Big Town Playboys - Now Appearing

Album: Now Appearing
Size: 88,0 MB
Time: 37:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1990
Styles: R&B
Art: Full

1. Hungry Man (3:19)
2. Who Showed My Baby How To Love (2:10)
3. Baby Please (3:29)
4. Drinking Beer (3:29)
5. You Must Be Foolin' (2:51)
6. In The Middle Of The Night (3:48)
7. I'm So Satisfied (2:55)
8. The Wobble (3:31)
9. The Blues Come Rollin' In (2:59)
10. Doopin' (3:22)
11. That Mellow Saxophone (3:10)
12. What A Shame (2:36)

First formed in 1984, bass player Ian Jennings is the sole surviving founder member of The Big Town Playboys but those that play in the band look on it rather like a private club; people come in, stay for a bit, go and come back again. This obviously makes for an interesting line-up at any gig, whether in the UK or abroad. Their songs of choice are derived from the black America of the 1950s. Rockabilly and swing music were influences, but nobody was experimenting with west coast rhythm and blues; Amos Milburn, Willie Littlefield, Willie Egans – and that's where the Big Town Playboys found their niche.

Stylistically it’s a more saxophone and piano based feel with bigger line-ups and it is more dance oriented than Chicago blues. The contagious dance grooves, the boogie piano, the sax riffs, the overdriven guitar solos and the wailing blues of the vocalists are all part of the reason for this band’s obsession with the music known as Rhythm and Blues. By the end of the 1990s the band had visited the USA three times, including a residency at Mick Fleetwood's club in Los Angeles, a tour of the West coast, a TV show and a trip to New York.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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