Shake That Thing: East Coast Blues 1935-1953
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Format:
Compact Disc (Audio)
No of Discs:
4
Availability:
Available
Release Date:
29-05-2006
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Packaging:
Box Set
Catalog Number:
JSPCD7753
Description
All blues definitions are arbitrary at best but 'East Coast Blues' is the vaguest of them all. You can get a handle on Texas blues or Mississippi blues but the eastern seaboard of America, from Florida to New York, is more than 1,300 miles long and encompassed any number of individual styles when the recording industry first took an interest in blues music. After World War II, as the artists gathered here demonstrate, a strong current of aggressively fingerpicked blues continued to crop up in the commercial sphere.
This 4CD set concentrates on the recordings of Gabriel Brown, Dan Pickett and Ralph Willis. None of the three protagonists achieved the sort of success or ubiquity that cemented the careers of, say, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (who accompany Willis on some tracks) but each in his own way established a firm voice and idiosyncratic presence in postwar blues recording.
Tracks
- Name
- John Henry (Vocal) - Gabriel Brown
- John Henry - Gabriel Brown
- Blues - Gabriel Brown
- Tone The Bell Easy - Gabriel Brown
- Motherless Child - Gabriel Brown
- Po' Boy, Long Way From Home - Gabriel Brown
- A Dream Of Mine - Gabriel Brown
- Education Blues - Gabriel Brown
- Talking In Sebastopol - Gabriel Brown
- Careless Love - Gabriel Brown
- I Get Evil When My Love Comes Down - Gabriel Brown
- You Ain't No Good - Gabriel Brown
- Black Jack Blues - Gabriel Brown
- Going My Way - Gabriel Brown
- Down In The Bottom - Gabriel Brown
- Bad Love - Gabriel Brown
- I've Got To Stop Drinkin' - Gabriel Brown
- Cold Love - Gabriel Brown
- Not Now, I'll Tell You When - Gabriel Brown
- I'm Gonna Take It Easy - Gabriel Brown
- That's Alright - Gabriel Brown
- Stick With Me - Gabriel Brown
- I've Done Stopped Gamblin' - Gabriel Brown
- Doing My Best - Gabriel Brown
- Good-Time Papa - Gabriel Brown
- Baby, Boy, Baby - Gabriel Brown
- It's Getting Soft - Gabriel Brown
- Don't Worry About It - Gabriel Brown
- Mean Old Blues - Gabriel Brown
- You Have To Be Different - Gabriel Brown
- The Jinx Is On Me - Gabriel Brown
- It's Time To Move - Gabriel Brown
- Hold Me Baby - Gabriel Brown
- Nobody Loves Me Like My Little Girl - Gabriel Brown
- Youngster's Blues - Gabriel Brown
- Cold Mama - Gabriel Brown
- I'm Just Crazy - Gabriel Brown
- I Am Playing The Game - Gabriel Brown
- I Am Just Hard Luck - Gabriel Brown
- Got No Money Blues - Gabriel Brown
- I Had My Hands On It - Gabriel Brown
- Laughing Rag - Dan Pickett
- Baby How Long - Dan Pickett
- You Got To Do Better - Dan Pickett
- Ride To A Funeral In A V-8 - Dan Pickett
- Decoration Day - Dan Pickett
- Drivin' That Thing - Dan Pickett
- That's Grieving Me - Dan Pickett
- 99 1/2 Won't Do - Dan Pickett
- Baby Don't You Want To Go - Dan Pickett
- Chicago Blues - Dan Pickett
- Something's Gone Wrong - Dan Pickett
- Worried Blues - Ralph Willis
- Comb Your Kitty Kat - Ralph Willis
- Just A Note - Ralph Willis
- Church Bells - Ralph Willis
- Trouble Don't Last - Ralph Willis
- Shake That Thing - Ralph Willis
- So Many Days - Ralph Willis
- That Gal's No Good - Ralph Willis
- New Goin' Down Slow - Ralph Willis
- Goin' To Chattanooga - Ralph Willis
- Steel Mill Blues - Ralph Willis
- I Will Never Love Again - Ralph Willis
- Goin' To Virginia - Ralph Willis
- Boar Hog Blues - Ralph Willis
- Eloise - Ralph Willis
- I've Been A Fool - Ralph Willis
- Christmas Blues - Ralph Willis
- Amen Blues - Ralph Willis
- Neighborhood Blues - Ralph Willis
- Mama, Mama Blues - Ralph Willis
- Tell Me Pretty Baby - Ralph Willis
- I'm Gonna Rock - Ralph Willis
- Cool That Thing - Ralph Willis
- Sportin' Life - Ralph Willis
- Everyday I Weep And Moan - Ralph Willis
- Somebody Is Got To Go - Ralph Willis
- Blues, Blues, Blues - Ralph Willis
- I Got A Letter - Ralph Willis
- Too Late To Scream And Shout - Ralph Willis
- Hoodoo Man - Ralph Willis
- Income Tax Blues - Ralph Willis
- Bed Tick Blues - Ralph Willis
- Cold Chills - Ralph Willis
- Black And Tan - Ralph Willis
- Church Bell Blues - Ralph Willis
- Tell Me Pretty Baby - Ralph Willis
- Goodbye Blues - Ralph Willis
- Lazy Woman Blues - Ralph Willis
- Old Home Blues - Ralph Willis
- Salty Dog - Ralph Willis
- Cold Chills - Ralph Willis
- Amen - Ralph Willis
- Gonna Hop On Down The Line - Ralph Willis
- Do Right - Ralph Willis
- Door Bell Blues - Ralph Willis
- Why'd You Do It - Ralph Willis
- Early One Morning - Dan Pickett
- Number Writer - Dan Pickett
- Lemon Man - Dan Pickett
- Laughing Blues - Dan Pickett
- Number Writer Take 1 - Dan Pickett
- I Can Shake It - Dan Pickett
- Drivin' That Thing (Alternate) - Dan Pickett
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