Amos Milburn - The Best Of The Aladdin Years 1946-57

Amos Milburn was one of the pioneers of piano-based R&B to emerge from Texas in the post-war years to become one of the artists who helped frame the template for rock 'n' roll, along the way enjoying a run of memorable hits from 1947 through into the mid-'50s. He developed from his beginnings as a boogie-woogie pianist to become a jump blues bandleader, scoring his first hit with "Chicken Shack Boogie", and after that helped the Los Angeles-based Aladdin label to become a major force, with his run of hits including his specialist strand of rocking booze-related hits like "Bad Bad Whiskey", "Thinking And Drinking", "Let Me Go Home Whiskey", "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" and "Good Good Whiskey".

This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises nearly half of the 106 A & B sides he released on Aladdin, and naturally includes all of his 19 Billboard R&B chart hits, the majority of his A sides and selected B sides. It provides a hugely entertaining showcase for his talents as a vocalist, pianist, songwriter and bandleader, with boogie-woogie and blues, hot R&B, and proto rock 'n' roll during the '50s as he competed with the wave of new artists who overtook those who had laid the groundwork. /Amazon

Album: The Best Of The Aladdin Years 1946-57 - CD 1
Year: 2016
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:28
Size: 168,1 MB
Styles: R&B, piano blues
Scans: Full

1. After Midnight (2:58)
2. My Baby's Booging (2:29)
3. Down The Road A Piece (2:59)
4. Operation Blues (2:36)
5. Money Hustlin' Woman (2:33)
6. Blues At Sundown (2:26)
7. Sad And Blue (3:06)
8. Train Time Blues (3:07)
9. Pool Playing Blues (2:41)
10. It Took A Long, Long Time (2:38)
11. Chicken Shack Boogie (2:50)
12. Bewildered (2:58)
13. A & M Blues (2:55)
14. Jitterbug Fashion Parade (2:28)
15. Hold Me Baby (2:50)
16. In The Middle Of The Night (2:41)
17. Rooming House Boogie (2:45)
18. Empty Arms Blues (2:57)
19. Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby (2:54)
20. Real Pretty Mama Blues (2:20)
21. Drifting Blues (2:52)
22. Tell Me How Long Has The Train Been Gone (2:53)
23. Johnson Rag (2:36)
24. Walkin' Blues (3:00)
25. Square Dance Boogie (2:44)
26. Birmingham Bounce (3:00)

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Album: The Best Of The Aladdin Years 1946-57 - CD 2
Year: 2016
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:57
Size: 169,2 MB
Styles: R&B, piano blues
Scans: Full

1. Two Years Of Torture (3:02)
2. Sax Shack Boogie (2:50)
3. Bad Bad Whiskey (2:59)
4. I'm Going To Tell My Mama (2:50)
5. Tears, Tears, Tears (2:46)
6. Let's Rock A While (2:38)
7. That Was Your Last Mistake (2:55)
8. Just One More Drink (2:54)
9. Ain't Nothin' Shaking (2:55)
10. Trouble In Mind (2:35)
11. Thinkin' And Drinkin' (2:24)
12. Flying Home (2:54)
13. Put Something In My Hand (2:58)
14. Roll Mr. Jelly (2:40)
15. Greyhound (3:06)
16. Let Me Go Home Whiskey (2:48)
17. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (2:55)
18. Let's Have A Party (2:31)
19. Good, Good Whiskey (3:02)
20. Milk And Water (3:10)
21. Baby, Baby All The Time (3:08)
22. Vicious, Vicious Vodka (2:56)
23. I Done Done It (2:33)
24. All Is Well (2:33)
25. House Party (2:26)
26. Soft Pillow (2:17)

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