Released: 1990
Styles: Blues
Time: 37:46
Size: 86,7 MB
Covers: Full
(2:32) 1. Tiny Kennedy - Strange Kind of Feeling
(2:51) 2. Tiny Kennedy - Have You Heard About the Farmer's Daughter?
(2:32) 3. Tiny Kennedy - Early in the Mornin', Baby
(3:08) 4. Tiny Kennedy - Don't Lay This Job on Me
(2:31) 5. Tiny Kennedy - Blues Disease
(2:26) 6. Clayton Love - Shufflin' With Love
(2:44) 7. Clayton Love - Susie
(2:47) 8. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - East of the Sun
(2:44) 9. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - Wine-O-Wine
(2:33) 10. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - Stay Out of Automobiles
(2:56) 11. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - Middle of the Night
(2:24) 12. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - Crazy 'Bout That Mess
(2:30) 13. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - Fall Guy
(3:01) 14. Jerry "Boogie" McCain - Love to Make Up
Jesse "Tiny" Kennedy Jr. had recorded with the great Kansas City pianist Jay McShann for Capitol in 1949 prior to joining Tiny Bradshaw's jumping band as one of its featured front men. After a session with Elmore James in 1951 didn't result in anything releasable, McMurry sent Kennedy up to Sam Phillips's fledgling Memphis Recording Service in September of 1952. Musicians on the session, which produced the fine "Strange Kind of Feelin'," "Early in the Mornin', Baby" (with overdubbed crowing by "Elmer, the Disc Jockey Rooster"), and "Blues Disease," included guitarist Calvin Newborn and saxist Richard Sanders. After a 1955 date for RCA's Groove subsidiary, Kennedy disappeared permanently from the R&B scene.
Pianist Clayton Love was a prominent member of Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm during the mid-'50s, making some of his finest platters with the legendary band. But Love made his first vinyl appearance on Lillian McMurry's Jackson, MS-based Trumpet Records in 1951 with his own jump band, the Shufflers. The combo was a fixture around Vicksburg, where Love was attending Alcorn A&M as a pre-med student. Love's cousin, Natchez bandleader Earl Reed, had recorded for Trumpet and recommended his young relative to McMurry. Love's 1951 debut, "Susie"/ "Shufflin' with Love," exhibited infectious enthusiasm if not a great deal of polish.
These are Jerry McCain's earliest sides, cut in 1953 and 1954 for Lillian McMurray's Trumpet label in Jackson, Mississippi. Both sides of his two Trumpet 78s plus the addition of three previously unissued tracks make up his total output for the label, so the collection is filled out with five tracks by Tiny Kennedy plus two by pianist Clayton Love. Although longtime axeman Christopher Collins is well to the fore on these tracks, McCain's harp is somewhat underrecorded, giving a lopsided effect to the music. But minor gems like "Stay Out Of Automobiles," "Fall Guy," "Middle Of The Night" and "Crazy 'Bout That Mess" are all sign pointers to the Excello material and make this a collection well worth seeking out. -- Allmusic.
Pianist Clayton Love was a prominent member of Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm during the mid-'50s, making some of his finest platters with the legendary band. But Love made his first vinyl appearance on Lillian McMurry's Jackson, MS-based Trumpet Records in 1951 with his own jump band, the Shufflers. The combo was a fixture around Vicksburg, where Love was attending Alcorn A&M as a pre-med student. Love's cousin, Natchez bandleader Earl Reed, had recorded for Trumpet and recommended his young relative to McMurry. Love's 1951 debut, "Susie"/ "Shufflin' with Love," exhibited infectious enthusiasm if not a great deal of polish.
These are Jerry McCain's earliest sides, cut in 1953 and 1954 for Lillian McMurray's Trumpet label in Jackson, Mississippi. Both sides of his two Trumpet 78s plus the addition of three previously unissued tracks make up his total output for the label, so the collection is filled out with five tracks by Tiny Kennedy plus two by pianist Clayton Love. Although longtime axeman Christopher Collins is well to the fore on these tracks, McCain's harp is somewhat underrecorded, giving a lopsided effect to the music. But minor gems like "Stay Out Of Automobiles," "Fall Guy," "Middle Of The Night" and "Crazy 'Bout That Mess" are all sign pointers to the Excello material and make this a collection well worth seeking out. -- Allmusic.
Strange Kind of Feelin'