Junior Parker - Junior's Blues: The Duke Recordings Volume 1

Album: Junior's Blues: The Duke Recordings Vol. 1
Size: 109,5 MB
Time: 46:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Blues/R&B
Art: Front, tray

1. I Wanna Ramble (2:52)
2. Mother-In-Law Blues (2:33)
3. Next Time You See Me (2:38)
4. That's All Right (2:57)
5. Sitting And Thinking (2:41)
6. Sweet Home Chicago (2:33)
7. Sometimes (2:25)
8. Stand By Me (2:35)
9. Driving Wheel (2:38)
10. Seven Days (2:24)
11. In The Dark (2:38)
12. Someone Somewhere (2:49)
13. It's A Pity (2:51)
14. Yonder's Wall (2:18)
15. Strange Things Happening (2:55)
16. The Things I Used To Do (2:27)
17. Jivin' Woman (1:59)
18. Cryin' For My Baby (2:29)

After the non-success of "Mystery Train" on the R&B charts, Parker jumped contract and signed with Don Robey's Houston-based Duke Records. With his smooth vocal approach, Parker clearly envisioned himself as the next Roy or Charles Brown. But from the evidence of these early sides, it's clear that Robey wanted to piggyback off the success of the Sun sound. Tracks like "I Wanna Ramble" were virtual carbon copies of the "Feelin' Good" riff and Parker's recasting of old favorites like Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago," Roosevelt Sykes's "Driving Wheel," "Yonder's Wall" and "Mother-In-Law Blues," were all clearly in the down-home vein that Parker felt was too "old timey" for an up-to-date musician/vocalist of his caliber.

His first big hit for the label, the horn-driven "Next Time You See Me" is here with others in the same vein, but this otherwise excellent collection is curiously missing "Pretty Baby," Parker's version of Howlin' Wolf's "Riding in the Moonlight," certainly one of his best. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

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