Ollie Nightingale I'LL DRINK YOUR BATH WATER, BABY ECKO 1995 Notes: "Ollie Nightingale began his singing career in the early 1950's as lead singer of the Memphis based gospel group, the Dixie Nightingales. He was born Ollie Braxton Hoskins in bateville, Mississippi, on Sept 6, 1936. With some early vocal training by his grandmother and only a little coaxing, Ollie quickly became successful singing in the church choir. It was the influence of the church that later began to characterize his recordings." David Ruffin, future lead singer of The Temptations, was a teenage member of the Dixie Nightingales.
Babysitting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_okszAXKM4
Changing for the Better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG2W626QcRw
I'll Drink Your Bath Water, Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Mek3CqDXI
That's What You Are to Me
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Mississippi Sheiks STOP AND LISTEN Yazoo 1992 Fascinating Booklet of their history. Early 1900s Mississippi. Notes: "The Mississippi Sheiks were probably Mississippi's most commercially successful blues musicians, although they fit none of the musical stereotypes of their time and place. The off-shoot of a string band that catered to square dance audiences, the Sheiks displayed more white influence than any other popular Blues stars. Still their work drew favorable comments from such unadulterated Mississippi stylists as Son House and Howlin' Wolf, who even preferred them to Charlie Patton."
Stop And Listen Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aEpsNgvYO8
Sitting On Top Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWu3NusPBgU
I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgzi7VOSMs4
She Ain't No Good
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Amos Milburn DOWN THE ROAD APIECE Aladdin / EMI 1993 Notes: "Like innumerable budding musicians of his generation he was a fervent devotee of Louis Jordan, but Amos reserved his deepest affections for the holy trinity of boogie woogie piano: Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. After some formal piano lessons, Millburn quit school while still quite young to work as a delivery boy and part time musician. With the advent of World War ll, he tacked a few years onto his age for the benefit of recruitment officers and joined the Navy in 1942. Assigned to the Pacific Theater, Millburn received numerous battle stars for his participation in some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict." You are sure this is a Blues disc when you notice his name is spelled as Milburn and Millburn on the CD label. He was also born in 1924, 1927 and 1928. Wiki:
Joseph Amos Milburn was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Houston, Texas, and died there 52 years later.
Born: April 1, 1927, Houston, TX
Died: January 3, 1980, Houston, TX
Milk and Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q47HsWASOw8
Down The Road Apiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfMpqpTGYRU
Good, Good Whiskey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGstBK1pZc
Roll, Mr. Jelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5OmJPtffs
Thinking And Drinking
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Leadbelly ALABAMA BOUND with / The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet: (Willie Johnson, William Langford, Henry Owens and Arlandus Wilson) RCA Heritage Series 1940 / 1989 Notes:"Huddie William Ledbetter was born on January 29, 1885 on Jeter plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana, the only child of farmer Wesley and part-Cherokee Indian Sally Ledbetter. When Huddie was five, his family moved to nearby Leigh, Texas, and it was while growing up there that the young boy's interest in music began to develop under the encouraging eye of his uncle Terrell, who bought Huddie his first instrument, an accordion."
Whoa, Back Buck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKD0wDpujZE
Midnight Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyFLUTyDUoPick a Bale of Cotton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLKvlSSy44Y
Gray Goose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEswHQ9fKo&t=51sRock Island Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awJUF4l6coEasy Rider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aZLxqdI28Cheers |
Johnny Winter:
Born in Texas, but spent a lot of his young life in my hometown in Mississippi. Nice clip.
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Booker T Laury NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES Bullseye Blues 1994 Notes: "Everybody who hears this music will buy this record," he says matter-of-factly. Lots 'em wants to play the Blues now, lot of them can't play, down there playing, wishing the could play." Wiki:
Lawrence Laury was an American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer. Laury worked with Memphis Slim and Mose Vinson but did not record his debut album until he was in his late sixties.
Born: September 2, 1914, Memphis, TN
Died: September 23, 1995, Memphis, TN
Blues on the Prowl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffios-wc-YQBlues with a Feeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkkGfWoS7HQWoke up this Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0pWC-vUGYEarly in the Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLTMYoxvnhkDB Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BQG4Y6YpMCheers |
Earl King HARD RIVER TO CROSS Snooks Eaglin (guitar), Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff (Tenor, baritone, flute) Black Top Records 1993 Wiki:
Earl Silas Johnson, known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music. A composer of blues standards such as " Come On" (covered by Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan) and " Big Chief" (recorded by Professor Longhair), he was an important figure in New Orleans R&B.
Born February 7, 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Died April 17, 2003 (aged 69)
Hard River to Cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VCH7bPArgSeduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSsDSX6kQEBig Foot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1nIX-bwoNINo city like New Orleans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gij7NlGGt1gCheers |
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Terry Evans PUTTIN' IT DOWN Ry Cooder (guitar) Audioquest Music 1995 Notes: " I grew up in a little town called Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was close to the Delta, Greenville, where B.B., Robert Johnson and all the famous cats came up. I was raised up in the church. My family thought it was a good idea for me to go to church. I was in the junior/senior choir. I used to sing tenor, baritone, bass. We weren't allowed to sing what they called the rough stuff, you know, the rock and roll stuff. We weren't allowed to sing that in those days. All we could sing was gospel songs, so we had to slip away to sing some of the secular type songs."
Too Many Ups and Downs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQv80sQohNI
Money in Your Pocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvmPNaMhUADown in Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHKZjqvghWk
Walking in the Same Tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iit8j0wPNjgRooftop Tomcat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-s3mPwm6i0Cheers Not too many Blues albums with inserts in German, French and Spanish. |
@bdp24
I have that one on Audioquest and a few others by Terry Evans. Don't know how I overlooked them. Thanks.
arcticdeth,
The CD was / is 'perfect' for me, in that it addressed everything I hated about LPs.
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B.B.'s wife:
Blasphemy, I cry!!!!
She was a classmate of my brother in high school. Very nice. I last saw her in 2007 at a reunion in Mississippi.
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B.B. King HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET: CLASSIC LIVE PERFORMANCES 1964-94 MCA 1996 2CD set Notes:"I grew up singing gospel songs and church was really my thing," King once told Robert Gordon. He gleaned his first professional experience in the St. John Gospel Singers, a quartet based in King's hometown of Indianola, Mississippi. Comprised of plantation field hands, the ventured as far away as Greenwood and Greenville, where they performed on radio stations WGRM and WJPJ in 1945-46." After a couple years of this, Riley reckoned the St. John Gospel Singers were ready for the metropolis of Memphis. The other members of the group, who would all one day become preachers, lacked his conviction. When he set out hitchhiking towards the river city, Riley was alone."
Sweet Little Angel (Live At The Regal Theatre, Chicago, 1964)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XavgLF_oo
You Upset Me Baby (Live At The Regal Theater, Chicago, 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBWUaKvkYI
Sweet Sixteen (Live At Sankei Hall, Tokyo/1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIbRWk9TksY
Ain't Nobody's Business (Live At B.B. King's Blues Club, Memphis/1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjDsaMUEhGA
T Bone Shuffle - BB King with Joe louis Walker - 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iPck1yj8NUCheers |
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B.B. King COMPLETELY WELL MCA Records 1969 Minimum packaging. Just track listing. Not even date of CD. Wiki:
Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. Wikipedia
Born: September 16, 1925, Berclair, MS
Died: May 14, 2015, Las Vegas, NV
You’re Losin’ Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svvrGnlyjEgNo Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEJsSejWeLoThe Thrill is Gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpC69qIe02EConfessin’ the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YjObWNpocECheers |
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Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys SAD DAYS LONELY NIGHTS Fat Possum Records Recorded at Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint Chulahoma, Mississippi, April 1993 Blues from North Mississippi (the hills), not the Delta.
BornJuly 28, 1930 Hudsonville, Mississippi,
DiedJanuary 17, 1998 Holly Springs, MississippiSad Days, Lonely Nights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDwDRQmtKB4Lord, Have Mercy on Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBR7qE-Cewc
Crawling King Snake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgZWSE7HmfILonesome is my Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9If7i_pn7oCheers |
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