Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Back In Town

Album: Back In Town
Size: 75,9 MB
Time: 32:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1957/1987
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Full

1. Cleanhead's Back In Town (3:01)
2. That's The Way To Treat Your Woman (2:30)
3. Trouble In Mind (2:28)
4. Kidney Stew (2:30)
5. Sweet Lovin' Baby (2:57)
6. Caldonia (2:51)
7. It Ain't Necessarily So (2:47)
8. Cherry Red (2:43)
9. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (2:50)
10. I Just Can't Keep The Tears From Tumblin' Down (3:12)
11. Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine (2:25)
12. Hold It Right There (2:27)

Although he had achieved a certain amount of popularity in the late '40s with his blues vocals and boppish alto, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson's Bethlehem album was one of only two recordings he made as a leader between 1956-66. With arrangements by Ernie Wilkins, Manny Albam and Harry Tubbs, and his sidemen including several members (past and present) of the Count Basie Orchestra, the blues-oriented music (which gives Vinson a chance to sing such material as "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" and "Caledonia") is quite enjoyable and really rocks; pity that this record did not catch on. /Scott Yanow, AllMusic

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Midnight Creeper

Album: Midnight Creeper
Size: 79,4 MB
Time: 34:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. I'm The Midnight Creeper (3:26)
2. Cleanhead's Blues (3:25)
3. Person To Person (2:29)
4. Kidney Stew (3:24)
5. Hold It Right There (3:15)
6. Sugar (3:04)
7. Alimony Blues (2:47)
8. Cherry Red (2:57)
9. Old Maid's Boogie (3:30)
10. Juice Head Baby (2:32)
11. Nigger, Please! (3:27)

An advanced stylist on alto saxophone who vacillated throughout his career between jump blues and jazz, bald-pated Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (he lost his hair early on after a botched bout with a lye-based hair-straightener) also possessed a playfully distinctive vocal delivery that stood him in good stead with blues fans. Vinson first picked up a horn while attending high school in Houston. During the late '30s, he was a member of an incredible horn section in Milton Larkins's orchestra, sitting next to Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet. After exiting Larkins' employ in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy.

Vinson joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945. His vocals on trumpeter Williams' renditions of "Cherry Red" and "Somebody's Got to Go" were in large part responsible for their wartime hit status. Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury, and enjoying a double-sided smash in 1947 with his romping R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie" and the song that would prove his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues" (both songs featured Vinson's instantly identifiable vocals).

A 1949-1952 stint at King Records produced only one hit, the amusing sequel "Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red," along with the classic blues "Person to Person" (later revived by another King artist, Little Willie John). Vinson's jazz leanings were probably heightened during 1952-1953, when his band included a young John Coltrane. Somewhere along about here, Vinson wrote two Miles Davis classics, "Tune Up" and "Four."

Vinson steadfastly kept one foot in the blues camp and the other in jazz, waxing jumping R&B for Mercury (in 1954) and Bethlehem (1957), jazz for Riverside in 1961 (with Cannonball Adderley), and blues for Blues Time and ABC-BluesWay. A 1969 set for Black & Blue, cut in France with pianist Jay McShann and tenor saxophonist Hal Singer, beautifully recounted Vinson's blues shouting heyday (it's available on Delmark as Old Kidney Stew Is Fine). A much later set for Muse teamed him with the sympathetic little big-band approach of Rhode Island-based Roomful of Blues. Vinson toured the States and Europe frequently prior to his 1988 death of a heart attack. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Cherry Red (Feat. Mike Bloomfield)

Size: 76.1 MB
Time: 32:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1967/1995
Styles: Electric Blues, West Coast Blues
Art: Full

01. Cherry Red (3:12)
02. Cadillac Blues (3:02)
03. Juice Head Baby (3:11)
04. Alimony Blues (3:33)
05. Somebody's Got To Go (3:05)
06. Flat Broke Blues (2:28)
07. Old Maid Got Married (2:40)
08. Workin' Blues (2:51)
09. Wee Baby Blues (3:04)
10. Goodnight Baby Blues (5:03)

Somehow, amidst all the CD reissues from the King Records vaults unleashed by Charly, Ace, Rhino, and King's current ownership, this versatile alto saxist has fallen through the cracks. Thus, this two-LP collection, boasting all but a handful of his jumping 1949-1952 outings for King, remains your best introduction to the Cleanheaded one's R&B output (along with the 1945-1947 sides he waxed for Mercury, which grace the seven-disc anthology Blues, Boogie, & Bop: The 1940s Mercury Sessions). ~Bill Dahl

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson & Jay McShann - Jumpin' The Blues (The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions)

Size: 144,6 MB
Time: 62:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003/2008
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Art: Full

1. Confessin' The Blues (3:19)
2. Yardbird Waltz (3:42)
3. My Chile (3:42)
4. Satin Doll (5:16)
5. Kansas City (4:05)
6. Jumpin' The Blues (4:05)
7. Mr. Cleanhead Blues (4:14)
8. Wait A Minute, Baby (4:17)
9. Juice Head Baby (5:00)
10. Kidney Stew (8:23)
11. Cherry Red (3:03)
12. Red Top (4:54)
13. Roll 'Em C Jam Blues (6:15)
14. C Jam Again (2:10)

As part of The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions series, alto saxophonist Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson is spotlighted on 14 digitally remastered tracks, recorded at Cargo Studio in Paris on March 9, 1969. This straight-ahead session pairs Cleanhead with pianist Jay McShann, Gene Ramey on bass, and McShann's drummer at the time, Paul Gunther. While this disc doesn't contain any unreleased tracks, it does feature several first-rate renditions of Vinson's signature tunes, including "Mr. Cleanhead Blues," "Kidney Stew," and "Juice Head Baby." /Al Campbell, AllMusic

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Blues, Boogie & Bebop: Meat's Too High

Size: 174,6 MB
Time: 75:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994/1998
Styles: Blues, jazzy blues
Art: Front, tray

1. Old Maid Boogie (2:39)
2. Somebody's Gotta Go (3:59)
3. Travellin' (7:35)
4. Home Boy (3:15)
5. Meat's Too High (4:13)
6. If You Were My Buddy (4:11)
7. Investigation Blues (3:03)
8. That's All (4:05)
9. Race Track Blues (6:58)
10. Somebody Else Has Taken My Place (6:35)
11. Cleanhead's Thing (8:36)
12. Roxanne (5:01)
13. Fun In London (4:45)
14. High Class Baby (4:34)
15. Straight Away (5:45)

A powerful vocalist and a wickedly expressive alto saxophonist, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson is celebrated with this JSP reissue compilation containing 15 choice cuts recorded in London, England, in May 1980 and March 1982. The earlier of the two dates yielded an album with the title Fun in London; unfortunately, an eight-minute jam called "The Theme" was excluded from this reissue.

Vinson never ever fit into anybody's pigeon holes; a formidable improvising instrumentalist who excelled both as a balladeer ("Roxanne," "That's All") and as a straight-ahead hard bopper ("Travelin'," "Somebody Else Has Taken My Place," "Cleanhead's Thing," "Fun in London," "Straight Away"), Vinson's worldly command of the sax and his hormonally charged astringency as a blues shouter constitute two of the great dependable forces in all of blues and jazz. The words he puts across on "Meat's Too High" touch upon inflation, taxes, groceries, and human sexuality. /Arwulf Arwulf, AllMusic

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Cherry Red

Size: 74,8 MB
Time: 32:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1967
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Cherry Red (3:12)
2. Cadillac Blues (3:02)
3. Juice Head Baby (3:11)
4. Alimony Blues (3:33)
5. Somebody's Got To Go (3:05)
6. Flat Broke Blues (2:28)
7. Old Maid Got Married (2:40)
8. Workin' Blues (2:51)
9. Wee Baby Blues (3:04)
10. Goodnight Baby Blues (5:03)

This was a session Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson recorded for ABC's Bluesway label in 1967. Bob Theile was the producer and the personel includes Vinson on vocals and sax, Patti Bown (formerly of the Quincy Jones Orchestra) on keyboards, Buddy Lucas on harmonica and sax, and Mike Bloomfield (then with the Butterfield Blues Band) on guitar. The bassist and drummer are not named. All the featured names are given plenty of solo space on a setlist that consists mainly of Cleanhead's regular repetoire (the title cut, Juice Head Baby, Alimony Blues). Bloomfield plays with a clean un-distorted tone but is integral to all the songs, and Cleanhead is in especially fine voice. This is a fine addition to any fan of quality jump blues, rhythm and blues or swing oriented jazz.

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - The Original Cleanhead

Size: 97,9 MB
Time: 42:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1970/2014
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Cleanhead Blues (2:34)
2. Pass Out (6:24)
3. Alimony Blues (2:36)
4. Cleanhead Is Back (3:52)
5. Juice Head Baby (3:20)
6. Old Maid Boogie (3:21)
7. One O'Clock Humph (6:57)
8. I Needs To Be Be'd Wid (2:51)
9. Cleanhead Blues (Live) (Bonus) (4:08)
10. I Had A Dream (Live) (Bonus) (3:23)
11. Person To Person (Live) (Bonus) (2:53)

By the mid-60s Eddie Vinson was fondly remembered and semi-retired. He had blazed a trail through the early days of post-War black music as one of the pioneers who pushed the last days of swing into the first days of rhythm and blues. In an exhilarating period in the mid to late 40s he went from being the featured vocalist in the Cootie Williams Big Band to fronting his own group. If you listen to his recordings from that time, you can hear the music developing in front of your ears. ‘Red Blues’, his first hit, sounds very much like a swing record. ‘Somebody’s Got To Go’, his final chart-topper with Williams from two years later, is a blues. Jump forward a couple of years, to his records with smaller groups for Mercury and King, the music has become rhythm and blues.

In the 50s, as the hits dropped off, Vinson made a dignified retreat to his hometown ofHouston,Texas, emerging only occasionally to make a new record or perform a short tour. He became more revered in doing so. His time with Williams, and the calibre of the sidemen in his own band, meant he was remembered not just for his blues voice, but also his bop-influenced alto saxophone playing. He was properly placed in people’s minds as a retired star, rather than a has-been.

Bob Thiele had made a record with Vinson in 1967 for ABC’s Bluesway label. When Thiele launched his BluesTime imprint a couple of years later, he tempted Vinson out toLos Angelesto record again. Unlike other albums for BluesTime, there was no attempt to modernise his music. “The Original Cleanhead” was unadulterated swinging R&B, the missing link between Louis Jordan and rock’n’roll, featuring versions of several of his old classics, a new tune and some instrumentals to show off the players’ chops. Along with his performance at the 1971 Montreux Festival, the album reintroduced Vinson to the touring circuit, which he continued to play until his death in 1988. /Dean Rudland

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Old Maid's Boogie

Size: 82,2 MB
Time: 35:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

1. Alimony Blues (2:50)
2. Cherry Red (3:00)
3. Cleanhead's Blues (3:27)
4. Hold It Right There (3:16)
5. Juice Head Baby (3:20)
6. Kidney Stew Blues (3:26)
7. Nigger, Please! (3:30)
8. Old Maid Boogie (3:32)
9. Person To Person (2:31)
10. Sugar (3:06)
11. I'm The Midnight Creeper (3:29)

An advanced stylist on alto saxophone who vacillated throughout his career between jump blues and jazz, bald-pated Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (he lost his hair early on after a botched bout with a lye-based hair-straightener) also possessed a playfully distinctive vocal delivery that stood him in good stead with blues fans. Vinson first picked up a horn while attending high school in Houston. During the late '30s, he was a member of an incredible horn section in Milton Larkins's orchestra, sitting next to Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet. After exiting Larkins' employ in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy.

Vinson joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945. His vocals on trumpeter Williams' renditions of "Cherry Red" and "Somebody's Got to Go" were in large part responsible for their wartime hit status. Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury, and enjoying a double-sided smash in 1947 with his romping R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie" and the song that would prove his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues" (both songs featured Vinson's instantly identifiable vocals).

A 1949-1952 stint at King Records produced only one hit, the amusing sequel "Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red," along with the classic blues "Person to Person" (later revived by another King artist, Little Willie John). Vinson's jazz leanings were probably heightened during 1952-1953, when his band included a young John Coltrane. Somewhere along about here, Vinson wrote two Miles Davis classics, "Tune Up" and "Four."

Vinson steadfastly kept one foot in the blues camp and the other in jazz, waxing jumping R&B for Mercury (in 1954) and Bethlehem (1957), jazz for Riverside in 1961 (with Cannonball Adderley), and blues for Blues Time and ABC-BluesWay. A 1969 set for Black & Blue, cut in France with pianist Jay McShann and tenor saxophonist Hal Singer, beautifully recounted Vinson's blues shouting heyday (it's available on Delmark as Old Kidney Stew Is Fine). A much later set for Muse teamed him with the sympathetic little big-band approach of Rhode Island-based Roomful of Blues. Vinson toured the States and Europe frequently prior to his 1988 death of a heart attack. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Cleanhead's Back In Town: Eddie Vinson Sings

Year: 1957/1996
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:10
Size: 93,3 MB
Styles: Jazzy blues, R&B
Scans: Front, booklet p. 1-4, tray

1. Cleanhead's Back In Town (3:01)
2. That's The Way To Treat Your Woman (2:31)
3. Trouble In Mind (2:28)
4. Kidney Stew (2:30)
5. Sweet Lovin' Baby (2:58)
6. Caldonia (2:50)
7. It Ain't Necessarily So (2:48)
8. Cherry Red (2:44)
9. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (2:51)
10. I Just Keep The Tears From Tumblin' Down (3:11)
11. Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine (2:26)
12. Hold It Right There (2:29)
13. Trouble In Mind (Stereo) (Bonus) (2:26)
14. Kidney Stew (Stereo) (Bonus) (2:27)
15. Hold It Right There (Stereo) (Bonus) (2:23)

One of only two albums that altoist/singer Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson led during 1956-1966, this infectious set finds him performing some of his best known tunes. With assistance by a medium-size group that plays in a Count Basie groove (including such Basie-ites as trumpeter Joe Newman, trombonist Henry Coker, either Frank Foster or Paul Quinichette on tenor, and pianist Nat Pierce), Cleanhead makes such songs as "Kidney Stew," "Caldonia," "Cherry Red," "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," and "Hold It Right There" sound full of joy. This CD reissue adds three alternate takes that were originally recorded in stereo. A good sampling of the great Cleanhead. /Scott Yanow, AllMusic

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Various - Instrumental Rhythm & Blues/Rhythm & Blues 1945-1951

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:29
Size: 168.2 MB
Styles: R&B
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[2:36] 1. Joe Thomas - Page Boy Shuffle
[2:39] 2. Earl Bostic - Flamingo
[2:35] 3. Young John Watson - Space Guitar
[3:04] 4. Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk Part 1
[2:36] 5. Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk Part 2
[2:32] 6. Jimmy Dorsey - So Rare
[2:38] 7. Johnny Pate Quintet - Swinging Shepard Blues
[2:35] 8. Freddie King - Hide Away
[2:42] 9. Bull Moose Jackson - I Know Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well
[2:58] 10. Slim Gaillard - Travelin' Blues
[2:41] 11. Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight
[3:01] 12. Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night
[2:42] 13. Chubby Newsome - Hip Shakin' Mama
[2:42] 14. The Ravens - Bye Bye Baby Blues
[2:52] 15. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump
[2:56] 16. Ivory Joe Hunter - Guess Who
[2:58] 17. Bull Moose Jackson - Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me
[2:39] 18. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red
[2:38] 19. Todd Rhodes - Pot Likker
[2:38] 20. Tiny Bradshaw - Well, Oh Well
[2:54] 21. Roy Brown - Cadillac Baby
[2:57] 22. Roy Brown - Hard Luck Blues
[2:35] 23. Mabel Scott - Baseball Boogie
[2:03] 24. Roy Byrd - Rockin' With Fes
[2:28] 25. The Dominoes - Sixty-Minute Man
[3:03] 26. Brownie Mcghee - Real Good Feeling
[2:35] 27. Lucky Millinder - I'm Waiting Just For You

Great record of R&B when it first started. Lots of this stuff never got played in "respectable" places. So you know it's good! ~ coolfreehardbop

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The Johnny Otis Show - Live At Monterey

Year: 1971/1993
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:09
Size: 169,7 MB
Styles: R&B, blues
Scans: Full (front, back, cd)

1. Willie And The Hand Jive (3:18)
2. Cry Me A River Blues (Feat. Little Esther Phillips) (4:46)
3. Cleanhead's Blues (Feat. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson) (4:55)
4. I Got A Gal For Every Day In The Week (Feat. Big Joe Turner) (2:57)
5. Since I Met You, Baby (Feat. Ivory Joe Hunter) (2:38)
6. Baby, You Don't Know (Feat. Roy Milton) (3:01)
7. Preacher's Blues (Feat. Gene Connors) (3:28)
8. Good Rockin' Tonight (Feat. Roy Brown) (3:27)
9. The Time Machine (Feat. Shuggie Otis) (3:30)
10. Margie's Boogie (Feat. Margie Evans) (3:33)
11. Little Esther's Blues: Blowtop Blues/T Bone Blues/Jelly Jelly (Feat. Little Esther Phillips) (6:50)
12. Kidney Stew Blues (Feat. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson) (3:07)
13. The Things I Used To Do (Feat. Pee Wee Crayton) (5:00)
14. R.M. Blues (Feat. Roy Milton) (3:01)
15. Shuggie's Boogie (Feat. Shuggie Otis) (4:06)
16. You Better Look Out (Feat. Delmar Evans) (4:09)
17. Goin' Back To L.A. (Feat. Delmar Evans) (2:45)
18. Plastic Man (Feat. Big Joe Turner) (4:51)
19. Boogie Woogie Bye Bye (2:38)

The Historic Rhythm & Blues Extravaganza That Rocked The 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival

The blues never has been, to my recollection, the occasion for a more joyous celebration of its uniquely vibrant spirit than on a certain day in the late summer of 1970, when Johnny Otis brought his entire azure-indigo caravan of giants to spread their talents over an afternoon on the fairgrounds at Monterey, California. Here was the consummate proof that where today's music may set up communication and generation gaps, the blues destroys them. On stage, where Shuggie Otis, 16; rhythm guitarist Jim (Supe) Bradshaw, 23; singers Margie Evans and Delmar "Mighty Mouth" (no relation) Evans, both in their 20's; and the rest of the singing and blowing battalion representing every decade on up to Pee Wee Crayton and Big Joe Turner, both in their very late 50's, and Roy Milton, who's up there at the Social Security borderline.

The same with the roaring receptive, over capacity audience. Those who stood up on their seats hollering and testifying, or boogalooed along the aisles, were mostly in the 15-25 bracket, while others, less extroverted, exchanged reminiscences about the first time they had heard the call of the blues, perhaps at some half-remembered dance in the 30's, or on a 78 record player at high school in the 40's and 50's. That's what this album is all about. This is no gallery of museum pieces set up to rekindle a lost past, no futile exercise in nostalgia; instead it is a meeting ground were ages, races, and backgrounds coalesce, where grooving together is all that matters. /Leonard Feather

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Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Pioneers Of Rhythm & Blues Vol 7

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:17
Size: 78.5 MB
Styles: R&B, Jazz-blues saxophone
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. I'm The Midnight Creeper
[3:25] 2. Cleanhead Blues
[3:24] 3. Kidney Stew Blues
[2:27] 4. Person To Person
[3:05] 5. Sugar
[3:26] 6. Nigger, Please
[3:14] 7. Hold It Right There
[2:47] 8. Alimony Blues
[3:29] 9. Old Maid Boogie
[2:56] 10. Cherry Red
[2:31] 11. Juice Head Baby

An advanced stylist on alto saxophone who vacillated throughout his career between jump blues and jazz, bald-pated Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (he lost his hair early on after a botched bout with a lye-based hair-straightener) also possessed a playfully distinctive vocal delivery that stood him in good stead with blues fans.

Vinson first picked up a horn while attending high school in Houston. During the late '30s, he was a member of an incredible horn section in Milton Larkins's orchestra, sitting next to Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet. After exiting Larkins' employ in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. Vinson joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945. His vocals on trumpeter Williams' renditions of "Cherry Red" and "Somebody's Got to Go" were in large part responsible for their wartime hit status.

Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury, and enjoying a double-sided smash in 1947 with his romping R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie" and the song that would prove his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues" (both songs featured Vinson's instantly identifiable vocals). A 1949-1952 stint at King Records produced only one hit, the amusing sequel "Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red," along with the classic blues "Person to Person" (later revived by another King artist, Little Willie John).

Vinson's jazz leanings were probably heightened during 1952-1953, when his band included a young John Coltrane. Somewhere along about here, Vinson wrote two Miles Davis classics, "Tune Up" and "Four." Vinson steadfastly kept one foot in the blues camp and the other in jazz, waxing jumping R&B for Mercury (in 1954) and Bethlehem (1957), jazz for Riverside in 1961 (with Cannonball Adderley), and blues for Blues Time and ABC-BluesWay. A 1969 set for Black & Blue, cut in France with pianist Jay McShann and tenor saxophonist Hal Singer, beautifully recounted Vinson's blues shouting heyday (it's available on Delmark as Old Kidney Stew Is Fine). A much later set for Muse teamed him with the sympathetic little big-band approach of Rhode Island-based Roomful of Blues. Vinson toured the States and Europe frequently prior to his 1988 death of a heart attack.

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Various - The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 (3-CD Set)

The forgotten superheroes of 20th-century black music, the leather-lunged blues shouters, dominated the US nightclub stages and R&B charts for half-a-dozen years or so following World War II, before being side-lined by the bourgeoning rock n roll storm in the early 1950s. Still considered a force with which to be reckoned in the US music industry of the mid-fifties, and still at the height of their vocal prowess, many of the biggest stars were granted one or two final shots to save their flagging recording careers during rock n roll s heyday - their Last Shout.

Compiled and annotated by R&B authority Dave Penny, this 3CD set from Fantastic Voyage endeavours to document the twilight of that proud musical genre and resurrect the ultimate releases from some of the great voices of R&B. The international blues boom of the 1960s - informed by the white Europeans predilection for more unsophisticated rural country blues and urban down-home blues, coupled with black America s progressive, wholesale acceptance of gospel-steeped soul and funk - served to entomb the art of the jump blues shouter further and to remove the memory of an exciting musical form from general consciousness, until it began to be exhumed decades later. Featuring singers famous and obscure, The Last Shout! serves the best of the final commercial recordings issued for the African-American R&B market by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Jimmy Witherspoon and Eddie Cleanhead Vinson. When they no longer sold to their market, some, like Turner and Witherspoon, were able to make a comfortable living on the jazz circuit, others pursued alternative careers in comedy, preaching, composing or acting, yet others remained tragically determined; trying to maintain an ever-dwindling touring schedule on the chittlin circuit and drinking themselves into an early grave.

97 tracks and a 20pp illustrated booklet offer a snapshot of time in the history of black music, when the undiminished power of the classic blues shouters was married to the urgent rhythms of the rock n roll era, resulting in some very special music indeed!

Album: The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 1: Big Four Battlin'
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 77:58
Size: 178.5 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes
[2:45] 2. Joe Turner & His Blues Kings - Feeling Happy
[2:22] 3. Jimmy Witherspoon & The Quintones - My Girl Ivy
[2:30] 4. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Hold It Right There
[2:49] 5. Wynonie Harris - A Tale Of Woe
[2:31] 6. Jimmy Witherspoon & The Starlites - Who Baby Who
[2:45] 7. Joe Turner & His Blues Kings - Hide And Seek
[2:58] 8. Eddie Vinson - Old Man Boogie
[2:27] 9. Jimmy Witherspoon - I Gotta Go Home
[3:04] 10. Wynonie Harris - There's No Substitute For Love
[2:43] 11. Eddie Vinson - Suffer Fool
[2:01] 12. Joe Turner & Choker Campbell Orchestra - I Need A Girl
[2:03] 13. Wynonie Harris - That's Me Right Now
[2:34] 14. Jimmy Witherspoon - Teenage Party
[2:52] 15. Eddie Vinson - Old Man Boogie
[2:19] 16. Joe Turner w. Jesse Stone Orchestra - Wee Baby Blues
[2:21] 17. Wynonie Harris - Tell A Whale Of A Tale
[2:30] 18. Eddie Vinson - Anxious Heart
[2:22] 19. Jimmy Witherspoon w. Jesse Stone Orchestra - All Right Miss Moore
[2:03] 20. Joe Turner - Rock A While
[1:53] 21. Wynonie Harris - Destination Love
[2:29] 22. Eddie Vinson - You Can't Have My Love No More
[2:27] 23. Jimmy Witherspoon w. Jesse Stone Orchestra - When I Start To Thinking
[2:48] 24. Wynonie Harris - Big Old Country Fool
[2:31] 25. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - That's The Way To Treat Your Woman
[1:56] 26. Joe Turner w. Choker Campbell Orchestra - Love Roller Coaster
[2:29] 27. Jimmy Witherspoon - You Can Make It If You Try
[2:51] 28. Eddie Vinson - Tomorrow May Never Come
[2:28] 29. Joe Turner w. Jesse Stone Orchestra - Teen Age Letter
[2:30] 30. Wynonie Harris - Sweet Lucy Brown
[2:31] 31. Jimmy Witherspoon - Endless Sleep

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The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 1: Big Four Battlin' mc
The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 1: Big Four Battlin' zippy

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Album: The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 2: Old School Scufflin'
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 78:24
Size: 179.5 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2014
Art: Full

[2:19] 1. The Tibbs Brothers - (Wake Up) Miss Rip Van Winkle
[2:24] 2. Jimmy Rushing - Baby, Don't Tell On Me
[2:15] 3. Grant Jones w. Mike Simpson Orchestra - Soda Pop Rock
[3:05] 4. Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats - I Wanna Hug, Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya
[2:53] 5. Teddy (Mr. Bear) McRae & His Orchestra - Hold Out Baby
[2:30] 6. Redd Foxx - The Crazy House
[2:28] 7. Gene Phillips w. Jay McVea Orchestra - I Owe Everybody
[2:23] 8. Doc Pomus All Stars - Work, Little Carrie, Work
[2:17] 9. Big John Greer - Come Back Uncle John
[2:02] 10. Tic & Toc w. Howard Biggs Orchestra - I'm A Big Boy Now
[1:46] 11. Ollie Shepard - My Baby Is Gone
[2:18] 12. Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy Orchestra - Ada From Decatur
[2:44] 13. Bobby 'Mr. Blues' Merrell - I Ain't Mad At You
[2:10] 14. Timmie Rogers - Take Me To Your Leader
[2:47] 15. Function At The Junction
[2:29] 16. H-Bomb Ferguson & His Mad Lads - No-Sackie-Sack
[2:03] 17. Roy Milton - Red Light
[2:27] 18. Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats - If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')
[2:39] 19. Crown Prince Waterford - Driftwood Blues
[2:06] 20. Bull Moose Jackson - Heavyweight Baby
[2:32] 21. Crown Prince Waterford w. Labert Ellis - Get Your Clothes And Let's Go
[2:21] 22. Redd Foxx - Real Pretty Mama
[2:08] 23. Bobby 'Mr. Blues' Merrell - I'm Gonna Set You Free
[2:02] 24. Grant Jones w. Mike Simpson Orchestra - Pinball Machine
[2:31] 25. Teddy (Mr. Bear) McRae & His Orchestra - Hi' Fi' Baby
[2:29] 26. Ollie Shepard - Say Yeah
[2:20] 27. John Greer - Come Back Maybelline
[2:02] 28. Buillmoose Jackson - Watch My Signals
[2:32] 29. Grant Jones w. Mike Simpson Orchestra - Take The Hint
[2:20] 30. H-Bomb Ferguson - Midnight Ramblin' Tonight
[2:10] 31. Doc Pomus All Stars - Bye Baby Bye
[2:14] 32. Knocked Out
[2:22] 33. Jibba Jab

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The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 2: Old School Scufflin' mc
The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 2: Old School Scufflin' zippy

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Album: The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 3: New Breed Bawlin'
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 79:54
Size: 183.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2014
Art: Full

[2:43] 1. Clarence Samuels - Chicken-Hearted Woman
[3:02] 2. Jimmy Nelson - I Sat And Cried
[2:56] 3. The Tone Twins w. Jimmy Lewis Band - Hey Pretty Girl
[2:56] 4. Stomp Gordon & His Orchestra - Ride, Superman, Ride
[2:37] 5. Joe (Mr. 'G') August - Boogie With Calypso
[2:30] 6. Dossie (Thunderbird) Terry - Skinny Ginny
[2:04] 7. Emmet Davis - How About It Baby
[2:20] 8. Titus Turner - Get On The Right Track, Baby
[2:28] 9. Earl Williams & His Quintette - O Baby Please
[2:29] 10. Piney Brown & His Blues Toppers - Sugar In My Tea (Cream In My Coffee)
[2:06] 11. Tommy Brown - Rock Away My Blues
[2:25] 12. Great Gates - Jump, Jump, Jump
[2:16] 13. Little Caesar w. Eddie Beal Orchestra - I'm Reachin'
[2:25] 14. Rudy Green - Teeny Weeny Baby
[2:26] 15. Billy Wright - The Question (Wha'cha Gonna Do)
[2:21] 16. Big Tiny Kennedy & His Orchestra - Country Boy
[2:26] 17. Titus Turner & His Band - Hungry Man
[2:31] 18. Big Tiny Kennedy & His Orchestra - Wild Life
[1:58] 19. Little Caesar w. Eddie Beal Orchestra - Who Slammed The Door
[2:29] 20. Joe (Mr. 'G') August - Strange Things Happening In The Dark
[2:42] 21. Earl Williams & His Quintette - You Ain't Puttin' Out Nothin' But The Lights
[2:33] 22. Jimmie Lewis - Last Night (I Was In Heaven)
[2:21] 23. Rudy Green - My Mumblin' Baby
[2:10] 24. Emmet Davis - You Changed My Night Into Day
[2:13] 25. Dossie (Thunderbird) Terry - Fool Mule
[2:27] 26. Piney Brown & His Blues Toppers - My Love
[2:10] 27. Big Tiny Kennedy & His Orchestra - Strange Kind Of Feeling
[1:51] 28. Tommy Brown - Someday, Somewhere
[2:43] 29. Jimmy Nelson - Unlock The Door
[1:47] 30. Ray Brown - Be My Love Tonight
[2:58] 31. Titus Turner - Have Mercy Baby
[2:00] 32. Ivory Joe Hunter w. Milt Rogers Orchestra - Welcome Home Baby
[2:15] 33. Smiley Lewis - I'm Coming Down With The Blues

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The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 3: New Breed Bawlin' mc
The Last Shout! Twilight Of The Blues Shouters 1954-1962 - CD 3: New Breed Bawlin' zippy

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Eddie Shaw - Movin' & Groovin' Man (Reissue)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:06
Size: 87.2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1982/1993/2014
Art: Front

[3:09] 1. Highway Bound
[5:55] 2. Blues Dues
[3:20] 3. Blues For Tomako
[2:42] 4. Dunkin' Donut Woman
[4:57] 5. Louisiana Blues
[2:09] 6. Movin' And Groovin' Man
[6:08] 7. Sad And Lonesome
[3:16] 8. Big Leg Woman
[2:43] 9. I've Got To Tell Somebody
[3:43] 10. My Baby And Me

Tenor saxophonist Eddie Shaw is a rarity in blues circles--a first-class instrumentalist who is not a guitarist or pianist. Shaw is a soulful, exuberant player whose lusty licks make a solid counterpoint to his rough-hewn vocals and narratives. While Shaw carries the majority of the load on this 10-cut date from 1982 previously recorded for Isabel (reissued on CD by Evidence) it is guitarist Melvin Taylor who is the revelation as second soloist. Between his work with Lucky Peterson, his own CD, and his brisk, sizzling solos and accompaniment here, Taylor merits high praise as a workmanlike, flexible contributor. The others, with the exception of the great Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, are heady pros capably handling limited support duties. ~Ron Wynn

Feat. Melvin Taylor, Ken Saydak, Harlan Terson, Merle Perkins, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson.

Movin' & Groovin' Man mc
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Various - Dues Paid: The Bluestime Story

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 71:00
Size: 162.6 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues, Piano blues, Chicago blues, Contemporary blues
Year: 2013
Art: Full

[ 4:24] 1. T-Bone Walker - Every Day I Have The Blues
[ 3:12] 2. Otis Spann - I'm A Dues Payin' Man
[ 3:19] 3. Harmonica Slim - Love
[ 2:27] 4. T-Bone Walker - Sail On
[ 2:58] 5. The Plaster Caster Blues Band - Chicago Charmer Chapter
[10:42] 6. Joe Turner - Plastic Man
[ 2:52] 7. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - I Need To Be Be'd Wid
[ 3:20] 8. Harmonica Slim - That's Alright
[ 4:34] 9. Malcolm & Chris - Something So Bright
[ 3:20] 10. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
[ 3:06] 11. Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle And Roll
[ 3:51] 12. T-Bone Walker - For B.B. King
[ 4:23] 13. Otis Spann - I Wonder Why
[14:01] 14. The Super Black Blues Band - Paris Blues
[ 4:25] 15. Leon Thomas - Disillusion Blues

By the late 1960s the blues was no longer the primary music of black America. Following the rise of doo wop, rock’n’roll and soul, blues was increasingly viewed as old people’s music. Fortunately for blues musicians, they maintained a strong following amongst people of their own age and were being lauded by a generation of rock musicians who saw the blues as the well from which their own music had sprung. British bands such as the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Cream made their debt to the blues well-known, whilst American acts who did the same also became successful.

With this new spotlight being shone on established blues artists, record companies began to record some of them. One of the most active was ABC’s Bluesway label which was run by producer Bob Thiele. Bluesway’s greatest success was with B.B. King, who became the face and sound of his generation of blues men, while others such as John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker and Otis Spann all made excellent records which updated their sound.

When Bob Thiele started his jazz label Flying Dutchman in 1969, he set up the Bluestime imprint at the same time, bringing with him many of the artists he had worked with at Bluesway. Bluestime was short-lived and most of the releases have been out of print since the 1970s. On discovering the master tapes, we decided to start reissuing them.

We begin with this compilation of tracks from Bluestime LPs. T-Bone Walker’s “Every Day I Have The Blues” album is wonderful, as are his appearances on albums by the Super Black Blues Band supergroup, which also featured Joe Turner and Otis Spann, whose performances are equally adept. Spann’s recordings are historically important as he died soon after they were cut. Of the more unusual material is an ebullient performance from Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson. We have included a track from Malcolm & Chris, a pair of white blues revivalists who were discovered and produced by B.B. King. ~Dean Rudland

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Dues Paid: The Bluestime Story

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Eddie SHAW - Moovin' And Groovin' Man / Have Blues Will Travel

Album: Moovin' And Groovin' Man
Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues
Recorded: 1982
Released: 1993
Bitrate: 320k/s
Size: 90.36 MB
Time: 38:41
Art: Full

1. Highway Bound (3:13)
2. Blues Dues (5:59)
3. Blues For Tomako (3:23)
4. Dunkin' Donut Woman (2:45)
5. Louisiana Blues (5:00)
6. Movin' And Groovin' Man (2:12)
7. Sad And Lonesome (6:11)
8. Big Leg Woman (3:19)
9. I've Got To Tell Somebody (2:46)
10. My Baby And Me (3:43)

Personnel: Eddie SHAW - Alto, Tenor Saxophones, Harmonica, Vocals
Melvin Taylor - Guitar
Ken Saydak - Piano
Harlan Terson - Bass
Merle Perkins - Drums
with:
Eddie "Cleanhead' Vinson - Alto Saxophone tr.3

Note: Tenor saxophonist Eddie Shaw is a rarity in blues circles- a first-class instrumentalist who is not a guitarist or pianist. Shaw is a soulful, exuberant player whose lusty licks make a solid counterpoint to his rough-hewn vocals and narratives. While Shaw carries the majority of the load on this 10-cut date from 1982 previously recorded for Isabel (reissued on CD by Evidence) it is guitarist Melvin Taylor who is the revelation as second soloist. Between his work with Lucky Peterson, his own CD, and his brisk, sizzling solos and accompaniment here, Taylor merits high praise as a workmanlike, flexible contributor. The others, with the exception of the great Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, are heady pros capably handling limited support duties.

                                                     Moovin' And Groovin' Man
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Album: Have Blues Will Travel
Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues  
Recorded: 1966 & 1977
Released: 1977
Bitrate: 320k/s (Vinyl ripp!)
Size: 67.21 MB
Time: 29:20
Art: Full

1. I've Got To Tell Somebody (2:19)
2. This Little Voice (2:53)
3. Blues Men Of Yesterday (2:52)
4. I Can't Stop Loving You (2:42)
5. Big Leg Woman (3:53)
6. Back Door Wolf (3:58)
7. I Don't Trust Nobody (2:47)
8. Blues For The West Side (2:51)
9. Riding High (2:07)
10. I've Got To Tell Somebody-tk.2 (2:58)

Personnel: Eddie SHAW - Saxophones, Harmonica, Vocals
Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
Detroit Junior - Piano
Lafayette 'Shorty' Gilbert - Bass
Chico Chism - Drums
on tr.8,9 from 1966 SP
Magic Sam - Guitar
Mac Thompson - Bass
Bob Richey - Drums

Notes: This is first release of Shaw, after his Master - Howlin' Wolf died. On tracks 8, 9 to release on this album added his first single (45 rpm) released on Colt with Magic Sam on guitar(!). Album is a little vocals and instrumentals.

                                                            Have Blues Will Travel
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ROOMFUL OF BLUES - With Joe Turner / With Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson

Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Jump Blues
Recorded: 1982/1983
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size: 179.84 MB
Time: 38:18/38:43
Art: Full

ROB With Big Joe Turner - Blues Train

1. Crawdad Hole (3:26)
2. Red Sails In The Sunset (3:05)
3. Cocka-Doodle-Doo (2:54)
4. Jumpin' For Joe (4:00)
5. I Want A Little Girl (4:14)
6. Blues Train (3:50)
7. I Know You Love Me (7:01)
8. Last Night (4:45)
9. I Love The Way (My Baby Sings The Blues) (5:03)

ROB with Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson

1. House Of Joy (3:19)
2. He Was A Friend Of Mine (3:22)
3. Movin' With Lester (7:00)
4. No Bones (5:55)
5. That's The Groovy Thing (4:27)
6. Past Sixty Blues (4:25)
7. Street Lights (6:28)
8. Farmer's Daughter Blues (3:47)

Personnel: Big Joe TURNER - Vocals
Eddie 'Cleanhead' VINSON - Alto Saxophone, Vocals tr.2,6,8
Greg Piccolo - Tenor Saxophone
Rich Lataille - Alto Saxophone
Doug James - Baritone Saxophone
Bob Enos - Trumpet
Porky Cohen - Trombone
Al Copley - Piano
Ronnie Earl - Guitar
Preston Hubbard - Bass (on Turner)
Jimmy Wimfheimer - Bass (on Vinson)
John Rossi - Drums
with guest: Dr. John - Piano (tr.5 on Turner)

Notes: In their early days, Roomful of Blues recorded some seminal LPs for the Muse label, which were bought by 32 Jazz, and two of them are available on this two-disc set. Blues Train with Big Joe Turner and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson & Roomful of Blues are the recordings included, and they offer some of the very best, and certainly seminal, early-period work of the Rhode Island-based horn-fired blues/jazz band. Dr. John also helps out on the first recording, which features Turner's signature takes on "Crawdad Hole" and "I Want a Little Girl," while the sessions with alto saxophonist/vocalist Vinson serve up evergreens "He Was a Friend of Mine" and "Past Sixty Blues," among many others. This one is also out of print, but will surely come back. The music is too keen, vital, and precious to be off the market. Find it as best you can.

                             Roomful Of Blues with Joe Turner/Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson
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