Roosevelt Sykes - Raining In My Heart

Size: 96,9 MB
Time: 57:07
File: MP3 @ 224K/s
Released: 1987/2000
Styles: Chicago Blues, Piano Blues
Art: Full

01. Fine And Brown (2:59)
02. Lucky Blues (2:45)
03. Raining In My Heart (3:05)
04. Heavy Heart (2:41)
05. 4:00 Blues (3:08)
06. Too Hot To Handle (Hot Boogie) (2:51)
07. Tell Me True (3:13)
08. Ruthie Lee (2:35)
09. Something Like That (3:03)
10. Security Blues (2:50)
11. Boogie Sykes (2:34)
12. Listen To My Song (She's The One For Me) (2:25)
13. Toy Piano Blues (3:04)
14. Been Through The Mill (2:53)
15. Walkin' This Boogie (2:29)
16. Come Back Baby (2:39)
17. 44 Blues (3:11)
18. 4:00 Blues (2:59)
19. Fine And Brown (2:56)
20. Listen To My Song (She's The One For Me) (2:39)

This fine collection of Sykes's early-'50s sides for Chicago's United Records was reissued on Delmark in 2000. It contains some of the pianist's finest work with his jumping combo, the Honeydrippers (with unusual augmentation from violinist Remo Biondi on one 1952 date). "Toy Piano Blues" finds Sykes switching over to celeste, but "Too Hot to Handle," "Walking the Boogie," and "Fine and Brown" are in the customary Sykes mode. /Allmusic.

Roosevelt Sykes was a primary creator of the modern blues piano style, a tremendous singer/songwriter and master entertainer. Sykes recorded his first rercord, "44 Blues", for Okeh in 1929. Its success elevated Sykes' popularity and he recorded continuously until 1954, once by four different record companies under four different names. Sykes is also best remembered for his songs "Nighttime Is The Right Time" and "Driving Wheel". Raining In My Heart is the first album to contain all the songs Sykes recorded for the United label.

Raining In My Heart

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