Various - Mule Milk 'N' Firewater

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:31
Size: 134.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues, Dirty blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front & Back

[2:24] 1. Rudy Moore - Ring-A-Ling-Dong
[2:55] 2. Roy Brown - Hurry Hurry Baby
[2:24] 3. Little Tommy Brown - Goodbye I'm Gone
[2:30] 4. Fred Clark - Bobby Sox Rocker (Take Two)
[3:01] 5. Big Jay McNeely - Mule Milk
[2:37] 6. The Checkers - Can't Find My Sadie
[2:41] 7. Five Jets - Everybody Do The Chicken
[2:00] 8. The Midnighters - That Woman
[2:15] 9. Fred Clark - Ground Hog Snooper
[2:17] 10. Rufus Gore - Fire Water
[3:03] 11. Jack Dupree - Stumbling Block
[2:37] 12. Joe Tex - Davy, You Upset My Home
[2:14] 13. The Lamplighters - Bo Peep
[2:25] 14. The Gardenias - My Baby's Tops
[2:15] 15. Joe Perkins - How Much Love Can One Heart Hold
[2:37] 16. Danny Cobb - Hey Mr. Warden
[2:21] 17. Tiny Topsy - Aw Shucks Baby (Take 2)
[2:18] 18. Joe Benson - Rock 'n' Roll Jungle
[2:07] 19. Little Wille John - Look What You've Done To Me
[2:05] 20. Little Wille John - Uh Uh Baby
[2:17] 21. H-Bomb Ferguson - Midnight Ramblin' Tonight
[2:17] 22. Ronnie Molleen - Fat Mama
[2:33] 23. Willie Wright - Got A Feelin'
[2:05] 24. Hank Ballard - Come On Baby Let's Shake It

This is an outstanding collection from the vaults of King and its subsidiary labels, Federal and Deluxe. These 24 tracks collect jump blues, doo wop, piano boogie, and outright bizarre novelties stretching from the late '40s through the early '60s. There is not a bad track on Mule Milk 'N' Firewater, featuring plenty of well-known names on mainly wild up-tempo songs by Roy Brown, Big Jay McNeely, Little Willie John, Hank Ballad & the Midnighters, and Jack Dupree. There are a few standouts amongst these rarities that may raise a few eyebrows. "Ring a Ling Dong" is from 1955 by Rudy Moore aka Rudy Ray Moore of Dolomite fame, and "Davy, You Upset My Home" finds a young Joe Tex vividly describing how his domestic situation is being torn apart by his girlfriend's unhealthy obsession with all things Davy Crockett! Unbelievable! ~Al Campbell

Originally posted on Dec 30th 2017. Updated to FLAC by Bluestender.

Mule Milk 'N' Firewater MP3
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Various - Roc-King Up A Storm

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:03
Size: 130.6 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Soul, R&B
Year: 1999/2005
Art: Front

[2:34] 1. The Lamplighters - Ride Jockey Ride
[2:31] 2. Five Jets - Please Love Me Baby
[2:32] 3. Big Jay McNeely - Nervous Man Nervous
[2:00] 4. Roy Byrd - Rockin' With Fes
[2:44] 5. The Midnighters - Rock, Granny, Roll
[2:19] 6. Joe Tex - She's Mine
[2:13] 7. Big John Greer - Come Back Uncle John
[2:29] 8. Rudy Moore - Set It Up And Go
[2:06] 9. Billy Gayles - Do Right Baby
[2:26] 10. Jackie Brenston - Much Later
[2:30] 11. Tiny Topsy - You Shocked Me
[2:48] 12. Big Daddy - Bacon Fat
[2:40] 13. Little Willie John - Spasms
[2:10] 14. Cecil McNabb Jr - Clock Tickin' Rhythm
[2:27] 15. Boyd Bennett - Move
[2:44] 16. Hank Ballard - Broadway
[2:05] 17. Tiny Topsy - Miss You So
[1:53] 18. Ronnie Molleen - Rockyn Up
[2:00] 19. Otis Redding - Fat Gal
[2:43] 20. Hank Ballard - Nothing But Good
[1:42] 21. Ba Ba Thomas - Miss Shake It
[2:19] 22. Eddie Clearwater - A Real Good Time
[1:52] 23. Ba Ba Thomas - Why Don't You Leave It Alone
[3:05] 24. Little Willie John - You Hurt Me

Fantastic swingin' and groovin' compilation! Red Hot Flamin' Rhythm & Blues and Rock'n'Roll for Bright Pink Suit Swingers and Real Gone Hep Cats!

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Joe Tex - The Singles Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Size: 105,8+102,8 MB
Time: 41:25+40,21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: R&B, Blues, Soul
Art: Front

Album: My Biggest Mistake: The Singles Vol. 1
01. Come In This House (3:00)
02. Davy, You Upset My Home (2:35)
03. My Biggest Mistake (2:49)
04. Right Back To My Arms (2:25)
05. She's Mine (2:20)
06. I Had To Come Back To You (2:47)
07. Get Way Back (2:21)
08. The Rib (1:53)
09. Pneumonia (2:39)
10. Another Man's Woman (2:34)
11. I Want To Have A Talk With You (2:03)
12. Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do) (2:13)
13. Cut It Out (2:09)
14. Just For You And Me (2:34)
15. Open The Door (Feat. Little Booker) (1:38)
16. You Little Baby Face Thing (2:23)
17. Mother's Advice (2:53)

Album: I'll Never Break Your Heart: The Singles Vol. 2
01. Charlie Brown Got Expelled (2:14)
02. Don't Hold It Against Me (2:16)
03. Yum, Yum, Yum (1:53)
04. Boys Will Be Boys (2:27)
05. Grannie Stole The Show (2:10)
06. All I Could Do Was Cry, Pt. 1 & 2 (5:12)
07. I'll Never Break Your Heart, Pt. 1 & 2 (4:50)
08. Baby You're Right (2:15)
09. What Should I Do (2:01)
10. The Only Girl (I've Ever Loved) (2:32)
11. One Giant Step (2:56)
12. Hand Shakin' - Love Makin' - Girl Talkin' - Son-Of-A-Gun From Next Door (2:09)
13. Meet Me In Church (2:16)
14. Be Your Own Judge (2:33)
15. The Peck (2:29)

Joe Tex made the first Southern soul record that also hit on the pop charts ("Hold What You've Got," in 1965, made number five in Billboard). His raspy-voiced, jackleg preacher style also laid some of the most important parts of rap's foundation. He is, arguably, the most underrated of all the '60s soul performers associated with Atlantic Records, although his records were more likely than those of most soul stars to become crossover hits.

Tex was born Joseph Arrington in Rogers, TX, in 1933, and displayed his vocal talent quickly, first in gospel, then in R&B. By 1954, he'd won a local talent contest and come to New York, where he recorded a variety of derivative (and endlessly repackaged) singles for King, some as a ballad singer, some as a Little Richard-style rocker.

Tex's career didn't take off until he began his association with Nashville song publisher Buddy Killen, after Tex wrote James Brown's 1961 song "Baby You're Right." In 1965, Killen took him to Muscle Shoals, not yet a fashionable recording center, and they came up with "Hold What You've Got," which is about as close to a straight R&B ballad as Tex ever came. It was followed by a herd more, most of which made the R&B charts, a few cracking the pop Top 40.

Tex made his mark by preaching over tough hard soul tracks, clowning at some points, swooping into a croon at others. He was perhaps the most rustic and back-country of the soul stars, a role he played to the hilt by using turns of phrase that might have been heard on any ghetto street corner, "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" the prototype. In 1966, his "I Believe I'm Gonna Make It," an imaginary letter home from Vietnam, became the first big hit directly associated with that war. His biggest hit was "Skinny Legs and All," from a 1967 live album, his rapping pure hokum over deeply funky riffs. "Skinny Legs" might have served as a template for all the raucous, ribald hip-hop hits of pop's future.

After "Skinny Legs," Tex had nothing but minor hits for five years until "I Gotcha" took off, a grittier twist on the funk that was becoming disco. He was too down-home for the slickness of the disco era, or so it would have seemed, yet in 1977, he adapted a dance craze, the Bump, and came up with the hilarious "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)," his last Top Ten R&B hit, which also crossed over to number 12 on the pop chart.

In the early '70s, Tex converted to Islam and in 1972 changed his offstage name to Joseph Hazziez. He spent much of the time after "Ain't Gonna Bump" on his Texas farm, although he did join together with Wilson Pickett, Ben E. King, and Don Covay for a reformed version of the Soul Clan in 1980. He died of a heart attack in 1982, only 49 years old. Killen, King, Covay, Pickett, and the great songwriter Percy Mayfield served as pallbearers. ~by Dave Marsh

My Biggest Mistake
I'll Never Break Your Heart

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