Time: 57:47
File: FLAC
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front & Back
01. Looking For A Man (2:44)
02. Other Lips, Other Arms (2:40)
03. Heart To Heart (3:00)
04. The Deacon Moves In (2:48)
05. Don't Make A Fool Out Of Me (2:51)
06. I'm A Bad, Bad Gilr (2:56)
07. Cryin' And Singin' The Blues (2:49)
08. Tell Him That I Need Him So (2:22)
09. Ring-A-Ding-Doo (2:55)
10. I'll Be There (3:03)
11. The Crying Blues (3:04)
12. Summertime (3:13)
13. Hold Me (3:08)
14. Better Beware (2:38)
15. Somebody New (3:11)
16. Bring My Lovin' Back To Me (2:50)
17. Aged And Mellow (2:46)
18. I Paid My Dues (2:59)
19. Ramblin' Blues (2:33)
20. The Storm (3:07)
Listeners looking for an overview of Little Esther's Federal period will find it on the 2005 Collectibles release Best of Little Esther. But for a slightly more in-depth look there are two separate compilations on Classics R&B, 2003's 1951-1952 and 2005's 1952-1953. Both find Esther in her jump blues/slow-burn belter phase, before she changed her name to Esther Phillips and explored genres like country-blues and soul. Though neither collection includes her earlier work for Savoy (for whom she recorded some hit singles), stuff like the Johnny Otis collaborations "Crying Blues" and "Hold Me" (both on 1951) or 1952's barreling "Hollerin' and Screamin'" and "Saturday Night Daddy" and the duet with Little Willie, "Turn the Lamps Down Low," show Esther in fun, fiery form. ~Johnny Loftus
The Chronological Little Esther 1951-1952
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