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Wynonie Harris – Everybody Boogie!
Wynonie Harris – Everybody Boogie! Delmark DE 683 [Apollo Series] Compact Disc (1996) Apollo started in NYC, February 1944, but by August ’45 they were also recording on the west coast. Everybody Boogie! begins with two sides featuring tenor sax giant Illinois Jacquet & his All Stars (with Bill Doggett & Charles Mingus), making it…
Blu Lu Barker / Wee Bea Booze / Baby Dee – Don’t You Feel My Leg
Blu Lu Barker / Wee Bea Booze / Baby Dee – Don’t You Feel My Leg Delmark DE 684 (1996) – Apollo Series Compact Disc Subtitled “Apollo’s Lady Blues Singers,” this Don’t You Feel My Leg has nine numbers (three previously unissued) by Blue Lu Barker, five from Wea Bea Booze, and four by Baby…
Willie Bryant – Blues Around The Clock
Willie Bryant – Blues Around The Clock Delmark DE 685 (1996) – Apollo Series Compact Disc Willie Bryant, the mayor of Harlem, led the pit band at the Apollo Theatre in the 30s, and was emcee in the 40s when he recorded ten songs (mostly blues vocals) for Apollo. The first session, from October 15,…
Brewer Phillips – Homebrew
Brewer Phillips – Homebrew Delmark DE 686 Compact Disc (1996) From the legendary trio Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, Brewer Phillips’ Homebrew is proof that heartfelt good time blues is alive and well in the 90’s. With Aaron Moore and Huckleberry Hound.
Johnny B. Moore – Live At Blue Chicago
Johnny B. Moore – Live At Blue Chicago Delmark DE 688 (1996) Compact Disc with Karen Carroll, Willie Kent, and Melvina Allen Johnny B. Moore is steeped in the full and rich legacy of a delta bluesman; the biting aggression of Muddy Waters, the powerful attacks reminiscent of Howlin’ Wolf, slide guitar techniques such as…
Lacy Gibson – Crying For My Baby
Lacy Gibson – Crying For My Baby Delmark DE 689 (1996) – Ralph Bass Series Compact Disc In 1977 at the culmination of a brilliant career, Ralph Bass recorded a series of ten very brief and informal sessions – a survey of the then-lesser-known talent on the Chicago blues scene. Bass had launched the careers…
Women Of Blue Chicago
Women Of Blue Chicago Delmark DD 690 (1996) Compact Disc Bonnie Lee – Karen Carroll – Shirley Johnson – Lynne Jordan – Big Time Sarah – Katherine Davis Blue Chicago is the name of two of the finest blues clubs in Chicago. With locations at 536 and 736 N.Clark, Blue Chicago has been presenting Chicago’s…
Big Time Sarah and the BTS Express – Blues In The Year One-D-One
Big Time Sarah and the BTS Express – Blues In The Year One-D-One Delmark DE 692 (1996) Compact Disc Blues in the Year One-D-One picks up where Big Time Sarah’s debut CD on Delmark, Lay It On’Em Girls (Delmark 659) left off — it’s another example of what you’d hear if you happened to be…
Dave Specter – Left Turn On Blue
Dave Specter – Left Turn On Blue Delmark DE 693 (1996) Compact Disc The Chicago guitarist’s Left Turn On Blue takes him right to the intersection of blues and jazz; specifically, Specter crosses the line between modern blues and the vintage jazz of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, returning to a musical philosophy in which…
Jimmy Burns – Leaving Here Walking
Jimmy Burns – Leaving Here Walking Delmark DE 694 (1996) Compact Disc Jimmy Burns, Born in 1943 near the Delta town of Dublin, Mississippi, embodies that increasingly rare combination of blues roots deep enough to tap into ‘the real thing’, while still possessing the youth and vitality to present his music with plenty of life…