Various Artists - Swamp Pop By The Bayou: Troubles, Tears & Trains

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2016
Styles: R&B
Time: 67:12
Size: 157,8 MB
Covers: Full (16 page booklet)

(2:11) 1 Roy Perkins & The Clippers - Train to Nowhere
(2:59) 2 Dale Houston - Won't You Believe Me
(2:06) 3 Phil Cay - Blue Eyes
(2:19) 4 John Fred - You Know You Made Me Cry
(2:12) 5 King Savoy & The Rhythm Rockers - I Beg of You
(2:31) 6 Gene Dunlap & the Jokers - Problems on My Mind
(2:25) 7 Floyd Brown - What I Want
(2:10) 8 Frankie Lowery - Baby What Can I Do
(2:48) 9 Unknown Rock'n'Roll Band - The Secret of Love Is in My Heart
(2:36) 10 The Boogie Kings - Please Forgive Me
(2:42) 11 Larry Hart - Slim Needle
(2:16) 12 Buck Rogers - Crazy Baby
(2:15) 13 The Boogie Kings - Troubles, Troubles (Troubles on My Mind)
(2:19) 14 Dale Houston - (Big Bad) City Police
(2:47) 15 Everett Daigle - High School Sweethearts
(2:44) 16 Al "Puddler" Harris - Wait a Minute
(2:01) 17 Wiley Jeffers - Lonely, Lonely Heart
(2:13) 18 Johnny Preston - Satan in Satin
(2:00) 19 Jimmy Trotter - Hungry and Thirsty
(2:49) 20 Forest Rye - My Sweet Baby's Gone
(2:31) 21 Buck Rogers - I Can't Live Alone
(2:28) 22 Roy Perkins - Sweet Lilly
(2:24) 23 Buddy Lorton - Time
(2:36) 24 Warren Storm - I'm a Fool to Care
(2:20) 25 Johnny Jano - Shed So Many Tears
(2:22) 26 Billy Lewis - The Memories
(2:10) 27 Jay Richards - Sneaking Home
(1:44) 28 John Fred & the Playboys - Shirley

Volume 13 of Ace's seemingly endless series of R&B, soul, blues, and rock & roll culled from Louisiana and East Texas indies in the '50s and '60s; this is the second specializing in swamp pop. In some ways it bests its predecessor, because compiler/producer Ian Saddler keeps expanding his purview beyond the vaults of J.D. Miller and Huey P. Meaux. Troubles, Tears & Trains also has sides recorded by Joe Ruffino, Murray Nash, Pappy Daily, Eddie Shuler, and other record men, and it also has unreleased sides initially recorded for Mercury, which means this digs very deep into obscure corners of bayou rock & roll. Some of these names are regional stars -- Warren Storm, who had a double-disc compilation released on Ace in 2015, John Fred, Johnny Preston, Dale Houston, and Roy Perkins -- but most of these names are obscure (and one is even unknown), but the selling point is not the acts themselves, but the sound. This stuff simply smokes: these bands kick out a Fats Domino-inspired beat, sometimes sticking pretty close to the rhumba boogie, sometimes turning up the heat and rocking with a sense of abandon. Occasionally, these cuts have a clever hook that help separate the 45 from the pack -- Preston's "Satan in Satin," Houston's "(Big Bad) City Police" -- but even if the side does nothing more than cook, it's still a gas. -- Allmusic.

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