Lonnie Johnson - Blues & Rhythm Series 5189: The Chronological Lonnie Johnson 1947-1948

Size: 225 MB
Time: 65:37
File: FLAC
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

01. I Am So Glad (2:39)
02. What A Woman (2:53)
03. Happy New Year Darling (2:38)
04. Tomorrow Night (3:06)
05. Friendless Blues (3:01)
06. My Baby's Gone (2:11)
07. I Want My Baby (2:44)
08. What A Real Woman (2:41)
09. Love That Gal (1:55)
10. It's Been So Long (3:00)
11. Be Sweet To Me (1:48)
12. Blues In The Closet (2:48)
13. Don't Be No Fool (2:12)
14. Falling Rain Blues (2:48)
15. Blue Ghost Has Got Me (1:43)
16. Feeling Low Down (2:07)
17. Drunk Again (2:59)
18. Jelly Roll Baker (2:42)
19. Working Man's Blues (2:52)
20. Chicago Blues (1:59)
21. Lazy Woman (2:02)
22. In Love Again (2:47)
23. Tomorrow Night (2:53)
24. Lonesome Day Blues (3:28)
25. Tell Me Baby (3:27)

Having distinguished himself in both jazz and blues circles for nearly a quarter century, guitarist Lonnie Johnson made a wise move when he signed a contract with the King label and began grinding out records that sold well in the newly designated rhythm & blues category. Most of the recordings compiled and reissued in 2008 as part of the Classics Blues and Rhythm series were made during December 1947, including the romantic hit "Tomorrow Night," which was later covered by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, La Vern Baker, and Champion Jack Dupree. Lest followers of bop and early modern jazz be fooled, "Blues in the Closet" is not the same tune as bassist Oscar Pettiford's groovy masterpiece. Johnson's "Blues in the Closet" sounds a lot like most of his music from this period; slow and reflective, with artful runs over the frets of his electrically amplified guitar. This edition's last three titles, including a remake of "Tomorrow Night," were recorded at some point in early 1948. Lonnie Johnson's saga continues on the next volume of his complete works as reissued by Classics in 2007. ~arwulf arwulf

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Lonnie Johnson - Blues & Rhythm Series 5177: The Chronological Lonnie Johnson 1948-1949

Size: 153 MB
Time: 65:10
File: FLAC
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues, R&B, Jazz
Art: Full

01. Pleasing You (3:06)
02. Good Night Darling (3:02)
03. Feel So Lonesome (3:08)
04. It's Too Late to Cry (2:23)
05. You're Mine You (2:46)
06. I Know It's Love (3:00)
07. Tell Me Little Woman (2:48)
08. Call Me Darling (2:33)
09. Tomorrow (2:53)
10. Lonesome Road (3:10)
11. So Tired (2:49)
12. Backwater Blues (3:04)
13. Careless Love (3:02)
14. Bewildered (2:56)
15. Matinee Hour in New Orleans (2:30)
16. Playing Around (2:45)
17. So Tired (2:59)
18. My My Baby (3:14)
19. Don't Play Bad with My Love (2:52)
20. Not Until You Came My Way (1:59)
21. I Found a Dream (2:46)
22. You Take Romance (2:42)
23. She's So Sweet (2:31)

New Orleans-born guitarist Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson recorded at least 237 blues and jazz sides between the years 1925 and 1947. The only reissue label that has bothered to produce a meticulous overview of this body of works is Document; their Lonnie Johnson retrospective fills no less than ten compact discs. Classics, the other great chronologically oriented European reissue series, has chosen to concentrate upon the next leg of Lonnie Johnson's professional and artistic evolution. This takes in his famous contributions to the King Records catalog. Curiously, Classics stepped away from its own chronological policy by releasing a compilation of Johnson's 1949-1952 recordings in 2005, followed by a 1948-1949 volume in 2007 (Classics 5177). Using an electrified guitar, which he only opted for in 1947, Lonnie Johnson simultaneously plowed several distinctive stylistic furrows: extensions of the blues and classic jazz traditions, sequels to "Tomorrow Night" (Johnson's hit ballad of 1948), exciting soulful jazz, and danceable R&B. Happily, Classics 5177 contains examples of all these musical tendencies. "Pleasing You" and the lullaby "Good Night Darling" are sweet and romantic; while some might register impatience with this type of sentimentality, it is certainly an important aspect of the human condition, and has a place in every genre from German lieder to punk rock. On a more intimate level, Lonnie Johnson was clearly directing these songs toward his wife, ex-blues singer Mary Johnson. This intensely personal aspect would become more pronounced near the end of his life when Lonnie Johnson openly mourned his wife's passing in several heartbreaking blues elegies. The intermingled blues and jazz traditions are tapped most wonderfully with Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues," W.C. Handy's "Careless Love," and "Lonesome Road," that old pseudo-spiritual by Gene Austin and Nat Shilkret. Two of the three titles cut in Linden, NJ, on January 5, 1949, feature tenor saxophonist Paul Renfro. These instrumentals -- "Playing Around" and "Matinee Hour in New Orleans" -- are jazz grooves worthy of Gene Ammons or Jimmy Forrest. "She's So Sweet," recorded in the same studio four months later, is a rare example of Lonnie Johnson throwing down and grinding out danceable R&B in the manner of Wynonie Harris or H-Bomb Ferguson. ~arwulf arwulf

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Lonnie Johnson - Blues & Rhythm Series 5153: The Chronological Lonnie Johnson 1949-1952

Size: 234 MB
Time: 65:37
File: FLAC
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues, R&B, Jazz
Art: Full

01. Troubles Ain't Nothing But The Blues (2:43)
02. Confused (3:00)
03. I'm So Afraid (2:54)
04. Blues Stay Away From Me (2:52)
05. I'm So Crazy For Love (2:38)
06. Nobody's Lovin' Me (2:40)
07. Little Rockin' Chair (2:52)
08. Nothin' Clickin' Chicken (2:34)
09. Nothin' But Trouble (2:44)
10. Old Fashioned Love (2:25)
11. When I'm Gone (2:37)
12. What Do You Want That I've Got, Pretty Baby (2:51)
13. Why Should I Cry (2:49)
14. It Was All In Vain (2:42)
15. You Only Want Me When You're Lonely (2:57)
16. Take Me I'm Yours (2:46)
17. Darlin' (2:27)
18. My Mother's Eyes (2:27)
19. Me And My Crazy Self (2:36)
20. Seven Long Days (3:11)
21. I'm Guilty (2:45)
22. Just Another Day (2:36)
23. You Can't Buy Love (2:57)
24. Can't Sleep Anymore (2:20)

New Orleans native Lonnie Johnson first appeared on record in 1925 with Charlie Creath and participated in a series of outstanding classic jazz and blues sessions at the close of the tumultuous '20s in the company of Eddie Lang, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Over the years Johnson waxed an enormous number of records for the OKeh, Bluebird, Decca, Disc, and Aladdin labels, finally establishing himself as a smooth blues crooner with the King record company in Cincinnati from 1947 to 1952. While many of his OKeh blues recordings are almost indistinguishable from each other, Johnson's more mature performances for King used a small but sturdy set of stylistic variables that are demonstrated on this interesting compilation of recordings he made between November 1949 and June 1952. Lonnie Johnson sang sweetly with just the right amount of vibrato and a touch of grit. His "Little Rockin' Chair" brings to mind the noble integrity of Kansas City's Big Joe Turner. "Nothin' Clickin' Chicken" taps into a lighthearted jump groove worthy of Tampa Red or Washboard Sam. Many of the slower tunes, including "Old Fashioned Love," have a rich and creamy quality that owes something to Johnson's sweet slow dance sensation of 1948, "Tomorrow Night." Many of his King performances in fact open with the same measured strumming chords that characterized that number one R&B hit. Johnson's 1951 recordings are pleasantly fortified by tenor saxophonists Ray Felder, Eddie Smith, and Wilbur "Red" Prysock, complementing Johnson's vocal most effectively. Some of Johnson's material from this period crosses over into country music territory, represented here by a pair of tunes by the Delmore Brothers, "Troubles Ain't Nothing But the Blues" and the haunting "Blues Stay Away from Me." This tasty survey closes with the unusually full-bodied session of June 3, 1952. Here Johnson is backed by trumpet, three tough saxes, and a kicking rhythm section headed by pianist Todd Rhodes. Among the many Lonnie Johnson retrospectives on various reissue labels, this volume in the Classics Chronological Series stands with the very best. ~arwulf arwulf

The Chronological Lonnie Johnson 1949-1952

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VA - Dr. Boogie Presents Shim Sham Shimmy

Size: 179,5 MB
Time: 76:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues
Art: Front & Back

01 Champion Jack Dupree - Shim Sham Shimmy (2:43)
02 Charles Sheffield - Isabella (2:47)
03 Joe Hill Louis - She's Taking All My Money (2:40)
04 Ramblin' Hi Harris - I Haven't Got A Home (3:02)
05 Doctor Ross - Texas Hop (2:46)
06 Bobo Jenkins - Nothing But Love (2:22)
07 Clarence Lockley - Crowley Blues (1:39)
08 B. Brown & Mc Vouts - Good Woman Blues (2:34)
09 Wright Holmes - Good Road Blues (2:35)
10 Cecil Gant - We're Gonna Rock (2:14)
11 Albert Collins & His Rhythm Rockers - Freeze (2:18)
12 Moses Williams - Which Way Did My Baby Go (3:15)
13 Haskell Sadler - Do Right Mind (2:52)
14 Larry Dale - You Better Heed My Warning (2:04)
15 Baby Boy Warren - Santa Fee (2:48)
16 Eddie Snow - I'm Off That Stuff (3:02)
17 Slim Green - Shake Em Up (2:39)
18 Slim Gaillard - Fuck Off (2:10)
19 Blue Charlie Morris - I'm Gonna Kill That Hen (2:49)
20 Sam Myers - Rhythm With Me (1:47)
21 Willie Egan - Can't Understand It (1:48)
22 W. Harris - Low Down Dirty Shame (3:36)
23 Jake Jackson - Life Get's Hard (2:32)
24 Morris Pejoe - Screamin 'n' Cryin (2:45)
25 Homesick James - Dirty Rat (2:18)
26 Papa Lightfoot - P.I. Blues (2:23)
27 Pat Hare - Bonus Pay (2:08)
28 Big John & The Dallas Playboys - Sent For You Yesterday (3:00)
29 Lonnie Johnson - Can't Sleep Anymore (1:41)
30 Bob Kelly & The Bob Kats - Malinda (2:37)

This is the third volume in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare and lost recordings from the '20s to the '60s, following Dr. Boogie Presents Rarities from the Bob Hite Vaults and Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me! Female Blues Singers -- Rarities 1923-1930. Shim Sham Shimmy has been assembled by Belgian radio personality, musicologist, and Canned Heat devotee, Walter De Paduwa aka Dr. Boogie. Is it really possible to imagine what modern music would sound like if a few pioneering geniuses had not had the idea of electrifying their instruments, especially guitar and harmonica, between 1945 and 1950? Some purists pan this evolution, but, in the '50s, the new sound was heard and embraced at all the studios and night clubs in the United States; it would become a staple on the radio, and in pop culture in general, radically transforming the blues, boogie and country into acts of rebellion. This collection pays tribute to about thirty artists, some of whom later became known, like "Master of the Telecaster" Albert Collins, boogie-woogie and blues pianist Champion Jack Dupree, slide guitar innovator Homesick James, harmonica and blues singer, Sammy Myers, "The Boogie Disease" author Doctor Ross, and one-man band wild-man, Joe Hill Louis. However, the real treat is having an opportunity to hear fabulous unknowns who all, one day, had the chance to be recorded, either in a studio, on the street, or on a back porch, before returning to anonymity shortly after. Almost all of the artists presented here hailed from the Southern states; some of them stayed there their whole life, others emigrated up North, moving up the Mississippi, or toward the West to settle in California. The music included here is part of the foundations of all the modern music that would take the world by storm up to our present time. Other artists include: Charles Sheffield, Ramblin Hi Harris, Bobo Jenkins, Clarence Lockley, B. Brown & McVouts, Wright Holmes, Gunter Lee Carr (aka Cecil Gant), Moses Williams, Haskel Sadler, Larry Dale, Baby Boy Warren, Eddie Snow, Guitar Slim Green, Slim Gaillard, Blue Charlie Morris, Willie Egan, W. Harris, Jake Jackson, Morris Pejoe, Papa George Lightfoot, Pat Hare, Big John & The Dallas Playboys, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Kelly.

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VA - Get Up Off Your Knees: From Bed Springs To Bloomers (Remastered)

Size: 172,9+161,6+173,1+146, 1 MB
Time: 73:12+68:17+73:07+61:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (2:35)
02 Margaret Carter - I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan (2:41)
03 Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey - Furniture Man Blues Parts 1 & 2 (6:13)
04 Clara Smith - Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee (3:06)
05 Lizzie Miles - Get Up Off Your Knees (2:44)
06 Cow Cow Davenport - I'm Gonna Tell You In Front So You Won't Feel Hurt Behind (3:20)
07 Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman (2:51)
08 Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:24)
09 Al Miller - I Found Your Keyhole (3:03)
10 Minnie Wallace - Dirty Butter (2:59)
11 Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues (3:08)
12 Margaret Webster - You've Got To Give Me Some (2:44)
13 Lizzie Miles - My Man O' War (3:27)
14 Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off (3:17)
15 Madelyn James - Stinging Snake Blues (3:29)
16 Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2 (2:57)
17 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Show Me What You Got (3:06)
18 Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues (3:21)
19 Lizzie Miles - Electrician Blues (3:12)
20 Barbecue Bob - She Shook Her Gin (3:08)
21 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Fish House Blues (2:29)
22 Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (3:08)
23 George Hannah - The Boy In The Boat (2:37)

CD 2:
01 Georgia Tom - What's That I Smell (2:34)
02 Hannah May - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat (2:41)
03 Mae Glover & John Byrd - Gas Man Blues (2:44)
04 Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket (3:05)
05 R.T. Hanen - She's Got The Jordan River In Her Hips (2:53)
06 Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas - Terrible Operation Blues (2:49)
07 Lonnie Johnson - The Best Jockey In Town (2:54)
08 Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker (3:09)
09 Hunter & Jenkins - Lollypop (2:56)
10 James 'Stump' Johnson - Don't Give My Lard Away (2:43)
11 Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff (3:03)
12 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama (2:52)
13 Memphis Minnie - My Butcher Man (3:00)
14 Carl Rafferty - Dresser With The Drawers (3:21)
15 Whistling Rufus - (Who's Gonna Do Your) Sweet Jelly Roll (3:27)
16 Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All (2:32)
17 St. Louis Blues - Pipe Layin' Blues (3:16)
18 Dorothy Baker - Steady Grindin' Blues (3:10)
19 Jimmie Gordon - Bed Spring Blues (3:18)
20 Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That (2:57)
21 Cliff Carlisle - Mouse's Ear Blues (3:05)
22 Bo Carter - Mashing That Thing (2:37)
23 Memphis Minnie - Jockey Man Blues (3:01)

CD 3:
01 Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry (2:46)
02 Walter Roland - I'm Gonna Shave You Dry (3:25)
03 Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man (2:48)
04 Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs - The Hottest Stuff In Town (2:40)
05 Bernice Edwards - Butcher Shop Blues (3:06)
06 Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:02)
07 Kokomo Arnold - 'Cause Your Dirty (2:59)
08 Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:04)
09 Buddy Moss - You Got To Give Me Some Of It (3:07)
10 Bo Carter - Cigarette Blues (3:15)
11 Lil Johnson - Take It Easy Greasy (3:17)
12 Al Miller - Ain't That A Mess (2:43)
13 Roosevelt Sykes - The Honeydripper (2:42)
14 Jazz Gillum - Sarah Jane (3:04)
15 Walter Davis - Think You Need A Shot (3:23)
16 Lil Johnson - My Stove's In Good Condition (2:54)
17 John Oscar & Sam Theard - I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woogie (2:28)
18 Jesse James - Sweet Petuni (3:00)
19 Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over (2:50)
20 Chicago Black Swans - Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 (2:42)
21 Blind Boy Fuller - Sweet Honey Hole (2:46)
22 Barrel House Annie - Love Operation (3:07)
23 Roosevelt Sykes - Bread Pan (Just My Size) (2:34)
24 Art McKay - She Squeezed My Lemon (2:39)
25 Lee Brown - Carpenter Man Blues (2:35)

CD 4:
01 Charlie Pickett - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon (2:48)
02 Roosevelt Sykes - My Baby's Playground (2:21)
03 Memphis Minnie - Keep On Eatin' (2:37)
04 Washboard Sam - I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted (2:36)
05 Blind Boy Fuller - What's That Smells Like Fish (2:42)
06 Lillie Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size (2:46)
07 Little Buddy Doyle - She's Got Good Dry Goods (2:28)
08 Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake (2:56)
09 Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle (2:33)
10 Bill Samuels - My Bicycle Tillie (2:54)
11 Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Doctor For Women (2:37)
12 Little Boy Fuller - Bed Spring Blues (2:43)
13 Ralph Willis - Boar Hog Blues (2:37)
14 Sylvester Cotton - Big Chested Mama Take 1 (2:34)
15 The Sharps & Flats - I Knew He Would (2:44)
16 Julia Lee - Don't Come Too Soon (2:59)
17 Dan Pickett - Lemon Man (2:51)
18 Helen Humes - I'm Gonna Let Him Ride (1:45)
19 Floyd Dixon - Too Much Jelly Roll (3:01)
20 Fats Noel - Ride. Daddy. Ride (2:07)
21 Fluffy Hunter - The Walkin' Blues (2:52)
22 Eunice Davis - Work. Daddy. Work (2:58)
23 Helen Humes - Loud Talkin' Woman (2:54)

In the 1920s, record companies found the Black audience could be profitable. Record sales soared. Sex - disguised -was a major part of blues lyrics. Fish, flesh, fruit and fowl were all co-opted, as well as rent men and gas men, butchers and bakers, carpenters and coffee grinders, keyholes and kitchens, cigarettes and sissies, frying pans and furniture, and unkindly, a bicycle. Here's a raucous, red-blooded blues investigation of one of Humanity's constant fixations, from artists like Julia Lee, Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Roosevelt Sykes and many, many more.

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Lonnie Johnson - Tin Can Alley Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:19
Size: 83.2 MB
Styles: Pre-war blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. Gone
[3:12] 2. A Broken Heart That Never Smiles
[3:05] 3. Uncle Ned Don't Lose Your Head
[3:19] 4. No More Trouble Now
[3:10] 5. Winnie The Wailer
[2:42] 6. Tin Can Alley Blues
[2:45] 7. Away Down In The Alley Blues
[6:09] 8. Racketeer's Blues
[3:01] 9. Sweet Potato Blues
[3:04] 10. Roamin' Rambler Blues
[2:41] 11. There Is No Justice

Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific brilliance of Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals.

Johnson's extreme versatility doubtless stemmed in great part from growing up in the musically diverse Crescent City. Violin caught his ear initially, but he eventually made the guitar his passion, developing a style so fluid and inexorably melodic that instrumental backing seemed superfluous. He signed up with OKeh Records in 1925 and commenced to recording at an astonishing pace -- between 1925 and 1932, he cut an estimated 130 waxings. The red-hot duets he recorded with white jazz guitarist Eddie Lang (masquerading as Blind Willie Dunn) in 1928-1929 were utterly groundbreaking in their ceaseless invention. Johnson also recorded pioneering jazz efforts in 1927 with no less than Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Duke Ellington's orchestra.

After enduring the Depression and moving to Chicago, Johnson came back to recording life with Bluebird for a five-year stint beginning in 1939. Under the ubiquitous Lester Melrose's supervision, Johnson picked up right where he left off, selling quite a few copies of "He's a Jelly Roll Baker" for old Nipper. Johnson went with Cincinnati-based King Records in 1947 and promptly enjoyed one of the biggest hits of his uncommonly long career with the mellow ballad "Tomorrow Night," which topped the R&B charts for seven weeks in 1948. More hits followed posthaste: "Pleasing You (As Long as I Live)," "So Tired," and "Confused."

Time seemed to have passed Johnson by during the late '50s. He was toiling as a hotel janitor in Philadelphia when banjo player Elmer Snowden alerted Chris Albertson to his whereabouts. That rekindled a major comeback, Johnson cutting a series of albums for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary during the early '60s and venturing to Europe under the auspices of Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau's American Folk Blues Festival banner in 1963. Finally, in 1969, Johnson was hit by a car in Toronto and died a year later from the effects of the accident.

Johnson's influence was massive, touching everyone from Robert Johnson, whose seminal approach bore strong resemblance to that of his older namesake, to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, who each paid heartfelt tribute with versions of "Tomorrow Night" while at Sun. ~ bio by Bill Dahl

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Lonnie Johnson - Me And My Crazy Self

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:12
Size: 128,0 MB
Styles: Blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. You Can't Buy Love (2:57)
2. It Was All In Vain (2:42)
3. Nothing But Trouble (2:44)
4. Me And My Crazy Self (2:36)
5. What Do You Want That I've Got, Pretty Baby (2:51)
6. I'm Guilty (2:46)
7. What A Woman (2:51)
8. Falling Rain Blues (2:47)
9. Playing Around (2:44)
10. It's Too Late To Cry (2:22)
11. Seven Long Days (3:10)
12. Why Should I Cry (2:48)
13. Friendless Blues (3:00)
14. Happy New Year Darling (2:38)
15. You Only Want Me When You're Lonely (2:57)
16. Old Fashioned Love (2:23)
17. My My Baby (3:12)
18. Just Another Day (2:35)
19. What A Real Woman (2:37)
20. Can't Sleep Any More (2:20)

With a firm emphasis on the less schmaltzy side of Johnson's 1947-1952 stint at Cincinnati's King Records, this 20-tracker finds the blues pioneer coming into the age of electric blues and R&B quite adroitly. His dignified vocal style similarly weathered the ensuing decades nicely - "You Can't Buy Love," "Friendless Blues," and the title track are bittersweet outings sporting multiple levels of subtlety. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Various - I Got Woman

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:44
Size: 166.5 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:56] 1. Brownie McGhee - I Got A Woman
[2:49] 2. The Blues Caravan - Train Train Blues
[3:17] 3. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Insurance Man Blues
[2:55] 4. Good Lewis - Pelican Jump
[3:13] 5. Lonnie Johnson - Another Woman Booked Out And Bound To Go
[2:49] 6. Charles Brown - Groovy
[2:30] 7. Tiny Davis - How About That Jive
[3:12] 8. Washboard Walter - Narrow Face Blues
[2:48] 9. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Rainy Day Blues
[2:39] 10. Freddie Mitchell - Mr Freddie's Boogie
[3:31] 11. Brownie McGhee - Hold Me In Your Arms
[2:52] 12. Harold Burrage - Hi-Yo Silver
[3:22] 13. Washboard Walter - Insurance Man Blues
[2:55] 14. Lonnie Johnson - Wrong Woman Blues
[2:58] 15. Charles Brown - Googie's Boogie
[2:46] 16. Sunnyland Slim - She Ain't Nowhere
[2:56] 17. Slim Barton - It’s Tight Like That
[2:24] 18. Jessie Allen - Let's Party
[3:20] 19. Sonny Boy Williamson II - The Right Kind Of Life
[3:17] 20. Lonnie Johnson - When You Fall For Some One That’s Not Your Own
[2:21] 21. Charles Brown - Peek A Boo
[2:34] 22. Willie Mabon - I'm Mad
[4:29] 23. Brownie McGhee - The C.C.& O.Blues
[2:40] 24. Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years

Song History: "I Got a Woman" (originally titled "I've Got a Woman") is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B and soul musician Ray Charles. Atlantic Records released the song as a single in December 1954, with "Come Back Baby" as the B-side. Both songs later appeared on the 1957 album Ray Charles (subsequently reissued as Hallelujah I Love Her So).

The song builds on "It Must Be Jesus" by the Southern Tones, which Ray Charles was listening to on the radio while on the road with his band in the summer of 1954. He and a member of his band, trumpeter Renald Richard, penned a song that was built along a gospel-frenetic pace with secular lyrics and a jazz-inspired rhythm and blues (R&B) background. The song would be one of the prototypes for what later became termed as "soul music" after Charles released "What'd I Say" nearly five years later.

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Lonnie Johnson - Hot Fingers

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues
Time: 75:02
Size: 173,5 MB
Covers: Full

(3:00) 1. Hot Fingers
(2:44) 2. South Bound Water
(3:04) 3. Roamin' Rambler Blues
(2:59) 4. Rocks in My Bed
(3:06) 5. I Love You, Mary Lou
(2:47) 6. [Untitled Track]
(3:12) 7. Deep Minor Rhythm Stomp
(3:05) 8. Life Saver Blues
(2:38) 9. Swing Out Rhythm
(3:08) 10. To Do This, You Got to Know How
(2:27) 11. Love Story Blues
(3:00) 12. 6/88 Glide
(2:55) 13. Stompin' Em Along Slow
(3:17) 14. Bull Frog Moan
(3:06) 15. Blue Room Blues
(3:01) 16. Playing with the Strings
(3:01) 17. Two-Tone Stomp
(3:02) 18. Jet Black Blues
(3:17) 19. Four Hands Are Better Than Two
(3:11) 20. Winnie the Wailer
(2:51) 21. Away Down in the Alley Blues
(3:07) 22. A Handful of Riffs
(2:48) 23. In Love Again
(3:00) 24. Blue Blood Blues
(3:05) 25. Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head

Hot Fingers is a 25-track core sample from the first half of guitarist Lonnie Johnson's lengthy recording career, picks up the trail in January 1926 and follows his progress through February 1941. That was Johnson's pre-electric period, during which his amazing technique brought him into close contact with many of the top blues and jazz artists of his generation. While this sampler includes a good number of his heartfelt vocals (including the warmly romantic "In Love Again" and a healthy but not excessive quantity of straightforward blues), the primary focus is upon the instrumentals, which include several dazzling duets with guitarist Eddie Lang. This was one of the great duos of the 1920s, with extraordinary creative interplay. Other guests of honor are pianist Lil Armstrong and cornetist King Oliver, who added his own persona to "Jet Black Blues" as a member of Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four. Who exactly was Blind Willie Dunn? Why, Fiddlin' Joe Venuti's famous sparring partner and Paul Whiteman Orchestra member Eddie Lang, that's who. As a light-skinned Italian working for a rigidly segregated entertainment industry, this classically trained guitar virtuoso was masked by a name that made him sound like a Southern rural bluesman whenever he made records in the company of African-American musicians. Lonnie Johnson's discography contains a number of excellent collections that focus on his pre-WWII accomplishments, and Catfish/Arpeggio's Hot Fingers rates with the best of them. -- Allmusic.

Hot Fingers
Hot Fingers artwork

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Lonnie Johnson - He's a Jelly Roll Baker

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1992
Styles: Pre-war Blues
Time: 61:08
Size: 141,4 MB
Covers: Full

(2:56) 1. Why Women Go Wrong
(3:00) 2. Nothing But a Rat
(3:00) 3. Jersey Belle Blues
(3:15) 4. The Loveless Blues
(3:01) 5. I'm Just Dumb
(3:14) 6. Get Yourself Together
(2:40) 7. Crowing Rooster Blues
(2:59) 8. That's Love
(3:08) 9. Somebody's Got to Go
(3:04) 10. Lazy Woman Blues
(2:49) 11. Chicago Blues
(3:05) 12. I Did All I Could
(2:56) 13. In Love Again
(3:18) 14. The Last Call
(2:56) 15. Rambler's Blues
(3:02) 16. Baby Remember Me
(3:19) 17. He's a Jelly Roll Baker
(2:57) 18. When You Feel Low Down
(3:14) 19. The Victim of Love
(3:06) 20. Watch Shorty

This 20-song collection covers 1930s and '40s material in which Johnson primarily performs blues tunes, doing salty, sassy, mournful, and suggestive numbers in a distinctive, memorable fashion. His vocals on "Rambler's Blues," "In Love Again," the title cut, and several others, are framed by brilliant, creative playing and excellent support from such pianists as Blind John Davis, Lil Hardin Armstrong, and Joshua Altheimer. This is tight, intuitive music in which Johnson set the tone and dominated the songs. If you're unaware of Lonnie Johnson's brilliant blues material, here's an excellent introduction. -- Allmusic

He's a Jelly Roll Baker
He's a Jelly Roll Baker artwork

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Victoria Spivey (with Lonnie Johnson) - Woman Blues!

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1961
Styles: Blues
Time: 33:54
Size: 78,1 MB
Covers: Full

(3:22) 1. Christmas Without Santa Claus
(3:40) 2. A Big One
(2:30) 3. Let's Ride Tonight
(4:00) 4. What Is This Thing They're Talking About
(3:33) 5. I'm a Red Hot Mama
(2:58) 6. Grow Old Together
(2:54) 7. Beautiful World
(5:06) 8. I Got Men All over This Town
(2:56) 9. That Man
(2:51) 10. Thursday Girl

Shortly before she formed her own Spivey label, veteran classic blues singer Victoria Spivey made a fine duo album (reissued on CD in the Original Blues Classic series) with guitarist/vocalist Lonnie Johnson whom she had last recorded with back in 1929. Spivey, 55 at the time, is also heard playing piano, and she takes four of the ten selections as solo performances. All of the compositions are hers, including "Christmas Without Santa Claus," "I'm a Red Hot Mama," "Grow Old Together" and "I Got Men All Over This Town." Recommended as a strong example of Victoria Spivey's later work. -- Allmusic

Woman Blues!

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Various Artists - Bawdy Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1977
Styles: Blues
Time: 43:08
Size: 99,4 MB
Covers: Full

(3:47) 1. Memphis Slim - Sweet Root Man
(2:57) 2. Tampa Red - Let Me Play with Your Poodle
(3:32) 3. Victoria Spivey - I'm a Red Hot Mama
(2:49) 4. Lonnie Johnson - Jelly Roll Baker
(5:55) 5. Memphis Slim - Churning Man Blues
(2:36) 6. Pink Anderson - Try Some of That
(4:34) 7. Memphis Slim - Steady Rollin' Blues
(3:50) 8. Tampa Red - Jelly Whipping Blues
(2:55) 9. Victoria Spivey - That Man
(3:21) 10. Memphis Willie B - Car Machine Blues
(4:24) 11. Memphis Slim - If You See Kay
(2:23) 12. Blind Willie McTell - Beedle Um Bum

Erotic, humorous, and loaded with double entendres, these dozen tunes were recorded between 1956-1961 by Memphis Slim, Tampa Red, Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson, Pink Anderson, Memphis Willie B, and Blind Willie McTell.

Bawdy Blues

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Lonnie Johnson With Victoria Spivey - Idle Hours (Remastered)

Size: 111,2 MB
Time: 40:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1961/2016
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Art: Front

01. Darling, I Miss You So (3:23)
02. Long Time Blues (4:37)
03. You Are My Life (3:38)
04. Oh Yes Baby (2:44)
05. Please Baby (2:53)
06. Leave Me Or Love Me (2:58)
07. Idle Hours (3:31)
08. You Have No Love In Your Heart (3:50)
09. Good Luck Darling (3:21)
10. No More Cryin' (3:36)
11. I Got The Blues So Bad (3:03)
12. End It All (3:17)

Johnson and Victoria Spivey had known one another for decades (they duetted on the ribald "Toothache Blues" way back in 1928), so it's no surprise that their musical repartee on 1961's Idle Hours seems so natural and playful. Spivey guests on three tracks (including the title number) and plays piano on her one solo entry. Johnson does the majority of the disc without her, benefitting from pianistic accompaniment by Cliff Jackson. ~by Bill Dahl

Idle Hours

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Lonnie Johnson - The Complete Folkways Recordings

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1967/1993
Styles: Blues
Time: 72:50
Size: 167,8 MB
Covers: Front, CD, Tray

(2:39) 1. Raise the Window High
(3:11) 2. Tears Don't Fall No More
(2:22) 3. Long Road to Travel
(2:43) 4. Old Rocking Chair
(2:50) 5. You Have My Life in Your Hands
(3:11) 6. Lazy Mood
(3:28) 7. Mister Trouble
(2:19) 8. How Deep Is the Ocean?
(2:24) 9. Pouring Down Rain
(2:49) 10. Prisoner of Love
(3:53) 11. Careless Love
(2:45) 12. Juice Headed Baby
(3:14) 13. Teardrops in My Eyes
(3:48) 14. Looking for a Sweetie
(2:33) 15. I've Been a Fool Myself
(2:31) 16. What A Difference A Day Makes
(3:22) 17. That Lonesome Road
(2:20) 18. I Can't Believe
(2:58) 19. When You Always by Yourself
(3:15) 20. My Mother's Eyes
(2:14) 21. Summertime
(2:30) 22. C.C. Rider
(4:38) 23. The Entire Family Was Musicians
(4:42) 24. Falling Rain Blues

These two-dozen solo performances are from late 1967 and produced by Moses Asch himself. The legendary guitarist had a long and amazing career. Johnson had not only made hundreds of successful blues recordings, but he had also been featured as guitar soloist with jazz groups (Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong !), worked night clubs with swing groups and toured extensively. His recordings were always marked by the brilliance of his guitar playing, by his sensitive singing, and by the distinctiveness of his song texts. It isn't surprising that for the most of his career he was one of the biggest-selling artists in the blues world. In these recordings, even though he was returning to themes and emotions that had been part of his music for more than 40 years, his skills as a writer were undiminished. Most of the blues is metaphoric, which means that the blues singer is only reflecting the mood of the audience and at the height of his career, Lonnie Johnson was expressing the unhappiness of the thousands of people who were buying his records. Several of the songs on this album are ballads and it was his ballads that distressed part of his new audience in the 1960s. Lonnie loved to sing ballads and during the 1940s, when he was a club entertainer, he sang almost as many ballads as he did blues. In the ballads he found a counterballance to the cynicism of the blues. The sentimentality and the tenderness he rejected in the blues are there in the verses of the ballads. These tapes were supposed to be a demo for a later session with Verve Records. Johnson felt at ease to stretch out with the guitar solos and he was relaxed enough to sing any song he chose. He was in superb form for the sessions, compellingly inventive, musical and lyric, sketching the emotional turmoils of his urban blues world with sure and telling strokes, accompanying himself with a display of guitar technique that seemed to have become only more supple and assured with the passing years. The tapes from the sessions were put on a shelf in Moe's office and forgotton for 15 years. -- booklet notes by Sam Charters

The Complete Folkways Recordings

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Various - That's Chicago's South Side

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:57
Size: 171.6 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Sam Theard - That's Chicago's South Side
[3:15] 2. Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw
[2:59] 3. Roosevelt Sykes - Devil's Island Gin Blues
[3:16] 4. Amos Easton - Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
[3:27] 5. Joe Pullum - Black Gal, What Makes Your Head So Hard
[2:49] 6. Lil Johnson - I Lost My Baby
[2:50] 7. Big Bill Broonzy - Keep Your Hands Off Her
[2:55] 8. Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down
[2:51] 9. Memphis Minnie - Selling My Pork Chops
[3:06] 10. The Sparks Brothers - Every Day I Have The Blues
[2:48] 11. Walter Davis - Sweet Sixteen
[2:57] 12. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
[2:39] 13. Richard M. Jones - Trouble In Mind
[3:21] 14. Merline Johnson - He Roars Like A Lion
[3:01] 15. Robert Lee Mccoy - Prowling Nighthawk
[2:58] 16. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:09] 17. Speckled Red - You Got To Fix It
[2:41] 18. Washboard Sam - Bucket's Got A Hole In It
[2:45] 19. Tommy Mcclennan - Bottle It Up And Go
[2:37] 20. Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway
[2:56] 21. Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me
[2:53] 22. Johnny Temple - What Is That She Got
[3:10] 23. St. Louis Jimmy Oden - Goin' Down To Slow
[3:17] 24. James Yank Rachel - Hobo Blues
[3:15] 25. Lonnie Johnson - He's A Jelly Roll Baker

Ask a rock & roller to discuss Chicago's contributions to the blues, and he/she is likely to talk about Chess Records and electric post-World War II greats like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells. But the Windy City had a healthy blues scene long before the rise of Chess -- one that went back to the days of Al Capone and Prohibition. Spanning 1931-1942, When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 3: That's Chicago's South Side spotlights the acoustic pre-Chess, pre-Muddy Waters era of Chicago blues -- an era that helped pave the way for Chess Records as well as rock & roll. The recordings on this excellent CD point to fact that, long before Chicago became synonymous with electric blues, the city had its own unique blues sound. Gems like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning, Schoolgirl" (1937), Roosevelt Sykes' "Devil's Island Gin Blues" (1933), and Tommy McClennan's "Bottle It Up and Go" (1939) are quite different from the blues that were coming from the Deep South in the '30s and early '40s -- these artists offer an acoustic sound, but a harder, tougher acoustic sound than the Southern country blues that were coming from Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee back then. Of course, some of the artists who blues fans associate with Chicago blues were originally from the South; Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, for example, were born in Mississippi. But when Southern bluesmen moved north and interacted with Chicago-based musicians, their music could easily take on a more urban outlook. And an urban outlook definitely prevails on this CD, which underscores the richness of Chicago's pre-Chess blues scene. ~Alex Henderson

That's Chicago's South Side

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Lonnie Johnson - Steppin' on the Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1990
Styles: Blues
Time: 58:28
Size: 134,6 MB
Covers: Full

(2:43) 1. Mr. Johnson's Blues
(2:59) 2. Sweet Potato Blues
(2:55) 3. Steppin' on the Blues
(3:00) 4. I Done Told You
(2:56) 5. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
(2:50) 6. Toothache Blues, Pt. 1
(3:22) 7. Toothache Blues, Pt. 2
(3:04) 8. Have to Change Keys (To Play These Blues)
(3:16) 9. Guitar Blues
(3:12) 10. She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight
(3:02) 11. Playing with the Strings
(3:02) 12. No More Women Blues
(3:04) 13. Deep Blue Sea Blues
(3:16) 14. No More Troubles Now
(3:25) 15. Got the Blues for Murder Only
(2:48) 16. Untitled
(3:01) 17. 6/88 Glide
(3:14) 18. Racketeer's Blues
(3:09) 19. I'm Nuts About That Gal

Groundbreaking guitar work of dazzling complexity that never fails to amaze -- and this stuff was cut in the 1920s! Lonnie Johnson's astonishingly fluid guitar work was massively influential (Robert Johnson, for one, was greatly swayed by his waxings), and his no-nonsense vocals (frequently laced with threats of violence -- "Got the Blues for Murder Only" and "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" are prime examples on this 19-cut collection) are scarcely less impressive. Johnson's torrid guitar duets with jazzman Eddie Lang retain their sense of legend over seven decades after they were cut. -- Allmusic.
Not only did Johnson pioneer single-string, blues-guitar improvisation, he still ranks as one of its greatest practitioners. His playing was remarkably fluent, sophisticated, and melodic, yet he never sacrificed emotion or bite. He was the first bluesman to make his mark as a virtuoso instrumentalist, despite his formidable vocals. These 19 early performances (1925-1932) include low-down blues, buoyant ragtime, and catchy hokum, plus examples of sheer instrumental wizardry. Victoria Spivey joins Johnson for the risque vocal duet "Toothache Blues" and Texas Alexander sings lead on a pair of songs, but the instrumentals inevitably remain the highlights. His two guitar duets with jazz great Eddie Lang plus his solo workout on "Playing With the Strings" are astonishing displays of technique. -- Amazon.

Steppin' on the Blues
Steppin' on the Blues artwork

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Various - Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:30
Size: 138.5 MB
Styles: Pre-war blues, Acoustic blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[2:56] 1. Lonnie Johnson - Hot Fingers
[3:05] 2. Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang - A Handful Of Riffs
[3:15] 3. Texas Alexander - Work Ox Blues
[3:16] 4. Sylvester Weaver - I'm Busy And You Can't Come In
[3:01] 5. Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag
[2:53] 6. Blind Willie McTell - Warm It Up To Me
[3:11] 7. Sylvester Weaver - (Untitled)
[2:51] 8. Sylvester Weaver - (Untitled)
[3:00] 9. Blind Willie Johnson - When The War Was On
[3:08] 10. Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine
[2:50] 11. Big Bill Broonzy - How You Want It Done
[3:15] 12. Big Bill Broonzy - Getting Older Every Day
[2:56] 13. Casey Bill Weldon - Guitar Swing
[3:15] 14. Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang - Bull Frog Moan
[2:50] 15. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan
[2:58] 16. Joshua White - Little Brother Blues
[2:55] 17. Joshua White - Prodigal Son
[2:54] 18. Tampa Red - Denver Blues
[2:49] 19. Lonnie Johnson - Away Down In The Alley Blues
[3:05] 20. Lonnie Johnson - I Love You, Mary Lou

Ten excellent blues guitarists are heard on 20 selections dating from 1924-40 on this enjoyable CD reissue from the Columbia/ Legacy series. Included are Sylvester Weaver (the first blues guitarist to record an unaccompanied solo), the team of Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang (who are heard on a pair of duets and with singer Texas Alexander), the influential Big Bill Broonzy (superb on "How You Want It Done?"), the always passionate Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Casey Bill Weldon, Blind Lemon Jefferson ("Black Snake Moan"), Joshua White and Tampa Red. Three previously unheard selections are included on this fine overview but completists will probably prefer to skip over the set in favor of the more comprehensive Document CDs. ~Scott Yanow

Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers mc
Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers zippy

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VA - The History Of Rhythm & Blues

Size: 168,0+171,8+172,6+172,1 MB
Time: 71:02+72:34+72:50+72:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Austin Coleman - My Soul Is A Witness (3:13)
02 Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine (3:15)
03 Jessie May Hill - The Crucifixion Of Christ (3:02)
04 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shake That Thing (3:05)
05 Blind Joe Reynolds - Outside Woman Blues (2:59)
06 Frank Stokes & The Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing (3:00)
07 Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues (3:44)
08 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues (3:04)
09 Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie (3:01)
10 Sleepy John Estes - Milk Cow Blues (3:03)
11 Barbecue Bob - Ease It To Me Blues (3:01)
12 Curley Weaver - No No Blues (3:12)
13 Bobby Leecan & Robert Cooksey - Appaloosa Blues.mp3 (0:00)
14 Pearl Dickson - Little Rock Blues (3:03)
15 Jim Jackson - Kansas City Blues (3:17)
16 Jimmie Rodgers - Train Whistle Blues (3:01)
17 Memphis Minnie - Goin' Back To Texas (3:05)
18 Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues (3:04)
19 Skip James - If You Haven't Any (2:58)
20 Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues (3:06)
21 Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That (3:04)
22 Bryant's Jubilee Quartet - Didn't It Rain (2:34)
23 Jed Davenport - Beale Street Breakdown (3:00)
24 Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues (3:06)

CD 2:
01 Bennie Moten & The Kansas City Orchestra - Get Low-Down Blues (3:03)
02 Lonnie Johnson - Mr Johnson's Blues (2:41)
03 Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues (3:18)
04 Louis Armstrong - Knockin' A Jug (3:15)
05 Muggsy Spanier - Bullfrog Blues (2:57)
06 Pinetop Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (3:22)
07 Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues (3:07)
08 Blind Roosevelt Graves & Uaroy Graves - Guitar Boogie (2:55)
09 Leroy Carr - How Long, How Long Blues (3:05)
10 Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen (3:14)
11 Little Brother Montgomery - Vicksburg Blues (2:58)
12 Rufus & Ben Quillian - Sweet Miss Stella Blues (2:56)
13 Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - Minnie The Moocher (3:13)
14 The Mills Brothers - St. Louis Blues (2:20)
15 The Three Keys - Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn (3:00)
16 Leroy Carr - Midnight Hour Blues (3:08)
17 Bennie Moten & The Kansas City Orchestra - Lafayette (2:49)
18 Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - Flaming Reeds And Screaming Brass (2:59)
19 Cripple Clarence Lofton - Strut That Thing (2:58)
20 Roosevelt Sykes - Dirty Mother For You (2:59)
21 Harlem Hamfats - Weed Smoker's Dream (3:20)
22 Lil Johnson - Press My Button (3:20)
23 Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time (2:51)
24 Georgia White - The Blues Ain't Nothing But (2:40)

CD 3:
01 Louie Lasky - Teasin' Brown Blues (2:48)
02 Leroy Carr - Barrelhouse Woman (2:55)
03 Johnnie 'Geechie' Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:07)
04 Bumble Bee Slim - Policy Dream Blues (2:50)
05 Bill Gaither - Naptown Stomp (2:38)
06 Walter Davis - Sloppy Drunk Again (3:07)
07 Jazz Gillum - Jockey Blues (2:51)
08 Elder Otis Jones - Holy Mountain (3:10)
09 The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbour (2:51)
10 Johnnie Tempbe - Louise Louise Blues (3:03)
11 Big Bill Broonzy - Barrelhouse When It Rains (2:53)
12 Sonny Boy Williamson I - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (3:02)
13 Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues (2:55)
14 Jimmie Gordon - Number Runner's Blues (2:54)
15 Sonny Boy Williamson I - Tell Me Baby (2:55)
16 Big Bill Broonzy - Rockin' Chair Blues (2:51)
17 Washboard Sam - Diggin' My Potatoes (2:58)
18 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (2:42)
19 Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me (2:57)
20 Sonny Boy Williamson I - Jivin' The Blues (2:57)
21 Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good (2:50)
22 Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (2:56)
23 Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues (2:46)
24 Doctor Clayton - Ain't No Business We Can Do (3:11)
25 Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Mean Ol' Frisco (2:36)

CD 4:
01 Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings - Boogie Woogie Stomp (3:03)
02 Count Basie - Boogie-Woogie (3:15)
03 Count Basie Orchestra - One O'clock Jump (3:02)
04 Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing (4:16)
05 Louis Jordan - Keep A-Knockin' (2:30)
06 Jimmie Lunceford - T'aint What You Do (3:03)
07 Cab Calloway - Jumpin' Jive (2:46)
08 Nat King Cole - I Like To Riff (2:50)
09 Three Sharps & A Flat - That's The Rhythm (2:39)
10 The Cats & The Fiddle - I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (2:47)
11 Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra - After Hours (3:22)
12 Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy - Floyd's Guitar Blues (3:09)
13 Peetie Wheatstraw - Gangster's Blues (2:46)
14 Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Roll'em Pete (2:52)
15 Will Bradley - Down The Road A Piece (3:10)
16 Lionel Hampton - Central Avenue Breakdown (3:06)
17 Lewis Bronzeville Five - Natchez Mississippi Blues (3:00)
18 Pete Johnson - Death Ray Boogie (2:36)
19 Jay McShann - Confessin' The Blues (2:51)
20 Louis Jordan - What's The Use Of Getting Sober (2:56)
21 Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy - Take It And Git (3:16)
22 Ella Mae Morse - Cow Cow Boogie (3:14)
23 Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Flying Home (3:15)
24 T-Bone Walker - Mean Old World (2:51)

Wow, what a wondrous thing this is!! 'The History Of Rhythm And Blues Part 1, 1925 to 1942' is a voyage of discovery, an enchanting and learned compilation stretching over four discs. Call it history, call it roots - it matters not! What's important is that what you hear within these four stunning discs helped to shape and model today's music. And hey, this is only part one - there's obviously more to come - what a work, what a commitment, and what a blast!! This superb anthology is split into four discreet and seamless sections as follows ; Disc 1 - Country Blues And Spirituals, Jug Bands And Hokum, Disc 2 - Piano Boogie-Woogie, Ragtime And Jazz, Disc 3 - Urban Blues And Gospel and lastly, Disc 4 - After Hours Swing And Jive. The compilers have been careful not to simply make this a 'blues' work; they've been realistic and honest in their work which finds blues, folk, gospel and other urban styles melding into more syncopated forms such as jazz, swing, jive and so on. Thus, you start to get the bigger picture as you work your way through this epically proportioned anthology - you see gaps being filled and ideas and forms being stretched over time. There are famous names and not so famous names, there are songs that you'll recognise and there are songs that you'll hear for the first time - but, all played their part in shaping the big rock and roll explosion of the 50's and all influenced what you listen to today under multi-genre headings, individual styles and nuances and so on. 'The History Of Rhythm And Blues' is as important as it is educational - this is quite possibly the best put together assemblage of 'roots' music - ever. Lovingly compiled by Nick Duckett and Consultant Stewart Tippett and beautifully presented with an enclosed booklet which 'tells the story', this is like an 'everyman's guide to the development and growth of modern, popular music'. Musical purists and scholars will love this work simply for its facts - music lovers from all age groups will find this work fascinating and rewarding and anyone who has the slightest interest in musical history should find this a joy to behold. Scratchy and naive maybe but that's how it was and that how it has to be. Listen to the lyrics and realise that what these innovators sang about doesn't differ very much from today's outpourings. Pick out nuances, syncopations, riffs and melodies that occur and re-occur through the ages. See where we learned, feel what influenced us and just enjoy the truth of it all!! Marvel at the creativity of these artists and take into consideration what they had available to them back then - be amazed at the content, the gritty believability, the passion and the dedication to a cause. Compare what's on offer here to where we are today - listen and learn, feel and be touched! Educational and fulfilling, it's as rewarding as it is fascinating - a piece of musical history that'll sit well in anyone's collection - glory in it's depth, revel in its creation and just enjoy all ninety-seven tracks for exactly what they are - an important musical history lesson, moments in musical time that shaped what we listen to today. 'The History Of Rhythm And Blues Part 1, 1925 to 1942' is a genuine beauty!! ~Peter J Brown aka toxic pete

Thanks to DrPeak.
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Various - Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:36
Size: 138.7 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Lil Johnson - Sam The Hot Dog Man
[2:55] 2. Lil Johnson - My Stove's In Good Condition
[3:17] 3. Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off
[2:54] 4. Lonnie Johnson - The Best Jockey In Town
[2:49] 5. Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry, No. 1
[3:06] 6. Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry Ii
[2:47] 7. Little Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size
[2:49] 8. Barrel House Annie - If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)
[3:05] 9. Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Jackson - Furniture Man Blues Pt 1
[3:07] 10. Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Jackson - Furniture Man Blues Pt 2
[2:54] 11. Bo Carter - My Pencil Won't Write No More
[3:06] 12. Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket
[3:09] 13. Lil Johnson - Get 'em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
[2:54] 14. Lil Johnson - Get 'em From The Peanut Man (The Hot New Nuts)
[3:22] 15. Mississippi Sheiks - Driving That Thing
[3:09] 16. Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker
[2:56] 17. Hunter Jenkins - Lollypop
[2:55] 18. Hunter Jenkins - Meat Cuttin' Blues
[3:07] 19. Buddy Moss -You Got To Give Me Some Of It
[3:05] 20. Bernice Edwards - Butcher Shop Blues

This sex-based set of early blues-oriented recordings has 19 double entendre songs and a humorous (and quite profane) "alternate" version of Lucille Bogan's "Shave 'Em Dry" that still could not be played on the radio. Among the performers are Lil Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Barrel House Annie, Bo Carter and Buddy Moss. With titles such as "Sam The Hot Dog Man," "The Best Jockey In Town," "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It," "Banana In Your Fruit Basket" and "You Got To Give Me Some Of It," the subject matter is easy to figure out. ~Scott Yanow

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