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| CECIL GANT |
P-Vine PCD 5471 |
The Best Of Cecil Gant, 1944-48 |
● CD $22.98 |
25 tracks,70 mins, highly recommended
Available again.
Terrific collection of sides by this versatile and talented performer.
He's best known his 1944 hit - the blues ballad I Wonder which has
been covered by dozens of artists but there was a whole lot more to Gant
who recorded nearly 150 titles between 1944 and 1951 including several
R&B hits. He was a fine and immensely appealing vocalist and a superb
piano player. There are several great boogie instrumentals here in the
grand tradition of Albert Ammons or Pete Johnson (Original Cecil's
Boogie/ Rock The Boogie/ Hogan's Alley/ Ninth Street Jive, etc). There
are more gentle blues ballads (Special Delivery/ I'm Travelin' Alone,
etc), straight blues (Goodbye Baby/ Are You Ready/ Time Will Tell,
etc), jazzy jive numbers (Hit That Jive Jack/ Loose As A Goose) and
even a version of the Duke Ellington standard Solitude with Cecil
& his piano accompanied by a steel guitarist! A few tracks are from
worn 78s but, in general, the sound is excellent. There are five
duplications with Flyright 61 issued a few years ago. (FS)
CECIL GANT: Anna Mae/ Are You Ready/ Boogie Woogie Baby/ Cecil's Mop Mop/
Goodbye Baby/ Hit That Jive Jack/ Hogan's Alley/ I Wonder/ I'm All Alone
Now/ I'm Travelin' Alone/ Killer Diller Boogie (Syncopated Boogie)/ Long
Distance Call/ Loose As A Goose/ My Baby's Changed/ Nashville Jumps/ Ninth
Street Jive/ Original Cecil's Boogie/ Rhumba Boogie Woogie/ Rock The
Boogie/ Sloppy Joe's/ Special Delivery/ Time Will Tell/ Train Time/ Why
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| B.B. KING |
P-Vine PCD 3001 |
Singin' The Blues |
● CD $22.98 |
When Ace reissued this Crown LP, they put it together with
B.B.'s The Blues LP in one 24-track release. P-Vine has a different
idea, doing a CD of each 12 song album, and adding 8 more titles and
alternates. Here the original track selection is rounded out by Bye Bye
Baby/ The Woman I Love/ Sneakin' Around/ Shut Your Mouth/ Jump With You
Baby/ Houserocker/ Why I Sing The Blues and an alternate of Woke Up
This Morning. Prime stuff. (MB)
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| B.B. KING |
P-Vine PCD 3009 |
The Jungle |
● CD $22.98 |
17 tracks, 51 min., recommended
Recorded mostly in the
early 60's with King at the top of his talents, this reissues the
excellent Kent LP 521 and adds 5 tracks. Beautician Blues/ Eyesight To
The Blind/ It's A Mean World/ Blue Shadows/ The Jungle/ I Stay In The Mood
(from
'56) all saw chart action. The band, featuring Duke Jethro on keys and
Kenny Sands on trumpet, is tight and complements King perfectly. Extra
cuts include an alternate version of 5 Long Years/ The Jungle, the
Kent 45 version of Eyesight/ Making Me Blue/ A Woman Don't Care.
This is the sound you think of when someone says "B. B. King.
"(JC)
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| B.B. KING |
P-Vine PCD 3844 |
1950-1952 |
● CD $22.98 |
20 of B.B's earliest RPM sides.
B.B. KING: A New Way Of Driving/ B.B.'s Blues/ B.B.'s Boogie/ Fine Looking
Woman/ Gotta Find My Baby/ Hard Working Woman/ Low Down Dirty baby/
Mistreated Woman/ My Baby's Gone/ My Own Fault Darlin'/ Pray For Me/
Questionnaire Blues/ Shake It Up & Go/ She Don't Move Me No More/
She's A Mean Woman/ She's Dynamite/ Some Day, Somewhere/ That Ain't The
Way To Do It/ The Other Night Blues/ Walkin' & Cryin'
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| B.B. KING |
P-Vine PCD 3879 |
Rock Me Baby |
● CD $22.98 |
Straight reissue of Kent 5012
B.B. KING: 3 O'clock Blues/ Bad Case Of Love/ Everyday I Have The Blues/
Please Love Me/ Rock Me Baby/ Sneakin' Around/ Sweet Little Angel/ Sweet
Sixteen Part 1/ Sweet Sixteen Part 2/ Ten Long Years/ When My Heart Beats
Like A Hammer/ Woke Up This Morning/ You Know I Love You/ You Upset Me
Baby
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| B.B. KING |
P-Vine PCD 3880 |
Let Me Love You |
● CD $22.98 |
| B.B. KING: Come By Here/ Did You Ever Love A Woman/ Driving Wheel/ Hold
That Train/ I Can't Explain/ I'm Gonna Quit My Baby/ I've Got A Right To
Love My Baby/ Let Me Love You/ Troubles Don't Last/ Walkin' Dr. Bill/
Whole Lot Of Lovin'/ You're Gonna Miss Me
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| FREDDY KING |
P-Vine PCD 3834 |
Gives You A Bonanza Of Instrumentals |
● CD $22.98 |
A reissue of King 928 from 1965. A collection of mostly
blues guitar instrumentals along with a couple of country flavored ones
recorded for Federal between 1961 & 1964. Freddy was a brilliant
musician who can hold interest over an LP of instrumentals.
FREDDY KING: Cloud Sailin'/ Fish Fare/ Freddy's Midnight Dream/ Freeway/
Funnybone/ King-A-Ling/ Low Tide/ Manhole/ Nickleplated/ Remington Ride/
Surf Monkey/ The Sad Night Owl
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| THE KINGS OF HARMONY |
P-Vine PCD 5463 |
The Legendary King Solomon Recordings |
● CD $22.98 |
25 tracks, 66 mins, recommended Lovely collection of
acapella gospel recorded for New York's King Solomon label in 1943 &
'44. The quartet performs in a smooth but soulful style on a collection of
mostly traditional gospel songs - Fountain Of Blood/ Is There Anybody
here/ So Glad/ Home On The Rock/ Wandering Child, etc. (FS)
THE KINGS OF HARMONY: Crucifixtion/ Fare You Well/ Fountain Of Blood/ Good
News/ He Knows How Much We Can Bear/ Home On The Rock/ I Got A Mother Done
Gone On/ I Want Two Wings/ Is There Anybody Here/ It Soon Will Be Over/
Lead Me On/ Lead Me To That Rock/ Little David/ Little Liza/ Moses Smote
The Water/ New Born Again/ On The Ocean Sailing/ Preacher And Bear/ Put On
Your Old Grey Bonnet/ Shame How They Done Our Lord/ So Glad/ Trees Are
Bending/ Walk The Lonesome Valley/ Wandering Child/ You Better Mind
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| CHARLEY PATTON |
P-Vine PCD 2255/7 |
The Complete Recorded Works |
● CD $45.98 |
Basically the three Document CDs of this master Delta
bluesman packaged together with thick 70 page booklet with 12 page essay
by Jim O'Neal (in English and Japanese) and transcripts of all the lyrics
in English.
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