Champion Jack Dupree - Blues for Everybody - 1990

Review:
Although Dupree seldom paused at any one label for very long, the piano pounder did hang around at Cincinnati-based King Records from 1951 to 1955 -- long enough to wax the 20 sides comprising this set and a few more that regrettably aren't aboard. By this time, Dupree was a seasoned R&B artist, storming through "Let the Doorbell Ring" and "Mail Order Woman" and emphasizing his speech impediment on "Harelip Blues" (one of those not-for-the-politically correct numbers). Most of these tracks were done in New York; sidemen include guitarist Mickey Baker and saxist Willis Jackson

Tracks:
1.Heartbreaking Woman
2.Watchin' My Stuff
3.Ain't No Meat on the Bone
4.The Blues Got Me Rockin'
5.Tongue Tied Blues
6.Please Tell Me Baby
7.Harelip Blues
8.Two Below Zero
9.Let the Doorbell Ring
10.Blues for Everybody
11.That's My Pa
12.She Cooks Me Cabbage
13.Failing Health Blues
14.Stumbling Block
15.Mail Order Woman
16.Silent Partner
17.House Rent Party
18.Rub a Little Boogie
19.Walking The Blues
20.Daybreak Rock

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Lazy Lester - Blues Stop Knockin' - 2001

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Not the most nimble harp player on the blues block, Lazy Lester nonetheless connects when he's backed by a sympathetic band, as he is on this recording, his first in three years. Aided immensely by guitarists Jimmie Vaughen and Derek O'Brien (who also produces) on all but one track, the 70-year-old Lester returns to his swampy Excello label past on this sturdy release. Although it was recorded in Texas, Lester effortlessly evokes his Louisiana roots in a set predominantly consisting of covers that feature his moody harmonica and deep, bluesy sound. With muscular songs and a band who knows their way around a muddy groove, Lester is in fine, low-key form throughout. Far from energetic, as his moniker implies, he sounds remarkably inspired throughout. When he hits his mark on the slow blues of "Sad City Blues" (featuring guests Sue Foley, Sarah Brown, and Gene Taylor) or connects on the Jimmy Reed-ish "Miss You Like the Devi," his quivering voice and unamplified harp evoke the sound of those great '60s songs he turned into models of the genre. He even resembles Muddy Waters on "Go Ahead," gradually unwinding on a slow shuffle. Re-recording some of his old favorites, like the self-referential "They Call Me Lazy," is a questionable move for many elder musicians hoping to regain a lost spark, but these versions maintain the slow, laconic, if not quite lazy atmospheric vibe that made his classic stuff so influential. Not a great blues album, but a surprisingly good one and better than most would have expected from one of the blues' fringe figures in his waning years.

Tracks:
1.Blues Stop Knockin'
2.I Love You Baby
3.I'm You Breadmaker, Baby
4.Go Ahead
5.Gonna Stick to You Baby
6.I'm Gonna Miss (Like the Devil)
7.Ya Ya
8.They Call Me Lazy
9.Ponderosa Shuffle
10.No Special Rider Blues
11.I Told My Little Woman
12.Sad City Blues

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Jimmy Rogers - Chicago Bound - 1976

Review:

Starkly printed in black and white with washed-out, grainy photographs, this is one heavy slab of blues by a player who is not as well-known as he should be. Guitarist Jimmy Rogers was usually overshadowed by the leaders he worked for, Muddy Waters particularly. He was also sometimes confused with the hillbilly singer Jimmie Rodgers, and although they might have sounded good together, they don't have anything in common. This reissue collection grabs 14 tracks done at various times in the mostly early '50s which involve practically a who's who of performers associated with the most intense and driving Chicago blues. This includes the aforementioned Waters, leaving behind his role as leader for a few numbers to add some stinging guitar parts. There is also a pair of harmonica players, each of whom could melt vinyl siding with their playing. These are the Walters, big and little, as in Big Walter Horton and Little Walter. Pianist Otis Spann, bassist Willie Dixon, and drummer Fred Belew are also on hand, meaning the rhythm section action is first class. Blues listeners who have only skimmed the surface of the music may not have really discovered Rogers, as his reputation increased in the years after his death and he had nowhere near the following and status of Waters or even Little Walter. Some of the tracks here are numbers the musicians got together and played with Rogers at the end of what was probably an already grueling session by Waters. "Sloppy Drunk" is a killer track that joins the long list of great blues numbers concerning the inebriated, while "Walking by Myself" is a fine example of the kind of shuffling rhythm these players are so good at. The CD era was an opportunity to put together larger selections of Rogers' material, complete with outtakes and selections that are much rarer than the material here. If a listener's reaction to this album is as positive as it ought to be, they can be assured the pickings will be equally tasty if they decide to go for more extensive documentation of this artist.


Tracks:
1.You're the One
2.Money, Marbles and Chalk
3.Luedella
4.Act Like You Love Me
5.Back Door Friend
6.Last Time
7.I Used to Have a Woman
8.Sloppy Drunk
9.Blues Leave Me Alone
10.Out on the Road
11.Goin' Away Baby
12.That's All Right
13.Chicago Bound
14.Walkin' By Myself


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Snooky Pryor - In This Mess Up My Chest - 1994

Review:

Pryor reaffirms his mastery of postwar blues harp over the course of this sturdy set, again done with the help of some fine Texas and Chicago players. Pryor's downhome vocals shine on the distinctive "Bury You in a Paper Sack" and "Stick Way Out Behind."


Tracks:

   1.Bury You in a Paper Sack
   2.Pay for All Our Sins
   3.Stick Way Out Behind
   4.Can I Get a Witness?
   5.When the Saints Go Marching In
   6.Take It Easy, Greasy
   7.Slow Down, Baby
   8.Bluebird Blues
   9.Hello, Little Baby
  10.She Tried to Ruin Me
  11.My Baby's Too Sweet to Die
  12.Judgement Day


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Johnny Shines - Standing at the Crossroads - 1970

Review:

This is one of several albums this artist made in the early '70s that stand as a masterpiece of the acoustic country blues genre. Johnny Shines had begun recording in the mid-'60s, the albums done with electric guitar and full-combo backup, one of them reportedly cut after he hadn't picked up an instrument in years. It was as if he reinvented himself in the following decade, playing pristine and flawless acoustic slide guitar pieces complete with shuffling, stuttering, and stimulatingly complicated tempos. The message was that he had been a young sidekick to Robert Johnson and had absorbed everything, although no deal had been made with the Devil. Shines was a steady, dependable, religious, and forthright chap who lived in Tuscaloosa, AL, and held down a steady job as a construction foreman. Mild-mannered and extremely intellectual, he let loose the reserve of emotion when doing a Delta blues number. The magic and heart were in his fingertips as well as in his voice, which sounds stupendous here. The emergence of the Johnson song canon into his repertoire, done with almost Baroque detail, was also something of a revelation. Some of Shines' earlier albums had featured songs that almost seemed made up on the spot. He was good at that, and was rumored to have played whole sets that were completely improvised when working the country juke joints of his home state, but on this album he showed what he could do when sinking his teeth into a bona fide blues classic. "Kind Hearted Woman" is the musical equivalent of an absolutely perfect chopped-barbecue sandwich with sauce the way they do it in Tuscaloosa, and obviously of much less offense to vegetarians when taken in this form. There were 11 perfect songs chosen by Pete Welding from his set of recording sessions for this project. Once again this great producer has come up with a blues release that is basically a required item for any good collection of this genre.

Tracks:

1.Standing At The Crossroads
2.Milk Cow's Troubles
3.Death Hearse Blues
4.Drunken Man's Prayer
5.Hoo-Doo Snake Doctor Blues
6.It's A Lowdown Dirty Shame
7.How Long
8.Crying Black Angel
9.Down in Spirit
10.Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine
11.Kind-Hearted Woman
12.Baby Sister Blues
13.My Rat
14.Don't Take A Country Woman
15.Kind-Hearted Woman (Alt.)
16.Death Hearse Blues (Alt.)

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