VA - Rhythm & Western Vol. 4: I Hang My Head And Cry (KMCD141)

Size: 161.3 MB
Time: 69:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01 Varetta Dillard - A Little Bitty Tear (2:07)
02 Little Willie John - Sleep (2:54)
03 Adam Wade - The Writing On The Wall (2:24)
04 The Marigolds - Love You-Love You-Love You (2:56)
05 The Nite Riders Present Melvin Smith - Ugly George (2:20)
06 Nappy Brown - Love Locks (2:48)
07 Jimmy Wilson - Yanky Danky Doodle (2:11)
08 Lula Reed - Rock Love (2:10)
09 Big Al Downing - Just Around The Corner (2:50)
10 The Shields - Thats The Way Its Gonna Be (2:03)
11 King Curtis - Beautiful Brown Eyes (2:06)
12 Sarah Vaughan - True Believer (2:32)
13 Ernestine Anderson - Come On, Baby Lets Go (2:10)
14 Arthur Alexander - I Hang My Head And Cry (2:35)
15 Bobby Day - Aint Gonna Cry No More (2:13)
16 Angel Face - I Cant Look Back (2:19)
17 Mickey & Sylvia - To The Valley (2:01)
18 Joe Gaines - I Wanna Go Back Home (2:09)
19 Oscar Woods (Lone Wolf) - Dont Sell It - Dont Give It Away (2:35)
20 Piney Brown - Ooh You Bring Out The Wolf In Me (2:20)
21 Travis Ricks - No Need To Cry (2:23)
22 Jimmie Rodgers With Louis Armstrong & Lil Hardin - Blue Yodel No 9 (2:41)
23 Little Willie John - Big Blue Diamonds (2:49)
24 Buster Brown - Gonna Love My Baby (3:11)
25 Fats Domino - Ida Jane (2:15)
26 Big Maybelle - Cold Cold Heart (3:14)
27 Brook Benton - Hotel Happiness (2:44)
28 Blind Willie McTell - Hillbilly Willies Blues (2:43)

Bringing together another set of songs featuring Black artists performing country & western music that either sound like the “real deal” or deemed by the so-called tastemakers back in the day as rhythm & blues due to Black musicians associated with the genre, or others presented here as novelty songs but with plenty of country flavour. Presenting the new compilation of this current series is The Mojo Man, who prises up records from as far back as the 1930s and right up to the 1960s, meaning there’s the bonus of a history lesson to accompany the tasty selection of tracks. First up is a song closer to the present than the thirties period mentioned with the 1960 release ‘A Little Bitty Tear’ from Varetta Dillard. The next few songs continue to walk through the sixties with sweeping strings of ‘Sleep’ performed by Little Willie John, the pop influences of the time featured throughout Adam Wade’s ‘The Writing On The Wall’, to something more in line with country music and (thankfully) rougher in its presentation is The Nite Riders present Melvin Smith and song ‘Ugly George’. The rhythm & blues comes in the form of excellent tracks as ‘Love Locks’ by Nappy Brown, harmony vocals from The Shields and ‘That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be’, to memorable for a variety of reasons ‘Ooh You Bring Out The Wolf In Me’ performed by Piney Brown. That crossover of rhythm & blues with country & western and deemed as such when it came to Black musicians performing country, is best demonstrated by Brook Benton and song ‘Hotel Happiness’ where the smoother commercial pop market of the 60s also played a part here. Another volume and another album full of variety where rhythm & blues remains a dominant force but with shades of country, 60s pop, and rock ‘n’ roll all come together to offer an altogether different series that is ‘Rhythm & Western Volume 4: I Hang My Head And Cry’.

Rhythm & Western Vol. 4: I Hang My Head And Cry (KMCD141)

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