded in 1953 and Pee-Wee Crayton recorded in 1954 and
'55. T-Bone sounds pretty much as he always did at that time which means
great though there are no obvious New Orleans stylings in the backup.
Pee-Wee seems to be particularly energised by being in the company of
musicians like Clarence Hall, Herb Hardesty, Salvador Doucette and
others and is in great form turning in some of his most exciting guitar
work on some of the cuts. Just about everything here has been out on CD
failry recently but if you don't already have it all you won't go wrong
with this great collection of "New Orleans Guitar." (FS)
BOO BREEDING: Country Woman/ I Can't Fly (Date With An
Angel)/ Low And Lonesome/ My Love (She's Gone)/ PEE WEE CRAYTON: Baby
Don't You Cry/ Be Faithful/ Blues Before Dawn/ Do Unto Others/ Don't
Break My Heart/ Don't Go/ Every Dog Has His Day/ Eyes Full Of Tears/
Hurry, Hurry/ I Got News For You/ I Must Go On/ I Need Your Love/ My
Idea About You/ Runnin' Wild/ Win-O/ Wondering Why/ You Know - Yeah/
Yours Truly/ GUITAR SLIM: Bad Luck Blues/ Bad Luck Is On Me/ Certainly
All/ Cryin' In The Mornin'/ Going Down Slow/ Guitar Slim/ I Got Sumpin'
For You/ I Want To Love-A You/ Later For You Baby/ Letter To My
Girlfriend/ New Arrival/ Our Only Child/ Quicksand/ Reap What You Sow/
Something To Remember You By/ Stand By Me/ Stanind' At The Station/
Story Of My Life, The/ Sufferin' Mind/ Things I Used To Do, The/ Think
It Over/ Trouble Don't Last/ Twenty-Five Lies/ Well I Done Got Over It/
You're Gonna Miss Me/ SMILEY LEWIS: Ain't Gonna Do It/ Bee's Boogie/
Bells Are Ringing, The/ Big Mamou/ Blue Monday/ Bumpity Bump/ Caldonia's
Party/ Can't Stop Loving You/ Dirty People/ Don't Jive Me/ Down The
Road/ Farewell/ Growing Old/ Gumbo Blues/ Gypsy Blues/ Here Comes
Smiley/ I Hear You Knocking/ I Love You For Sentimental Reasons/ If You
Ever Loved A Woman/ It's Music/ It's So Peaceful/ Jailbird/ Lillie Mae/
Little Fernandez/ Lonesome Highway/ Lost Weekend/ Lowdown/ Lying Woman/
My Baby/ My Baby Was Right/ Nobody Knows/ Oh Baby/ Ooh La La/ Play Girl/
Real Gone Lover/ Rocks, The/ Sad Life/ Show Me The Way/ Slide Me Down/
Standing On The Corner/ Tee Nah Nah/ That Certain Door/ Too Many
Drivers/ Turn On Your Volume Baby/ Where Were You/ You're Gonna Miss Me/
You're Not The One/ T-BONE WALKER: Got No Use For You/ I'll Always Be In
Love/ I'm Still In Love With You/ Long Distance Blues/ Pony Tail/
Railroad Station Blues/ Wanderin' Heart/ When The Sun Goes Down
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JSP JSPCD 7777 |
Memphis Blues - Important Postwar Blues |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 111 tracks, approx 5 hours, highly recommended,
but ...
If you already have Sun BOX 7 issued by Charly about 10 years
ago and now out of print then you have everything here. Otherwise this
is a fabulous collection of music recorded in Sam Phillips Sun studios
between 1951 and 1955. Amazingly enough only a fraction of these
recordings were originally issued on 78s by Sun or labels Sam Phillips
leased to and bearing that in mind the high standard of most of the
material is astonishing. Sure there are a few tracks that are seriously
out of tune (Woodrow Adams) or needed more rehearsal but most of it was
worthwhile and a lot of it is sensational. The music includes old style
country blues from D.A. Hunt, Sleepy John Estes and the intriguing
William Stewart who was a member of the doo-wop group The Prisonaires -
his solo sides are really archaic country blues that bear a stylistic
resemblance to R.L. Burnside. There are small down home combos featuring
Howling Wolf, Walter Horton, Willie Nix, Dr. Ross and James Cotton and
more urban flavored bands featuring Billy" The Kid" Emerson, Raymond
Hill, Eddie Snow, Little Milton and the eccentric Rosco Gordon. Among
the others artists here are the wonderful one man band Joe Hill Louis,
former member of the Memphis Jug band Charlie Burse, Earl Hooker, Shy
Guy Douglas, Pat Hare (including his prophetic I'm Gonna Murder My
Baby), L.B. Lawson, Honeyboy Edwards, Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson
and more. The music made in Memphis at that time frequently had a loose
raucous quality which is beautifully captured here and such great
guitarists as Pat Hare, Wille Johnson, Matt Murphy and the unfamiliar
Erskine McLellan with their distinctive distorted stinging guitar sound,
are featured all over the place. Unlike the Charly set the documentation
is minimal but it does include discographical information. Around 35 of
tracks duplicate the three CDs of Sun blues issued by Varese a while
back (Varese 66254, 66383, 66473 - $17.98 each). My hope is that one day
someone like Bear Family will issue ALL the Sun blues recordings - the
Charly box came close but that's long gone. (FS)
JOHNNY ACE: Midnight Hours Journey/ WOODROW ADAMS: The
Last Time/ Train Is Comin‘/ KENNETH BANKS: Blue Man (tk 1)/ High (tk 1)/
BOBBY BLAND: Crying All Night Long/ Drifting From Town To Town/ Dry Up
Baby/ Good Lovin‘/ HOUSTON BOINES: Carry My Business On (tk 1)/ Crying
In The Courthouse (tk 1)/ CHARLIE BOOKER: Baby I‘m Coming Home/ Walked
All Night/ CHARLIE BURSE: Shorty The Barber/ JAMES COTTON: Cotton Crop
Blues/ Hold Me In Your Arms/ My Baby/ Straighten Up Baby/ JIMMY DEBERRY:
Take A Little Chance/ SHY GUY DOUGLAS: Detroit Arrow Blues/ Work With
Her Boy/ HONEYBOY EDWARDS: Sweet Home Chicago (tk 1)/ BILLY ’THE KID’
EMERSON: Move Baby Move/ When It Rains It Pours/ SLEEPY JOHN ESTES:
Policy Man Blues (tk 1)/ Rats In My Kitchen/ Registration Day Blues/
EARL FOREST: Baby, Baby/ I Can‘t Forgive You/ I Wronged A Woman/ Rock
The Bottle/ BOYD GILMORE: Believe I‘ll Settle Down/ ROSCO GORDON: City
Women/ Roscoe‘s Boogie/ Saddled The Cow (and Milked The Horse)/ T Model
Boogie/ PAT HARE: Bonus Pay/ I‘m Gonna Murder My Baby/ HENRY HILL: That
Ain‘t Right (tk 1)/ RAYMOND HILL: I‘m Back Pretty Baby/ Long Gone
Raymond/ My Baby Left Me/ EARL HOOKER: Blue Guitar/ Move On Down The
Line/ The Hucklebuck/ WALTER HORTON: Grandmother Got Grandfather Told/
Off The Wall/ Walter‘s Instrumental/ We All Gotta Go Sometime/ HOWLIN'
WOLF: Bluebird/ Chocolate Drop/ Come Back Home (tk 1)/ Moanin' At
Midnight/ L.C. HUBERT: Lucy Done Moved/ D.A. HUNT: Greyhound Blues/
Lonesome Ol‘ Jail/ JIMMY & WALTER: Before Long/ Easy/ L.B. LAWSON: Can‘t
Love Me And My Money Too/ Flypaper Boogie/ SAMMY LEWIS & WILLIE JOHNSON:
Feel So Worried/ So Long Baby Goodbye/ LITTLE JUNIOR: Feelin‘ Good/
Fussin‘ And Fightin‘ Blues/ Love My Baby/ Mystery Train/ LITTLE MILTON:
If You Love Me Baby/ Somebody Told Me/ JOE HILL LOUIS: Boogie In The
Park/ Gotta Let You Go/ Heartache Baby/ I Feel Like A Million/ She Comes
To See Me Sometime (tk 1)/ We All Gotta Go Sometime/ BILLY ’RED’ LOVE:
Blues Leave Me Alone/ Hart‘s Bread Boogie/ Hey Now (tk 1)/ Way After
Midnight (tk 1)/ COY ’HOT SHOT’ LOVE: Harmonica Jam/ Wolf Call Boogie/
LITTLE MILTON: Homesick For My Baby/ Lookin‘ For My Baby/ WILLIE NIX:
Midnight Showers Of Rain/ Prison Bound Blues/ Riding In The Moonlight/
Seems Like A Million Years Tk 1/ JOHNNY O’NEAL: Dead Letter Blues (tk
1)/ Ugly Woman (tk 3)/ LITTLE JR. PARKER: Bad Women, Bad Whiskey/ You‘re
My Angel/ PINETOP PERKINS: Pinetop‘s Boogie Woogie/ DOCTOR ROSS: Country
Clown (tk 1)/ Little Soldier Boy (tk 2)/ Tailor Made/ The Boogie
Disease/ EDDIE SNOW: Don‘t Dog Me Around/ Skin And Bone (tk 1)/ WILLIAM
STEWART: County Farm Blues/ Forty Four Blues/ Rattlesnake Mama/ They
Call Me Talkin‘ Boy/ HOUSTON STOKES: Blue And Lonesome/ You‘ll Be Sorry/
RUFUS THOMAS: Bear Cat/ Married Woman/ Save That Money/ Tiger Man/ IKE
TURNER: Trouble And Heartaches/ You‘re Driving Me Insane/ MOSE VINSON:
Mistreating Boogie/ Worry You Off My Mind
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JSP JSPCD 7781 |
Mississippi Blues, Rare Cuts 1926-1941 |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 100 tracks, essential
Utterly fantastic
collection of Mississippi country blues. JSP has already issued some
sets featuring the big names in Mississippi blues (JSP 7702 - "Charlie
Patton & Associates - Complete Recordings", 7715 - "Legends Of Country
Blues" and JSP 7719 "Big Joe Williams & The Stars Of Mississippi Blues") but this set features lesser known artists - many who only
recorded a couple of songs but what recordings they were - in many cases
the equal of recordings made by the more well known figures. At first I
was taken aback that the set is not organized by artist or
chronologically but then I realized what a smart move that was - like
those old OJL or Yazoo LPs we collected in the 60s and 70s you never
know what's going to come next but you can be sure that it will be
great. Mississippi blues is noted for its intensity and there's no
shortage of that here with incredible tracks like Jim Thompkins'
Bedside Blues - his only issued recording but a truly monumental
performance with a vocal reminiscent of Robert Johnson and a unique
plangent slide guitar style. Why oh why didn't he record more? Then
there's the magnificent William Harris who recorded about a dozen sides
though only a few of them have been found - his I'm Leavin' Town
and Bullfrog Blues with their hypnotic churning rhythm are among
my all time favorites. The Mississippi Moaner (Isaiah Nettles) takes
Blind Lemon Jefferson material and turns it into pure Mississippi blues.
On the more unusual front we have Walter Rhodes who accompanies himself
on primitive accordion accompanied by Pet & Can on guitars or the
intriguing Willie '61" Blackwell - a somewhat limited musician who makes
up for it with truly fascinating lyrics. We also get songs and alternate
takes only discovered in recent years of Son House, Blind Willie
Reynolds and Robert Johnson and so much more from the like of Garfield
Akers, The Mississippi Jook Band, Geeshie Wiley, Freddie Spruell
(possibly the first Mississippi country bluesman to record), Joe McCoy,
Charlie McCoy, Mose Andrews, J.D. Short, Bogus Ben Covington, Buddy Boy
Hawkins, Robert Lockwood, George Torey, King Solomon Hill and more.
There's not a single track that's less than excellent and many are truly
outstanding. Sound is as good as one can expect for on some of these
extremely rare records and brief notes by Neil Slaven help round out an
exceptional package. This is one of those few box sets where you can
play all the CDs one after another without the slightest trace of
boredom. (FS)
GARFIELD AKERS: Cottonfield Blues Pt 1/ Cottonfield
Blues Pt 2/ Dough Roller Blues/ Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues/ MOSE
ANDREWS: Ten Pound Hammer/ Young Heifer Blues/ KID BAILEY: Mississippi
Bottom Blues/ Rowdy Blues/ WILLIE '61' BLACKWELL: Bald Eagle Blues/
Chalk My Toy/ WILLIE ‘61' BLACKWELL: Don't Misuse Me, Baby/ WILLIE '61'
BLACKWELL: Four O'Clock Flower Blues/ Machine Gun Blues/ Noiseless Motor
Blues/ Rampaw Street Blues/ She's Young And Wild/ MISSISSIPPI BRACEY:
Cherry Ball/ I'll Overcome Someday/ Stered Gal/ You Scolded Me And Drove
Me/ SAM BUTLER: Devil And My Brown Blues/ Jefferson County Blues/ Poor
Boy Blues/ You Can't Keep No Brown/ JOE CALICOTT: Fare Thee Well Blues/
Traveling Mama Blues/ SAM COLLINS: Devil In The Lion's Den/ Loving Lady
Blues/ The Jail House Blues/ Yellow Dog Blues/ BOGUS BEN COVINGTON: Adam
And Eve In The Garden/ Boodle-De-Bum Blues/ MATTIE DELANEY: Down The Big
Road Blues/ Tallahatchie River Blues/ WILLIAM HARRIS: Bull Frog Blues/
Early Mornin' Blues/ I'm Leavin' Town/ Leavin' Here Blues/ BUDDY BOY
HAWKINS: Jailhouse Fire Blues/ Number Three Blues/ Shaggy Fog Blues/
Snatch It Back Blues/ KING SOLOMON HILL: My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon/ Tell
Me Baby/ Times Has Done Got Hard/ SON HOUSE: Clarksdale Moan/
Mississippi County Farm Blues/ ROBERT JOHNSON: Traveling Riverside Blues
Tk 1/ ROBERT LOCKWOOD: Black Spider Blues/ I'm Gonna Train My Baby/
Little Boy Blue/ Take A Little Walk With Me/ MISSISSIPPI JOOK BAND:
Barbecue Bust/ Dangerous Woman/ Hittin' The Bottle Stomp/ MISSISSIPPI
MOANER: It's Cold In China Blues/ Mississippi Moan/ MISSISSIPPI JOOK
BAND: Skippy Whippy/ CHARLIE McCOY: Baltimore Blues/ Last Time Blues/
Motherless And Fatherless Blues/ JOE McCOY: Evil Devil Woman Blues/ Look
Who's Coming Down The Road/ Meat Cutter Blues/ When The Levee Breaks/
ARTHUR PETTIES: Good Boy Blues/ Out On Santa Fe Blues/ Quarrellin' Mama
Blues/ Revenue Man Blues/ That Won't Do/ Two Time Blues/ BLIND JOE
REYNOLDS: Cold Woman Blues/ BLIND WILLIE REYNOLDS: Married Man Blues/
BLIND JOE REYNOLDS: Ninety Nine Blues/ BLIND WILLIE REYNOLDS: Third
Street Woman Blues/ WALTER RHODES: Leaving Home Blues/ The Crowing
Rooster/ JELLY JAW SHORT: Barefoot Blues/ Grand Daddy Blues/ Snake
Doctor Blues/ FREDDIE SPRUELL: 4A Highway/ Don't Cry Baby/ Let's Go
Riding/ Milk Cow Blues/ Mr Freddie's Kokomo Blues/ Muddy Water Blues/
Way Back Down Home/ Your Good Man Is Gone/ JOE STONE: Back Door Blues/
It's Hard Time/ ELVA THOMAS & GEESHIE WILEY: Motherless Child Blues/ JIM
THOMPKINS: Bedside Blues/ GEORGE TOREY: Lonesome Man Blues/ Married
Woman Blues/ OTTO VIRGIAL: Bad Notion Blues/ Got The Blues About Rome/
Little Girl In Rome/ GEESHIE WILEY: Last Kind Words Blues/ Over To My
House/ Skinny Leg Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7792 |
Crescent City Bounce - From Blues To R&B
In New Orleans |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set, 119 tracks, very highly recommended
Terrific collection of New Orleans blues and R&B from the late 40s to
mid 50s. The first disc includes the complete recordings of the superb
singer and piano player Archibald (Leon T. Gross) including his classic
two part Stack-A-Lee as well as other great songs like She's
Scattered Everywhere and Great Big Eyes (Those Little Reds).
This disc also includes 10 tracks recorded in New Orleans by the witty
singer, songwriter and piano player Pleasant Joseph that were issued
under the name of Smilin' Joe including his two part A.B.C.'s. On
most of his sides Joe is accompanied by New Orleans stalwarts Joe
Harris, Clarence Hall, herb Hardesty, Salvador Doucette, Ernest McLean,
Frank Fields and Earl Palmer - a group of musicians who appear on many
of tracks on this set along with Dave Bartholomew, Alvin Tyler, Lee
Allen an dothers. This disc ends with six tracks recorded in New Orleans
by the great Roosevelt Sykes who, 25 years after his first recordings
sounds as fresh and vital as ever. Disc two includes 22 sides by the
excellent and underrated Tommy Ridgley recorded between 1949 and 1954
including one session featurin Ray Charles on piano. This disc also
includes the earliest sides of Ernie K-Doe issued as Ernest Kador with
His Blue Diamonds and four sides by excellent singer and guitarist Billy
Tate whose sturdy guitar work is featured on a number of tracks on this
collection and he takes a fine solo on his own Cryin' In The Morning
and his Single LifeThose Lonely Lonely Nights. The
rest of disc three and all of disc four mostly features artists who
recorded only a handful of sides - most of it of a very high standard
including George "Blazer-Boy" Stevenson, The Royal Kings (actually dave
Bartholomew's band), Rodney Harris, Leonard Lee (of Shirley & Lee),
Bobby Marchan (two sides from 1956 with hot guitar from Earl King),
Little Booker (the first recordings of James Booker), Big Boy Myles, Roy
Montrell (his classic Every Time I Hear That Mellow Saxophone),
Willie Johnson, Fat Man Matthews and others. If you have any liking for
New Orleans R&B (that's just about everybody!) this is an indispensible
collection. Manuy of the tracks have been out on CD before but it's
great to have all these classic recordings in one place. Sound is
generally excellent and there are brief, informative notes by Neil
Slaven and discographical info. (FS)
LEE ALLEN: Jam Up/ Wish I Had Never/ ARCHIBALD:
Ballin' With Archie/ Ballin' With Archie/ Crescent City Bounce/ Early
Morning Blues/ Great Big Eyes (those Little Reds)/ House Party Blues/
Little Miss Muffett/ My Gal/ Shake Baby Shake/ She's Scattered
Everywhere/ Soon As I Go Home/ Stack-A-Lee, Part 1/ Stack-A-Lee, Part 2/
BLAZER-BOY: Joes's Kid Sister/ Mornin' Train/ Surprise Blues/ Waiting
For My Baby/ AUGUST DUPONT: I'm Gonna Cross That River/ Ooh Lawdy My
Baby/ LIL' WILLIE GIBSON: Brother Bill/ Why/ JIMMY GIL: Gather 'round/
North Wind/ RODNEY HARRIS: Blow Your Top/ EARL JOHNSON: Beggin' At Your
Mercy/ Have You Gone Crazy/ WILLIE JOHNSON: Say Baby/ That Night/ LITTLE
SONNY JONES: Going Back To The Country/ I Got Booted/ Tend To Your
Business Blues/ Winehead Baby/ ERNEST KADOR: Do Baby Do/ No Money/ So
Glad You're Mine/ You Never Miss A Good Woman/ EARL KING: 'til I Say
Well Done/ A Mother's Love/ Baby You Can Get Your Gun/ Eating And
Sleeping/ Funny Face/ I'll Take You Back/ I'm Packing Up/ I'm Your Best
Bet, Baby/ Is Everything All Right/ It Must Have Been Love/ Little Girl/
Mother Told Me Not To Go/ My Love Is Strong/ No One But Me/ Nobody
Cares/ Sitting And Wondering/ Those Lonely, Lonely Nights/ THE KINGS:
What Can I Do/ LLOYD LAMBERT: Heavy Sugar/ Whistlin' Joe/ LEONARD LEE:
Tryin' To Fool Me/ When The Sun Goes Down/ RAY LEWIS & THE FOUR BARS:
Jealous Blues/ When You Were Mine/ LITTLE BOOKER: Doing The Hambone/
Thinking About My Baby/ LITTLE MR. MIDNIGHT: 4 O'clock Blues/ Got A
Brand New Baby/ BOBBY MARCHAN: Give A Helping Hand/ Have Mercy/ Pity
Poor Me/ FAT MATHEWS: You Know It/ FATS MATHEWS: Down The Line/ Goin'
Down/ GEORGE MILLER & HIS MIDRIFFS: Boogie's The Thing/ ROY MONTRELL:
(every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone/ BIG BOY MYLES: Hickory
Dickory Dock/ That Girl I Married/ Who's Been Fooling You/ TOMMY
RIDGLEY: A Day Is Coming/ Anything But Love/ Boogie Woogie Mama/ Booted/
Come Home Baby/ Early Dawn Boogie/ Good Times/ Got You On My Mind/ I
Live My Life/ Junie Mae/ Lavinia/ Lonely Man Blues/ Looped/ Monkey Man/
Nobody Cares/ Once In A Lifetime/ Shrewsbury Blues/ Tra La La/ THE ROYAL
KINGS: Bouncin' The Boogie/ Teachin' And Preachin'/ SMILIN' JOE:
A.B.C.'s Part 1/ A.B.C.'s Part 2/ Dinah/ How Long Must I Wait/ Living On
Borrowed Time/ Lovesick Soul/ Misery/ Second Hand Love/ Sleep Walking
Woman/ Won't Settle Down/ GEORGE STEVENSON: Easin' Tan/ Meet Me At
Grandma's Joint/ ROOSEVELT SYKES: Blood Stains/ Crazy Fox/ Hush Oh Hush/
I'm Tired/ Sweet Old Chicago/ You Can't Be Lucky All The Time/ BILLY
TATE: Cryin' In The Morning/ Ooh Ooh Baby/ Single Life/ You Told Me
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JSP JSPCD 7795 |
The Road To Robert Johnson & Beyond |
● CD $28.98 |
Another look at the Robert Johnson myth in this four CD
set with 105 tracks. The first disc features artists and songs that may
have had an impact on the development of Johnson's music - Son House,
Skip james, Carl Rafferty, Peetie Wheatstraw, Ramblin' Thomas, Charley
Patton, Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, The Mississippi Sheiks and others.
The second disc features one take of each of Johnson's recordings. The
third disc and part of the fourth features artists who were influence by
Johnson - Muddy waters, Calvin Frazier, Johnny Shines, Honeboy Edwards,
Elmore james, Homeiskc James and others and the rest of disc four is the
first CD reissue of a long out of print JSP LP from 1978 featuring six
tracks by Johnny Shines and 11 by Blind Will Dukes.
DISC 1:SON HOUSE: Walkin' Blues / LEROY CARR: Mean
Mistreater Mama/ JOHNNY TEMPLE :Lead Pencil Blues/ SKIP JAMES: Devil Got
My Woman/ BLIND BLAKE: Georgia Bound/ LONNIE JOHNSON: Blue Ghost Blues/
CARL RAFFERTY: Mr. Carl's Blues/ BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON: Change My Luck
Blues/ TAMPA RED: Things 'Bout Coming My Way/ PEETIE WHEATSTRAW: Police
Station Blues/ KOKOMO ARNOLD: Old Original Kokomo Blues/ HAMBONE WILLIE
NEWBERN: Roll And Tumble Blues/ RAMBLIN' THOMAS: No Job Blues/ BIG BILL
BROONZY: Shelby County Blues/ MA RAINEY & HER GEORGIA JAZZ BAND: Booze
And Blues/ CHARLEY PATTON: You're Gonna Somebody When You Die/ SKIP
JAMES: 22/20 Blues/ KOKOMO ARNOLD: Milk Cow Blues/ SON HOUSE: Preachin'
The Blues Pt.1/ LONNIE JOHNSON: Life Saver Blues/ JOHNNY TEMPLE: Evil
Devil Blues/ LEROY CARR: When the Sun Goes Down/ HENRY THOMAS: Red River
Blues/ BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON: Dry Southern Blues/ THE MISSISSIPPI
SHEIKS: Show Me What You Got DISC 2:ROBERT JOHNSON: Kind Hearted Woman
Blues/ I Believe I'll Dust My Broom/ Sweet Home Chicago/ Ramblin' On My
Mind/ When You Got A Good Friend/ Come On In My Kitchen/ Terraplane
Blues/ They're Red Hot/ Phonograph/ 32-20 Blues/ Dead Shrimp Blues/
Cross Road Blues/ Walkin' Blues/ Last Fair Deal Gone Down/ Preachin'
Blues/ If I Had Possession over Judgement Day/ Stones In My Passway/ I'm
A Steady Rollin' Man/ From Four Until Late/ Hell Hound On My Trail/
Little Queen Of Spades/ Malted Milk/ Drunken Hearted Man/ Me And the
Devil Blues/ Stop Breakin' Down Blues/ Travelin' Riverside Blues/
Honeymoon Blues/ Love In Vain/ Milkcow's Calf Blues DISC 3: MUDDY
WATERS: Country Blues No.1/ I Be's Troubled/ Burr Clover Farm Blues/
Ramblin' Kid Blues/ Rosalie/ Take A Walk With Me/ Burr Clover Blues/ I
Be Bound To Write To You No.1/ I Be Bound To Write To You No.2/ You're
Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone/ You Got To Take Sick And Die Of Some Of
These Days/ Why Don't You Live So God Can Use you/ Country Blues No.2/
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone No.2/ 32-20 Blues/ ROBERT LOCKWOOD;
Little Boy Blue/ CALVIN FRAZIER: She's A Double-Crossin' Woman/ ROBERT
LEE MCCOY: Friar's Point Blues/ BIG JOE WILLIAMS: I'm A Highway Man/
JOHNNY SHINES: Evil Hearted Woman Blues / CALVIN FRAZIER: Lilly Mae
No.1/ JOHNNY SHINES: Ramblin'/ HONEYBIY EDWARDS: Sweet Home Chicago/
JOHNNY SHINES: Fishtail/ LITTLE WALTER: Muskadine Blues DISC 4: ELMORE
JAMES: Dust My Broom/ HOMESICK JAMES: Long Lonesome Day/ BABY FACE LEROY
FOSTER: Rollin' & Tumblin' Pts.1 & 2/ HOMESICK JAMES: Johnnie Mae/ BABY
BOY WARREN: Stop Breaking Down/ ELMORE JAMES: Standing At the
Crossroads/ HOMESICK JAMES: Lonesome Blues/ Homesick/ ELMORE JAMES: I
Believe/ JOHNNY SHINES: Rambling Blues/ Maggie Lee Blues/ You're the One
That I Love/ Sweet Home Chicago/ Shake 'Em On Down/ Moanin' & Groanin'
the Blues/ BLIND WILL DUKES: Terraplane Blues/ Dead Shrimp Blues/ Steady
Rollin' Man/ Me And the Devil/ Mean Hearted Woman/ Ramblin' Blues/ Hobo
Blues/ Milk Cow Blues/ Mistreated So Long/ Sail On Little Woman/ Hoodoo
Man
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JSP JSPCD 7796 |
Jook Joint Blues - Good Time Rhythm &
Blues, 1943-1956 |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD with 112 tracks of great and rare down home
blues - most from the early 50s. It's all been out before but it's great
to have all these superb sides in one place. Includes sides by Papa
Lightfoot, Frankie Lee Sims, Little Milton Anderson, John Lee, Sonny Boy
Holmes, Lost John Hunter, Frank edwards, Mercy Dee, Alvin Smith, Harvey
Hill, Clifford Gibson, Arthur Gunter, Johnny Lewis (Joe Hill Louis),
Lonesome Sundown, Pinebluff Pete, Sonny Boy Holmes, Lightnin' Slim, Alex
Moore, The Blues Rockers, Country Jim, Earl Hooker, Little Sam
Davis,
Coy "Hot Shot" Love, Dennis McMillon, Jerry Perkins, Lazy Lester, Good
Rockin' Sam, K.C. Douglas, Ole Sonny Boy, Lazy Slim Jim, Tommy Lee
Thompson, Wright Holmes and many more.
LITTLE MILTON ANDERSON: Blow It Down/ Jackson Juke/
Little Milton's Boogie/ Mistreated Baby Blues/ GOOD ROCKIN' BEASLEY:
Happy Go Lucky/ THE BLUES ROCKERS: Calling All Cows/ Johnny Mae/
SCHOOLBOY CLEVE: I'm Him/ She's Gone/ Strange Letter Blues/ LITTLE
WILLIE COTTON: A Dream/ COUNTRY JIM: One Thing My Baby Likes/ Philippine
Blues/ LITTLE SAM DAVIS: 1958 Blues/ Goin' Home To Mother/ Goin' To New
Orleans/ She's So Good To Me/ K.C. DOUGLAS: K.C. Boogie/ Lonely Blues/
FRANK EDWARDS: Gotta Get Together/ Love My Baby/ GUITAR GABLE: Congo
Mombo/ CLIFFORD GIBSON: Let Me Be Your Handy Man/ Sneaky Groundhog/ GOOD
ROCKIN' SAM: Don't Let Your Daddy Slow Walk You Down/ Now Listen Baby/
R. GREEN & TURNER: Alla Blues/ Central Avenue Blues/ ARTHUR GUNTER:
She's Mine All Mine/ You Are Doing Me Wrong/ HARVEY HILL JR.: She Fool
Me/ SONNY BOY HOLMES: I Got Them Blues/ T.N.T. Woman/ The $64 Question/
Walkin' And Cryin' Blues/ WRIGHT HOLMES: Good Road Blues/ HONEYBOY:
Bloodstains On the Wall/ EARL HOOKER: Alley Corn/ On the Hook/ Ride
Hooker Ride/ Sweet Angel/ EDDIE HOPE & THE MANNISH BOYS: A Fool No More/
Lost Child/ PEE WEE HUGHES: Country Boy/ Santa Fe Blues/ Sugar Mama/
LOST JOHN HUNTER: Cool Down Mama/ Schoolboy/ LOUIS JACKSON: L.J. Boogie/
RED JOHNSON: Mama Does the Boogie/ KING DAVIS: Someday You'll
Understand/ L.B. LAWSON: Got My Call Card/ Scott's Boogie/ LAZY LESTER:
I'm Gonna Leave You Baby/ Lester's Stomp/ LAZY SLIM JIM: Wine Head Baby/
JOHN LEE: Alabama Boogie/ Baby Blues/ Blinds Blues/ Down At the Depot/
JOHNNY LEWIS: Jealous Man/ She's Taking All My Money/ LIGHTNIN' SLIM:
Bad Luck/ Bugger Bugger Boy/ Ethel May/ I Can't Be Successful/ I Can't
Live Happy/ Lightnin' Blues/ New Orleans Bound/ Rock Me Mama/ LITTLE AL:
Little Lean Woman/ Tiger Man/ LONESOME SUNDOWN: Leave My Money Alone/
Lost Without Love/ JOE HILL LOUIS: Hydramatic Woman/ COY 'HOT SHOT'
LOVE: Harpin' On It/ Wolf Call Boogie/ JERRY MCCAIN: Courtin' In a
Cadillac/ That's What They Want/ Things Ain't Right/ You Don't Love Me
No More/ ERNEST MCCLAY: Big Time Woman/ DENNIS MCMILLON: Paper Wooden
Daddy/ MERCY DEE: Dark Muddy Bottom/ Evil And Hanky/ My Woman Knows the
Score/ One Room Country Shack/ ALEX MOORE: If I Lose You Woman/ Lillie
Mae Boogie/ Neglected Woman/ OLE SONNY BOY: You Better Change/ PAPA
LIGHTFOOT: Jump the Boogie/ Mean Old Train/ Wine, Women, Whiskey/ JERRY
PERKINS: Katherine Blues/ Knocking the Boogie/ WILD BILL PHILLIPS:
Pebble In My Shoe/ PINEBLUFF PETE: No.4 Boogie/ CLARENCE SAMUELS:
Chicken Hearted Woman/ ALEC SEWARD: Rub a Little Boogie/ FRANKIE LEE
SIMS: Don't Take It Out On Me/ Lucy Mae Blues/ SKOOLE-DUM-DOO &
SHEFFIELD: West Kinney Street Blues/ ALVIN SMITH: On My Way/ TARHEEL
SLIM: Too Much Competition/ JESSE THOMAS: Another Fool Like Me/
LAFAYETTE THOMAS: Deep South Guitar Blues/ Weekend Blues/ TOMMY LEE
THOMPSON: Highway 80 Blues/ Packin' Up My Blues/ BIG SON TILLIS: When I
Come In This House Woman/ JAMES TISDOM: Winehead Swing
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JSP JSPCD 7798 |
A Richer Tradition - Country Blues &
String Band Music |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 100 tracks, essential
A fabulous and varied
collection or rural African-American music recorded between 1923 and
1942 including solo country bluesmen, songsters, jug bands, string bands
and more. The majority of tracks are from the incredibly fertile period
from 1924 through 1930 and most of the artists are obscure - many of
them recording only a few tracks though the musical equal of artists who
recorded more prolifically. In the case of Jim Thompkins and Freezone
who are featured on two of the finest tracks here - each had only one
track released. The most prolific artists here are Sylvester Weaver with
his sublime slide guitar instrumental Guitar Blues and the
wonderful singer/ banjo player Papa Charlie Jackson who deserves a box
set of his own. Discs 1, 3 and 4 of this set features solo artists and
duets while the second disc features mostly string bands, jug bands and
washboard bands. The performances here are rarely less than excellent
and many are truly superb. If you already have a very extensive blues
collection you might have most of the cuts here otherwise this is just
chock full of treasures from artists from the Southern states like
Richard "Rabbit" Brown (his frequently reissued but always welcome
masterpiece James Alley Blues), Papa Harvey Hull & Long Cleve
Reed, Ed Bell (his stupendous Frisco Whistle Blues), Pink
Anderson & Simmie Dooley, George "Bullet" Williams (incredible early
harmonica player), William Harris, Willie Harris (a different artist),
The Old Southern Jug band, Mississippi Mud Steppers, Mooch Richardson,
Mae Glover, Jack Gowdlock, George Carter, Edward Thompson, Eli Framer
and much more. Sound is fine considering the age and rarity of these
recordings and there are informative notes from the ever reliable Neil
Slaven. (FS)
THE ALABAMA SHEIKS: Travelin' Railroad Man Blues/ PINK
ANDERSON: C.C. & O. Blues/ ED ANDREWS: Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay/
WILLIE BAKER: Weak Minded Woman/ ANDREW & JIM BAXTER: Bamalong Blues/ ED
BELL: Frisco Whistle Blues/ Mean Conductor Blues/ THE BIRMINGHAM JUG
BAND: Giving It Away/ LEWIS BLACK: Gravel Camp Blues/ Spanish Blues/ THE
BLUE BOYS: Easy Winner/ TOMMIE BRADLEY: Adam and Eve/ Window Pane Blues/
RICHARD "RABBIT" BROWN: James Alley Blues/ JOHN BYRD: Billy Goat Blues/
BOB CAMPBELL: Starvation Farm Blues/ GENE CAMPBELL: Toby Woman Blues/
GEORGE CARTER: Ghost Woman Blues/ Hot Jelly Roll Blues/ Rising River
Blues/ Weeping Willow Blues/ VIRGIL CHILDERS: Dago Blues/ BIG BOY
CLEVELAND: Goin' to Leave You Blues/ Quill Blues/ JAMES COLE'S STRING
BAND: I Got a Gal/ JAMES COLE'S WASHBOARD FOUR: Runnin' Wild/ JAYBIRD
COLEMAN: Man Trouble Blues/ LONNIE COLEMAN: Old Rock Island Blues/ Wild
About My Loving/ COLEMAN & HARPER: Old Hen Cackle/ Old Hen Cackle/ BOGUS
BEN COVINGTON: I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop/ DADDY STOVEPIPE:
Sundown Blues/ THE DALLAS JAMBOREE JUG BAND: Dusting the Frets/ MATTIE
DELANEY: Tallahatchie River Blues/ TOM DICKSON: Death Bell Blues/ Labor
Blues/ THE DIXIELAND JUG BLOWERS: Boodle-Am-Shake/ ELI FRAMER: Framer's
Blues/ God Didn't Make No Monkey Man/ FREEZONE: Indian Squaw Blues/
GITFIDDLE JIM: Paddlin' Madeline Blues/ EMERY GLEN: Back Door Blues/ Two
Ways to Texas/ MAE GLOVER: I Ain't Givin' Nobody None/ JACK GOWDLOCK:
Poor Jane Blues/ Rollin' Dough Blues/ WILLIAM HARRIS: Bull Frog Blues/
Early Mornin' Blues/ WILLIE HARRIS: Lonesome Midnight Dream/ Never Drive
a Stranger From Your Door/ PAPA HARVEY HULL & LONG "CLEVE" REED: Hey
Lawdy Mama-The France Blues/ PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON: Salt Lake City Blues/
WALTER JACOBS: The Jazz Fiddler/ JIM JAM (WALTER TAYLOR): Diamond Ring
Blues/ ALEC JOHNSON: Miss Meal Cramp Blues/ ELIZABETH JOHNSON: Sobbin'
Woman Blues/ THE JOHNSON BOYS: Violin Blues/ JOHNSON-NELSON-PORKCHOP: G.
Burns Is Gonna Rise Again/ LUKE JORDAN: If I Call You Mama/ THE KANSAS
CITY BLUES STRUMMERS: String Band Blues/ LOTTIE KIMBROUGH: Goin' Away
Blues/ Rolling Log Blues/ CHARLIE KYLE: Kyle's Worried Blues/ No Baby/
LOUIE LASKY: Teasin' Brown Blues/ LEECAN & COOKSEY: Dirty Guitar Blues/
ALFRED LEWIS: Mississippi Swamp Moan/ LOUIE BLUIE & TED BOGAN: Ted's
Stomp/ CARL MARTIN: Farewell to You Baby/ THE MISSISSIPPI MUD STEPPERS:
Jackson Stomp/ EL MORROW: Beans/ THE NASHVILLE WASHBOARD BAND: Arkansas
Traveler/ TOM "BLUE COAT" NELSON: Blue Coat Blues/ HAMBONE WILLIE
NEWBERN: She Could Toodle-oo/ Way Down in Arkansas/ THE OLD PAL SMOKE
SHOP FOUR: Black Cat Blues/ THE OLD SOUTHERN JUG BAND: Blues, Just
Blues, That's All/ ARTHUR PETTIS: That Won't Do/ LONG "CLEVE" REED:
Original Stack O'Lee Blues/ WILLIE REED: Dreaming Blues/ MOOCH
RICHARDSON: Helena Blues/ T and T Blues/ TOMMY SETTLERS: Shaking Weed
Blues/ THE SOUTH STREET TRIO: Cold Morning Shout/ Whiskey and Gin Blues/
HENRY SPAULDING: Cairo Blues/ STOVEPIPE NO. 1 & DAVID CROCKETT: A
Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around/ TARTER & GAY: Unknown Blues/ THE
TENNESSEE CHOCOLATE DROPS: Knox County Stomp/ JIM THOMPKINS: Bedside
Blues/ EDWARD THOMPSON: Florida Bound/ Showers of Rain Blues/ GEORGE
TOREY: Married Woman Blues/ WILLIE WALKER: South Carolina Rag/ SYLVESTER
WEAVER: Guitar Blues/ WHISTLER & HIS JUG BAND: Jail House Blues/ The Jug
Band Special/ WHISTLIN' PETE & DADDY STOVEPIPE: Tuxedo Blues/ GEORGE
"BULLET" WILLIAMS: Middlin' Blues
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JSP JSPCD 77109 |
Ain't Times Hard - Political & Social
Commentary In The |
● CD $28.98 |
 Four CD set with 100 tracks recorded between the 1920s
and 1950s on the subject of hard times and the response to it and even
though this was programmed in early 2008 seems highly appropriate to the
situation the country finds itself in. Then, as now, the working class
and African Americans in particular were the hardest hit by downturns in
the economy, natural disasters and shortage of work and used the
creative medium of the blues to express their feelings. This collection
ranges from Blind Blake's No Dough Blues to Leroy Carr's
Depression Blues to Big Joe Williams' Providence Help The Poor
People to Jack McVea's Inflation Blues and much, much more.
BARBECUE BOB: Bad Time Blues/ BLACK IVORY KING:
Working For The P.W.A./ SCRAPPER BLACKWELL: Down And Out Blues/ Hard
Time Blues/ BLIND BLAKE: No Dough Blues/ BARBECUE BOB: We Sure Got Hard
Times/ LUCILLE BOGAN: Red Cross Man/ SON BONDS: Old Bachelor Blues/ JOHN
BRIM: Tough Times/ BIG BILL BROONZY: Starvation Blues/ Unemployment
Stomp/ W.P.A. Blues/ CLARENCE 'GATEMOUTH' BROWN: Depression Blues/
BUMBLE BEE SLIM: Chain Gang Bound/ Hobo Jungle Blues/ When I Get My
Money/ BOB CAMPBELL: Starvation Farm Blues/ GENE CAMPBELL: Levee Camp
Man Blues/ LEROY CARR: Hard Times Done Drove Me To Drink/ The Depression
Blues/ ANDY CHATMAN: Hard Times On Me Blues/ COUSIN JOE: Post-War Future
Blues/ GEORGE CURRY: Back In My Cell Again/ BLIND TEDDY DARBY: Meat And
Bread Blues/ WALTER DAVIS: Red Cross Blues/ TOM DICKSON: Labor Blues/
CHAMPION JACK DUPREE: Warehouse Man Blues/ CARRIE EDWARDS: Hard Time
Blues/ SLEEPY JOHN ESTES: Government Money/ Hobo Jungle Blues/ ALFRED
FIELDS: '29 Blues/ CALVIN FRAZIER: Welfare Blues/ GENE GILMORE: Charity
Blues/ JIMMIE GORDON: Don't Take Away My P.W.A./ GUITAR SLIM & JELLY
BELLY: Keep Straight Blues/ Working Man Blues/ LANE HARDIN: Hard Time
Blues/ KING SOLOMON HILL: Times Has Done Got So Hard/ SMOKEY HOGG: Hard
Times/ Unemployment Blues/ TONY HOLLINS: Stamp Blues/ JOHN LEE HOOKER:
Strike Blues/ IVORY JOE HUNTER: High Cost Low Pay Blues/ Reconversion
Blues/ J.B. HUTTO: Things Are So Slow/ FRANK 'SPRINGBACK' JAMES: New Red
Cross Blues/ ALEC JOHNSON: Miss Meal Cramp Blues/ LONNIE JOHNSON:
Four-O-Three Blues/ Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where/ FLOYD JONES: Ain't
Times Hard/ Stockyard Blues/ CHARLEY JORDAN: Days Of The Weeks Blues/
Starvation Blues/ Tough Times Blues/ JACK KELLY: R.F.C. Blues/ J.B.
LENOIR: Eisenhower Blues/ CARL MARTIN: I'm Gonna Have My Fun/ Let's Have
A Good Deal/ CHARLIE MCCOY: Charity Blues/ Northern Starvers Are
Returning Home/ ROBERT LEE MCCOY: I Have Spent My Bonus/ JIMMY
MCCRACKLIN: The Panic's On/ FRED MCMULLEN: Dekalb Chain Gang/ JACK
MCVEA: Inflation Blues/ MEMPHIS MINNIE: Nothing In Rambling/ Sylvester
And His Mule Blues/ THE MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS: Sales Tax/ BUDDY MOSS: Hard
Time Blues/ RED NELSON: Relief Blues/ When The Soldiers Get Their Bonus/
HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN: Shelby County Workhouse Blues/ SAMPSON PITTMAN:
Welfare Blues/ JOE PULLUM: Bonus Blues/ YANK RACHELL: Hobo Blues/ TAMPA
RED: Turpentine Blues/ WALTER ROLAND: C.W.A. Blues/ Red Cross Blues/ Red
Cross Blues No.2/ SONNY SCOTT: Coal Mountain Blues/ OLLIE SHEPARD: Hard
Times Is On Me/ WILLIE 'LONG TIME' SMITH: Homeless Blues/ CHARLEY SPAND:
Hard Time Blues/ SPECKLED RED: Welfare Blues/ JOE STONE: It's Hard Time/
ROOSEVELT SYKES: Living In A Different World/ Sunny Road/ SONNY TERRY &
BROWNIE MCGHEE: Red Cross Store Blues/ BIG MAMA THORNTON: Cotton Picking
Blues/ EDDIE VINSON: Bonus Pay/ Luxury Tax Blues/ WASHBOARD SAM: C.C.C.
Blues/ CASEY BILL WELDON: W.P.A. Blues/ PEETIE WHEATSTRAW: 304 Blues/
Jungle Man Blues/ When I Get My Bonus/ Working On The Project/ JOSHUA
WHITE: Welfare Blues/ BIG JOE WILLIAMS: Providence Help The Poor People/
L.C. WILLIAMS: Strike Blues/ JIM WYNN: Shipyard Woman
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JSP JSPCD 77122 |
The Bob Geddins Blues Legacy |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 107 tracks, very highly recommended with
reservations
Bob Geddins one of the most important entrepreneurs in the
post war black music scene on the West Coast. Geddins, originally from
Texas was a singer, songwriter, promoter who was also a skilled
electrician, radio repairman and pipe fitter who built his own pressing
plant. In spite of all his talents Geddins was a naieve businessman who
tried to conduct his business based on trust and often found himself at
the wrong end of business deals. He ran numerous record labels
throughout his career making some the first recordings of legendary West
Coast blues figures. Under the guidance of Opal Louis Nations the
British Acrobat label was doing an extensive series of reissues of
Geddins material which was not completed due to the demise of the
Acrobat label. Now JSP has stepped in and put out this four CD selection
which is exclusively devoted to Geddins blues records - the Acrobat
series also included gospel and some pop oriented material. About 3/4 of
the material here has been reissued by Acrobat with the rest being
material that would have been reissued had the series continued. If you
check my reviews of the Acrobat CDs you will know that Geddins recorded
some exceptionally fine music and so all the music here is outstanding
including artists like Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Jimmy Wilson,
Roy Hawkins, Willie B. Huff, K.C. Douglas, James Reed, King Soloman
Trio, Johnny Fuller and many others. Unlike the in depth notes on the
Acrobat releases the notes here are confined to four page booklets with
each CD. I would certainly recommend that you get the Acrobat releases
first, while they are still around, and then get this one to fill in the
gaps or if you are only interested in Geddins's blues recordings. In an
ideal world JSP would have picked up the series where Acrobat left off
but of course it isn't an ideal world and even if you have to get this
for the tracks not on the Acrobat sets it's probably worth it as there
is some great material there. (FS)
ANGEL FACE WITH FRANK MOTLEY: Don't Ever Leave Me
Again/ JUKE BOY BONNER: Rock with Me Baby/ Well Baby/ K.C. DOUGLAS:
Mercury Boogie/ K.C. Boogie/ Lonely Boy Blues/ EMERY FRANKLIN: Lonesome
Blues/ JOHNNY FULLER: Bad Luck Overtook Me/ Comin' Round the Corner/
First Stage of the Blues/ Fool's Paradise/ How Long/ I Can't Succeed/
Lovin' Lovin' Man/ Mama Told Me/ Mean Old World/ Remember/ Roughest
Place in Town/ Strange Land/ Sunny Road/ Too Late to Change/ Train Train
Blues/ Weeping and Mourning/ LOWELL FULSON: 9: 30 Shuffle/ Fulson
Boogie/ Highway '99'/ Jelly, Jelly/ Let's Throw a Boogie Woogie/ Mean
Woman Blues/ My Baby Left Me/ Prison Bound/ Stormin' and Rainin'/ Tell
Me Baby/ Thinking Blues/ Trying to Find My Baby/ Whiskey Blues/ FATS
GAINES: He's a Real Fine Man/ Home Work Blues/ BOB GEDDINS' CAVALIERS:
Irma Jean Blues/ ROY HAWKINS: Ain't No Fault of Mine/ They Raided the
Joint/ WILLIE B. HUFF: Beggar Man Blues/ I Love You Baby/ I've Been
Thinkin' and Thinkin'/ Operator 209/ JOHNNY INGRAM & HIS RHYTHM CZARS
WITH WINDY MOR: Jubudy/ JOHNNY INGRAM & HIS RHYTHM CZARS WITH JIMMY NEL:
Red Light Gotta Go/ JOHNNY INGRAM & HIS RHYTHM CZARS: Ridin' Hi/
Streamlined Baby/ ULYSSES JAMES: Poor Boy/ KING SOLOMAN TRIO: Baby, I'm
Cutting Out/ Mean Train/ LITTLE CAESAR: Big Eyes/ Can't Stand It All
Alone/ What Kind of Fool/ Wonder Why I'm Leaving/ JOE HILL LOUIS: Bad
Woman Blues/ Hydramatic Woman/ SIDNEY MAIDEN: Eclipse of the Sun/ JIMMY
MCCRACKLIN: Bad Luck and Trouble/ Beer Tavern Girl/ Big Foot Mama/
Fare-Well/ I Can't Understand Love/ I Wanna Make Love to You/ I'm the
One/ Jimmy's Blues/ Listen Woman/ Low Down Mood/ Miss Minnie Lee Blues/
My Love for You/ Playin' on Me/ Railroad Blues/ Rock and Rye/ Savoy's
Jump/ She's My Baby/ South Side Mood/ Take a Chance/ When I'm Gone/
You're the One/ JAMES REED: Things Ain't What They Used to Be/ You
Better Hold Me/ BIG MAMA THORNTON & THE HI-TONES: Big Mama's Coming
Home/ Don't Talk Back/ MERCY DEE WALTON: Main Event/ Trailing My Baby/
THE WEST SIDE TRIO: So Tired I Could Cry/ West Side Jump/ TURNER WILLIS:
Re-Enlisted Blues/ JIMMY WILSON: Big Town Jump/ Blues at Sundown/ Blues
in the Alley/ Call Me a Hound Dog/ I Found Out/ I Used to Love a Woman/
Instrumental Jump/ Jumpin' from Six to Six/ Mistake in Life/ Mountain
Climber/ Nobody's Business/ Oh Red/ Oh Red/ Strangest Blues/ Teardrops
on My Pillow/ Tin Pan Alley/ Trouble in My Home/ Woman Is a Woman
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JSP JSPCD 77126 |
Nuggets From The Golden Age Of Gospel,
1945-1958 |
● CD $28.98 |
Just arrived. Fabulous new four CD box set compiled and
annotated by gospel expert Opal Louis Nations featuring 105 great gospel
recordings cut between 1945 and 1958 - mostly quartet singing along some
solo vocalists. The material includes some of gospel's biggest names
(Five Blind Boy Of Alabama, Sensational Nightingales, Soul Stirrers,
Golden Gate Quartet, Dixie Hummingbirds, Rev. James Cleveland, etc),
gospel recordings featuring artists who became better known in other
fields (Frank Sinatra with The Charioteers, Sly Stone, Candi Staton &
The Jewel Gospel Trio, Ann Cole & The Colemanaires, O.V. Wright & The
Sunset Travelers, etc.) and lots of great but obscure artists making
their first appearance on CD (The Golden Melodeers, Mary DeLoach, Keys
Of Heaven, Ever Ready Gospel Singers, Dixieland Singers, Royal
Travelers, Original Gospel Stars, Leon Lumpkins & The Gospel Clefs,
etc.).
THE AFRO QUINTETTE: Toll the Bells/ GENE ALLISON & THE
ISRAELITE TRAVELERS: Send My Child Home To Me/ INEZ ANDREWS & THE
CARAVANS: I'm Not Tired Yet/ THE ANGELIC GOSPEL SINGERS & THE DIXIE
HUMMI: One Day/ THE ARGO GOSPEL SINGERS: He's Alright With Me/ PAUL
ARNOLD & THE GOSPELAIRES: It's a Pity/ REVEREND DR. MORGAN BABB & THE
PHILCO SINGERS: Wonder How Long/ REV. BALLENGER: This Train/ SISTER
LUCILE BARBEE: Where Could I Go/ THE BELLS OF JOY: There'll Be No More
Sorrow/ MADAME EMILY BRAM: Each Day/ NAPPY BROWN & SELAH JUBILEE
SINGERS: Who So Ever Will/ SHIRLEY CAESAR: I'd Rather Serve Jesus/
WYNONA CARR: There is Rest For the Weary/ HAZEL CHATMAN WITH THE GOLDEN
HARMONIZERS: He Knows How Much You Can Bear/ JUDY CLAY & THE DRINKARD
SINGERS: That's Enough/ REV. JAMES CLEVELAND & THE CARAVANS: Old Time
Religion/ HARDIE CLIFTON & THE BROOKLYN ALL-STARS: Careless Soul/
DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE GOSPEL HARMONETTES: Love Lifted Me/ ANN COLE &
THE COLMANAIRES: Out On the Ocean Sailing/ THE CONSOLERS: Glad To Be In
the Number/ MDME EDNA GALLMON COOKE & THE MT. VERNON MEN'S CHOIR:
Angels, Angels, Angels/ SAM COOKE & THE SOUL STIRRERS: Pilgrim of Sorrow
(Take 1)/ REV. H.B. CRUM & THE GOLDEN KEYS: So Glad I'm Here/ SISTER
ETHEL DAVENPORT WITH BROWNIE MCGHEE: World Can't Do Me No Harm, The/ THE
DEEP RIVER BOYS: I'm Tramping/ MARY DELOACH: The Lord's Gospel Train/
THE DELTA SOUTHERNAIRES: Bye and Bye, Part 1/ THE DETROIT HARMONETTES: I
Need Thee/ THE DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS: Let's Go Out To the Programs, Part 2/
THE DIXIELAND SINGERS: Our Prayer/ THE EVENING STAR QUARTET: Jesus, I'll
Never Forget/ THE EVER-READY GOSPEL SINGERS: One Day When I Was Walking
(I'm In His Care)/ THE FAIRFIELD FOUR: Come Over Here/ THE FIVE BLIND
BOYS OF ALABAMA: Mother's Song/ THE FIVE BLIND BOYS OF MISSISSIPPI:
Let's Have Church/ THE FIVE SOUL STIRRERS: Walk Around/ THE FLOWERS OF
JOY: At the Cross/ REVEREND C.L. FRANKLIN WITH ARETHA, ERMA & CAROLINE:
Wings of Faith/ EVELYN FREEMAN & THE EXCITING VOICES CHORUS: Didn't It
Rain/ THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET: Same Train/ THE GOSPEL SONGBIRDS: God's
Creation/ THE GOSPEL TONES: Roll, Jordan, Roll/ BESSIE GRIFFIN & THE
CARAVANS: Let Us Run/ BESSIE GRIFFIN & THE CONSOLATORS: Every Now and
Then (Take 2)/ TONY HARRIS & THE TRAVELING FOUR: All On the Altar/ R.H.
HARRIS WITH THE CHRISTLAND SINGERS: Nothing Will Move Me (From the Love
of God)/ JOE HINTON & THE SPIRIT OF MEMPHIS: I Need Thee/ HOWARD "SLIM"
HUNT & THE SUPREME ANGELS: Jesus Let Me Sleep/ MAHALIA JACKSON: No
Matter How You Pray/ REVEREND CLAUDE JETER & THE SWAN SILVERTONES: Jesus
Remembers/ THOMAS JOHNSON & THE HARMONIZING FOUR: How Far Am I From
Canaan/ THE JONES BROTHERS QUARTET: Amazing Grace/ THE KELLY BROTHERS:
Prayer For Tomorrow/ THE KEYS OF HEAVEN: Jesus Bears the Cross/ MARIE
KNIGHT: Trouble In Mind/ JOE LIGON & THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY: Jesus is
Real/ LITTLE SUGAR & THE HIGHTOWER BROTHERS: Come By Here/ JOE VAN LOAN
& THE CANAANITES: Lead Me To That Rock/ BROTHER BILL LOUIS (UTAH SMITH):
Two Wings Flying Home, Parts 1 & 2/ LEON LUMPKINS & THE GOSPEL CLEFS:
Open Our Eyes/ THE ROBERTA MARTIN SINGERS: Rock My Soul/ BROTHER JOE
MAY: Mother Bowed/ THE MAYFLOWER SINGERS: Ship of Zion/ GOLDEN MELODEERS:
He Knows My Heart/ THE MITCHELL AIRES QUARTET: Lord, Will I Meet Them
Again/ REV. GATEMOUTH MOORE & THE BESSEMER SUNSET FOUR: They Buried Sin,
Part 1/ OLLIE NIGHTINGALE & THE DIXIE NIGHTINGALES: I've Been Lifted/
THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL STARS: I Want To Go To Heaven/ PHIL PHILLIPS & THE
GATEWAY QUARTET: Four & Twenty Elders/ THE PILGRIM JUBILEES: Angel/ THE
PRISONAIRES: My God is Real/ THE RADIO FOUR: Sending Up This Prayer,
Part 2/ LOU RAWLS & THE CHOSEN GOSPEL SINGERS: Walk With Me/ LOU RAWLS &
THE PILGRIM TRAVELERS: Come Home/ DELLA REECE & THE MEDITATIONS: Hard To
Get Along/ ROSCOE ROBINSON WITH HUEY BROWN & THE SILVER QU: Sinner's
Crossroads/ CLEOPHUS ROBINSON WITH SISTER JOSEPHINE JONES: I Can See So
Much/ THE ROYAL SONS QUINTET: Bedside of a Neighbor/ THE ROYAL
TRAVELERS: Yes It's Me Lord, That Came To Thee/ THE SENSATIONAL
NIGHTINGALES: Burying Ground/ ROSA SHAW: On the Highway/ CECIL SHAW &
THE UNION SPIRITUAL HARMONIZERS: Jesus Be My Keeper/ FRANK SINATRA & THE
CHARIOTEERS: I've Got a Home In That Rock/ WILLIE MAE FORD SMITH: Jesus
is the Name/ THE SOUL STIRRERS: The Love of God (Take 1)/ THE SOUTHERN
TRAVELERS: I Can See Everybody's Mother/ THE STAPLE SINGERS: Uncloudy
Day/ THE STARLIGHT SINGERS: Lord Have Mercy/ CANDI STATON & THE JEWEL
GOSPEL TRIO: Jesus is Listening/ SLY STONE: Walking In Jesus Name/ THE
SWANEE QUINTET: Cry Sometime/ JOHNNIE TAYLOR & THE HIGHWAY QC'S: I Was
So Happy/ LITTLE JOHNNY TAYLOR & THE STARS OF BETHEL: There is a
Fountain/ SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: Didn't It Rain/ SONNY TIL & THE
ORIOLES: The Lord's Prayer/ JACKIE VERDELL & THE DAVIS SINGERS: I've
Been Changed/ THE VICTORY FIVE: I Never Knew/ THE VIOLINAIRES: Another
Soldier Gone/ ROSIE WALLACE & THE IMPERIAL GOSPEL SINGERS: My Father's
House/ THE CLARA WARD SINGERS WITH SAM WHINHAM: Didn't It Rain/ MADAME
ERNESTINE WASHINGTON WITH THE MILLERAIRES: Holding On, Part 2/ MARION
WILLIAMS & THE STARS OF FAITH: When I Lay This Body Down/ O.V. WRIGHT &
THE SUNSET TRAVELERS: Sit Down and Rest Awhile/ THE ZION TRAVELERS:
Where is My Wandering Chil
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