Released: 1972
Styles: Blues
Time: 62:17
Size: 145,3 MB
Covers: Full
(2:24) 1. Sunnyland Slim - Recession Blues
(2:26) 2. Sunnyland Slim - Everything's Gonna Be All Right
(2:56) 3. Eddy Clearwater - I Don't Know Why
(3:07) 4. Eddy Clearwater - A-Minor Cha-Cha
(2:46) 5. Eddy Clearwater - Boogie Woogie Baby
(2:07) 6. Morris Pejoe - Let's Get High
(2:21) 7. Morris Pejoe - Baby I'm Lonely
(2:18) 8. Henry Gray - How Can You Do It?
(3:11) 9. Jo Jo Williams - All Pretty Women
(2:10) 10. Jo Jo Williams - Rock & Roll Boogie
(3:13) 11. Unknown - Why Did We Have to Party?
(2:03) 12. Johnny Rogers - I Am a Lucky Lucky Man
(3:02) 13. Little Mac Simmons - Blues for Atomic-N
(2:56) 14. George & His house Rockers - You Know You Don't Love Me
(2:56) 15. George & His house Rockers - Morning Love Blues
(2:31) 16. Eddy Clearwater - Hillbilly Blues
(3:40) 17. Eddy Clearwater - Jumpin' at Charley's
(2:35) 18. Eddy Clearwater - Neckbones Everyday
(3:39) 19. Harmonica George - Sad and Blue
(2:17) 20. Harmonica George - Sputnik Music
(2:54) 21. Jo Jo Williams - Women's World
(2:26) 22. Jo Jo Williams - Davy Crockett's Jingle Bells
(2:12) 23. Jo Jo Williams - You Can't Live in This Big World by Yourself
An explosion of nuclear-powered Chicago blues from 1958-'60 Atomic-H masters including many previously unissued recordings! A full hour containing 23 songs, most of which are not on the LP version. Atomic-H Records was a tiny label that recorded blues and gospel but only issued a few 45s. It was owned and operated by Rev. Houston H. Harrington who was also Eddy Clearwater's uncle and was responsible for Eddy making his way to Chicago from Alabama. This cd-reissue features new descriptive notes containing additional information about Atomic-H and personnels. With Eddy Clearwater, Sunnyland Slim, Morris Pejoe, Henry Gray, Jo Jo Williams, Little Mack Simmons and others. Eddy was known as "Clear Waters" on his first four Atomic-H sides, in tribute to Muddy. But the influence of Chess Records’ rock’n’roll genius also was evident in the Chuck Berry-ish "Hillbilly Blues". On a more serious topical note, Sunnyland Slim comments on how hard it is to make ends meet with the "Recession Blues." But he’s in party-hearty spirits on "Everything’s Gonna Be Alright." Though both these 1960 tracks feature Matt Murphy on guitar, S.P. Leary on drums, and J.T. Brown on sax, neither were released. Quite a few tracks have roots that seem to have come around from Big Town, Louisiana, rather than up from rural Mississippi. Vocalist Johnny Rogers’ "I Am a Lucky, Lucky Man" sounds like it could have been cut in Cosimo Matassa’s New Orleans studio rather than on Chi-town’s West Side. Morris Pejoe and Henry Gray were from Louisiana, and there’s no doubt about it on pianist Gray’s "How Can You Do It?" and Pejoe’s "Let’s Get High". Rev. Harrington may have also had his eye on the almighty dollar when he recorded novelties like the Jo Jo Williams tracks, "Rock and Roll Boogie" and "Davy Crockett’s Jingle Bell Blues." The latter is a bizarre instrumental — imagine Santa Claus wearing a coonskin cap — so hilariously dissonant and off-kilter that it makes me think: whatever they were on, I want some. Harrington was something of a visionary, so it’s no surprise he would be fascinated enough by the Russian and American space race that he’d have Harmonica George Robinson cut a record called "Sputnik Music".
Chicago Ain't Nothin' But A Blues Band
