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Picking the Blues: Pioneers of Boogie Woogie

Label: Document Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Cow Cow (Charles) Davenport: Cow Cow Blues; Pine Top Smith: Jump Steady Blues; Charlie Spand: Moanin' The Blues; Romeo Nelson: Head Rag Hop; Wesley Wallace: Fanny Lee Blues; Little Brother Montgomery: No Special Rider; 'Jabo' Williams: Pratt City Blues; Turner Parrish: Fives;Walter Roland: Jookit Jookit; Cleo Brown: Boogie Woogie; Jesse James: Lonesome Day Blues; Albert Ammons: Bass Goin' Crazy; Pete Johnson:Holler Stomp; Jimmy Yancey: 35th and Dearborn; Meade 'Lux' Lewis: Six Wheel Chaser; Jay McShann: Vine Street Boogie; Cripple Clarence Lofton: In The Mornin'; Big Maceo (Merriweather): Chicago Breakdown; Montana Taylor: Indiana Avenue Stomp; Memphis Slim: Slim's Boogie; Speckled Red: Early In The Morning; Otis Spann: Otis In The Dark.

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John Mayall (selected by): Picking the Blues: Pioneers of Boogie Woogie

Read "Picking the Blues: Pioneers of Boogie Woogie" reviewed by Robert R. Calder


Veteran English blues performer John Mayall's “reminiscences" here aren't “of great blues figures" but of encounters, often via recordings, of the very best barrelhouse, blues and boogie woogie piano music. Barrelhouse piano combined various different proportions of blues, ragtime and dance rhythms in the hands of technically unorthodox players. Jelly Roll Morton spoke ...


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