Big Joe Duskin - Cincinnati Stomp

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:44
Size: 143.6 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. Mean Old Frisco
[3:04] 2. Roll 'em Pete
[4:04] 3. Stormin' In Texas
[2:40] 4. Cincinnati Stomp
[3:39] 5. Little Red Rooster
[4:22] 6. The Tribute
[2:13] 7. Down The Road A Piece
[4:36] 8. Well, Well Baby
[3:05] 9. Honky Tonk Train
[2:51] 10. Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar
[3:34] 11. Tender Hearted Woman
[2:33] 12. Stoop Down Baby
[4:57] 13. Betty And Dupree
[3:11] 14. Yancey Special
[5:01] 15. Slidell Blues
[2:23] 16. Dollar Bill Boogie
[3:42] 17. I Met A Girl Named Martha
[3:33] 18. Boogie Woogie Prayer

“Joe Duskin is a consolidator and transmitter of piano blues and boogie, rather than an originator or innovator. He does compose the occasional numberand "Well, Well baby" is a very good onebut they are the work of a man who has his musical models, and is content to do a very good job of following them. Duskin's models, and is content to do a very good job of following them. Duskin's idols are the big three of boogie: Ammons, Lewis, and Johnson (to whom "The Tribute" pays, er, tribute) white boogiemeister Freddie Slack, and Roosevelt Sykes, who is covered from 78 ("Tender Hearted Woman") to LP ("Slidell blues," off Delmark 607). When these recordings were made nearly 20 years ago, Duskin was a powerful singer, and a forceful swinging pianist. (He's still working and has made a number of recordings in Europe; what little I've heard of them suggests that he has retained his skills and vigor.) The first 12 tracks were originally Joe's Arhoolie LP; everything from "Betty and Dupree" onward is previously unissued material of the same vintage. On some numbers, Duskin is enjoyably abetted by various permutations of guitar, bass, and drums. The least successful track is the last, on which Duskin's discoverer Steve Tracy plays harmonica. Tracy is very accomplished, but there's no interaction; "Boogie Woogie Prayer" is two simultaneous performances of the same tune, rather than a duet. Still, this is a CD that entertains all the way, and is well worth investing in.” ~Chris Smith/Blues & Rhythm

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Big Joe Duskin - Big Joe Jumps Again!: Cincinnati Blues Session

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:47
Size: 102.5 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Jazz blues
Year: 2004/2009
Art: Front

[1:37] 1. You're Gonna Miss Me
[5:43] 2. Every Day I Have The Blues
[3:36] 3. Get Out Of My Way
[0:54] 4. Down The Road A Piece
[3:38] 5. Betty And Dupree
[4:29] 6. One Dirty Rat
[4:30] 7. Mean & Strange
[4:05] 8. Key To The Highway
[3:30] 9. Sloppy Drunk Blues
[3:18] 10. Beer Drinking Woman
[3:34] 11. Black Mountain Blues
[4:18] 12. Miss Ida B
[1:29] 13. North To Alaska

When he was 17, Big Joe Duskin made a promise to his preacher father that he wouldn't play secular music on the piano until after his father had passed from this world, a promise he intended to keep, and did. Reverend Perry Duskin was 79-years-old at the time, and unfortunately for Big Joe's musical aspirations, the elder Duskin lived until 1963, finally dying at the age of 105, at which time Big Joe's piano skills had all but vanished. But he made up for lost time, and has been a fixture on the Cincinnati blues scene for some years, playing his boogie woogie piano, a last link to the barrelhouse tradition of the 1930s. Age and diabetes have caught up with Duskin, though, and his speed at the piano is now gone, but on Big Joe Jumps Again he compensates by tackling mostly mid-tempo shuffles, and lets his increasingly expressive voice carry the weight. Working with a no-frills rhythm section of Phillip Paul on drums and Ed Conley on bass (both veterans of countless King Records sessions), Duskin's loose and ragged piano has an endearing shakiness about it, and if the speed is gone, the heart is still there, and everything fits when he starts to sing. There aren't many surprises here (unless you count the presence of guitarist Peter Frampton on two cuts), as Duskin tackles several old blues standards, including Memphis Slim's "Every Day I Have the Blues" and a raggedly affecting version of the traditional blues piece,"Betty and Dupree." It's piano blues, pure and simple, and played by a man who has spent a lifetime loving it, and waited nearly half his life to get a chance to play it. All of that comes through here, but what is most interesting, perhaps, is the sudden churchy feel that comes in near the end of the album, and on the most unlikely of songs, a cover of Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska." In Duskin's hands the song takes on a strange spiritual tone, as if Alaska was standing in for Heaven, and it is the emotional centerpiece of Big Joe Jumps Again. ~Steve Leggett

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Various - The Story Of Piano Blues: From The Country To The City

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 74:54
Size: 171.5 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 1978/2013
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Pinetop Perkins - Five Long Years
[4:12] 2. Henry Gray - Cold Chills
[5:27] 3. James Crutchfield - Sittin On Top Of The World
[3:14] 4. Abe _Boogaloo_ Ames - Tommy Dorsey's Boogie Woogie
[5:19] 5. Jimmy Walker - Come On, Get Your Morning Exercise
[3:51] 6. Pinetop Perkins - Everyday I Have The Blues
[2:35] 7. Robert Shaw - The Cows
[4:01] 8. Henry Gray - Blues Won't Let Me Rest
[3:52] 9. Abie _Boogaloo_ Ames - After Hours
[2:16] 10. Mose Vinson - Good Morning Memphis
[4:21] 11. Big Joe Duskin - If You Want To Be My Woman
[4:43] 12. Pinetop Perkins - Kansas City
[3:57] 13. Booker T. Laury - Big Legged Woman
[4:28] 14. Henry Gray - When My First Wife Left Me
[3:58] 15. Pinetop Perkins - Kidney Stew
[4:10] 16. Big Joe Duskin - Key To The Highway
[2:22] 17. Jimmy Walker - I Had Lots Of Troubles
[3:54] 18. Booker T. Laury - You Can Go Your Way
[4:00] 19. Detroit Junior - Call My Job

All ten of the artists featured on this new Wolf Records’ release had different levels of success and accolades through their careers, yet share similar upbringings and stories. They honed their chops out of necessity in labor camps, house parties and juke joints – synthesizing individual styles that cannot simply be classified as “Blues,” as their music also incorporates Boogie, Jazz and Gospel. They came from rural communities but brought their talents to the city, where they helped to define the Blues scenes in Chicago, Memphis and Houston. And just as they were influenced by the phantom performers of a pre-war era, they too have influenced many legends of 60s and 70s Rock N’ Roll. So if you are a fanatic, enthusiast and archaeologist of music such as me, you will thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the unique piano styles found on these 20 amazing and thoroughly enjoyable tracks of pure Blues and Boogie Woogie.

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