Various Artists - Chicago Blues From C.J. Records Vol. 1

Year: 1997
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:06
Size: 118,5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Big Moose Walker - Tend To Your Business (2:43)
2. Big Moose Walker - Things I Use To Do (4:32)
3. Hound Dog Taylor - Christine (2:10)
4. Hound Dog Taylor - Alley Music (2:10)
5. Hound Dog Taylor - You Don't Love Me (2:30)
6. Hound Dog Taylor - Christine (2:14)
7. Little Mac Simmons & James Cotton - Jumping At Cadillacs (2:27)
8. Little Mac Simmons - I Need You (2:56)
9. Little Mac Simmons - Come Back (2:33)
10. Little Mac Simmons - My Walking Blues (3:14)
11. Eddie Shaw - Ridin' High (2:09)
12. Eddie Shaw - Blues For The West Side (2:33)
13. Freddie Hall - Love & Affection (2:39)
14. Freddie Hall - You Were My First Love (2:38)
15. Betty Everett w. Al Perkins Band - Please Come Back (2:52)
16. Al Perkins & Band - You Cost Too Much (2:28)
17. Ike Perkins & Band - Ike's Boogie (2:47)
18. The Daffodils w. Ike Perkins' Band - Walk (2:40)
19. Lady Jean & Her Swinging Cats - Teenie Jeannie (2:41)

On this first volume of Chicago Blues from the vaults of C.J. Records we are treated to recordings originally produced by Carl Jones who started in the music business in the mid-1940s as a singer-songwriter. Carl first recorded for Mercury in 1945, where he was accompanied by Lonnie Johnson on guitar. Carl recorded some fine Chicago Blues, Doo Wop and Gospel for his C.J./Colt and Firma labels as Narvel Eatmon a.k.a. Cadillac Baby had done for his Bea & Baby, Keyhole and Miss labels.

Carl and Cadillac Baby were two black music business entrepeneurs who carved out a nitch for themselves by working and helping to establish homegrown talent, many who went on to build nice careers for themselves with a few like Hound Dog Taylor and Betty Everett who achieved national recognition. /Excerpt from the liner notes by Ron Bartolucci

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Various Artists - Chicago Blues From C.J. Records Vol. 2

Year: 1997
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:03
Size: 116,1 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Earl Hooker - Do The Chicken (2:33)
2. Earl Hooker - Yea Yea (2:00)
3. Earl Hooker - Wild Moments (2:41)
4. Homesick James - Set A Date (2:38)
5. Homesick James - Can't Afford To Do It (2:33)
6. Lee Jackson - Juanita (3:37)
7. Lee Jackson - Apollo 17 (2:47)
8. Lee Jackson - Pleadin' For Love (2:44)
9. Lee Jackson - Chop Suey (2:35)
10. Harold Tidwell - Sweet Suzie (2:05)
11. Harold Tidwell - Senorita Juanita (2:01)
12. Bobby Colquitt & String Bean - Million Dollar Playgirl (2:39)
13. Betty Everett w. Earl Hooker All Stars - Happy I Long To Be (1:54)
14. Morris Jones & Betty Everett - This House (2:59)
15. William Carter - Goin' Out West (3:26)
16. William Carter - Don't Make Me Mad (3:15)
17. Bobby Davis - Sweet Song (2:49)
18. Morris Jones - Her Spare (2:35)
19. Willie Milan - Tell Daddy Baby (2:03)

On this second release of C.J., Colt and Firma recordings of Carl Jones we are treated to six tracks by the legendary Earl Hooker, two of them with Hooker's band backing Little Richard style rocker Harold Tidwell as well as one by Hooker and his band backing Betty Everett. We are also treated to four titles by Lee Jackson who also appears on Wolf's Bea & Baby cds and Wolf's Abco Chicago Blues cds. Two red hot slide guitar rockers are turned in by Homesick James Williamson, Elmore James' cousin and rhythm guitarist (for many a year).

The two preformances by the lesser known Richard Gary with Bombay Carter's Band are superb blues. (Bombay Carter played behind J.B. Hutto as a Hawk on Delmark Records as did Lee Jackson.) Betty Everett's other track on this cd is Betty and none other than Carl Jones himself on vocals under the moniker of "Morris Jones". Of real pleasure and surprise to many fans will be the tunes of Bobby Colquitt & Stringbean, their "Million Dollar Playgirl" could have been a million dollar seller if promoted, and Bobby Davis turns in a nice soulful blues performance on "Sweet Song". /From the liner notes by Ron Bartolucci

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