Chicago Boogie

Chicago Boogie

Track Listings

1. Ride

2. Face It - Master C & J,

3. Feels Good (Carrots & Beets) - Tara Butler, Electra

4. Manhasset [Larry Heard Mix]

5. Shake Your Body

6. Can't Get Enough - Master C & J,

7. I'm Strong - Fingers Inc.

8. We're Rocking Down the House - Adonis

9. Battery Acid - Six Brown Brothers

10. Happy Stick

11. One More Round [Frankie Knuckles Mix]

12. Peaches & Prunes - Nightlife Unlimited

13. Optimo - Liquid Liquid

14. Waiting on My Angel - Frankie Knuckles

15. Roman Days

16. Computer Madness

17. Beat It

18. Free Yourself - Virgo

Tracks:

Dust My Broom - Elmore James
Honey Bee - Muddy Waters & His Guitar
Taylor's Rock - Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers
Maxwell Street Medley - Robert Nighthawk & His Flames Of Rhythm
Too Much Alcohol - J.B.Hutto & His Hawks
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
Dynaflow Blues - Johnny Shines Blues Band
Treat Me The Way You Do - Joe Carter & His Chicago Broomdusters
Homesick's Shuffle - Homesick James
Deep Feeling - Chuck Berry
Chicken Stuff - Hop Wilson & His Chickens
I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
Is You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry - Earl Hooker
Shake Your Money-Maker - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Rollin' And Tumblin' - Canned Heat
Mean Town Blues - Johnny Winter
Statesburo Blues - Allman Brothers Band
All Shook Up - Ry Cooder

Customer Reviews:

Good Starter!.......2004-07-30

This CD isn't the best anything. It's just a good starter cd for the new Blues listener, and a good listen for the more experienced. So I'll rate it a good. It probably deserves three stars but I'm a sucker for slide guitar so I gave it four.

Another good sampler.......2003-12-07

This is another fine entry in Rhino's lengthy Blues Masters series. It isn't the definitive word on slide guitar blues, of course, or on any of the artists represented, but as a sampler it works very well, featuring a lesser-known (but very good) rendition of "Dust My Broom" by Elmore James, and well-chosen cuts by Muddy Waters, J.B. Hutto (the tough boogie "Too Much Alcohol"), and Robert Nighthawk (a superb medley of two of his best songs, "Anna Lee" and "Sweet Black Angel").

The compilers at Rhino have included the Allman Brothers' version of Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues" rather than the original, "Shake Your Moneymaker" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Canned Heat's take on "Rollin' And Tumblin'"...I would probably have gone with McTell's own "Mama T'Ain't Long Fo' Day", which is one of the most beautiful acoustic slide guitar blues tunes you'll ever hear, but that's just me.

Robert Johnson is missing, and Son House is, too, but the compilers try to make amends by including some lesser-known tracks which should appeal to the experienced blues fan, like James Williamson's "Homesick's Shuffle", Babe Turner's "I Am The Black Ace", Earl Hooker's "If You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry", the harsh "Treat Me The Way You Do" by Joe Carter, and a rare opportunity to hear Chuck Berry wielding the slide on the odd instrumental "Deep Feeling". And the awesome Blind Willie Johnson is here as well, performing the eerie "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground".

Very good. But its companion volume, Blues Masters Vol. 18, is actually even better.

Awesome!.......1998-10-17

This is must buy for any fan slide guitar. From beginning to end, from Elmore James to Johnny Winter, it's non-stop blues. You'll find yourself hitting the repeat button on the CD player, so you can hear the great blues slide guitar again.

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Twelve Fingers Workin' Six Strings
Dirty
Oh my goodness...
Buster's Boogie
Don't get any better than this

Natural Boogie
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers
Manufacturer: Alligator Records
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ASIN: B0000009XA
Release Date: 1989-12-05

Tracks:

Take Five
Hawaiian Boogie
See Me In The Evening
You Can't Sit Down
Sitting At Home Alone
One More Time
Roll Your Moneymaker
Buster's Boogie
Sadie
Talk To My Baby
Goodnight Boogie

Customer Reviews:

Twelve Fingers Workin' Six Strings.......2006-06-27

Hound Dog Taylor was born polydactyly - he had six fingers on both hands. One night in a drunken impulse, he cut off the extra digit on his strumming hand with a razor blade while leaving his fretboard hand with all six. For that reason alone, Hound Dog Taylor is the baddest MF to live in Chicago since Al Capone. While "Scareface" had machine guns to fire off in the streets of The Windy City, old "Eleven-Fingers" had his raw voice, gritty guitar, punk boogie, and sad stories to dredge up from the back alley dumpsters of Chi-town.

Dirty.......2006-04-07

All I gotta say is this is some of the most gritty, raw, rockin' boogie blues I've ever heard. The guitars on this album are loud, dirty, nasty -- where can I get this tone? You can't buy it. Well, you can if you buy this album.

You got wax in your ears? I gotta cure for you: Listen with headphones on to You Can't Sit Down -- the guitar in the left channel -- that'll jar it loose.

Oh my goodness..........2004-11-29

I can't tell you how strongly I feel about this album. This is awesome! This is one of the more outstanding examples of the "boogie" blues style. My favorite tracks are "You Can't Sit Down," and "Sadie" although its a little like selecting favorites among your children...ultimately, you love them all very much. This makes a tremendous addition to any blues collection.

Buster's Boogie.......2003-09-28

What?!
I couldn't think of a title which made sense.

Anyway, "Natural Boogie" (which should probably have been spelled "natch'l") is Hound Dog Taylor's second album, and it rocks with at least as much fire as its predecessor.
Taylor and his Houserockers, drummer Ted Harvey and gritty second guitarist Brewer Phillips, lay down a superbly groovy rhythm on "See Me In The Evening", one of his very best songs, and they do a fine take on Elmore James' "Shake Your Moneymaker" (retitled "Roll Your Moneymaker" and shamelessly credited to Taylor himself!).

Other highlights include the unusually low-key "Sadie", and a great cover of another Elmore James-tune, James' Chess-single "Talk To My Baby (I can't hold out)".
Not all of the handful of instrumentals on this album manage to keep one interested for very long, and there isn't excactly a lot of musical variation here, but when it all gels, "Natural Boogie" really rocks, and the three-man band dig some deep grooves.
3 3/4 stars. Recommended.

Don't get any better than this.......2001-08-11

This was Hound Dog Taylor's second cd and it goes from 0 to 100 mph in a few seconds! This is the most electrifying ,boogie blues album made; Just doesn't get any better than this!

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This collection is so essential

Genuine Houserockin' Music II
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Manufacturer: Alligator Records
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The Alligator Records 25th Anniversary Collection

ASIN: B0000009WQ
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

I Ain't Drunk - Albert Collins
The Sweet Sound Of Rhythm And Blues - Big Twist And The Mellow Fellows
I'd Rather Go Blind - Koko Taylor
Pride And Joy - Lil' Ed And The Blues Imperials
T.V. Crazy - Little Charlie And The Nightcats
Corner Of The Blanket - Donald Kinsey And The Kinsey Report
Mojo Boogie - Johnny Winter
Boomerang - Lonnie Brooks
Tough On Me, Tough On You - Lonnie Mack
Part Time Love - James Cotton And His Big Band
The Chokin' Kind - Roy Buchanan With Delbert Mc Clinton
Pressure Cooker - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
It's My Fault, Darling - Professor Longhair
She's Out There Somewhere - Buddy Guy
Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On - Professor's Blues Review With Gloria Hardiman
The Dream - Robert Cray And Albert Collins

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This collection is so essential.......2005-05-01

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Genuine Houserockin' Music II
Alligator ALCD 102

There are five Genuine Houserockin' samplers, and each is worth owning. This one, from 1987, lasts 67-minutes, and contains four additional tracks over its cassette edition. The 16 songs were originally released between 1980 and 1987. There are no previously un-released cuts. Only five of these treasured artists remain Alligator's current roster.

With wicked finger pickin' and pluckin', Albert Collins lays down a signature tune that features a Texas shuffle. Big Twist's deep, assertive voice and the Mellow Fellows' dangerous horns create a soulful party. "I'd Rather Go Blind" is still regularly performed by Koko Taylor. On this absolutely brilliant version, her throaty vocals roar. Slide master, Lil' Ed, is better when experienced in concert. On "Pride and Joy", his antics get distorted. Little Charlie and The Nightcats have just released their ninth Alligator record. Their West Coast style blues feature Rick Estrin's classic harp and Charlie Baty's fat-toned guitar. Back in '87, being "T.V. Crazy" was their greatest concern. Witty lyrics that refer to shows such as: Love Boat and Dallas, give away the song's era. Prior to Mavis Staples, Johnny Winter was Alligator's greatest international superstar. He uses his slide guitar like an axe grinder on "Mojo Boogie". Lonnie Brooks combines many styles into his bayou music. His friendly, yet intimidating, vocals have a voodoo presence, while his guitar emits more passion than multiple rock guitarists combined. Thanks to Michael Coleman, "Part Time Love" is from the funkiest era of James Cotton's long-standing career. Long before Joss Stone butchered "The Chokin' Kind", two of America's roadhouse kingpins (Roy Buchanan and Delbert McClinton) created the definitive version. New Orleans piano master, Professor Longhair, creates a party out of personal disaster. "The Dream" is taking from Showdown. It was recently chosen, by GuitarOne Magazine, among the Top 200 greatest guitar recordings of all time. Lonnie Mack performs a soft rock ballad which is now a classic. However, the music's pace didn't have to be reduced in order to be meaningful and heartfelt. In fact, almost all the disc's songs possess these qualities which will move you as a listener. This is why this collection is so essential.

As with the other Genuine Houserockin' Music collections, this CD is an advertisement for the label. The main goal is to get you hooked on them and their artists. Detailed liner notes contain biographies on all featured artists. The downside is there are no songwriter credits or studio musicians listed. You'll experience all types of blues on this vibrant sampler. Best of all, the music genuinely is the blues, or a very closely related cousin. How is a sampler CD worthy of a perfect score? The answer is simple, and it is based entirely on quality and value.

--- Tim Holek

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Pinetop at Antones, Naturally the Best

Live at Antone's, Vol. 1
Pinetop Perkins
Manufacturer: Texas Music Group
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Release Date: 2000-08-22

Tracks:

Got My Mojo Working
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I Almost Lost My Mind
Look On Yonder's Wall
Big Fat Mama
Hoochie Coochie Man
Just A Little Bit
Caldonia
Hi Heel Sneakers
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Pinetop at Antones, Naturally the Best.......2001-07-14

I just returned from a live performance by the "living legend" of Boogie Woogie. Prior to my trip from San Antonio to Antones blues clup in Austin to See Mr Perkins perform, I gave this CD a listen. This recording truly captures the ambiance of the Austin blues club that has been the "Fort Apache" of the blues south of Chicago. Pinetops personable performance on the recording is exactly the way it is if you were standing next to the piano (as I was). "Big fat Mama" tends to stand out as my favorite boogie woogie tunes done by Mr. P, though his others such as "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" with it's halts in the progression by Pinetop instructing "Stop!, dont you turn a page" This performance was recorded when Pinetop was 86 years old. He is 88 now and still rocks those keys as if he were 20. I couldn't help but tell Mr P "Pinetop, you the Best!"

Where Blues Crosses Over: 12 Years of Ruf Records Anthology (CD/DVD COMBO)

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Where Blues Cross Over/12 Years of Ruf Records

Where Blues Crosses Over: 12 Years of Ruf Records Anthology (CD/DVD COMBO)
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Release Date: 2006-11-07

Tracks:

Workin' Overtime - Walter Trout
New Used Car - Sue Foley
White Trash Girl - Candye Kane
It Hurts A Man - Ian Parker
White Crosses - Omar & The Howlers
Where The Blues Turn Black - Larry Garner
Love Fever - Ana Popovic
Whispering Desert - Kevin Coyne
In The Beginning - Aynsley Lister
See These Tears - Canned Heat
Home - Friend'n Fellow
Live Together - Bernard Allison
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Luther Allison

Customer Reviews:

Where Blues Cross Over/12 Years of Ruf Records.......2007-02-21

If you enjoy all kinds of blues, you will love this CD. It is an eclectic mix of blues styles. I've found some new artists that I had never heard before and hope to hear more of.

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Atlantic Piano Blues Collection Has Its Highlights, But....

Atlantic Blues: Piano
Various Artists
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Yancey Special - Jimmy Yancey
Talkin' Boogie - Little Brother Montgomery
Mournful Blues - Jimmy Yancey
Salute To Pinetop - Jimmy Yancey
Shave 'Em Dry - Jimmy Yancey
Frankie & Johnny - Jack Dupree
T.B. Blues - Jack Dupree
Strollin' - Jack Dupree
Tipitina - Professor Longhair
Blue Sender - Vann 'Piano Man' Walls
After Midnight - Vann 'Piano Man' Walls
Roll 'Em Pete - Joe Turner
Fore Day Rider - Jay McShann
My Chile - Jay McShann
Cow Cow Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
Albert's Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
Low Society - Ray Charles
Hey Bartender - Floyd Dixon
Floyd's Blues - Floyd Dixon
After Hours Blues - Texas Johnny Brown
Junco Partner - Doctor John
I Don't Know - Willie Mabon

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Atlantic Piano Blues Collection Has Its Highlights, But...........2001-01-14

In his liner notes to this Atlantic Records piano blues anthology, "Living Blues" magazine editor Jim O'Neal writes that "The Atlantic team knew what they liked; they also knew what sold." It's instructive, then, that six songs from the original vinyl release -- two each by Little Brother Montgomery and Ray Charles, one each by Professor Longhair and Joe Turner -- remain off the CD reissue 11 years later. Musical archeology only sells so far.

This carelessness of sequencing (two songs each from Jimmy Yancey and Meade Lux Lewis would have made their cases) is part of why "Atlantic Blues Piano" is weakest among the label's four volume blues series despite some exceptional performances. You get some of blues' finest pianists and samples of native city styles (Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans. But the artists are caught either pre-ascension (Charles on a 1953 audition tape of Lowell Fulsom's "Low Society," Amos Milburn quarterbacking Texas Johnny Brown's jumpin' "After Hours Blues" with a superb intro) or post-peak (Yancey, heard without "Mama," heard here two months before his death with a somber "Mournful Blues" and salute to fellow piano great Pinetop Perkins).

O'Neil acknowledges this in his liner notes. "Most of the pianists represented on this volume were already well-established recording artists by the time they went into the studio for Atlantic," he wrote."...their Atlantic sessions were in one way or another intended to recapture or restore past glory."

That said, enough excellent music remains on this collection to earn partial recommendation. The New Orleans piano style is well-represented by Longhair's signature song "Tiptina," while Longhair disciple Dr. John rocks on a too-funky "Junco Partner" from 1971's "Gumbo." Turner (with ace Kansas City pianist Pete Johnson) provides some classic early R&B with 1956's "Roll 'Em Pete" while Lewis (helped by a young John Scofield on guitar) gallops through "Fore Day Rider" and the ballad "My Chile."

Tracks:

Royal Drums Of The Abatutsi/Abatutsi Girls' Songs/Lobertina - Riverside History Of Classic Jazz
Street Cries Of Charleston - Riverside History Of Classic Jazz
Shuckin' Sugar - Blind Lemon Jefferson
I'm Going To Heaven If It Takes My Life - Rev. J.M. Gates
Slidus Trombonus - Sodero's Military Band
Ragtime Oriole - Fred Van Eps
At A Georgia Camp Meeting - Cakewalk
The Cascades - Scott Joplin
Frog Legs Rag - James Scott
American Beauty Rag - Joseph Lamb
Perfect Rag - Jelly Roll Morton
Atlanta Rag - Cow Cow Davenport
Titanic Man Blues - Ma Rainey
St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
I've Got The Blues For Rampart Street - Ida Cox
Around The Clock Blues - Chippie Hill
Risin' High Water - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Big Bill Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
Froggie Moore - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
The Pearls - Jelly Roll Morton
Big Fat Ham - Jelly Roll And His Orchestra
Livery Stable Blues - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Blue Grass Blues - Original Memphis Melody Boys
Walking Babies From Home - Red Onion Jazz Babies

Tracks:

No. 29 - Wesley Wallace
The Fives - Jimmy Yancey
Blue Boogie - Cripple Clarence Lofton
Far Ago Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
South Side Shuffle - Art Hodes
Lone Star Blues - Pete Johnson
Oh, Daddy Blues (You Won't Have No Mama) - Johnny Dodds And Tiny Parham
Salty Dog #1 - Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals
Mama Stayed Out THe Whole Night Long (But Mama Didn't Do No Wrong) - Barrelhouse Five
Careless Love - State Street Ramblers
Jackass Blues - Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders
The Memphis Maybe Man - Doc Cook's Dreamland Orchestra
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me? - Muggsy Spanier's Stomp Six
Royal Garden Blues - Bix Beiderbecke And The Wolverines
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street - The Wolverines
China Boy (Go Sleep) - Charles Pierce Orchestra
Friars Point Shuffle - Jungle Kings
Up The County Blues - Wingy Manone

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Harlem Strut - James P. Johnson
Mama's Got The Blues - Fats Waller
Hock Shop Blues - Cliff Jackson
Midnight Stomp - Clarence Williams Orchestra
Rainy Nights - Duke Ellington's Washingtonians
Hop Off - Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
Sweet Lovin' Mama - Original Memphis Five
Sweet Man - California Ramblers
Stampede - Red And Miff's Stompers
Eccentric - Wild Bill Davison
Yank's Blues - Yank Lawson
Muscrat Ramble - Muggsy Spanier
Weary Blues - Kid Ory
Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Bunk Johnson
Careless Love - George Lewis
Antigua Blues - Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Dawn Club Joys - Bob Helm's Riverside Roustabouts
St. James Infirmary - Dixieland Rhythm Kings

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WOW - Pinetop is a blues piano magician!

Back on Top
Pinetop Perkins
Manufacturer: Telarc
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Five Long Years
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Just A Little Bit
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There is one word to describe the legendary Pinetop Perkins's performance on Back on Top, and that word is mellow. Mellow like a hot summer day, mellow like a bottle of amber ale, mellow like sleeping in on a Saturday morning. Not that it's boring. Oh, no. Special guests Corey Harris (guitar) and Sugar Ray Norcia (harmonica) may be younger than Perkins by several decades apiece, but they're still hard pressed to keep up with him; the man's got even more tricks up his sleeve than he's got years on his junior compatriots. Whether he's lazing through "Five Long Years" (and giving Harris plenty of room to explore a blistering guitar solo) or keeping things hopping with "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," Perkins remains at the top of his form, despite the fact that he's pushing 90. Would that we were all so active, creative, cheerful, and, above all, mellow at that age. Perkins is truly one of a kind. --Genevieve Williams

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WOW - Pinetop is a blues piano magician!.......2006-08-05

Pinetop Perkins is a renowned blues piano player, who may have been best known to many from his work with the Muddy Waters band. Of course, by the time Pinetop joined the Muddy Waters band to replace Otis Span, he already had a firmly established trademark sound and a great reputation within the blues community. Pinetop's sound is hard to confuse with anyone else's once you hear several of his recordings.

When this record was made, Pinetop was 86, and this record just blows my mind. It is one of the finest blues recordings I've heard to date; it's classy, refined, and 100% soul from a bluesman who has seen it all during his long years. Pinetop's piano work is fresh, stunningly fiery, elaborate, and just plain beautiful. From the sound and precision of his piano sound, you'd never know you're listening to a 86-yr old man. His voice certainly shows age, which only adds to his charm, but it blends perfectly with Pinetop's "conversational" blues style. But even if Pinetop's singing shows age, it's still full of energy, fire, and soul.

Telarc production team did an outstanding job recording this session - the record quality is pristine, warm, and colorful. Someone like Pinetop certainly deserves the best of sound technology, and the listeners will be pleased with the way they can hear this master.

Pinetop covers a variety of styles of this disc, from slow ballad-type blues to fire-filled boogies that make it impossible to sit still. The backing band is incredible. The drummer navigates through a variety of rhythms with both sticks and brushes with seeming ease and is always right on. The accoustic bass adds warms to the record and blends perfectly with the rhythm section. Guitars and harmonica add colorful, sometimes very subtle, touches without ever getting in the way of Pinetop's piano magic.

If you have any interest in blues, this is creme de la creme. On the mellow side, this disc offers the lovers of music some pure delight!

Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1940-1943)

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Boogie-Woogie King

Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1940-1943)
Jimmy Yancey
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ASIN: B000000J3A
Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

Bear Trap Blues
Old Quaker Blues
35th And Dearborn
I Love To Hear My Baby Call My Name
Death Letter Blues
Cryin' In My Sleep
Yancey's Bugle Call (Take 1)
Yancey's Bugle Call (Take 2)
35th And Dearborn (Take 1)
35th And Dearborn (Take 2)
Boodlin'
Yancey's Mixture
Death Letter Blues (115)
Sweet Patootie
How Long Blues
How Long Blues (Alt. Take)
The Rocks
Jimmy's Rocks
How Long Blues

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Boogie-Woogie King.......2000-12-07

Jimmy Yancey never received the kind of popular recognition that players like Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis were to achieve, but those later masters were never hesitant to acknowledge their debt to the great Yancey. Unfortunately, the quietly powerful intensity of Yancey's best playing was not always fully evident in his later work, and some of the selections on this collection do not represent Yancey at his very best. If you can only afford one Yancey album, go with Volume 1. But any Yancey is better than none at all, and this is album is certainly worthy of inclusion in the collection of anyone who loves the rollicking sound of boogie-woogie piano.

Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics

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Great Holiday CD
Look what Santa did!
More Blue Than Yule!!!
One Of The Better Christmas Blues Compilations!
Perfect for a Holiday party...........

Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000032HI
Release Date: 1991-09-10

Tracks:

Santa's Messin With The Kid - Eddie C. Campbell
Merry Christmas - Lightening Hopkins
Christmas Blues - Canned Heat
Christmas Time Blues - Roy Milton
Christmas Day - Detroit Junior
Christmas Holidays - Texas Pete Mayes & His Houserockers Blues Band
Merry Christmas Baby - Charles Brown & Band
Please Come Home For Christmas - The Insight
Jingle Bell Boogie - Big Jack Johnson
Christmas Time - Pt. I - Jimmy McCracklin
Santa Claus, Santa Claus - Louis Jordan
Santa Claus Baby - The Voices
I Want My Baby For Christmas - Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy
Santa Claus - Sonny Boy Williamson
Merry Christmas Darling - Poppa Hops & His Orchestra
Blues For Christmas - John Lee Hooker
I'll Be Home For Christmas - The Pilgrim Travelers
Happy New Year - Lightening Hopkins

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Blue Yule is without question one of the hippest collections of rhythm & blues Christmas music ever assembled. The disc boasts the likes of Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, the gospel-powered Pilgrim Travelers, and Johnny and Edgar Winter, as well as the likes of Detroit Junior ("Christmas Day") and Canned Heat ("Christmas Blues"). Lengthy even by contemporary CD standards, this 18-tracker also includes Charles Brown, Big Jack Johnson, Roy Milton, and the inscrutable Lightnin' Hopkins wishing you both "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year." But perhaps the set's greatest gift is also it's strangest--Sonny Boy Williamson's "Santa Claus," a rousing midtempo blues-rocker with a biting harp break and weird, funky lyrics about Sonny Boy going through his wife's drawers. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

Great Holiday CD.......2007-01-12

I've had this CD before. There are quite a few blues christmas albums out there. This is definately one of the better ones. Allot of older blues christmas tunes. If you love the blues, this one's for you

Look what Santa did!.......2005-12-07

Blues musicians don't record Christmas songs that often, but Rhino Records managed to find 18 Christmas blues songs for this CD. Charles Brown's definitive recording of "Merry Christmas Baby" is well known, but the rest of the tracks are pretty obscure. There are a lot of good songs here, with my personal favorites being the ones by Eddie C. Campbell and Canned Heat. If you have any interest in the blues, this is the Christmas CD to get.

More Blue Than Yule!!!.......2004-12-09

Well, let's see. As I write this review, the date is December 8th, 2004, and it's another two weeks and three days till Christmas finally arrives on the 25th. Since virtually every place in Creation started playing Christmas music on November 1st, you've had 38 days to become thoroughly SICK of the same dozen songs played over and over again from every radio station and retail establishment. Want some relief? How about an album chock-full of great Christmas BLUES music, that truly sounds more like blues that like standard, overplayed holiday ditties? Well, folks, get this CD!! It's nice and long (18 tracks) and only one or two numbers are overly familiar (and one of those, Charles Brown's immortal "Merry Christmas Baby," is usually considered the top Christmas blues recording of all time!) Standouts include Canned Heat (Their song is straightforward blues, not the novelty track they spun with ALvin and the Chipmunks), Detroit Junior with his hard-driving boogie "Christmas Day", the Pilgrim Travelers and their delightful, close-harmony doo-wop gospel classic, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," and the always-irrepresible Louis Jordan with "Santa Claus, Santa Claus." There's not a bad number in the bunch, but the pick of this holiday litter must go to Edddie Campbell and his delicious take on the Junior Wells masterpiece, here titled "Santa's Messin' With the Kid". So don't delay! Order today, there's still time to get it rushed to you by Christmas. Do it, and the best yuletide blues and r and b will be home to you, if not by Christmas, then by New Years night.

One Of The Better Christmas Blues Compilations!.......2002-05-30

I tracked this down during this Christmas season after hearing Canned Heat's "Christmas Baby" on a Heineken commercial of all places. Immediately hooked, I sent off an e-mail asking Heineken for the name of the song and to my surprise, they responded. Searching on Amazon, I found it on this CD and purchased it. What was bought for one song soon became my favorite Christmas compilation complete with Big Jack Johnson, Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson. Even the lesser known Poppa Hop and The Pilgrim Travelers make notable contributions on this disc.
A good pick for this upcoming Christmas holiday.

Perfect for a Holiday party..................2000-12-16

This really is one of the coolest, hippest Christmas Cd's you will ever buy. Absolutely perfect for a holiday party.

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