Showing posts with label Guitar Slim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guitar Slim. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Guitar Slim - Blues & Rhythm Series 5139: The Chronological Guitar Slim 1951-1954

Size: 250 MB
Time: 53:39
File: FLAC
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Full

01. Bad Luck Is On Me (Woman Trouble) (2:17)
02. New Arrival (2:36)
03. Standin' At The Station (2:45)
04. Cryin In The Morning (2:14)
05. Feelin' Sad (2:35)
06. Certainly All (2:12)
07. The Things That I Used To Do (3:00)
08. Well I Done Got Over It (2:29)
09. The Story Of My Life (3:03)
10. A Letter To My Girlfriend (2:11)
11. Certainly All (2:22)
12. Going Down Slow (3:02)
13. Later For You Baby (2:23)
14. Trouble Don't Last (3:00)
15. Back Luck Blues (2:58)
16. Sufferin' Mind (2:31)
17. Twenty-Five Lies (2:17)
18. Our Only Child (2:08)
19. Stand By Me (2:17)
20. Guitar Slim (2:36)
21. Reap What You Sow (2:36)

There are several blues musicians who have performed and recorded as "Guitar Slim." While Virginia native Alec Seward was among the first to cop that stage name, one vibrant and sadly short-lived "Slim" left in his wake a strongly influential legacy of great blues records that contributed mightily to the development of rock & roll. This particular Guitar Slim was born Edward "Eddie" Jones in western Mississippi and spent a good portion of the 1940s woodshedding in New Orleans, where he eventually wigged out and began closely emulating the sounds and presentational techniques of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. After establishing himself as a regular and well-received act at the Dew Drop Inn, Slim got his first crack at recording in May of 1951. Four sides subsequently issued on the Imperial label affirm the influence of Gatemouth Brown. Although the act was billed as Eddie Jones & His Playboys, on his song "New Arrival" the guitarist, backed by a rhythm section that included 17-year-old Huey "Piano" Smith, proudly introduced himself as "Guitar Slim." Late in 1952 Eddie (Guitar Slim) Jones cut two sides in Nashville, TN, for the newly founded J-B record label, a short-lived enterprise that producer Jim Bulliet created during a transitional period between his days as manager of Bullet Records and subsequent tenure as co-founder, with Sam Phillips, of the Sun label. As a J-B recording artist, Slim was briefly in the same catalog as Vivian Verson, Jack Dixon, Red Calhoun, and country vocalist Jimmy Mathis. Slim's definitive next step was to record for the Specialty label in New Orleans on October 27, 1953, backed by a band full of saxes and trumpet with Ray Charles in the rhythm section next to premiere R&B percussionist Oscar Moore. Slim's influence on the young Ray Charles is palpable here, and no doubt Screamin' Jay Hawkins must have listened carefully to Slim's delivery while paying close attention to his wild stage antics. Slim's howling vocal on his theme song, "Guitar Slim," prefigures the barking of many subsequent rock & rollers -- Don Harris and Dewey Terry come immediately to mind -- and there is no question but that Guitar Slim had something to do with the burgeoning popularity of the electric guitar during the 1950s. Specialty became his label of choice for a while, as he cut three more juicy tracks in Chicago on April 16, 1954, and six smoking sides in Los Angeles on September 28, 1954. These dates are important milestones in an all too brief career, for by February of 1959 Guitar Slim was dead of pneumonia at the age of 32. This precious compilation is essential listening for anyone attempting to understand the development of R&B, rock & roll, and subsequent developments in soul music during the late '50s and early '60s. ~arwulf arwulf

The Chronological Guitar Slim 1951-1954

Thursday, April 30, 2020

VA - (When You Find Love You’re) Feelin’ Good (KMCD41)

Size: 161,6 MB
Time: 67:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 The Cadillacs - My Girlfriend (1:55)
02 Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Good (2:53)
03 Gene & Eunice - I'm So In Love With You (2:30)
04 The Classics - Gosh, But This Is Love (1:57)
05 Clyde McPhatter - I Wanna Be The Only One (2:21)
06 Shirley & Lee - Don't You Know I Love You (2:23)
07 The Gallahads - Why Do Fools Fall In Love (2:25)
08 Otis Blackwell - Wake Up Fool (2:17)
09 J.B. Lenoir - I Have Married (2:26)
10 Julie Stevens & The Premiers - Crazy Bells (2:17)
11 The Jive Five - Do You Hear Wedding Bells (2:13)
12 Johnny Otis Congregation - Wedding Boogie (2:57)
13 The Jive Five - When I Was Single (2:11)
14 Titus Turner - We Told You Not To Marry (2:15)
15 Tiny Topsy - After Marriage Blues (2:20)
16 Guitar Slim - Twenty-Five Lies (2:13)
17 Roy Hamilton - You Can Have Her (2:47)
18 The Du-Droppers - Go Back (2:41)
19 Billy Ward & His Dominoes - I Ain't Gonna Cry For You (2:04)
20 Howlin' Wolf - Worried About My Baby (2:59)
21 Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones - Cryin' In The Morning (2:09)
22 Earl King - Baby, You Can Get Your Gun (2:09)
23 T.J. Fowler - Back Biter (2:37)
24 Leroy Foster - Locked Out Boogie (2:33)
25 Clyde McPhatter - Lover Please (2:00)
26 The Sunbeams - Come Back Baby (2:29)
27 Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Bad (2:41)
28 Slim Gaillard - The Dirty Rooster (Fuck Off) (2:15)

The label Koko Mojo Records focuses on the release of classic and less well known songs from the rhythm & blues area. This collection, "When You Find Love You're Feelin 'Good", is about the magic of love, the magic of moments of getting to know each other. Accordingly, the happy dancing couple on the cover can also be understood, yes, you feel good. But if you open the cover, you can see the once so happily and enthusiastically transfigured man with two suitcases in his hands and his wife, who, a toddler and a baby, obviously points him out of the house. Yes, love can tip over.

And exactly these situations are represented on this sampler with the corresponding songs. "Feelin 'Good", "I'm So In Love With You" contrast with those with titles like "After Marriage Blues" or "Worried About My Baby". And once it was called "I Wanna Be The Only One", it will later be called "You Can Have Her". Yes, that's how life can play. "My Girlfriend" opens the dance, The Cadillacs sing the doo-wop robe clapping in one hand very happily.

Little Junior Parker's song is the namesake of this collection and sings it with its blues, which actually sounds exactly like Magic Sam's song , but at that time it was also often unclear who was actually the author of a piece. Over the course of the twenty-eight tracks, we continue to encounter wind-supported rhythm & blues, pop music with string arrangements, further doo wop tracks, another pure blues by JB Lenoir , who reports on his current marriage, or the Johnny Otis Congregation , who played with the "Wedding Boogie" lets some preachers have their say.

The mix of artists consists on the one hand of relatively unknown musicians such as Gene And Eunice , Tiny Topsy or The Sunbeams , but on the other hand Howlin 'Wolf , Earl King or Clyde McPhatter can also be heard. Ultimately, this compilation represents a representative image of the music scene of colored artists, with the typical sounds of the fifties. There are also some well-known melodies, especially I refer to titles like "Why Do Fools Fall In Love", originally by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers from 1956, here in a version of The Gallahads or "Lover Please " fromClyde McPhatter . So there is a colorful mood about love, happiness, wedding, passion and disappointments.

Feelin’ Good

Monday, January 13, 2020

Guitar Slim, Jr. - I'll Survive

Size: 81,5 MB
Time: 34:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. It Hurts To Love Someone (3:06)
02. Postman (4:46)
03. Tired Of Your Friends (3:41)
04. The More I Give, The More You Want (3:40)
05. I Don't Want To Leave You (4:01)
06. I'll Survive (3:21)
07. I Found The Blues In New Orleans (3:48)
08. Trouble Don't Always Last (3:05)
09. Twenty-Five Lies (2:21)
10. Later For Ya Baby (2:24)

Despite the fact that his first album earned a Grammy nomination, Guitar Slim Jr. remains a somewhat shadowy figure to the blues public. The son of Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones, his real name is Rodney Armstrong. According to New Orleans-historian Jeff Hannusch's notes on Slim's 1988 album, he "has been a fixture on the Black New Orleans club circuit for the better part of 20 years...[but] doesn't get to play the posher uptown clubs." His Orleans album featured mostly covers of his father's inspirational blues, which he was loath to play earlier in life, but Slim is also known for his extensive soul repertoire. ~Jim O'Neal

I'll Survive

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Various - The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (2-Disc Set)

The material was collected from the blues expert Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner in the fall of 1980 on an extensive trip through the United States - in the form of so-called field-recordings - recordings that reflect the artist in his natural environment and not in the studio. They put 10,000 miles (16.000km) with the car back, consumed 180,000 feet (54km) analog magnetic tape and took hundreds of photos to the various aspects of Country Blues, as well as work songs, Fife & Drum Band music, so-called Field Hollers and original gospel music to be documented. There were 35 artists included, some of which are thus the first time ever appeared on record.

Album: The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:50
Size: 93.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1981/2008
Art: Front

[ 5:27] 1. Guitar Frank - Lonesome Road Blues
[ 4:27] 2. Memphis Piano Red - The Train Is Comin'
[ 3:11] 3. Flora Molton - What's The Matter Now
[ 4:10] 4. Lottie Murrell - Trouble Late Last Night
[ 2:58] 5. Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World
[ 2:06] 6. James 'Son' Thomas - Rock Me, Mama
[ 1:51] 7. Hammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna
[10:46] 8. Cora Fluker - Talkin' 'bout Jesus
[ 2:50] 9. Walter Brown - So Hard To See
[ 2:59] 10. Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues

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Album: The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:52
Size: 91.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1981/2008
Art: Front

[4:45] 1. Bowling Green John Cephas - Reno Factory
[4:01] 2. Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe
[2:47] 3. Sam Stretch Shields - Bluebird Blues
[3:46] 4. Flora Molton - The Titanic
[1:23] 5. Joe Savage - Mean Ol' Frisco
[3:02] 6. Arzo Youngblood - I Can't Be Successful
[2:38] 7. Cedell Big G Davis - I Don't Know Why
[3:20] 8. Othar Turner - Tango Twist
[3:17] 9. Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen
[4:57] 10. Guitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town
[3:17] 11. Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move
[2:33] 12. Boogie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues

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Monday, September 11, 2017

Guitar Slim - The Very Best Of 1951-1954

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:45
Size: 104.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[2:13] 1. Bad Luck Is On Me (Woman Troubles)
[2:32] 2. New Arrival
[2:43] 3. Standin’ At The Station
[2:10] 4. Cryin’ In The Morning
[2:58] 5. The Things That I Used To Do
[2:27] 6. Well I Done Got Over It
[3:00] 7. The Story Of My Life
[2:11] 8. A Letter To My Girlfriend
[2:59] 9. Going Down Slow
[2:20] 10. Later For You Baby
[2:57] 11. Trouble Don’t Last
[2:56] 12. Bad Luck Blues
[2:29] 13. Sufferin' Mind
[2:14] 14. Twenty-Five Lies
[2:05] 15. Our Only Child
[2:15] 16. Stand By Me
[2:33] 17. Guitar Slim
[2:35] 18. Reap What You Sow

No 1950s blues guitarist even came close to equaling the flamboyant Guitar Slim in the showmanship department. Armed with an estimated 350 feet of cord between his axe and his amp, Slim would confidently stride on-stage wearing a garishly hued suit of red, blue, or green, usually with his hair dyed to match! It's rare to find a blues guitarist hailing from Texas or Louisiana who doesn't cite Slim as one of his principal influences: Buddy Guy, Earl King, Guitar Shorty, Albert Collins, Chick Willis, and plenty more have enthusiastically testified to Slim's enduring sway.

Born Eddie Jones in Mississippi, Slim didn't have long to make such an indelible impression. He turned up in New Orleans in 1950, influenced by the atomic guitar energy of Gatemouth Brown. But Slim's ringing, distorted guitar tone and gospel-enriched vocal style were his alone. He debuted on wax in 1951 with a mediocre session for Imperial that barely hinted at what would soon follow. A 1952 date for Bullet produced the impassioned "Feelin' Sad," later covered by Ray Charles (who would arrange and play piano on Slim's breakthrough hit the next year). With the emergence of the stunning "The Things That I Used to Do" on Art Rupe's Specialty logo, Slim's star rocketed to blazing ascendancy nationwide. Combining a swampy ambience with a churchy arrangement, the New Orleans-cut track was a monster hit, pacing the R&B charts for an amazing 14 weeks in 1954. Strangely, although he waxed several stunning follow-ups for Specialty in the same tortured vein -- "The Story of My Life," "Something to Remember You By," "Sufferin' Mind" -- as well as the blistering rockers "Well I Done Got Over It," "Letter to My Girlfriend," and "Quicksand," Slim never charted again.

The guitar wizard switched over to Atlantic Records in 1956. Gradually, his waxings became tamer, though "It Hurts to Love Someone" and "If I Should Lose You" summoned up the old fire. But Slim's lifestyle was as wild as his guitar work. Excessive drinking and life in the fast lane took its inevitable toll over the years, and he died in 1959 at age 32. Only in recent years has his monumental influence on the blues lexicon begun to be fully recognized and appreciated. Incidentally, one of his sons bills himself as Guitar Slim, Jr. around the New Orleans circuit, his repertoire heavily peppered with his dad's material. ~bio by Bill Dahl

The Very Best Of 1951-1954

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Guitar Slim - You're Gonna Miss Me: The Complete Singles Collection As&Bs 1951-1958

Size: 174,9 MB
Time: 73:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

01. Bad Luck Is On Me (Woman Troubles) (2:12)
02. Cryin' In The Morning (2:09)
03. New Arrival (2:31)
04. Standin' At The Station (2:41)
05. Feelin' Sad (2:32)
06. Certainly All (2:09)
07. The Things That I Used To Do (2:59)
08. Well, I Done Got Over It (2:29)
09. The Story Of My Life (2:58)
10. A Letter To My Girlfriend (2:08)
11. Later For You Baby (2:19)
12. Trouble Don't Last (3:01)
13. Sufferin' Mind (2:27)
14. Twenty-Five Lies (2:13)
15. Our Only Child (2:04)
16. Stand By Me (2:13)
17. I Got Sumpin' For You (2:19)
18. You're Gonna Miss Me (2:50)
19. Quicksand (2:21)
20. Think It Over (2:27)
21. Sum'thin' To Remember You By (2:43)
22. You Give Me Nothin' But The Blues (2:15)
23. Down Through The Years (2:23)
24. Oh Yeah (2:16)
25. If I Should Lose You (2:27)
26. It Hurts To Love Someone (That Don't Love You) (2:42)
27. I Won't Mind At All (2:38)
28. Hello, How Ya' Been, Goodbye (2:23)
29. When There's No Way Out (1:59)
30. If I Had My Life To Live Over (1:59)

Guitar Slim's guitar style was highly individual and was an inspiration to scores of guitarists from Buddy Guy to Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. Here for the first time Jasmine have gathered together all of his singles in one package. Of course this set includes his phenomenal hit, "The Things That I Used To Do", which topped the Billboard R&B charts for a remarkable 14 weeks selling over a million copies. The song has now become staple of the genre and has been covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Freddy King to mention a few. Any fan of electric guitar blues must have this CD in their collection.

You're Gonna Miss Me

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Various Artists - Beware Of The Texas Blues

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:57
Size: 111,0 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Scans: Full

1. Joe 'Papoose' Fritz - I'm A Stepper (2:33)
2. Henry Moore w. Guitar Slim - Can't Sleep Tonight (3:39)
3. Johnny Copeland - Working Man Blues (2:44)
4. Big Walter - Life's Highway (3:21)
5. Clarence Green - Empty House Of So Many Tears (2:25)
6. Eastwood Revue - Drowning On Dry Land (7:26)
7. Juke Boy Bonner - Rock Of Gibraltar (3:50)
8. T-Bone Walker - Farther On Up The Road (1:49)
9. Johnny Winter w. Calvin 'Loudmouth' Johnson - Lien On Your Body (4:21)
10. Albert Collins - The Freeze (2:17)
11. Piano Slim - That's Fat (2:22)
12. Johnny Copeland - Rock Me Baby (5:08)
13. Gatemouth Brown - It's Alright (2:45)
14. Lightning Hopkins - Good As Old Time Religion (3:11)

Here on one package are fourteen bluesmen, each as different from the others as night from day, yet all are bound inextricably together in their Texas heritage. The selections were all recorded between 1958 and 1988. They range the gamut from the old-fashioned "down home" blues (that has thankfully never gone out of fashion) to the up-to-date urban blues sound yet all of them exemplify that genre known as the Texas Blues.

So, better beware of these Texas Blues. They'll get you hooked if you listen to this album a few times. You will probably wind up liking all of them. /Excerpts from the liner notes by Bo Svensson

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Guitar Slim - Sufferin' Mind

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:47
Size: 159.8 MB
Styles: R&B, New Orleans blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. The Things That I Used To Do
[2:25] 2. Well I Done Got Over It
[2:58] 3. Story Of My Life
[2:06] 4. Letter To My Girlfriend (Aka Prison Blues)
[3:02] 5. Trouble Don't Last
[2:20] 6. Later For You Baby
[2:55] 7. Bad Luck Blues
[2:11] 8. Twenty-Five Lies
[2:25] 9. Sufferin' Mind
[2:36] 10. Stand By Me
[2:34] 11. Guitar Slim
[2:05] 12. Our Only Child
[2:49] 13. Reap What You Sow (Aka Bad Woman Blues)
[2:04] 14. I Want To Love-A You (Take 1)
[3:04] 15. Sufferin' Mind (Take 1)
[2:44] 16. I Want To Love-A You (Take 11)
[2:26] 17. Think It Over
[2:22] 18. Quicksand
[2:52] 19. You're Gonna Miss Me
[3:58] 20. I Got Sumpin' For You
[2:55] 21. Something To Remember You By
[2:16] 22. You Give Me Nothing But The Blues
[3:39] 23. Going Down Slow
[2:17] 24. Certainly All (Take 2)
[3:26] 25. Something To Remember You By (Take 1)
[2:07] 26. Certainly All (Take 1)

His guitar fraught with manic high-end distortion and his vocals fried over church-fired intensity, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones influenced a boatload of disciples while enjoying the rewards that came with his 1954 R&B chart-topper, "The Things That I Used to Do." This 26-song survey of Slim's seminal 1953-1955 Specialty catalog rates with the best New Orleans blues ever cut -- besides the often imitated but never duplicated smash, his "Story of My Life," "Sufferin' Mind," and "Something to Remember You By" are overwhelming in their ringing back-alley fury. Slim could rock, too: "Well, I Done Got Over It," "Quicksand," "Certainly All," and the raucous "Guitar Slim" drive with blistering power. Saxophonist Joe Tillman was a worthy foil for the flamboyant guitarist in the solo department. ~Bill Dahl

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Various - Texas Guitar: From Dallas To L.A.

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:43
Size: 93.2 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1972/2009
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Al King - Reconsider Baby
[3:05] 2. Lawyer Houston - Dallas Bebop Blues
[2:50] 3. Lawyer Houston - Western Rider Blues
[2:52] 4. Ray Agee - Tin Pan Alley
[2:34] 5. Lawyer Houston - Hug Me Baby
[2:32] 6. Lawyer Houston - Out In California Blues
[2:42] 7. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues Special
[1:52] 8. R.S. Rankin - You Don't Know What You're Doing
[3:06] 9. Lawyer Houston - In The Army Since 1941
[2:41] 10. Lawyer Houston - Lawyer Houston Blues
[2:34] 11. Guitar Slim - Along About Midnight
[2:43] 12. Lawyer Houston - Going To The West Coast
[2:50] 13. Lawyer Houston - Lawton, Oklahoma Blues
[5:17] 14. T-Bone Walker - How Long Blues

In 1972, for a very short time, Atlantic Records released this wonderful blues collection of super rare singles and unreleased tracks from T-Bone Walker featuring his How Long Blues and T-Bone Blues Special as well as a collaboration with his friends like R.S. Rankin on the smokin' You Don't Know What You're Doin, Al King, the phenomenal Lawyer Houston and the legendary Guitar Slim all get their due as well. Out of print for over four decades, this serious blues collection is back! Remastered from the original mono Atlantic vault tapes by Joe Reagoso.

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Guitar Slim - The Atco Sessions

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:57
Size: 82.3 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues, R&B
Year: 1988/2004
Art: Front

[2:22] 1. Down Through The Years
[2:23] 2. If I Should Lose You
[2:38] 3. It Hurts To Love Someone
[2:38] 4. I Won't Mind At All
[2:20] 5. Hello, How Ya Been Goodbye
[1:59] 6. When There's No Way Out
[1:58] 7. If I Had My Life To Live Over
[2:59] 8. Guitar Lim Boogie-2
[2:56] 9. Strange Things Happening
[2:32] 10. Along About Midnight
[2:00] 11. Plenty Good Room
[2:15] 12. The Cackle
[3:01] 13. My Time Is Expensive
[3:50] 14. Guitar Slim Boogie-3

Sometimes a bit subdued compared to his bone-chilling output for Specialty, these 1956-1958 sides for Atco still possess considerable charm, especially the tough "It Hurts to Love Someone" and "If I Should Lose You," which conjure up the same hellfire-and-brimstone intensity as Guitar Slim's earlier work. ~Bill Dahl

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Percy Mayfield - Specialty Profiles (2-Disc set)

Percy Mayfield was blessed with an emotive Louisiana baritone and a poet's sensibility to sadness and pain, and few songwriters in the history of pop or R&B have written a body of work so drenched in beautiful suffering. This set features Mayfield's major hits for Art Rupe's Specialty Records, a label that Mayfield recorded for from 1950 until 1954 before leaving for Chess Records (the bonus disc included here is simply a sampler for other artists who recorded for Specialty). Given depth and atmosphere by Maxwell Davis' saxophone textures, songs like "Cry Baby" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love" were carefully written R&B symphonies to the harsh realities and downside of romance, and at times that downside morphed into relentless darkness, as is the case with the excessively maudlin "The River's Invitation," which is just this side of a melodic suicide note. Also here is the wonderful (and relatively upbeat) "Louisiana" as well as Mayfield's original version of his signature song, "Hit the Road Jack," which Ray Charles would cover and turn into a huge hit. In all, this makes a nice introduction to Mayfield's early work and spotlights his considerable skill as a songwriter. He fell in love with sadness, Mayfield said, because there was more truth in it. ~Steve Leggett

Album: Specialty Profiles (Disc 1)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:33
Size: 81.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Urban blues
Year: 2006

[2:51] 1. Please Send Me Someone To Love
[2:47] 2. Strange Things Happening
[2:53] 3. Lost Love (Baby, Please)
[2:44] 4. What A Fool I Was
[2:48] 5. Cry Baby
[2:54] 6. Prayin' For Your Return
[2:02] 7. Louisiana
[2:48] 8. The Big Question
[2:50] 9. The River's Invitation
[1:54] 10. Loose Lips
[2:31] 11. Sugar Mama-Peachy Mama
[2:29] 12. Memory Pain
[2:25] 13. Nightless Lover
[1:30] 14. Hit The Road Jack

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Album: Specialty Profiles (Disc 2)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 26:00
Size: 59.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Assorted blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:56] 1. Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - R.M. Blues
[2:59] 2. Joe Liggins - Pink Champagne
[2:51] 3. Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
[2:29] 4. Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
[3:10] 5. Jesse Belvin - Dream Girl
[2:59] 6. Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do
[2:07] 7. Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
[2:07] 8. Sam Cooke - I'll Come Running Back To You
[2:07] 9. Don & Dewey - Leavin' It All Up To You
[2:10] 10. Larry Williams - Dizzy Miss Lizzy

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