Eddie Mack - Shotgun Boogie: The Best Of 1947-1952

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 62:34
Size: 143.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:45] 1. Cool Mama
[2:31] 2. Seven Days Blues
[2:49] 3. Lemonade
[2:35] 4. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
[2:12] 5. Mercenary Papa
[2:12] 6. Divorce Me C.O.D
[2:32] 7. Long Time
[2:33] 8. Kind Loving Daddy
[2:23] 9. You Gotta Pay Those Dues
[2:19] 10. Beauty Parlor Gossip
[2:58] 11. Heart Throbbing Blues
[2:12] 12. Steam Rollar Blues
[3:01] 13. Last Hour Blues
[2:15] 14. Mercenary Papa
[2:54] 15. Hoot And Hollar Saturday Night
[2:26] 16. Everybody Loves A Fat Man (And Oh How Fat Men Can Love)
[2:39] 17. Keyhole Blues
[2:08] 18. If You Want Me To Come Home Baby
[2:48] 19. Behind Closed Doors
[2:05] 20. Good Time Woman
[2:13] 21. Please Be Careful
[2:30] 22. Shotgun Boogie
[2:25] 23. How About That
[2:07] 24. Loud Mouth Lucy
[2:49] 25. Hoot And Hollar Saturday Night

Fine reissue featuring all the recordings by this obscure but very fine blues shouter. Eddie Mack (Mack Edmondson) was part of the Brooklyn blues scene in the late 40s and early 50s but his subsequent career is a mystery. He is featured here with various groups including Cootie Williams & His Orch. (he replaced Eddie Vinson), Lucky Millinder & His Orch and others. Sidemen include Willis Jackson, Bill Jennings, Bobby Smith, Haywood Henry, Rene Hall, Mickey Baker and others. Includes his intriguing and fine covers of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Shotgun Boogie” and Merle Travis’s “Divorce Me C.O.D.”.

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Piney Brown & Eddie Mack - Hoot & Holler Saturday Night!

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 57:27
Size: 131.5 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. Hoot And Holler Saturday Night!
[1:59] 2. Am I Gonna Have Trouble With You
[2:47] 3. Behind Closed Doors
[2:22] 4. How About That
[2:58] 5. Heart Throbbing Blues
[2:33] 6. Kind Loving Daddy
[2:58] 7. Gloomy Monday Blues
[2:28] 8. Mourning Blues
[3:09] 9. Down And Out Blues
[2:31] 10. Piney Brown Boogie
[2:28] 11. Lovin' Gal Blues
[2:40] 12. That's Right Baby
[2:27] 13. Why Do I Cry Over You
[2:21] 14. How About Rocking With Me
[2:51] 15. Handy Gal
[2:09] 16. If You Want Me To Come Home Baby
[2:21] 17. Good News
[2:51] 18. Lemonade
[2:46] 19. Cool Mama
[2:23] 20. How About That (Alternate)
[2:32] 21. Long Time
[2:53] 22. Hoot And Holler Saturday Night (Alternate)

Back in the '40s, a variety of things were done with the 12-bar format. Southern country blues (Mississippi, Texas, or otherwise) was '40s blues (as well as '20s and '30s blues) at its most rural, raw and basic; jump blues, on the other hand, had an urban sophistication and a jazz-minded, dance-oriented outlook. Jump blues swung unapologetically hard, and there is plenty of hard-swinging exuberance on Hoot and Holler Saturday Night! This CD focuses on two of the jump blues shouters who recorded for the independent Apollo Records in the late '40s and early '50s: Piney Brown and Eddie Mack. The singers don't perform together, and Hoot and Holler Saturday Night! (which spans 1948-1950) is what is now called a split CD. Neither Brown nor Mack was a huge name in jump blues -- neither was as well known as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, or Wynonie Harris. But both of them had small followings, and both were enjoyably gutsy shouters along the lines of Harris. All 22 of the tracks on this 2002 CD (seven of which were previously released) are examples of early R&B -- early as in pre-James Brown, pre-Ray Charles, pre-soul, pre-rock & roll R&B. The jump blues that Brown and Mack performed was part of early R&B (which was called "race music" before producer Jerry Wexler coined the term rhythm & blues in 1949), and back in the day, early R&B was heavily influenced by swing. In fact, one of the musicians who accompanies Mack is tenor saxophonist Willis "Gator" Jackson, a superb jazz improviser. Those who have only a casual interest in jump blues would do well to look for a best-of collection by Turner, Jordan, or Harris, but Hoot and Holler Saturday Night! is easily recommended to the more seasoned jump blues/early R&B enthusiasts. ~Alex Henderson

Eddie Mack - tracks 1-6, 15-22; Piney Brown - tracks 7-14.

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