King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree - Blues At Montreux

Album: Blues At Montreux
Size: 88,5 MB
Time: 38:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1973
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Art: Front, tray

1. Junker's Blues (8:10)
2. Sneaky Pete (6:16)
3. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (5:29)
4. Get With It (3:33)
5. Poor Boy Blues (9:30)
6. I'm Having Fun (5:21)

This live set from the 1971 Montreux Jazz Festival was co-led by tenor saxophonist King Curtis (who tragically would be killed three months later) and veteran blues pianist/vocalist Champion Jack Dupree. With guitarist Cornell Dupree (in excellent form), bassist Jerry Jemmott and drummer Oliver Jackson laying down the foundation, Curtis and Dupree find a great deal of common musical ground. Dupree has quite a few witty vocals (particularly the near-classic "Junker's Blues") while taking choruses of irregular length that keep his sidemen continually guessing. Curtis' distinctive tenor is also heard from, making one truly regret that this was his final recording. /Scott Yanow, AllMusic

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Little Willie Littlefield & Champion Jack Dupree - Good Rockin' Blues & Boogie: Live With The Big Town Playboys 1986 & 1989

Size: 180.5 MB
Time: 77:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Piano Blues, Rockin' Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Round About Midnight (2:33)
02. Look So Fine (3:58)
03. Undecided Boogie (Solo) (2:50)
04. Cry Over You (2:49)
05. Good Rockin' Tonight (4:17)
06. Going Down Slow (5:34)
07. Chicken Shack Boogie (Solo) (2:45)
08. Water In My Ear (3:54)
09. Cheerful Baby (3:29)
10. Woke Up This Morning (4:11)
11. I Like It (2:50)
12. Honky Tonk Train (4:41)
13. Kansas City (3:48)
14. Let The Good Times Roll (3:25)
15. Shake Rattle & Roll (6:35)
16. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (7:00)
17. Rock N Roll All Night Long (7:31)
18. Stormy Monday (Solo) (4:56)

CD 2:
01. Roomin' House Boogie (3:55)
02. Moon Is Rising (2:23)
03. Good Rockin' Tonight (1986) (4:19)
04. In The Evenin' (6:29)
05. I Used To Love You (4:53)
06. Sweet Little Baby (3:54)
07. Freedom Blues (Solo) (7:38)
08. Wine, Wine, Wine (4:42)
09. Lawdy, Lawdy (Solo) (3:58)
10. Junkers Blues (7:26)
11. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (1986) (5:19)
12. Rock The Boogie Woogie (5:07)
13. Bring Me Flowers When I'm Living (7:33)
14. I Keep On Drifting (6:26)
15. She's Gone (Solo) (4:21)

CD 1: Little Willie Littlefield With The Big Town Playboys (Tracks 1 to 18)
CD 2: Little Willie Littlefield With The Big Town Playboys (Tracks 1 to 3)
CD 2: Champion Jack Dupree & The Big Town Playboys (Tracks 4 to 15)

Blues and R&B legends Little Willie Littlefield and Champion Jack Dupree had much in common. Both had extensive recording careers stretching back into the 1940s and recording for independent record companies; both decided to live in Europe; both recorded albums in Europe and they headlined at the first ever Burnley Blues Festival in the UK in 1989.

Blues fans were treated to a weekend of blues, R&B and boogie with Willie topping the bill on March 23rd and Jack the following evening backed by the Big Town Playboys, who perfectly recreated the type of rhythm and blues Willie and Jack recorded in the late 1940s and 1950s.

The tracks here come from their shows at Burnley with the exception of three tracks Willie recorded with the Playboys at the Belgium Blues Festival in 1986 later broadcast on national BBC radio on the Paul Jones show.
"Little Willie Littlefield was on the best form I've ever seen in him. He gave us a selection of straight blues and boogie." ~Tony Collins, Juke Blues magazine

"Jack Dupree and the Big Town Playboys proceeded to tear the place apart with '50s classics the packed audience cheered him on after every number." ~Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm magazine

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Various - Mule Milk 'N' Firewater

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:31
Size: 134.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues, Dirty blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front & Back

[2:24] 1. Rudy Moore - Ring-A-Ling-Dong
[2:55] 2. Roy Brown - Hurry Hurry Baby
[2:24] 3. Little Tommy Brown - Goodbye I'm Gone
[2:30] 4. Fred Clark - Bobby Sox Rocker (Take Two)
[3:01] 5. Big Jay McNeely - Mule Milk
[2:37] 6. The Checkers - Can't Find My Sadie
[2:41] 7. Five Jets - Everybody Do The Chicken
[2:00] 8. The Midnighters - That Woman
[2:15] 9. Fred Clark - Ground Hog Snooper
[2:17] 10. Rufus Gore - Fire Water
[3:03] 11. Jack Dupree - Stumbling Block
[2:37] 12. Joe Tex - Davy, You Upset My Home
[2:14] 13. The Lamplighters - Bo Peep
[2:25] 14. The Gardenias - My Baby's Tops
[2:15] 15. Joe Perkins - How Much Love Can One Heart Hold
[2:37] 16. Danny Cobb - Hey Mr. Warden
[2:21] 17. Tiny Topsy - Aw Shucks Baby (Take 2)
[2:18] 18. Joe Benson - Rock 'n' Roll Jungle
[2:07] 19. Little Wille John - Look What You've Done To Me
[2:05] 20. Little Wille John - Uh Uh Baby
[2:17] 21. H-Bomb Ferguson - Midnight Ramblin' Tonight
[2:17] 22. Ronnie Molleen - Fat Mama
[2:33] 23. Willie Wright - Got A Feelin'
[2:05] 24. Hank Ballard - Come On Baby Let's Shake It

This is an outstanding collection from the vaults of King and its subsidiary labels, Federal and Deluxe. These 24 tracks collect jump blues, doo wop, piano boogie, and outright bizarre novelties stretching from the late '40s through the early '60s. There is not a bad track on Mule Milk 'N' Firewater, featuring plenty of well-known names on mainly wild up-tempo songs by Roy Brown, Big Jay McNeely, Little Willie John, Hank Ballad & the Midnighters, and Jack Dupree. There are a few standouts amongst these rarities that may raise a few eyebrows. "Ring a Ling Dong" is from 1955 by Rudy Moore aka Rudy Ray Moore of Dolomite fame, and "Davy, You Upset My Home" finds a young Joe Tex vividly describing how his domestic situation is being torn apart by his girlfriend's unhealthy obsession with all things Davy Crockett! Unbelievable! ~Al Campbell

Originally posted on Dec 30th 2017. Updated to FLAC by Bluestender.

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Champion Jack Dupree With Henry - Real Combination

Size: 113,4 MB
Time: 49:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1980
Styles: Blues, piano blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. Lordy Lordy (2:46)
2. Mother In Law Blues (4:59)
3. All Night Long (4:02)
4. Louise (5:27)
5. Baby, Please Don't Go (2:27)
6. Last Night (4:21)
7. Real Combination (6:07)
8. Henry's Rockin' Boogie Woogie (1:57)
9. The Unemployed Season Blues (3:56)
10. I Wanna Ride (4:11)
11. Calcutta Blues (5:27)
12. Rockin' Chair (3:14)

Champion Jack Dupree released several LP's while living in Europe in the 70's, most notable the ones with Freeway 75 in Switzerland, The Hamburg session in Germany and Live! (1979) in France. One of the lesser known European albums by the piano legend was recorded and released only in Finland, country lucky enough to have another Finnish-only legendary album, Eddie Boyd's "Praise to Helsinki". In this case, Champion Jack Dupree plays his piano backed with local amateur musicians who keep a decent level.

Personnel: Champion Jack Dupree (vocals, piano); Henry O. (harmonica, vocals); Riku Mattila (slide guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar); Jarmo Heikkinen (bass); Heikki Tikka (drums).

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Champion Jack Dupree - Blues Pianist Of New Orleans

Size: 176,7+139,4+151,9 MB
Time: 75:34+59:48+65:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Piano Blues, Chicago Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back

Vol. 1:
01. Gravier Street Rag (2:10)
02. New Vicksburg Blues (3:03)
03. Old Woman Blues (2:40)
04. Lonesome Bedroom Blues (3:12)
05. I'm A Gamblin' Man (4:14)
06. Shake Baby, Shake (2:22)
07. Whiskey Head Woman (2:21)
08. Shirley May (2:59)
09. In The Evening (3:54)
10. Number Nine (3:11)
11. 41 Highway (2:27)
12. How Long Blues (2:43)
13. Blues Before Sunrise (3:56)
14. Midnight Hour Blues (3:55)
15. My Baby's Gone (2:58)
16. My Mother Is Gone (4:28)
17. Drive 'em Down Special (2:46)
18. I Just Want To Be Free (4:23)
19. Drivin' Me Mad (4:08)
20. Back Door Special (3:48)
21. Keep Your Big Mouth Shout (2:28)
22. I Hate To Be Alone (2:59)
23. TV Mama (4:15)

Vol. 2:
01. Storybook (5:46)
02. Careless Love (4:46)
03. Mama Don't Allow (3:51)
04. See See Rider (4:31)
05. Woodpecker (2:40)
06. You Can Make It (4:38)
07. Sometimes I Feel Like A (4:17)
08. Unborn Child (3:44)
09. When I Left Home (2:56)
10. 10Cross Eyed Woman (2:40)
11. I Lost A Good Woman (2:20)
12. Things I Used To Do (4:43)
13. Self Pity (4:43)
14. Ain't That A Hard Pillow (4:36)
15. Have You Ever Been Alone (3:31)

Vol. 3:
01. Automobile Blues (4:55)
02. Alberta (2:01)
03. Rocky Mountain Blues (3:55)
04. Deep Sea River (3:57)
05. Rock Me Mama (2:38)
06. Big Fat Mama (2:54)
07. Cryin' Woman Blues (4:09)
08. Schoolday Blues (4:25)
09. Free And Equal (5:10)
10. My Heart Beat For You (4:02)
11. Trouble, Trouble (3:32)
12. I Ain't Got To Be Your L (2:30)
13. Daybreak Blues (4:07)
14. Calcutta Blues (3:56)
15. Please Don't Dog Your Wo (4:29)
16. Tee-Na-Nee-Na (3:08)
17. Bad Dog Blues (2:09)
18. Bus Station (2:58)

William Thomas Dupree was born in 1909 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was part African-American, part Cherokee. His parents ran a grocery store in the Irish Channel neighborhood and the family lived upstairs. When he was about one year old, the house was set on fire by the Ku Klux Klan and both his parents were killed. He grew up in the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans where he received no schooling, but learned about music, cooking and fighting. When he came out of the orphans’ home, he learned to play barrelhouse piano, especially from a pianist called Willie ‘Drive 'Em Down’ Hall. He made his living playing piano and fighting in the street for bets. He returned to Chicago in 1939 and joined a circle of recording artists including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, who introduced him to record producer Lester Melrose. After WWII he moved to New York, where he made multiple recordings for many labels, including his legendary 1958 album for Atlantic Records, Blues From The Gutter.

Blues Pianist Of New Orleans Vol. 1
Blues Pianist Of New Orleans Vol. 2
Blues Pianist Of New Orleans Vol. 3

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Champion Jack Dupree - Rocks

Year: 2018
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 80:42
Size: 187,4 MB
Styles: Piano blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. All Night Party (2:22)
2. Stumbling Block Blues (2:48)
3. Number Nine Blues (3:12)
4. Shake Baby Shake (2:23)
5. Highway Blues (2:50)
6. Drunk Again (3:05)
7. Shim Sham Shimmy (2:43)
8. Somebody Changed The Lock (2:52)
9. The Ups (2:58)
10. Lonely Road Blues (2:21)
11. Story Of My Life (2:32)
12. When I Got Married (2:27)
13. Dirty Woman (2:40)
14. Old Time Rock And Roll (2:52)
15. Down The Lane (2:16)
16. Rocky Mountain (2:09)
17. Just Like A Woman (3:27)
18. Shake Baby Shake (2:49)
19. The Wrong Woman (2:20)
20. You're Always Cryin' The Blues (2:32)
21. Woman Trouble Again (2:59)
22. My Baby's Like A Clock (2:51)
23. Hello Darlin' (2:34)
24. Lollipop Baby (2:24)
25. Shake Baby Shake (2:50)
26. Old Time Rock And Roll (2:45)
27. Stack-O-Lee (3:58)
28. Frankie And Johnny (3:21)
29. Nasty Boogie (3:09)

The entries in Bear Family's ongoing Rocks series spotlight the hardest-rocking moments in an artist's catalog, sometimes offering a counter-narrative to an established narrative. In the case of Champion Jack Dupree, the hard-driving New Orleans blues and R&B pianist, his Rocks provides an introduction to his career that wasn't otherwise available when this was released in 2018. Drawing from recordings originally cut (and usually released) for Atlantic, Groove, Apollo, Red Robin, and Vik between 1951-1958, this is one of the rare cross-licensed collections from Dupree.

Better still, all of the 29 tracks are electrically charged, gutbucket New Orleans R&B, exciting music that showcases Dupree's growl and groove in equal measure. Dupree would continue to record into the 1990s, and he also began recording ten years earlier than the decade showcased here, and while those sessions are often first-rate, the sides collected on Rocks were meant to be played on jukeboxes and had an eye for the outer reaches of the charts, which is why this is such a thrilling, invigorating listen: this is blues and R&B not made for posterity, but for living. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

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Champion Jack Dupree - Collection 1941-53

Size: 167,1+167,1 MB
Time: 70:18+70:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Piano Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Warehouse Man Blues (2:46)
02. Chain Gang Blues (2:31)
03. Black Woman Swing (2:44)
04. Cabbage Greens No. 1 (2:56)
05. Gamblin' Man Blues (2:44)
06. Angola Blues (2:50)
07. That's All Right (Jack Dupree) (2:31)
08. Dupree Shake Dance (2:52)
09. Junker Blues (2:39)
10. Bad Health Blues (2:43)
11. Big Time Mama (2:37)
12. Heavy Heart Blues (2:31)
13. All Alone Blues (2:41)
14. She Makes Good Jelly (2:45)
15. Rum Cola Blues (2:46)
16. Johnson Street Boogie Woogie (2:48)
17. F.D.R. Blues (2:35)
18. Fisherman's Blues (3:08)
19. Black Wolf (2:39)
20. Outside Man (2:46)
21. You've Been Drunk (2:40)
22. Santa Claus Blues (2:16)
23. I Think You Need A Shot (Jack Dupree Trio) (3:21)
24. How Long, How Long Blues (Jack Dupree Trio) (2:34)
25. Let's Have A Ball (Jack Dupree Trio) (2:22)
26. Hard Feeling (Jack Dupree Trio) (2:20)

CD 2:
01. Mean Old Frisco (Jack Dupree Trio) (2:50)
02. Bad Whiskey And Wild Woman (Jack Dupree & His Trio) (2:28)
03. Bus Station Blues (Jack Dupree & His Trio) (2:23)
04. Love Strike Blues (2:48)
05. I'm A Doctor For Women (2:37)
06. Cecelia Cecelia (Willie Jordan & His Swinging Five) (2:30)
07. Fifth Avenue Blues (Jack Dupree & His Quartet) (2:12)
08. Come Back Baby (Jack Dupree & His Band) (2:37)
09. Chittlins And Rice (Jack Dupree & His Band) (2:53)
10. One Sweet Letter (Jack Dupree & His Band) (2:13)
11. Mean Mistreatin' Mama (Jack Dupree & His Band) (3:02)
12. Featherweight Mama (Brother Blues & The Back Room Boys) (2:13)
13. Day Break (Brother Blues & The Back Room Boys) (2:57)
14. Lonesome Bedroom Blues (Jack Dupree & His Band) (3:00)
15. Old Woman Blues (Jack Dupree & His Band) (2:56)
16. Deacon's Party (Jack Dupree & His Band) (2:40)
17. I'm Gonna Find You Someday (Jack Dupree & His Band) (2:59)
18. My Baby's Comin' Back Home (Jack Dupree & Big Chief's All Stars) (2:57)
19. Just Plain Tired (Jack Dupree & Big Chief's All Stars) (3:11)
20. The Woman I Love (Brownie McGhee, His Guitar & Orchestra) (3:00)
21. All Night Party (Brownie McGhee, His Guitar & Orchestra) (2:19)
22. Stumbling Block Blues (2:50)
23. Highway Blues (2:49)
24. Shake Baby Shake (2:25)
25. Drunk Again (3:06)
26. Shim Sham Shimmy (2:48)

Even in a genre known for some larger-than-life personalities, Champion Jack Dupree was one of the most colourful characters in blues in the post-war era, a blues and barrel-house pianist and singer, who flirted with a boxing career alongside his music during the '30s, the origin of the 'Champion' nickname, before starting to perform and record in Chicago in the early '40s. Orphaned as a child, and brought up institutions, his songs often painted the familiar bleak low-life landscape of drugs, prison and personal strife, but he did it with an extrovert rough-hewn approach and a humorous way with lyrics which soon made him popular, although there was a career hiatus during WWII when he served in the US Navy and was a Japanese POW. After the war he hooked up in New York with guitarist Brownie McGhee, and many of the later recordings in this anthology feature his work with McGhee, often working in different line-ups of small bands, the later ones also including McGhee's long-time harmonica-playing associate Sonny Terry. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from the forty or more records which he released, with at least one side of each release represented. They come from releases for a bewildering array of record labels - Okeh, Joe Davis, Continental, Celebrity, Alert, Apollo, Abbey & Red Robin - reflecting the chequered nature of some blues artists' careers. In subsequent years he became a popular fixture on the European blues scene, settling for a while in the UK. This substantial trawl across the first decade and more of his career includes many examples of blues music as one of the bedrocks of rock 'n' roll, and provides an entertaining showcase for a distinctive personality of the blues.

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Champion Jack Dupree With Big Town Playboys - Live At The Burnley Blues Festival

Size: 154,3 MB
Time: 66:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1989
Styles: Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie
Art: Full

01. In The Evenin' (7:50)
02. I Used To Love You (5:39)
03. Sweet Little Baby (4:43)
04. Freedom Blues (7:35)
05. Wine, Wine, Wine (5:03)
06. Lawdy, Lawdy (3:58)
07. Junkers Blues (7:25)
08. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (5:18)
09. Rock The Boogie Woogie (6:35)
10. Bring Me Flowers When I'm Living (7:37)
11. Now Or Never (4:32)

Personnel:
Piano, Vocals – Champion Jack Dupree
Bass – Ian Jennings
Drums – Clive Deamer
Guitar – Andy Silvester
Tenor Saxophone – Alan Nicholls

Dupree was a New Orleans blues and boogie-woogie pianist, a barrelhouse "professor". His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was part African American and Cherokee. His birth date has been given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, 1908, 1909, or 1910; the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc give July 4, 1910.

He was orphaned at the age of eight and was sent to the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans, an institution for orphaned or delinquent boys (about the same time, Louis Armstrong was also sent there as a child, after being arrested as a "dangerous and suspicious character"). Dupree taught himself to play the piano there and later apprenticed with Tuts Washington and Willie Hall, whom he called his father and from whom he learned "Junker's Blues". He was also a "spy boy" for the Yellow Pocahontas tribe of the Mardi Gras Indians. He soon began playing in barrelhouses and other drinking establishments.

He began a life of travelling, living in Chicago, where he worked with Georgia Tom, and in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he met Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr. He also worked as a cook. In Detroit, after Joe Louis encouraged him to become a boxer, he fought 107 bouts, winning Golden Gloves and other championships and picking up the nickname Champion Jack, which he used the rest of his life.

He returned to Chicago at the age of 30 and joined a circle of recording artists, including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, who introduced him to the record producer Lester Melrose. Many of Dupree's songs were later credited to Melrose as composer, and Melrose claimed publishing rights to them.

Dupree's career was interrupted by military service in World War II. He was a cook in the United States Navy and was held by the Japanese for two years as a prisoner of war.

After the war, his biggest commercial success was "Walkin' the Blues", which he recorded as a duet with Teddy McRae. This led to several national tours and eventually a European tour. In 1959 he played an unofficial (and unpaid) duo gig with Alexis Korner at the London School of Economics.

Dupree moved to Europe in 1960, settling first in Switzerland and then Denmark, England, Sweden and, finally, Germany. On June 17, 1971, he played at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in the Casino Kursaal, with King Curtis, backed by Cornell Dupree on guitar, Jerry Jemmott on bass and Oliver Jackson on drums. The recording of the concert was released in 1973 as the album King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree: Blues at Montreux on the Atlantic label.

During the 1970s and 1980s he lived at Ovenden in Halifax, England. A piano he used was later discovered at Calderdale College in Halifax. He continued to record in Europe with the Kenn Lending Band, Louisiana Red and Axel Zwingenberger and made many live appearances. He also worked again as a cook, specializing in New Orleans cuisine. He returned to the United States from time to time and performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Dupree died of cancer on January 21, 1992, in Hanover, Germany.

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VA - Hoodoo Voodoo

Size: 232,7 MB
Time: 98:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Front

01 Lavern Baker - Voodoo Voodoo (1:48)
02 Dr. John - I Been Hoodood (3:12)
03 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - I Got My Mojo Working (3:32)
04 Tony Joe White - Conjure Woman (3:58)
05 The Coasters - Idol With The Golden Head (2:21)
06 Chris Connor - Witchcraft (3:06)
07 The Sleepstones - I Put A Spell On You (3:46)
08 Esther Phillips - Mojo Hannah (2:24)
09 Brook Benton - Born Under A Bad Sign (3:06)
10 Bobby Short - Witchcraft (2:20)
11 Ray Charles - The Midnight Hour (3:02)
12 David Newman - Congo Chant (4:23)
13 The Coasters - The Shadow Knows (2:15)
14 The Shadows Of Knight - Bad Little Woman (2:33)
15 The Nashville Teens - Hoochie Coochie Man (3:35)
16 Top Cats - Fortune Teller (2:43)
17 Dave Edmunds - Ju Ju Man (3:25)
18 The Blasters - Dark Night (3:48)
19 Champion Jack Dupree - Evil Woman (4:20)
20 Jackson Firebird - Voodoo (3:49)
21 Green On Red - Sixteen Ways (3:39)
22 Dr Feelgood - Lucky Seven (2:44)
23 Crazyhead - Fortune Teller (2:57)
24 Screaming Sirens - Voodoo (3:06)
25 Tony Joe White - Voodoo Village (3:06)
26 Dr. John - Zu Zu Mamou (7:59)
27 Mudhoney - Thirteenth Floor Opening (2:31)
28 Alice Cooper - Black Juju (9:07)

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Champion Jack Dupree - Champion Jack's Natural & Soulful Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:14
Size: 73.8 MB
Styles: Piano blues, New Orleans blues
Year: 1960/2005
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. Seafood Blues
[3:52] 2. Death Of Big Bill
[2:52] 3. Don't Leave Me Mary
[3:00] 4. Rampart Street Special
[2:48] 5. How Long Blues
[3:06] 6. Bad Life
[3:10] 7. Mother-In-Law Blues
[3:27] 8. Slow Drag
[3:30] 9. Dennis Rag
[3:13] 10. Bad Luck Bound To Change

Champion Jack Dupree's New Orleans piano was one of the characteristic sounds of the Okeh record company's classic blues output. Dupree's laid-back Boogie-Woogie and barrelhouse piano style graced many albums, forging a sound that influenced many players, including Fats Domino and Professor Longhair. His singing was deep and sweet, forming a union with his rhythmic piano (and his acoustic guitar or drumming) in songs about the basics: women, drinking and fighting. Highlights of some of his later collaborations include a pre-Bluesbreakers session with John Mayall and Eric Clapton. ~Jessy Terry

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Various - The Birth Of Rock N Roll NYC 1950-1960 Vol. 2

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:47
Size: 77.4 MB
Styles: Rock n Roll, R&B
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:28] 1. Charlie Singleton Orchestra - Earthquake
[2:25] 2. Champion Jack Dupree - Shake Baby Shake
[2:38] 3. Red Prysock - Hard Rock
[2:46] 4. Tiny Grimes - Juicy Fruit
[3:06] 5. Brownie McGhee - Don't Dog Your Woman
[2:25] 6. The Upsetters - Jay Walkin'
[2:09] 7. Jimmy Spruill - Scratch 'n' Twist
[2:43] 8. Mary Ann Fisher - Wild As You Can Be
[2:27] 9. Riff Ruffin - Gravy Train
[2:33] 10. Buster Brown - The Madison Shuffle
[2:19] 11. Wilbert Harrison - 1960
[2:59] 12. Tarheel Slim - Number Nine Train
[2:43] 13. Junior Lewis - Can She Give Me Feverhree Days On

At the start of the 1950s, midtown Manhattan was the centre of the American music industry, containing the headquarters of three major labels (RCA, Columbia, and Decca), most of the music publishers, and many recording studios. Publishers were the start of the recording process, employing “song pluggers” to go across town and persuade each of the major label artists-and-repertoire (A&R) men to record a new song with one of their established singers. Alongside traditional publishers, whose writers composed for stage shows and Hollywood musicals, were newer companies specializing in country music (including Peer-Southern and Hill and Range) and many affiliates of independent rhythm-and-blues labels. Some larger independent publishers made copublishing arrangements with smaller companies and acted as midwives for the birth of rock and roll by instigating pop cover versions of hits from the country and rhythm-and-blues markets. ~Charlie Gillett

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Various - Piano Blues & Boogie Woogie

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:27
Size: 159.0 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Boogie woogie
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:55] 1. Emmett Berry - Twelve O'clock Blues
[2:07] 2. Dr. John - Tipitina
[3:24] 3. Chuck E. Weiss - Down The Road A Piece
[3:43] 4. Big Joe Turner - Roll 'em Pete
[5:08] 5. ¡cubanismo! - Junco Partner
[3:51] 6. Ray Charles - Rockhouse (Parts 1 & 2)
[4:00] 7. Champion Jack Dupree - Goin' Down Slow
[2:36] 8. Mose Allison - Seventh Son
[2:26] 9. Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Booker's Notion
[2:12] 10. Bobby Short - Down In Mexico
[3:47] 11. Jerry Lee Lewis - Number One Lovin' Man
[2:55] 12. Charlie Norman - Metronome Boogie
[5:41] 13. James Booker - Goodnight Irene
[3:43] 14. Paul Butterfield's Better Days - - Buried Alive In The Blues
[3:12] 15. Junior Mance - I Believe To My Soul
[5:04] 16. Delaney & Bonnie - Miss Ann
[3:55] 17. The Kingbees - Life's Too Short (To Be With You)
[3:33] 18. Chas & Dave - I Wonder In Whose Arms
[2:38] 19. Pedro's Heavy Gentlemen - Love And Joy
[2:29] 20. Freddie King - Sweet Thing

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African American communities in the 1870s. It was eventually extended from piano, to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While the blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing.

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Various - Bayou To Basin Street Rhythm & Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 96:26
Size: 220.8 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues, Cajun, Funk
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. The Meters - Fire On The Bayou
[3:12] 2. Dr. John - I Been Hoodood
[3:43] 3. Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Louisiana Flood
[5:13] 4. ¡cubanismo! - Junco Partner
[5:17] 5. Bobby Charles - All The Money
[2:32] 6. Allen Toussaint - River Boat
[3:54] 7. Doug Kershaw - Flip, Flop & Fly
[3:16] 8. The Boogie Kings - True Fine Mama
[3:05] 9. Totta Näslund - Down In The Flood
[3:00] 10. Marcus Hook Roll Band - Louisiana Lady
[2:15] 11. Rufus Thomas - Ya Ya
[4:08] 12. Beausoleil - Cajunization Blues
[4:53] 13. James Booker - Make A Better World
[3:08] 14. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues
[3:57] 15. Max Schultz - New Orleans
[2:54] 16. Low Budget Blues Band - Back To Bayou Teche
[3:46] 17. The Sleepstones - I Put A Spell On You
[8:08] 18. Dr. John - Mardi Gras Day
[3:30] 19. Mem Shannon - I Hear You Knockin'
[4:09] 20. The Meters - They All Ask'd For You
[4:06] 21. The Boots - Stuck In A Swamp
[4:31] 22. Chuck E. Weiss - Congo Square At Midnight
[3:11] 23. Junior Mance - St. James Infirmary
[6:22] 24. Wilbur De Paris - Basin Street Blues

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Champion Jack Dupree - Live At Rockpalast: Cologne 1980

Size: 132,2+144,9 MB
Time: 57:10+62:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Piano Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Intro (0:51)
02. I Don't Know (7:02)
03. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (5:32)
04. Schooldays (8:24)
05. Ain't That A Shame - Swanee River - Blueberry Hill (9:40)
06. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (7:42)
07. Marriage (8:24)
08. Bring Me Flowers (While I'm Living) (9:32)

CD 2:
01. Jack's Pinetop Boogie (6:40)
02. You Can Make It If You Try (8:28)
03. Baby, Don't Go (7:27)
04. Bad Luck (9:02)
05. Rockin' The Boogie (7:12)
06. Salt Pork, West Virginia (6:15)
07. Down By The Riverside (2:30)
08. The Saints (5:51)
09. Mean Old Frisco (4:53)
10. It's Now Or Never (4:12)

Because Champion Jack Dupree lived and toured in Germany for an extended period of time, many older blues fans will remember his live shows, which were a mixture of barrelhouse blues and boogie, stories and mostly saucy jokes (Shakesbeer says ...). On the other side, there also were his very emotional, often autobiographical slow blues. The concert DVD presents all facets of this great barrelhouse piano player and singer; it is fun to watch, offers musical pleasures and makes you realize that there are hardly any true characters left in the blues who would ask for another beer even in a TV studio, before the show goes on. He deserved to have a little fun, because William Thomas Dupree, his given name, had lots of hard times behind him. Born on July 4, 1910 in New Orleans (Louisiana), Dupree, like a nine years older Louis Armstrong before him, grew up in the Crescent City's Colored Waif's Home after his parents had died in a fire. There he learned the basics of piano playing, which Dupree honed under tutelage of local pianists such as Drive'em Down (Willie Hall) and Don Bowers. Besides club appearances, he started boxing professionally (hence his sobriquet Champion). From the 1930's on, he traveled around the US a lot, playing in Chicago and for several years in Indianapolis. In 1940, he made his first records for the Okeh label, including Chain Gang Blues and Angola Blues about the infamous prison farm in Louisiana. His Junker Blues, recorded one year later, is an extremely explicit song about drug abuse, which 8 years later served as the musical blueprint for Fats Domino's first hit, The Fat Man. The rhythm of his Barrelhouse piano playing had already been shaped by the Caribbean influences of his hometown, and there is a clear stylistic line from his early recordings by way of other New Orleans pianists such as Archibald and Tuts Washington to Professor Longhair and Fats Domino.

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Memphis Slim & Champion Jack Dupree - Two Shades Of Blues

Year: 1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:32
Size: 111,0 MB
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Scans: Full

1. Lonesome (2:31)
2. Cold Blooded Woman (3:42)
3. One Man's Mad (2:53)
4. Good Time Roll Creole (2:39)
5. What Is The Mare-Rack (Instrumental) (3:02)
6. Pigalle Love (2:30)
7. Four Walls (2:47)
8. It's Been Too Long (2:45)
9. Big Bertha (2:10)
10. I'm Lost Without You (2:19)
11. I'll Just Keep On Swingin' The Blues (2:40)
12. True Love (Instrumental) (2:55)
13. Walking The Blues (3:01)
14. Harelip Blues (2:55)
15. Overhead Blues (2:50)
16. Silent Partner (3:07)
17. Everybody's Blues (2:37)

An amazingly prolific artist who brought a brisk air of urban sophistication to his frequently stunning presentation, John "Peter" Chatman - better known as Memphis Slim - assuredly ranks with the greatest blues pianists of all time. He was smart enough to take Big Bill Broonzy's early advice about developing a style to call his own to heart, instead of imitating that of his idol, Roosevelt Sykes. Soon enough, other 88s pounders were copying Slim rather than the other way around; his thundering ivories attack set him apart from most of his contemporaries, while his deeply burnished voice possessed a commanding authority. /Excerpt from biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

Champion Jack Dupree was one of the greatest barrelhouse and boogie woogie piano players to ever come out of New Orleans. He played piano from an early age and over the years made his living at various times as a boxer (he was briefly the lightweight champ of Indiana, hence his nickname), cook, hustler, card sharp, and piano player. He recorded hundreds of singles and albums under various names including Meat Head Johnson, Lightnin’ Jr. and Brother Blues. Although he only had one hit – "Walking the Blues" a duet with Teddy McRae, was on the R&B charts for 11 weeks in 1955 – he was a prolific composer and one of his songs "Junker’s Blues" was often borrowed by other artists including Professor Longhair who called it "Tipitina", Fats Domino who changed it to "The Fat Man", and Lloyd Price who borrowed it for "Lawdy Miss Clawdy". Dupree never liked the racism of his home country and spent almost 40 years living in Europe, where he was highly regarded. He returned to the US in 1990 to play the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and had a triumphant homecoming. He died at his home in Hanover, Germany in 1992. /Excerpt from biography by J Poet, Amoeba Music

Tracks 1-12: Memphis Slim
Tracks 13-17: Champion Jack Dupree

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Champion Jack Dupree - Old Time R&B: 28 Rocking Piano Blues Classics 1951-1957

Size: 177,8 MB
Time: 75:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

01. The Woman I Love (2:58)
02. Stumbling Block Blues (2:47)
03. Number Nine Blues (3:10)
04. Highway Blues (2:49)
05. Shake Baby Shake (2:23)
06. Drunk Again (3:03)
07. Shim Sham Shimmy (2:47)
08. The Blues Got Me Rockin' (2:45)
09. Tongue Tied Blues (2:42)
10. Ragged And Hungry (2:35)
11. Somebody Changed The Lock (2:40)
12. Please Tell Me Baby (2:40)
13. Walkin' Upside Your Head (2:41)
14. Rub A Little Boogie (2:28)
15. Camille (2:26)
16. Two Below Zero (3:00)
17. Blues For Everybody (2:33)
18. Let The Doorbell Ring (2:09)
19. Walking The Blues (2:57)
20. She Cooks Me Cabbage (2:34)
21. Me And My Mule (2:08)
22. Lonely Road Blues (2:21)
23. When I Got Married (2:49)
24. Dirty Woman (2:38)
25. Just Like A Woman (2:58)
26. Old Time Rock And Roll (2:52)
27. Shake Baby Shake (Alt Version) (2:36)
28. Lollipop Baby (2:21)

Champion Jack Dupree was one of the most popular, authentic blues artists to tour the UK and Europe on a regular basis beginning in the late 1950s. In fact he became so regular he moved to Halifax and then later lived in Germany and Scandinavia.

As you would expect this CD is chock full of superb blues piano and of course contains Champion Jack Dupree's hit, "Walking the Blues".
This brief look at his career concentrates on a period when he was at a commercial peak in the R&B market in the United States. It is a body of work that never seems to date and no matter how many times you hear it there is always something new to enjoy.

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VA - From Bebop To Blues: Harlem In The '50s Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Album: From Bebop To Blues: Harlem In The '50s Vol. 1
Size: 161 MB
Time: 36:34
File: FLAC
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Jazz
Art: Front

01. Sonny Terry - Doggin' My Heart Around (2:50)
02. Champion Jack Dupree - Drunk Again (3:01)
03. Red Prysock - Crying My Heart Out (2:38)
04. Morris Lane - Bobby's Boogie (2:35)
05. Stumbling Block (2:44)
06. Sandy Grimes - Be Good To Yourself (3:04)
07. Robert Ross Singers - Is He Yours (3:07)
08. Two Gospel Keys - I Can't Tarry (2:43)
09. Morris Lane - Ghost Town (2:40)
10. Red Prysock - Jackpot (2:36)
11. Brownie McGhee - Daisy (2:56)
12. Blind Wonders Of Washington DC - Night Prayer (3:12)
13. Champion Jack Dupree - Shake Baby Shake (2:22)

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Album: From Bebop To Blues: Harlem In The '50s Vol. 2
Size: 84,7 MB
Time: 35:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Jazz
Art: Front

01. Tiny Grimes - Juicy Fruit (2:46)
02. Brownie McGhee - Don't Dog Your Woman (3:02)
03. Red Prysock - Hard Rock (2:38)
04. Robert Ross Singers - Good Morning To Heaven (3:06)
05. Champion Jack Dupree - Shim Sham Shimmy (2:42)
06. Jump For George (2:29)
07. Tarheel Slim & Little Ann - Too Much Competition (2:39)
08. Charlie Singleton - Earthquake (2:28)
09. Champion Jack Dupree - Highway Blues (2:50)
10. Sonny Terry - Harmonica Hop (2:36)
11. Two Gospel Keys - Every Man's Got To Lay Down And Die (2:50)
12. Red Prysock - The Hammer (2:27)
13. Champion Jack Dupree - Number Nine Blues (3:06)

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Stick McGhee & His Spo-Dee-O-Dee Buddies - New York Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues
Time: 51:43
Size: 120,4 MB
Covers: Full

(3:03) 1. Big Tom Collins - Real Good Feeling
(2:41) 2. Big Tom Collins - Heartache Blues
(2:45) 3. Big Tom Collins - Heart Breaking Woman
(2:35) 4. Big Tom Collins - Watchin' My Stuff
(2:22) 5. Ralph Willis - Gonna Hop on Down the Line
(2:25) 6. Ralph Willis - Do Right
(2:32) 7. Ralph Willis - Why'd You Do It
(2:31) 8. Ralph Willis - Door Bell Blues
(2:33) 9. Stick McGhee - I'm Doin' All This Time (And You Put Me Down)
(2:17) 10. Stick McGhee - The Wiggle Waggle Woo
(2:41) 11. Stick McGhee - Dealin' from the Bottom
(2:37) 12. Stick McGhee - Whiskey, Women and Loaded Dice
(2:39) 13. Stick McGhee - Little Things We Used to Do
(2:15) 14. Stick McGhee - Blues in My Heart & Tears in My Eyes
(2:24) 15. Stick McGhee - Head Happy With Wine
(2:23) 16. Stick McGhee - Jungle Juice
(2:53) 17. Stick McGhee - Sad Bad Glad
(2:33) 18. Stick McGhee - Six to Eight
(2:43) 19. Stick McGhee - Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter
(2:40) 20. Stick McGhee - Double Crossin' Liqour

The British Ace label has done Brownie's little brother proud, collecting his dozen 1953-1955 jump blues sides for the King logo, many of them detailing the effects of booze. Also aboard are four country blues-styled numbers by Ralph Willis, and four more by the pseudonymous Big Tom Collins (two of them feature Brownie McGhee's vocals, the other pair Champion Jack Dupree!). -- Allmusic.

Granville "Stick/Sticks" McGhee made hustling his life's work. He was a cab driver, streetsinger, a pool-player, a dancer and a gambler, but when he had time, he made records which fuelled and invigorated both blues and R&B. His R&B classic "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" has inspired artists as diverse as Charlie Daniels and Pere Ubu. Emaciated and down on his luck, McGhee died in 1961 before the folk-blues revical could diminish his music or change his hapless fortunes. Ralph Willis moved to New York in the 30s. He played in a downhome Carolina country blues style and he enjoyed a profilic recording career (for Regis, Signature, 20th Century, Savoy, Abbey, Jubilee, Prestige and King Reocrds) which spanned 10 years.

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Champion Jack Dupree - Live-With The Big Town Playboys

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:44
Size: 168.8 MB
Styles: Piano blues, New Orleans blues
Year: 1998/2005
Art: Front

[7:51] 1. In The Evening
[5:40] 2. I Used To Love You
[4:43] 3. Sweet Little Woman
[7:37] 4. Freedom Blues
[5:01] 5. Wine, Wine, Wine
[3:58] 6. Lawdy, Lawdy
[7:26] 7. Junker Blues
[5:20] 8. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
[6:33] 9. Rock The Boogie Woogie
[7:33] 10. Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living
[7:37] 11. I Keep On Drifting
[4:19] 12. She's Gone

Bass – Ian Jennings; Drums – Clive Deamer; Guitar – Andy Silvester; Piano, Vocals – Champion Jack Dupree; Tenor Saxophone – Alan Nicholls. Recorded live in England in 1989.

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Various - Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:09
Size: 146.9 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:11] 1. Memphis Slim - Dedication To Pete Johnson
[3:04] 2. Booker T. Laury - Early In The Morning
[3:19] 3. Speckled Red - How Long Blues
[2:55] 4. James P. Johnson - Yellow Dog Blues
[2:54] 5. Memphis Slim - Key To The Highway
[2:50] 6. Meade Lux Lewis - Medium Blues
[2:57] 7. Champion Jack Dupree - Black Wolf Blues
[4:53] 8. Big Chief Ellis - Dices Blues
[1:09] 9. Lead Belly - Big Fat Woman
[2:51] 10. Sammy Price - Harlem Parlor Blues
[3:03] 11. Henry Brown - Little Drops Of Water
[4:07] 12. Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[3:26] 13. Speckled Red - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[2:09] 14. Willie Dixon - Wish Me Well
[2:52] 15. Henry Townsend - All My Money's Gone
[4:32] 16. Victoria Spivey - You're My Man
[4:20] 17. Champion Jack Dupree - On My Way To See Moe Asch
[2:54] 18. Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago
[3:28] 19. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
[3:03] 20. James P. Johnson - Hesitation Blues

Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumber and turpentine camps of East Texas—these were the places African American piano bluesmen called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with its players from the deep South to the urban North. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Lead Belly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P. Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections.

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