Leroy 'Baby Face' Foster - Chronological 1948-1952

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 47:20
Size: 108,8 MB
Covers: Full

Personel:
Leroy Foster - vocals & guitar (1-4,13-16), drums (5-12)
Muddy Waters - guitar (1,2,5-12)
Snooky Pryor - harmonica (2,3)
Jimmy Rogers - guitar (some tracks)
Robert Lockwood Jr - guitar (13-16)
Sunnyland Slim - piano (13-16)
Little Walter - harmonica (6-10), guitar (5,11,12), vocals (5,8,9,11,12)

(2:28) 1. Leroy Foster & Muddy Waters - Locked Out Boogie
(2:50) 2. Leroy Foster & Muddy Waters - Shady Grove Blues
(3:16) 3. Baby Face Leroy Trio - My Head Can't Rest Anymore
(3:09) 4. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Take a Little Walk with Me
(2:49) 5. Little Walter Trio - Bad Actin' Woman
(2:55) 6. Little Walter Trio - I Just Keep Loving Her
(2:41) 7. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Boll Weevil
(2:56) 8. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 1
(2:48) 9. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' and Tumblin', Pt. 2
(2:47) 10. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Red Headed Woman
(3:17) 11. Little Walter Trio - Muskadine Blues (Talk a Walk with Me)
(2:54) 12. Little Walter Trio - Moonshine Blues (Moonshine Baby)
(3:05) 13. Baby Face and Sunnyland Slim Trio - Pet Rabbit
(3:02) 14. Baby Face and Sunnyland Slim Trio - Louella
(3:12) 15. Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours at Midnight
(3:05) 16. Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me

Leroy Baby Face Foster's chronological recordings overlap and intersect nicely with those made by Muddy Waters during the late '40s and early '50s. Both men hailed from rural Mississippi. Foster made it to Chicago in 1945, two years after Muddy. Foster shows up on some of Muddy's Aristocrat recordings from 1948 and 1949. Muddy in turn participated in six of the nine sessions reissued here. While Muddy stuck with Aristocrat beyond the point in 1950 when it turned into Chess Records, Foster's recorded musical output landed on the Aristocrat, J.O.B., Regal, and Parkway labels. This interesting compilation of rare blues performances follows Leroy Foster's brief and sporadic career from November 1948 to 1952. Foster had a casual way of singing the blues, often busting out with gruff words of encouragement for his fellow musicians. These included, in addition to the equally outspoken Muddy Waters, harmonica men Snooky Pryor and Little Walter, guitarists Jimmy Rogers and Robert Jr. Lockwood, and pianist Sunnyland Slim. Foster also periodically switched from guitar to the drums. Foster made his own haunting, Blind Willie Johnson-potent recording of "Rollin' and Tumblin'" with Muddy and Little Walter in January 1950, one month before Muddy followed suit with his own righteous rendition. This amazing compilation is packed with the sort of undiluted Mississippi/Chicago blues that'll cut right through you like a hot knife through a butter lamb. -- Allmusic.

Chronological 1948-1952

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