Robert McCoy - Bye Bye Baby

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2002
Styles: Piano Blues
Time: 68:39
Size: 158,2 MB
Covers: Full

(3:03) 1. Bye Bye Baby
(2:55) 2. Let's Get Together
(4:01) 3. Pratt City Special
(2:57) 4. Goin' Down Slow
(2:43) 5. Church Bell Blues
(2:56) 6. Gone Mother Blues
(2:43) 7. Jump Steady Blues
(2:30) 8. Straight Alky Blues
(4:00) 9. Washington Heights
(2:03) 10. Rockin' With Red
(4:45) 11. Louise Louise Blues
(6:02) 12. You Got to Reap What You Sow
(4:31) 13. Call the Wagon
(2:42) 14. All in All Baby
(2:24) 15. There'll Be Some Changes Made
(3:32) 16. Lonesome and Blue
(2:12) 17. Mr. Freddie Blues
(3:05) 18. Love Hides All Faults
(2:22) 19. Sent for You Yesterday
(3:54) 20. Almighty Rambling
(3:08) 21. Let's Go Get Stoned

Much of this 2002 release focuses on some 1962 and 1963 sessions that Birmingham, AL, resident Patrick Cather produced for the late Robert McCoy, a gifted but obscure singer/barrelhouse pianist with a Leroy Carr-ish approach. Those sessions resulted in two ultra-rare LPs: Barrelhouse Blues and Blues and Boogie Classics, both of which Cather released on his own Vulcan label. Only about 400 copies of Barrelhouse Blues were pressed, and Blues and Boogie Classics only sold about 100 copies. Why would Delmark's Bob Koester reissue recordings that sold so little and devote an entire CD to an artist whom only the most knowledgeable blues collectors are aware of? It comes down to two things: Koester's honest-to-God love of the music and the fact that the late McCoy, although far from a star, had a lot of talent. Cather put out a quality product -- not a commercially successful product, but a quality product nonetheless. Although McCoy's Vulcan sessions are the CD's main focus, Delmark also provides several bonus tracks (which include a few 1958 rarities and some previously unreleased mid-'60s duets with drummer Clarence Curry). The sound quality of the bonus tracks isn't very good, but since McCoy (who died in 1977) only recorded sporadically, collectors will welcome them with open arms. And all things considered, Bye Bye Baby paints an attractive picture of the underexposed Alabama bluesman. -- Allmusic.

Bye Bye Baby
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