Blues for Aficionados
I have found that postings music is a good way to listen to all the music in your collection. I have neglected the ultimate source of much of the music I post. This tread corrects that oversight. All Blues post are welcome. I will concentrate on the Delta.
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Snooky Pryor IN THIS MESS UP TO MY CHEST Antone's Records 1994 Wiki: Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi, United States.[3] He developed a country blues style influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller). In the mid-1930s, in and around Vance, Mississippi, Pryor played in impromptu gatherings of three or four harmonica players, including Jimmy Rogers, who then lived nearby and had yet to take up playing the guitar.[5] Pryor moved to Chicago around 1940. While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through a PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street Market, becoming a regular on the Chicago blues scene.
Born: September 15, 1921, Lambert, MS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLME5DJPL0 Pay for All Our Sins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJrDUqH3j4w Take it Easy Greasy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvfU1VmjGw Slow Down Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcexOun5Xc Judgement Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL44FiuiQEY Cheers |
Fred McDowell MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL Rounder 1995 Notes: What you hold here in this compact disc is an authentic document. The real thing. Recorded one day during Easter Week, 1962, in Como, Mississippi. The studio: the living room of Fred's house. The studio audience: Fred's wife, family and neighbors. The ambient sounds: Fred's dog and a number of unidentified children. Thirty-three Easters have passed since this session. And the music remains as immediate and compelling as it was the day it was recorded. For old friends and new, this collection is a wonderful testament to a man who has been called "the point of entry" into the Blues for a great many people. Done Left Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJzwAQxH-U All The Way From East St. Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLO5TRRy89U Shake 'Em On Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7TuwWFWmk John Henry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeOt19i_oRY Cheers |
Snooky Pryor
TOO COOL TO MOVE Antone's Records 1992 Notes: At twenty he joined the army. From 1943 to 1945 he was stationed in the South Pacific in Saipan, New Caledonia, Guam and other islands. Here he pursued his music by playing bugle and entertaining the troops. It was in New Caledonia, where, missing his new bride, he wrote "Telephone Blues", which was to be his first recording. It would also mark the beginning of the great postwar era of Chicago Blues. Married to Luella Pryor since 1941, he has raised seven children and eighteen grandchildren in the farm town of Ullin, Illinois. Too Cool To Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGTgI0sN64w Keyhole in Your Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcoyIBaR6E Bottle It Up and Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvOOJCDVB0g Cheatin' and Lyin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYacNGDOTQ Cheers |
My favorite Bukka White (sorry for saying "Bukka," Booker): "1963 isn't 1962" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dSF0SKsSAw&list=PL6xp58Fk-rbmXh0Z9A_sMzwRsjAMwPFIk |
Fred McDowell AMAZING GRACE Testament Records 1969 / 1994 Notes: The superb Mississippi singer and bottleneck-guitarist Fred McDowell is but the latest to bear witness to the continuing , fructifying interrelationship of the the two musics, performing Blues for his friends and neighbors during the week and religious music with his fellow worshippers on Sunday. Jesus is on the Main Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCBKJinuQ60 I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTSvaxj6sA You Got To Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVHKk0HUz0 Amazing Grace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Dwh2mQdhc Cheers |
Otis Rush RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME HighTone Records 1971 / 1985 Wiki: Otis Rush Jr. (April 29, 1934 – September 29, 2018)[1] was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. His distinctive guitar style featured a slow-burning sound and long bent notes. With qualities similar to the styles of other 1950s artists Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, his sound became known as West Side Chicago blues and was an influence on many musicians, including Michael Bloomfield, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. Born April 29, 1934 Philadelphia, Mississippi Died September 29, 2018 Chicago, Illinois Right Place, Wrong Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxl8hIsDmc Tore Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCkxIvyyJMM Take a Look Behind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGN76ksRT58 Your Turn to Cry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pfyhl_GCxo Cheers |
Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women HOT FLASH Alligator 1991 Wiki --- Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1987 by Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis. Lewis separated from the band in 1992 and was replaced by Andra Faye.[1] The group then featured Rabson on piano, vocals and guitar, Adegbalola on vocals and guitar, and Faye on vocals, bass, mandolin, violin and guitar.[1] An announcement on the group’s website in November, 2009, stated Saffire had retired and amicably disbanded. Rabson died on January 30, 2013, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, after a long battle with cancer. She was 67.[2] Andra Faye is now living and playing in the Indianapolis, Indiana area. The other side of the story? Great song titles. Billy Branch on harmonica. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axwow-Ti3n4 No Need Pissin’ On A Skunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4r9s-6-h2c Sloppy Drunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nUHgQFYteQ Tom Cat Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vsBSBHU-PA One Good Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7UnrtR4Qg Dirty Sheets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0jBxbOv_Q Cheers |
Son Seals LIVING IN THE DANGER ZONE Alligator Records 1991 Wiki: Frank "Son" Seals was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. In 2009, Seals was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Born: August 14, 1942, Osceola, AR Died: December 20, 2004, Chicago, IL Frigidaire Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyHKGNJcDg I Can't Lose The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttCP_YFPms Tell It To Another Fool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5CoQCv6Lk Danger Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddLRF6lYm8 Cheers |
Preston Shannon MIDNIGHT IN MEMPHIS Bullseye Blues 1996 Notes: "Memphis is a city steeped in music folklore and tradition and any new name emerging from this mystical melting pot is worth investigating. Preston Shannon is that name, a singer/guitarist who evokes memories of Otis Redding and Bobby Womack with his gruff vocals; Albert King, Freddie King and T-Bone Walker influences filter through his guitar technique." "This album is dedicated to God..." --- Preston Shannon Only in the Blues could an album about women and sex be dedicated to God. Midnight in Memphis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBfwmZYjO2w The Streets will Love you to Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wj5_XAZ6KU Round Midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iaPjAL-zY The Clock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZrl1DBUas8 Cheers |
The Johnny Shines Band MASTERS OF MODERN BLUES Testament 1967 / 1994 Notes: One of the most arresting though obscure Blues artists to have recorded in postwar Chicago was singer-guitarist Johnny Shines. His recorded output was small; he made but 12 recordings, and only half of these were issued. On this recording Shines is supported by several of the finest musicians in the modern Blues. On harmonica is Big Walter Horton, in whose playing this simple instrument has been brought to astonishing levels of emotional expression and virtuosity; on piano is Otis Spann, long mainstay of the Muddy waters band; Lee Jackson is on bass, while Fred Below, perhaps the finest drummer in the Blues, rounds out the rhythm section. Rollin' and Tumblin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLAOy0oJyJM Mr. Tom Green's Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvtQL8btW8Q Sweet Home Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqdIJZoe3PQ Walkin' Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0a223eLEog Two Trains Runnin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkk4zuSxBXk Cheers |
Johnny Shines JOHNNY SHINES WITH BIG WALTER HORTON Testament 1966 / 1969 / 1995 G. B. Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT0vmQBFiLo You don't have to Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNbcv8AzQwM Hello Central https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qh1bWjZ30 Sneakin' and Hidin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1_0V-qSVZg Cheers |
Byther Smith ADDRESSING THE NATION WITH THE BLUES JSP 1994 Notes: "I'm just a working man" is how the genuinely humble Byther Smith neatly describes himself. A modest statement perhaps, but one which also reveals just what makes him such a great Blues artist--in its own environment, the Chicago Blues has always been, and remains, Black working-class music. The Windy City still teems with Blues artists, but once beyond the 'Blues for the tourists' coach trips... there remains a small number of singers and musicians who adhere to that wisest piece of Blues advice, "find your own thing"--and Byther definitely falls into the latter category. Born April 17, 1932 Monticello, Mississippi Died September 9, 2021 (aged 89) MississippI I was coming Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elc09qWyRSQ Hello Mrs. Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDrWIS7qHc Addressing the Nation with the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4erORyjVY What Have I Done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ld5UuO-0Y Cheers |
Byther Smith
ALL NIGHT LONG Delmark 1997 Walked All Night Long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvgwzDYLUOw Look Over Your Shoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGC9gmxiiE Thinking Real Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKXF1Lya84 Cried Like A Baby Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bY7tY4-45o Cheers |
Carrie Smith CONFESSIN' THE BLUES Evidence / Disques Black and Blue 1993 Notes: "I've been around this kind of music all my life," Carrie Smith told me one afternoon at her East Orange, New Jersey, home. It's not new to me. I was born in Georgia, but my family moved to Newark, New Jersey when I was about seven. Sarah Vaughan lived two blocks down from me. From my childhood, I was brought up in the church. My mother could sing. In fact, my whole family are good singers. And my father, he's excellent! He was a Baptist minister." Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXMCV3WC_vw Confessin' the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_lVDSBbu8 Country Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2avnK2u0E Mama (He treats your daughter mean) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ygACDFp4 Trouble In Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdNgmFeKNI Cheers |
Big Bad Smitty MEAN DISPOSITION Genes 1991 Notes: Big Bad Smitty is 300 pounds of the most authentic Blues to emerge in many a year. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1940, Smitty first picked up a guitar at age ten, picking out Muddy waters' 'Still a Fool' and by his later teen years was playing out at Delta Jukes, fish fries and picnics in the Greenville area...By his thirties Smitty had travelled to St. Louis playing such North and East side clubs as The Club Caravan, Tubby's red Room and Sparggin's Hacienda Lounge where he still plays regularly. Still a fool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF6Fbp2vYCc How many more Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDwT8ARsTM0 Long ol' Lonesome Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d38HVjatMs You don't Love Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oS5B-2M2bY Cheers |
Otis Spann DOWN TO EARTH / THE BLUESWAY RECORDINGS MCA 1995 Otis Spann was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. -- Wikipedia Born: March 21, 1930, Jackson, MS Died: April 24, 1970, Chicago, IL My Home Is In The Delta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEVkVx6_Q7o Down To Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFX_3MlgZN8 Chicago Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzkWhSvoqEg I'm A Fool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oeh_wSmlek Cheers |
One long-time favorite is the debut album by Lou Ann Barton entitled Old Enough, released in 1982 on Asylum Records. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama, produced by Jerry Wexler (Aretha, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Dylan, etc.) and Glenn Frey (?!). Musical accompaniment by The Swampers (whose members include the superlative drummer/bassist duo of Roger Hawkins and David Hood), The Muscle Shoals Horns, and Jimmie Vaughan (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)---with whom Lou Ann often tours. Sitting right next to Old Enough on the LP shelf is Jump Children by Dave Bartholomew (I named my son after him, Dave’s surname). The recordings were made in New Orleans (no duh ;-) between 1950 and ’60, and released on Imperial Records. My copy is a 1983 pressing on Pathe Marconi. Then there is Mose Allison Sings on Prestige Records. Blues and Jazz co-existed in Mose, but he was a favorite of a fair number of hipper Rockers. Look at some of the titles on this album: "The Seventh Son", "Eyesight To The Blind", "Don’t Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me", "Parchman Farm", "Don’t Get Around Much Anymore". Recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. |
Houston Stackhouse CRYIN' WON'T HELP YOU Genes 1994 Notes: Houston Stackhouse never attained the position he rightly deserved among Bluesmen, probably because of the sparsity of his recordings. Never a hard Delta musician, nor a composer of great note, he gleaned his repertoire from his fellow musician friends and relatives, and favorite records. Born September 28, 1910 Wesson, Mississippi Died September 23, 1980 (aged 69) Helena, Arkansas wiki Excellent Booklet with many stories of his life and career. Kind Hearted Woman Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdqWbIfJh8 Bricks In My Pillow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWTGH-eVBk My Babe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIagfNUNzM Cryin' won't Help You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcG-4Ir9-0 Cheers |
Hubert Sumlin HEART & SOUL with / James Cotton(harmonica) Blind Pig Records 1989 Notes require a mircoscope. Long time member of Howlin' Wolf's band. Wiki: Hubert Charles Sumlin was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band. Born: November 16, 1931, Greenwood, MS Died: December 4, 2011, Wayne, NJ Chunky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuopW_6AJ50 Sitting on Top of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTe67h-1Ds The Red Rooster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_8kHH91Cj4 Your Foxy Self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRc0QJ7rPg Cheers |
Hubert Sumlin MY GUITAR AND ME Evidence 1994 Notes: Hubert Sumlin was born on November 16, 1931 in Greenwood, Mississippi, one of 13 kids in a closeknit sharecropping family. He began to develop his musical by plunking on a string of baling wire nailed to the wall by his older brother. Around age 11, Sumlin's mother bought him a guitar. He subsequently played in the Baptist church and teamed up with another local boy who played the harmonica, James Cotton. As teens, Cotton and Sumlin worked local fish frys and local spots. Both also later worked at various times with Howlin' Wolf and were ultimately reunited in Chicago as members of Muddy Waters' Band. My Guitar and Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wkto5Uq9LM Broke and Hungry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rne85zs2LwI The Last Boogie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcpIQIhBosk Easy, Hubert, Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dA49cocqY Cheers |
Roots music? Check this out. Mali's playing sounds very much like Junior Kimbrough. Amy thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pytTF3mzaI |
More Blues: Thelonious Monk - Blues Five Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKxJfmBgdis Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrEcT2Q51lw Miles Davis - All Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb3iCpu-JFs Cannonball Adderley - Them Dirty Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCfXQ6yKjLc Horace Silver - Benor Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWphXfIsxs Cheers You can never get enough of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNIVdnz1FQ |
Sunnyland Slim Blues Band CHICAGO JUMP Evidence 1995 Notes: Born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi on September 5, 1907, the towering 88s ace was a true titan of the Chicago Blues scene for more than half a century. His thundering ivories played an integral role in the development of C hicago blues during its fertile post-war period. Sunnyland was an amazingly prolific sideman on countless recording sessions and bandstands, while his own roof-raising vocals and enduring compositions enriched the genre considerably. Got To Stop This Mess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGX5rjHRPTw Cutting Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rquv7eZWlGQ Give You All My Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvfDvH6TBGw You Used to Love Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPh6qRbiEw Halsted Street Jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sblu5t1RnAw Cheers |
One of most-prized musical experiences was seeing and hearing Big Joe Turner backed by The Blasters in the mid-80's, at Club Lingerie on Sunset Blvd. In the band at that time was Lee Allen, the sax player on many of Little Richard's Specialty recordings. An incredible night of music! Sitting around a little table right above the dance floor were members of Joe's family. The men were in suits, the women very "dolled up", wearing those little hats with attached "veils", little mink stoles wrapped around their shoulders. It looked like a scene from an old movie! |
Koko Taylor FORCE OF NATURE Buddy Guy, Guitar and Vocals Carey Bell, Harmonica Alligator 1993 wiki: Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Wikipedia Born: September 28, 1928, Memphis, TN Died: June 3, 2009, Chicago, IL Mother Nature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGu9O-ziIUA Hound Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsvCGs7zZb0 Born Under A Bad Sign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHiZG-TvfUQ Let The Juke Joint Jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHrBHSbFa8 Cheers |
Koko Taylor JUMP FOR JOY Billy Branch, (Harmonica) Lonnie Brooks, (Vocals and Guitar) Alligator 1990 No notes. Jump For Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAF5UU0xO3g Can't Let Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctuZmLI7Vn8 It's a Dirty Job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5y-PNbeEw Stop Watching Your Enemies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBhza3jgZ8 Cheers |
Mo' Better Blues Empty Bed Blues (Carrie Smith) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M7sXYdrP1U What Have You Done? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1Y3I1_ci0 Cheers |
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@dabel: Neither album should be too hard to acquire, though neither has to my knowledge been reissued. The Emitt Rhodes debut came out around the same time as did McCartney's, and the reviews (include those of my friends and myself) favoured Emitt's. I met and worked with him years later (1997), and sitting in his studio were the same organ and Gibson ES335 as are pictured on the album cover! Fogerty's is his tribute, it seem to me, to his formative influences. Very 1950's, very Southern. Though comprised exclusively of covers, it's my favorite of all his solo albums. |
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Melvin Taylor PLAYS THE BLUES FOR YOU Lucky Peterson (organ, piano) Evidence 1993 Melvin Taylor (born March 13, 1959, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American electric blues guitarist, based in Chicago. During the 1980s he joined Pinetop Perkins and the Legendary Blues Band in a year-long European tour. He has returned to Europe several times with his own group, which has opened for B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Santana -- wiki Talking to Anna Mae, Pt. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOo5AAbUvrE I'll Play the Blues for You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8E2NE9D9o TV Mama Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2O2_1Iq0nM Talking to Anna Mae, Pt. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkm-Z_w394 Cheers |
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Sonny Terry - Johnny Winter - Willie Dixon WHOOPIN' Sonny Terry(harmonica, vocals), Johnny Winter(guitar, piano) Willie Dixon(bass), Styve Homnick(drums) Alligator Records 1984 Notes: Back when the Blues was being called folk music, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were some of the first people to be recorded, and they were one of the first country Blues harp and guitar duets I heard. I loved them, but I always felt like Sonny was never quite in his element. Brownie's a great guitar player but he has that mellow, pretty Carolina style and Sonny's voice was always more raspy -- it had a lot of the Mississippi Delta quality to it. So when Sonny asked if I'd produce an album with him, I tried to make a record with a lot of Delta feel to it, like we had cut the record in Mississippi. That why I played a lot of slide on it. -- Bruce Iglauer I Got My Eyes On You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bW1kxFRRxs Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_RoI18QE6c Whoo Wee Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_Zk4myS7M So Tough With Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oh1v9iIG_U Cheers |
Mo' Blues Ray Bryant Trio - C.C. Rider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pZpDzj_rj4 Ray Bryant Trio - St. Louis Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvI8fHZo7A Ray Bryant Trio - C Jam Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPunAsZCZjc Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpbg2vlQxk Cheers |
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Sonny Terry WHOOPIN’ THE BLUES: THE CAPITOL RECORDINGS, 1947-1950 Capitol Records 1995 Notes: "You see, I don't play like nobody else. I play my own style. Somebody say, "Well, you don't play like so-and-so, I say, "well they don't play like me." --Sonny Terry Definitely not from the Delta. Telephone Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bxSBwAw4Rg Riff and Harmonica Jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwCAhlsheR0 Dirty Mistreater Don’t You Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvrU1K5I88 Crow Janes Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTJwMa1m7ZI Cheers |
A million miles away ;-) As a young lad I’m assuming…From what departure point? From Washington County. I've been to the Presley house in Tupelo. Typical style for that time. I just recently purchased three of his CDs, including the Gospel CD. He has a great voice, made for that type of music. Cheers |
Joe Turner TELL ME PRETTY BABY with Pete Johnson's Orchestra Arhoolie 1947, 1948, 1949 / 1992 Notes: "This is an album of Kansas City music. One fact no one listening this record should forget--all this is fundamentally dance music, not primarily a form of entertainment. Boogie-woogie was the name for a dance step long before it became the tag for a type of music." Very informative fold-out booklet. Wine-O-Baby Boogie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuZ2zXTvVY Boogie Woogie Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWzR7tqofBY Rocket Boogie "88" (Pt. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zLmpgwlDI Around the Clock Blues (Pt. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8wRWsVHh0 Rainy Weather Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKf70beNTCQ B & O Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FHT5Iziz8 and 18 more! Cheers |