Jimmy Liggins moved with his family to California in 1932. As a teenager he fought as a professionel boxer and at 18 he began as a driver for his elder brother Joe's band, The Honeydrippers. Jimmy started his own recording career as a singer and leader of The Drops of Joy in 1947, on Art Rupe's Specialty label. His recordings, his wild stage presence and manic delivery made him one of the most succesful bandleaders in the Jump Blues period of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1978
Styles: Early R&B;Jump Blues
Time: 65:18
Size: 152,2 MB
Art: Full (20 page booklet)
(2:55) 1. I Can't Stop It
(2:40) 2. Troubles Goodbye
(2:57) 3. Teardrop Blues
(2:37) 4. Cadillac Boogie
(2:04) 5. Move Out Baby
(2:32) 6. Careful Love
(2:31) 7. Homecoming Blues
(2:43) 8. Baby I Can't Forget You
(2:55) 9. Don't Put Me Down
(2:55) 10. Nite Life Boogie
(2:41) 11. Mississippi Boogie
(2:50) 12. Come Back Baby
(2:36) 13. Answer to Teardrop Blues
(2:55) 14. That Song Is Gone
(2:57) 15. Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man
(2:32) 16. Shuffle Shuck
(2:31) 17. The Washboard Special
(2:07) 18. That's What's Knockin' Me Out
(2:15) 19. Hep Cat Boogie
(2:40) 20. I Want My Baby for Christmas
(2:25) 21. Train Blues
(2:45) 22. Baby's Boogie
(2:31) 23. Drunk
(2:26) 24. Going Away
(2:07) 25. Come Back Home
The music of Jimmy Liggins differs greatly from his elder brother Joe's in many respects. Whereas Joe was a more schooled musician, Jimmy was harder, brasher and altogether from the rougher and cruder side of the street. This 25-track collection brings together all the notable tracks Jimmy recorded for Art Rupe's Specialty label between 1947 and 1954. The music Liggins made during his stay at the label produced several R&B hits, most notably the jump-blues perennial "Drunk" (complete with crudely overdubbed lead vocal) and the proto-rock & roll classic "Cadillac Boogie," which in turn provided the basis for Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88." -- Almusic.
Jimmy Liggins and His Drops of Joy
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Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1992
Styles: Early R&B;Jump Blues
Time: 72:53
Size: 169,5 MB
Art: Full (12 page booklet)
(2:35) 1. Bye Bye Baby Good-Bye
(2:29) 2. Lookin' for My Baby
(2:29) 3. Rough Weather Blues
(3:04) 4. Misery Blues
(2:32) 5. Give Up Little Girl
(2:49) 6. Lonely Nights Blues
(2:38) 7. Saturday Night Boogie-Woogie Man
(3:02) 8. Lover's Prayer
(5:15) 9. Now's the Time
(3:06) 10. Sincere Lover's Blues
(2:59) 11. Down and Out Blues
(3:44) 12. Unidentified Instrumental
(2:57) 13. Blues for Love
(2:22) 14. Brown Skin Baby
(2:37) 15. Stolen Love
(2:24) 16. Jumpin' and Stompin'
(2:33) 17. Low Down Blues
(2:53) 18. Cloudy Day Blues
(3:08) 19. Goin' Down With the Sun
(3:00) 20. Dark Hour Blues
(2:56) 21. Pleading My Cause
(2:26) 22. I'll Never Let You Go
(2:44) 23. Railroad Blues
(3:04) 24. Drunk
(2:57) 25. I'll Always Love You
Twenty-five more Specialty cookers, including an undubbed version of "Drunk," plenty of horn-leavened jump blues outings, and several unissued artifacts (including a rare example of the Drops of Joy getting jazzy on "Now's the Time"). -- Allmusic.
Rough Weather Blues Volume 2
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