Down Home Blues: Miami, Atlanta & The South Eastern States - Blues In The Alley (3CD)

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Cat No: WNRCD5112

Format Details: 3CD

Release Date: 27 November 2020

Label: Wienerworld Music

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 3

Barcode: 5018755511219

Genres: Blues Blues

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4-STAR REVIEW IN MOJO MAGAZINE

4-STAR REVIEW IN RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

Wienerworld is proud and excited to present to you the fifth box set in our unmissable Down Home Blues series, exploring the unique regions of the black American blues scene.

Blues In The Alley features 29 artists that were influential in continuing and developing the traditions of the blues in the southeast. This release includes early down home blues recordings from none other than Ray Charles, before his climb to fame with his bigger sounding jazz-tinged blues. Alongside this, there are early recordings from Earl Hooker and Jerry McCain, two exceptionally gifted musicians who were always left on the cusp of success. Don't forget to check out the first recordings from Frank Edwards, who captivated audiences with his rack-mounted harmonica guitar one man band style, from the 1940s right up to his last years of performing and recording in 2003.

Down Home Blues: Miami, Atlanta & The South Eastern States is a three CD set, packaged in a deluxe digipak with outer slipcase, featuring 83 tracks, all of them superbly remastered. This collection has been collated thanks to the generous help of blues collectors from both sides of the Atlantic, with rare recordings that are for the first time made available for listening via today's compact disc medium.

An outstanding 78-page book, featuring a 15,000-word essay by blues historian Chris Bentley, accompanies the release. Rare period photographs illustrate the essay throughout with a complete sessionography and extensive gallery of original 78 and 45 record labels.

Blues In The Alley is a close companion to Wienerworld's Tough Enough collection (WNRCD5104), with both sets dovetailing the post-war blues from America's north and southeastern states. The southeastern states were known as slow starters in having record companies to start up to record, produce and distribute the artistes that were performing on their own doorsteps after the Second World War.

The best chance for any blues artistes in this region, looking to record, was to get up to New York for any opportunity to arise. By 1950 things certainly were different, and new recording companies who had taken the time and trouble to record such fine music had made up for a lot of lost time. Blues In The Alley captivates the efforts of those producers who gambled on their feel for the music – and their pockets to produce sounds from unadulterated country blues to the hard-edged electric tough blues sounds similar to that then being recorded in Chicago and Detroit.

Disc 1

1. Frank Edwards - Sweet Man Blues

2. Frank Edwards - Three Woman Blues

3. Curley Weaver - Brown Skin Woman

4. Curley Weaver - She Don't Treat Me Good No More

5. Curley Weaver - I Keep On Drinkin'

6. Curley Weaver - Baby, You Don't Mean Me No Good

7. Curley Weaver - Baby, You're Gonna Change My Mind

8. Frank Edwards - Terraplane Blues

9. Frank Edwards - We Got To Get Together

10. Poor Jim - Spots Boogie

11. Poor Jim - Brand New Woman

12. John Lee - Baby Please Don't Go

13. John Lee - Slappin' The Boogie

14. Frank Edwards - Love My Baby

15. Frank Edwards - Gotta Get Together

16. Poor Jim - She Fooled Me

17. Poor Jim - Rubber Ball Blues

18. Marylin Scott (Marylyn Scott) - The Monkey Song

19. John Ferguson - John Henry Boogie

20. Rudy Greene - No Good Woman Blues

21. Rudy Greene - Florida Blues

22. Richard Armstrong - Gene Nobles Boogie (Instrumental)

23. Richard Armstrong - Gene Nobles Blues (Instrumental)

24. Marylin Scott (Marylyn Scott) - Beer Bottle Boogie

25. Marylin Scott (Marylyn Scott) - Uneasy Blues

26. John Bullard - Ain't I Got You

27. John Bullard - Bonus Blues

Disc 2

1. Ray Charles - Guitar Blues (Instrumental)

2. Ray Charles - Why Did You Go

3. Earl Hooker - Shake 'em Up

4. Earl Hooker - Race Track

5. Charlie Harding - Train Porter Blues

6. Charlie Harding - I'm A Man Of Experience

7. John Bullard - Help Me To Find My Right Mind

8. John Bullard - Western Union Blues

9. John Bullard - Spoiled Hambone Blues

10. Willie Baker (C. B. Baker) - Skin To Skin

11. Willie Baker (C. B. Baker) - Goin' Back Home

12. Charlie Harding - Moonrise Blues (Instrumental)

13. Charlie Harding - Peach Tree Boogie

14. Earl Hooker - Happy Blues (Instrumental)

15. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar Blues (Instrumental)

16. Willie Baker (W.C. Baker) - I Went Back Home

17. Willie Baker (W.C. Baker) - Kenny's Hop (Instrumental)

18. Willie Baker (W.C. Baker) - Going Back Home Today

19. Jerry McCain - Middle Of The Night

20. Jerry McCain - Crazy 'bout That Mess

21. Jerry McCain - Fall Guy

22. Tommy Malone - I'm Wading In Deep Water

23. Tommy Malone - It's Been So Long Baby

24. Bill Reese - Whiskey, Ol' Whiskey

25. Bill Reese - I Gotta Find My Baby

26. Jimmy Wilson - Alley Blues

27. Jimmy Wilson - Poor, Poor Lover

28. Alley Blues (alternate)

Disc 3

1. Earl Hooker - Sweet Angel

2. Earl Hooker - After Hours (instrumental)

3. Jimmy Wilson - I've Found Out

4. Jimmy Wilson - Blues In The Alley

5. Eddie Hope - A Fool No More

6. Eddie Hope - Lost Child

7. Robert Willis - You're Mine

8. Robert Willis - Never Let Me Go

9. Shorty Long - Redstone John

10. Sonny Boy Williams - Alice Mae Blues

11. Crook Jr - Wiggle It Baby

12. Crook Jr - Please Believe Me Darling

13. Rudy Greene - Oh Baby

14. Dan Harrison - Piney Brown Blues

15. Dan Harrison - Straighten Up Juice Head

16. Johnny Shaw - May's Shuffle

17. Johnny Shaw - Any May

18. Clifford King - Chicken Shack Boogie

19. Clifford King - Want To Jump With You Baby

20. Leroy Dallas - Sweet Man Blues

21. Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O

22. Danny Boy Thomas - Kokomo Me Baby

23. Danny Boy Thomas - Wild Women

24. Jerry McCain - She's Tough

25. Jerry McCain - Steady (Instrumental)

26. Willie Brown - Cut It Out

27. Willie Brown - Do It Like That (Instrumental)

28. Willie Brown - Tell Me Why Love Don't Last
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