VA - Southern Bred: Texas R&B Rockers Vol. 11 (KMCD49)

Size: 165.0 MB
Time: 69:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 H.B. Barnum - Don’t Cha Know (2:04)
02 Goree Carter & His Hep Cats - Hoy Hoy (2:53)
03 Cledus Harrison & Band - Rock And Roll In The Groove (2:03)
04 Harmonica Slim & Orchestra - Drop Anchor (2:06)
05 Amos Milburn - Sax Shack Boogie (2:52)
06 Don Julian & The Meadowlarks - I Got Tore Up (2:12)
07 Charles Brown - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (2:34)
08 Jesse Belvin - Let's Make Up (2:29)
09 Viviane Greene - Get To Gettin' (2:44)
10 Joe Fritz - Real Fine Girl (2:23)
11 Gene Forrest - Dubio (2:24)
12 Young Jessie - Teacher Gimme Back (2:15)
13 Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Good Bread Alley (2:36)
14 James Wayne - Agreeable Woman (2:32)
15 Pee Wee Crayton - Poppa Stoppa (2:40)
16 Joe Fritz - Honey Honey (2:43)
17 Willie Johnson - Got The Boogie Woogie Blues (2:20)
18 Little Willie Jackson - Jackson's Boogie (2:49)
19 Goree Carter - Let's Rock (2:27)
20 Calvin Boze & His All-Stars - Choo Choo's Bringing My Baby Home (2:38)
21 Harmonica Slim & Orchestra - You Better Believe It (2:22)
22 Ernie Fields Orchestra - Knocked Out (2:04)
23 Gene Forrest & His Orchestra - Aching And Crying (2:41)
24 James Wayne - A Two Faced Man (2:52)
25 Louis Jones & His Rock 'N' Roll Band - Rock And Roll Bells (2:50)
26 The Meadowlarks - Pass The Gin (2:26)
27 Barbara Lynn - Don’t Be Cruel (2:39)
28 Jack B. Nimble & The Quicks - Nut Rocker (1:54)

With "Pass The Gin", already the eleventh volume in the "Southern Bred" series, we continue our search for Texan R&B Rockers. And there are a lot of famous and lesser known artists and their songs to discover. We are immediately treated to a heavy R & B rock song by H.B. Barnum with "Don't Cha Know". Barnum was part of The Dootones in the late 1950's. He recorded "Don't Cha Know" in 1959. We get a fine example of rock and roll from Cledus Harrison and Orchestra with "Rock And Roll In The Groove", pure Little Ricard style. Blues and harmonica man Harmonica Slim can be heard twice. You can hear his phenomenal harmonica performance for the first time on "Drop Anchor". Later he comes up again with "You Better Believe It". Another blues and rhythm & blues celebrity is Charles Brown. Here he is present with the swinging "It's A Sin To Tell A Lie". A super talented saxophonist was certainly Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. His 'Good Bread Alley' puts that talent in the foreground, although he can also be enjoyed vocally. Also twice present is Joe "Papoose" Fritz, namely with "Real Fine Girl", recorded in 1951 and the in 1954 canned swinging "Honey, Honey" with Johnny Otis in the band. A popcorn rocker, Young Jessie recorded "Teacher Gimme Back" in 1961 for the Mercury label. James Wayne was certainly not a good guest. After an altercation with a motel manager, he returned with a bottle of gasoline, which he promptly emptied. He sounds a lot more distinguished in "Agreeable Woman" and "Two Faced Man". A splendid instrumental boogie comes from saxophonist and clarinetist Little Willie Jackson with "Jackson's Boogie" recorded for Modern in 1948, which also includes a great guitar and piano solo. Good is also the title track of The Meadowlarks, which shows a sublime soft jazz guitar solo in the middle part. One track that is certainly among the most impressive is Barbara Lynn's soulful version of "Don't Be Cruel". Great job! We close with a classic undertone. The instrumental "Nut Rocker" of Jack B Nimble and The Quicks is based on Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite". The song is also known in the version of B. Bumble and The Stingers. Beyond all this beauty, volume 11 of the gorgeous "Southern Bred" series hides a host of other gems. Like all previous volumes, number 11 is an absolute must. ~Lambert Smits

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