HARP BLUES VARIOUS (UK) CD

SKU/Barcode: 029667871020

This 25-track collection brings together some of the most inspiring blues harp performances on record. With the exception of John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson's 'Bring Me Another Half a Pint' (what's better known as Jimmy Rogers' 'Sloppy Drunk' and originally penned even earlier by Lucille Bogan) from 1948, everything on here was recorded in the '50s to the late '60s at the height of the electric blues boom. Representative and sometimes definitive performances from Big Walter Horton ('Easy,' 'Need My Baby' and the solo on Jimmy Rogers' 'Walkin' By Myself'), Little Walter ('Roller Coaster'), Jimmy Reed ('Found Love'), Snooky Pryor ('Boogie Twist'), Sonny Boy Williamson ('99'), Jerry McCain (the rare, alternate take of 'Steady') and Little Junior Parker ('Sweet Home Chicago') pepper this set. But the rarities from Eddie Hope (the raucous 'A Fool No More'), Little Willie Foster ('Little Girl'), Papa Lightfoot (an explosive transfer of 'Wine, Women, Whiskey'), Howlin' Wolf ('Howlin' Wolf Boogie'), Sammy Myers ('Sleeping in the Ground') and Joe Hill Louis ('Westrn Union Man') are every bit as potent as the bigger names aboard. Great selections from Doctor Ross, Billy Boy Arnold, Frank Frost, James Cotton, Junior Wells, George Smith, Shy Guy Douglas and the mysterious Cousin Leroy complete the collection.

1. Wine Women Whiskey Papa Lightfoot
2. Walking By Myself Jimmy Rogers/Big Walter Horton
3. Chicago Breakdown Doctor Ross
4. Ninety Nine Sonny Boy Williamson
5. Steady Jerry Mccain
6. Up The River Cousin Leroy
7. Sweet Home Chicago Little Junior Parker
8. Sleeping In The Ground Sammy Meyers
9. Monkey Doin Woman Shy Guy Douglas
10. Found Love Jimmy Reed
11. Roller Coaster Little Walter & His Jukes
12. Ride With Your Daddy Tonight Frank Frost
13. All Night Long Rock Me Baby Junior Wells
14. A Fool No More Eddie Hope & Manish Boys
15. Howlin Wolf Boogie Howlin Wolf
16. Need My Baby Shakey Horton
17. Little Girl Little Willie Foster
18. Bring Another Half Pint Sonny Boy Williamson
19. I Aint Got You Billy Boy
20. Easy I Almost Lost My Mind Jimmy & Walter
21. Westrn Union Man Chicago Sunny Boy
22. Whats This I Hear? Shy Guy Douglas
23. Rocket 88 James Cotton
24. West Helena Blues George Smith
25. Boogie Twist Snooky Pryor