NEWSLETTER #147
JSP BOX SETS - BLUES & R&B
Various Artists - 2
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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 powerful 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 obviously 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 unnecessary 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 energized 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 fairly
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 7775 |
Vocal Groups - Classic Doo-Wop Remastered |
● CD $28.98 |
JSP enters the vocal group stakes with this four CD set with
104 tracks presented chronologically. The first disc features the roots of
the doo-wop sound covering recordings from 1932 through 1950 by The Three
Keys, Mills Brothers, Ink Spots, Three Barons, Four Tunes, Melody Masters,
Whispers, Three Riffs and more. The second disc highlights the transition
from the older jump and pop style to a more R&B influenced style in the
period 1951 through 1953 with tracks by The Royales, Cardinals, Mel-O-Dots,
Marylanders, Five Sharps (their priceless Stormy Weather), The
Hornets, Checkers, Du Droppers, Moonglows, etc. The final discs present the
fully fledged doo-wop style with recordings from 1953 through 1955 by The
Lamplighters, Crickets, Cookies, Chords, Teardrops, Robins, Topps, Eagles,
Orchids, Five Royales, Marigolds, Hollywood Flames, Thunderbirds, Grady
Chapman & The Suedes, The Hearts, Nutmegs, Kansas City Tomcats and more.
Booklets have recording dates, personnel and brief notes by Neil Slaven.
Diehard doo-wop fans will have everything here but this set provides a great
introduction to this import musical genre. It's too bad that around 25% of
the tracks are duplicated on the better produced Proper BOX 44 ("Dawn Of
Doo-Wop" - $24.98) and BOX 79 ("Doo-Wop Delights"- $24.98). Still, between
the three sets you can get a lot of great music at a very reasonable price.
THE CABINEERS: What‘s The Matter With You/ THE CADILLACS:
Gloria/ THE CARDINALS: Please Don‘t Leave Me/ The Door Is Still Open/ THE
CATS AND THE FIDDLE: I‘d Rather Drink Muddy Water/ THE CHARIOTEERS: Don‘t
Play No Mambo/ Ooh Looka There Ain‘t She Pretty/ THE CHARMS: Hearts Of
Stone/ THE CHECKERS: I Wasn‘t Thinkin‘, I Was Drinkin‘/ THE CHORDS: Sh-boom/
THE CLICKS: Peace And Contentment/ THE CLOVERS: Ting-a-ling/ Your Cash Ain‘t
Nothin‘ At Trash/ THE COOKIES: Don‘t Let Go/ THE CRICKETS: Fine As Wine/ THE
CROWS: Gee/ THE DANDERLIERS: Chop Chop Boom/ THE DREAMERS: Bye Bye/ THE DU
DROPPERS: I Found Out/ THE EAGLES: Trying To Get To You/ THE EL DORADOS: At
My Front Door/ THE FIVE C’S: Tell Me/ THE FIVE KEYS: The Glory Of Love/ THE
FIVE ROYALES: You Didn‘t Learn It At Home4/ THE FIVE SHARPS: Stormy Weather/
THE FIVE THRILLS: Feel So Good/ THE FLAIRS: Love Me Girl/ THE FLAMINGOS: Get
With It/ THE FOUR BARS: Grief By Day, Grief By Night/ THE FOUR BLAZES: Mary
Jo/ THE FOUR BLUES: The Blues Can Jump/ THE FOUR CLEFS: I Like Pie, I Like
Cake/ THE FOUR TUNES: (i Wonder) Where Is My Love/ THE FOUR VAGABONDS: Hoe
Cake, Hominy And Sassafras Tea/ SHIRLEY GUNTER & THE QUEENS: Oop Shoop/ THE
HARPTONES: A Sunday Kind Of Love/ THE HAWKS: I-yi/ THE HEARTS: Lonely
Nights/ THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES: I‘m Leavin‘/ THE HORNETS: Lonesome Baby/ THE
INK SPOTS: Hey, Doc!/ If I Didn‘t Care/ Knock-kneed Sal/ Whispering Grass/
THE KANSAS CITY TOMCATS: Nobody Knows/ THE LAMPLIGHTERS: Hug A Little, Kiss
A Little/ THE LARKS: Eyesight To The Blind/ LITTLE RICHARD & THE TEMPO
TOPPERS: Rice, Red Beans And Turnip Greens/ THE MAGIC TONES: Good Googa
Mooga/ THE MARIGOLDS: Rollin‘ Stone/ THE MARYLANDERS: Make Me Thrill Again/
CLYDE MCPHATTER & THE DRIFTERS: Money Honey/ THE MEDALLIONS: Buick ’59/ THE
MEL-O-DOTS: One More Time/ THE MELLO-MOODS: How Could You/ THE MELODY
MASTERS: Wig Blues/ THE MILLS BROTHERS: My Walking Stick/ Sweet And Slow/
Sweet Georgia Brown/ Swing Is The Thing/ THE MIRACLES: My Angel/ THE
MOONGLOWS: Baby Please/ THE MOROCCOS: Red Hots And Chili Mac/ THE NUTMEGS: A
Story Untold/ THE ORCHIDS: Newly Wed/ THE ORIOLES: It‘s Too Soon To Know/
THE PEACHEROOS: Be Bop Baby/ THE PENGUINS: Earth Angel/ THE PLATTERS: The
Great Pretender/ THE PRISONAIRES: Just Walking In The Rain/ THE PYRAMIDS:
And I Need You/ THE QUAILTONES: Tears Of Love/ THE RAINBOWS: Mary Lee/ THE
RAVENS: Write Me A Letter/ THE RAY-O-VACS: My Baby‘s Gone/ THE RED CAPS:
I‘ve Learned A Lesson I‘ll Never Forget/ THE RIVALS: Rival Blues/ THE
ROBINS: Around About Midnite/ Riot In Cell Block No. 9/ Smokey Joe‘s Cafe/
THE ROCKETS: Big Leg Mama/ THE ROYALES: Too Much Of A Little Bit/ THE
ROYALS: Work With Me Annie/ THE SPANIELS: Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite/
THE SPIDERS: Witchcraft/ THE STRIDERS: Five O‘clock Blues/ THE SUEDES: I
Need You So/ THE SULTANS: Lemon Squeezing Daddy/ THE SWALLOWS: Will You Be
Mine/ THE TEARDROPS: The Stars Are Out Tonight/ THE THREE BARONS: Milk Shake
Stand/ THE THREE KEYS: Nagasaki/ THE THREE RIFFS: Jumping Jack/ THE THREE
SHARPS AND A FLAT: That‘s The Rhythm/ THE THUNDERBIRDS: Baby Let‘s Play
House/ THE TOPPERS: Baby Let Me Bang Your Box/ THE TOPPS: What Do You Do/
THE TURBANS: No No Cherry/ When You Dance/ THE VOCALEERS: Is It A Dream/
BILLY WARD & THE DOMINOES: Sixty Minute Man/ THE WHISPERS: Ever Lovin‘
Slick/ OTIS WILLIAMS’ NEW GROUP: That‘s Your Mistake
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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" - $28.98) 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 tunrs 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 extremly rare records and brief notes by Neil Slaven help roun
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. Many 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, Honeyboy Edwards,
Elmore James, Homesick 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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