Blues for Aficionados

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

Love Joe Turner, @rok2id! I was fortunate to see/hear him live in the mid-80's, back by The Blasters. I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were listening to before they started recording.

I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were listening to before they started recording.

I agree completely.  They even used the phrase "Rock & Roll" in the music back then.

Cheers

Various Artists

A VISION SHARED: A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE AND LEADBELLY

Columbia / Folkways    1988

Notes:  "They left home as teenagers.  They traveled around the country during hard times, learned from other performers, and forged styles of their own which influenced thousands of younger musicians.  Huddie Ledbetter (1885-1949), a Louisiana-born black man with the nickname "Leadbelly", and Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), an Oklahoma-born white man, shared a love of music, a keen appreciation of their fellow human begins, a political consciousness, and an ability to turn their experiences into songs that fired the imaginations of audiences around the country."

Sylvie  --   Sweet Honey in the Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvY9Yg2k-c

I Ain't Got No Home  --  Bruce Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSrR1X65EA

Rock Island Line --   Little Richard & Fishbone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPmGqcafKw

The Bourgeois Blues  --  Taj Mahal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VvfAfwS9k8

Gray Goose  --  Sweet Honey in the Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffJoYCjPi8

This Land is Your Land  --  Peter Seeger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnoQAjt775g
with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Doc watson & 
The Little Red School House Chorus

Cheers

Various Artists

BEST OF THE BLUES: "A SUMMIT MEETING"

Pairs Record / Buddah Records 1988

Notes: "The Blues is the backbone of America’s music. Jazz, rock, country and western, swing, pop, --- none of these would be what it is without the Blues. The Blues is a deceptively simple musical form capable of infinite variety. On this splendid collection you’ll hear old Blues and new Blues, happy and mean Blues, country Blues and city Blues, vocal Blues and instrumental Blues--all of it real, honest and direct."

Recorded in NYC!!!    Blasphemy !

Kidney Stew -- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv-1DfRgcc

Ball and Chain -- Big Mama Thornton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZivvODnV8

They Called Me Mr. Cleanhead -- Eddie Vinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVgzmQ4EdWs

That’s Alright Now Mama -- Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1LWCbPfeHk

Got my Mojo Workin’ -- Muddy Waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_0frQkG_4

Confessin’ the Blues -- Jay McShann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SWMivXDp14

The Drifter -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4it8guF3c

Cheers