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Various Artists: Blues Masters Volume 12: Memphis Blues
Label: Rhino
Year: 1927-1954
Released : 1993
Format : [email protected] 320
Memphis Blues documents the rough and tumble growth of a genre called the blues on a street called Beale in the late '20s and into the early '50s. There are selections from two of the best early jug bands, the Memphis Jug Band and Cannon's Jug Stompers -- along with cuts from familiar figures like Memphis Minnie and Fury Lewis. Following "Highway No. 61 Blues" by Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band, the collection takes a quantum leap to the late '40s and early '50s, jumping from prewar acoustic to postwar electric blues. B.B. King weighs in with "When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes" while Howlin' Wolf offers "Moanin' at Midnight." There's a particularly energetic take on "Cotton Crop Blues" by James Cotton, with some of the most down-and-dirty guitar (by Pat Hare) one would be likely to hear in 1954, and a really screeching version of "Bear Cat", an answer to Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog", by Rufus Thomas Jr. The names of the record labels, including Chess and Sun, show what an important role these independents played in the development of modern blues and, subsequently, rock & roll.Ronnie D. Lankford Jr., AMG
Tracklist :
01. Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:41)
Beale Street Sheiks - Recorded Chicago September 1927
Frank Stokes – vocal, guitar
Dan Stone - guitar
02. Memphis Jug Blues (3:30)
Memphis Jug Band - Recorded Memphis 24 February 1927
Will Shade, Will Weldon - vocal, guitar
Ben Ramey – kazoo
Charlie Polk – vocal, jug
03. Viola Lee Blues (3:10)
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Recorded Memphis 20 September 1928
Gus Cannon – banjo
Noah Lewis – vocal, harmonica
Elijah Avery – guitar
Prob Hosea Woods - kazoo
04. Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues, Pt.1 (3:14)
Jim Jackson – Recorded Chicago 10 October 1927
Jim Jackson – vocal, guitar
05. Kassie Jones, Pt.2 (3:02)
Furry Lewis – Recorded Memphis 28 August 1928
Furry Lewis – vocal, guitar
06. Bumble Bee (2:47)
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - Recorded NYC 18 June 1929
Kansas Joe McCoy - guitar
Memphis Minnie - vocal, guitar
07. Milk Cow Blues (3:01)
Sleepy John Estes – Recorded Memphis 13 May 1930
Sleepy John Estes – vocal, guitar
James “Yank” Rachel - mandolin
Jab Jones - piano
08. Highway No.61 Blues (2:48 )
Jack Kelly & Jug Band - Recorded NYC 1 August 1933
Jack Kelly –vocal, guitar
Prob Dan Sane –guitar
Will Batts – violin
“Doctor” D M Higgs - jug
09. We All Gotta Go Sometime (2:41)
Joe Hill Louis - Recorded Memphis November or December 1952
Joe Hill Louis - vocal, guitar, harmonica
Albert Williams - piano
Willie Nix - drums
10. When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes (2:28 )
B.B. King - Recorded Memphis 1949
B.B. King - vocal
Phineas Newborn Jr – piano
Tuff Green – bass
Phineas Newborn Snr – drums
Nathan Woodward – trumpet
Sammie Jett – trombone
Ben Branch -, J P Loucher -sax
11. Try Me One More Time (2:40)
Willie Nix - Recorded Memphis June or July 1951
Willie Nix – vocal, drums
Willie Johnson – guitar
Billy Love – piano
12. Jumpin' Blues (2:16)
Walter 'Mumbles' Horton - Recorded Memphis late June/early July 1951
Walter Horton – vocal, harmonica
Poss Calvin Newborn - guitar
Billy Love – piano
Willie Nix - drums
13. Moanin' at Midnight (2:55)
Howlin' Wolf - Recorded Memphis August 1951
Howlin Wolf – vocal, harmonica
Willie Johnson – guitar
Willie Steele drums
14. Cotton Crop Blues (2:58 )
James Cotton – Recorded Memphis 14 May 1954
James Cotton – vocal
Pat Hare – guitar
Billy Love – piano
James Bowers - drums
15. Feelin' Good (2:59)
Little Junior's Blue Flames - Recorded Memphis 18 June 1953
Little Junior Parker – vocal
Floyd Murphy – guitar
William Johnson – piano
Kenneth Banks – bass
John Bowers - drums
16. Bear Cat (2:51)
Rufus 'Hound Dog' Thomas Jr. - Recorded Memphis 8 March 1953
Rufus 'Hound Dog' Thomas Jr. - vocal
Joe Hill Louis – guitar
Tuff Green – bass
Houston Stokes - drums
17. Booted (3:04)
Roscoe Gordon – Recorded Memphis poss August 1951
Roscoe Gordon – vocal, piano
Poss Adolph Duncan, Willie Wilk –sax
Unknown – bass, drums
18. Lovin' Blues (3:15)
Bobby 'Blue' Bland – Recorded Memphis 1952
Bobby 'Blue' Bland – vocal
Johnny Ace – piano
Roger Jones – bass
Earl Forrest – drums
Adolp “Billy” Duncan – sax
Unknown poss- Elven Parr or Matt Murphy -guitar
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