Time: 47:19
Size: 108.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front
[2:17] 1. Louisiana Red - I Done Woke Up
[2:27] 2. Mojo Watson - You Know You Don't Want Me
[3:08] 3. H-Bomb Ferguson - On My Way
[2:26] 4. James Wayne - This Little Letter
[2:23] 5. Charles Singleton - Good Time Gal
[1:50] 6. Jimmie 'Chickie' Home - Hello Little Girl
[2:17] 7. Hattie Green - Over Twenty One
[2:25] 8. Piney Brown - You Made Me This Way
[2:08] 9. H-Bomb Ferguson - H-Bomb, Rock
[2:24] 10. Hattie Green & Earl Connelly - Green Light
[3:04] 11. Emmet Davis - Woke Up This Morning
[3:04] 12. Mojo Watson - All Alone
[2:43] 13. Charlie Walker - Wrong Kind Of Woman
[1:52] 14. Louisiana Red - I Had A Feeling
[2:22] 15. Piney Brown - Pawn Shop Blues
[2:17] 16. James Wayne - Trust
[2:35] 17. Emmet Davis - You Know You Didn't Want Me
[2:38] 18. Charlie Walker - Louise
[2:51] 19. H-Bomb Ferguson - I Love My Baby
Atlas Records was founded in 1951 by trumpeter Thomas Robinson, who located his headquarters in Harlem just down the street from the Apollo Theatre. Early on Atlas concentrated on releasing explosive jump blues sides before switching predominantly to vocal groups by the end of the decade. Robinson started a second record imprint, Angle Tone Records, in 1958, which again centered mostly on doo wop material, but the occasional jump blues track slipped through now and again. This blistering set brings together some of the great lost blues sides from the two labels, and for those only familiar with the vocal group material from Atlas and Angle Tone, it is quite a revelation. This is fire-breathing stuff, full of raw, loose sax runs and some scorching guitar, and the needle must have been buried in the red for all of these sessions. Among the standout tracks are the opener, "I Done Woke Up," featuring the flame-throwing slide guitar of Louisiana Red, the stomping "You Know You Don't Want Me" by guitarist Mojo Watson, James Wayne's muscular "This Little Letter," and baritone saxophonist Emmet Davis' rattling, ramshackle "Woke Up This Morning." This is quite the blues explosion indeed, with over an hour of energetic gutbucket dance blues, all of it featuring a delightfully ragged immediacy. ~Steve Leggett
This collection of twenty-five vintage blues vocals will help to illustrate the true scope of the record activities of the Atlas and Angletone labels, which up until now have only been represented on CDs by their vocal group recordings. The uniform quality of these recordings should help to dispel from the listener the mistaken belief that lack of commercial success is always due to poor musical content. These recordings can hold their own with anything that was coming out of New York during that era. Featuring the explosive H-Bomb Ferguson along with Mojo Watson, Louisiana Red, Mae Mercer, Piney Brown and many more. This collection marks the first CD release of these magnificent vintage recordings. A "must own" for vintage blues fans.
This collection of twenty-five vintage blues vocals will help to illustrate the true scope of the record activities of the Atlas and Angletone labels, which up until now have only been represented on CDs by their vocal group recordings. The uniform quality of these recordings should help to dispel from the listener the mistaken belief that lack of commercial success is always due to poor musical content. These recordings can hold their own with anything that was coming out of New York during that era. Featuring the explosive H-Bomb Ferguson along with Mojo Watson, Louisiana Red, Mae Mercer, Piney Brown and many more. This collection marks the first CD release of these magnificent vintage recordings. A "must own" for vintage blues fans.
Atlas Blues Explosion