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Jack McVea – McVoutie’s Central Avenue Blues
Jack McVea – McVoutie’s Central Avenue Blues Delmark DE 756 (2002) – Apollo Series Compact Disc With Lucky Thompson, Wild Bill Moore, Wynonie Harris, Duke Henderson, Cee Pee Johnson, Rabon Tarrant, Teddy Buckner, Bob Mosley, 1945. Jack McVea’s nickname was bestowed by Slim Gaillard at his recording session with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. On…
Shirley Johnson – Killer Diller
Shirley Johnson – Killer Diller Delmark DE 757 (2002) Compact Disc With Robert Ward, John Primer, Johnny B. Moore, Maurice John Vaughn. Shirley Johnson is an outstanding vocalist who finds herself in the vanguard of a remarkable revival of the Chicago female blues singer. For many years she has been an able ambassador, here and…
Robert McCoy – Bye Bye Baby
Robert McCoy – Bye Bye Baby Delmark DE 759 (2002) Compact Disc Alabama barrelhouse blues pianist Robert McCoy (born in Aliceville in 1908) had two rare LPs in the early ’60s on the Vulcan label. Delmark has acquired the masters and is now re-issuing the material on CD for the first time with many previously…
On The Battlefield… Great Gospel Quartets
On The Battlefield… Great Gospel Quartets Delmark DE 760 (2002) – United Series Compact Disc United’s most popular gospel artists included Robert Anderson (Working The Road – The Golden Age of Chicago Gospel Delmark 702), Staple Singers, and The Caravans but recorded many other lesser-known, talented groups. By 1952, a harder edged, more dramatic “shout”…
The Moroccos – Bang Goes My Heart [And Other Great Groups On United]
The Moroccos – Bang Goes My Heart [And Other Great Groups On United] Delmark DE 761 (2002) – United Series Compact Disc By 1954 vocal ensembles were grabbing an ever-larger share of the African-American record-buying dollars. United Records had wisely entered the doowop market in 1953, and by 1955 could be considered competitive in the…
Memphis Slim – The Come Back
Memphis Slim – The Come Back Delmark DE 762 (2002) – United Series Compact Disc featuring Matt “Guitar” Murphy Memphis Slim’s United recordings deserve special acknowledgment because, to put it bluntly, they’re his best. Memphis Slim U.S.A. (Delmark 710) presented the last two of his four United sessions and now The Come Back brings to…
Mad Dog Lester Davenport – I Smell A Rat
Mad Dog Lester Davenport – I Smell A Rat Delmark DE 763 (2002) Compact Disc I Smell A Rat is the product of a friendship that developed more than three decades ago between two men who, although they grew up near the same Mississippi Delta town of Tchula, never met until they began living in…
Frank Morey – The Delmark Sessions
Frank Morey – The Delmark Sessions Delmark DE 764 (2002) Compact Disc It’s Wolf and Waits, Louie and Leonard (Cohen, that is). It’s thumping bass that could be behind Charlie Feathers or J.B. Lenoir. It’s a trap set from a burlesque theater and it’s the kid who wanted to sound like Beiderbecke. It’s Route 66…
