805520091268

Blues Belters: The Essential Recordings

Various Artists

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: PRMCD6126

Release Date:  03 October 2011

Label:  Primo

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  805520091268

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    All of the vocalists on this compilation fall into the bracket of 'Blues Belters' with the music pumping behind them being known as 'Jump Blues'. Jump Blues, which started to bloom in the late 1930's, was the last new popular variant of the genre to emerge before World War II put a stop to almost all recording and musical development.

    When the war ended the Black working class picked up where they left off and Jump Blues entered a golden age that lasted until the mid-fifties when it, along with so much other roots music, was blown away by the wrecking ball that was Rock 'n' Roll.

    On this release we have the very cream of the artists who made Jump Blues such a popular and influential style. Without the likes of Big Joe Turner and Louis Jordan, amongst others, there would have been no Rock 'n' Roll and no Soul and the modern musical landscape would be a very different place.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Big Joe Turner - Shake Rattle And Roll
      • 2. Wynonie Harris - All She Wants To Do Is Rock
      • 3. Jimmy Rushing - Goin' To Chicago Blues
      • 4. Tiny Bradshaw - The Train Kept-A-Rollin'
      • 5. Eddie Vinson - Cherry Red Blues
      • 6. Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues In Trouble
      • 7. Louis Jordan - Let The Good Times Roll
      • 8. Sonny Parker - Pretty Baby
      • 9. Big Joe Turner - Piney Brown Blues
      • 10. Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
      • 11. Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking
      • 12. Eddie Mack - Heart Throbbing Blues
      • 13. Jimmy Witherspoon - Spoon Calls Hootie
      • 14. Bull Moose Jackson - I Want A Bow Legged Woman
      • 15. Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry- Pts 1 & 2
      • 16. Walter Brown with Jay McShann's Orchestra - Confessin’ The Blues
      • 17. Eddie Vinson - My Big Brass Bed Is Gone
      • 18. Sonny Parker - Sad Feeling
      • 19. Joe Liggins - Pink Champagne
      • 20. Wynonie Harris - Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well

      Disc 2

      • 1. Louis Jordan - Caldonia Boogie
      • 2. Smiley Lewis - Shame Shame Shame
      • 3. Jimmy Witherspoon - Two Little Girls
      • 4. Sonny Parker - She Sets My Soul On Fire
      • 5. Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete
      • 6. Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
      • 7. Tiny Bradshaw - Gravy Train
      • 8. Eddie Vinson - Juice Head Baby
      • 9. Walter Brown with Jay McShann's Orchestra - Hootie Blues
      • 10. Bull Moose Jackson - Big Ten Inch Record
      • 11. Piney Brown - How About Rocking With Me
      • 12. Joe Liggins - The Honeydripper Pt. 1
      • 13. H-Bomb Ferguson - Give It Up
      • 14. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - I Can Never Be That Way
      • 15. Wynonie Harris - Good Morning Judge
      • 16. Roy Brown - Dreaming Blues
      • 17. Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday
      • 18. Jimmy Rushing - Jimmy's Blues
      • 19. Tiny Bradshaw - Well Oh Well
      • 20. Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer