Joe Hill Louis with Walter Horton & Mose Vinson - The Be-Bop Boy

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1992
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:08
Size: 171,3 MB
Art: Full (24 page booklet)

(3:48) 1. Joe Hill Louis - She Treats Me Mean and Evil
(2:07) 2. Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae
(2:58) 3. Joe Hill Louis - Sweetest Gal in Town
(3:03) 4. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me
(3:04) 5. Joe Hill Louis - Got Me a New Woman
(3:04) 6. Joe Hill Louis - I'm a Poor Boy
(3:04) 7. Big Walter Horton - In the Mood
(3:06) 8. Big Walter Horton - West Winds Are Blowing
(2:39) 9. Big Walter Horton - Little Walter's Boogie
(2:45) 10. Big Walter Horton - We All Got to Go (Sometime)
(2:41) 11. Joe Hill Louis - We All Got to Go (Sometime)
(2:34) 12. Big Walter Horton - Little Walter's Boogie
(2:56) 13. Joe Hill Louis - Tiger Man
(2:48) 14. Mose Vinson - 44 Blues
(2:21) 15. Mose Vinson - My Love Has Gone
(2:35) 16. Mose Vinson - Mistreatin' Boogie
(2:45) 17. Mose Vinson - My Love Has Gone
(2:36) 18. Mose Vinson - Worry You Off My Mind
(2:49) 19. Mose Vinson - Reap What You Sow
(2:57) 20. Big Walter Horton - Walter's Instrumental
(2:34) 21. Joe Hill Louis - Hydramatic Woman
(3:15) 22. Joe Hill Louis - Tiger Man
(3:14) 23. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me
(3:04) 24. Joe Hill Louis - She Comes to See Me Sometime
(2:43) 25. Joe Hill Louis - We All Got to Go (Sometime)
(2:25) 26. Joe Hill Louis - Shine Boy

Joe Hill Louis was a raw, chaotic, one-man band blues of the highest order. Almost all of his recordings he made for Sam Phillips in Memphis in the early '50s. Also included are Sun recordings with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson that feature Joe Louis Hill. In early 1950 Hill had come to the attention of sound-engineer Sam Phillips. Phillips was attempting to start his own record label and he had partnered up with Memphis radio DJ Dewey Phillips. They recorded at least 16 sessions between 1950 and 1953, leasing the best tracks to the Bihari brothers in Los Angeles. In 1952 Phillips also send masters to Chess in Chicago. These were all fine, rocking tracks full of disorted guitar, blazing harmonica and clattering drums in a unique style. Early 1953 Sam Phillips got his Sun label up & running and he issued a Joe Hill Louis 45. Despite recording a wealth of fine material with Louis including a fantastic final session in November of '52 that saw Louis backed by Big Walter Horton on harmonica and Mose Vinson on piano, he would see no more releases on Sun Records. Lots of great performances stayed in the vaults until the 1980's when Charley released them in the Sun Blues Box.

The Be-Bop Boy
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