Big Town Playboys - 2 albums: Roll The Dice / Hip Joint

First formed in 1984, bass player Ian Jennings is the sole surviving founder member of The Big Town Playboys: but those that play in the band look on it rather like a private club; people come in, stay for a bit, go and come back again. This obviously makes for an interesting line-up at any gig, whether in the UK or abroad.

Their songs of choice are derived from the black America of the 1950s. Rockabilly and swing music were influences, but nobody was experimenting with west coast rhythm and blues; Amos Milburn, Willie Littlefield, Willie Egans – and that's where the Big Town Playboys found their niche. Stylistically it’s a more saxophone and piano based feel with bigger line-ups and it is more dance oriented than Chicago blues. The contagious dance grooves, the boogie piano, the sax riffs, the overdriven guitar solos and the wailing blues of the vocalists are all part of the reason for this band’s obsession with the music known as Rhythm and Blues.

Album: Roll The Dice
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:43
Size: 97.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Sweet Lovin Mama
[3:03] 2. Yield Not
[2:18] 3. Hit Git & Split
[4:42] 4. Down In The Hole
[3:23] 5. Merry Way
[3:52] 6. Look Out Mabel
[3:15] 7. Daddy Rollin' Stone
[1:56] 8. Hot Dog
[2:43] 9. Sweet Baby Of Mine
[3:24] 10. Not For Me
[2:52] 11. Up The Line
[1:34] 12. Come To Love
[2:52] 13. One Monkey
[3:08] 14. Big Town

Roll The Dice

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Album: Hip Joint
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 41:04
Size: 94.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Ain't No Big Deal On You
[3:04] 2. When It Rains It Pours
[4:10] 3. Shake Your Hips
[4:17] 4. Glamour Girl
[2:51] 5. I Don't Care Who Knows
[3:26] 6. Kiddio
[4:05] 7. Forever True
[4:16] 8. Rock Me Again
[3:25] 9. Girls All Over The World
[4:03] 10. My Heart Is Mended
[3:53] 11. No Place To Go

Hip Joint

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