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Roosevelt Sykes - Collection 1929-47 [2 CD]

Roosevelt Sykes - Collection 1929-47 [2 CD]

Release Date: /// Acrobat

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Roosevelt Sykes was a hugely popular and influential exponent of the rollicking barrel-house style of blues piano playing and composition whose core career spanned the decades spanning WWII. Recording initially under a variety of names, and finding his greatest popularity when he adopted the soubriquet 'The Honeydrippers', he recorded a substantial body of work variously for the Okeh, Decca and RCA Victor labels, which included classics of the genre like "The Honeydrippers", "Night Time Is the Right Time", "44 Blues", "Boot That Thing" and "Driving Wheel Blues". This great value 75-track 3-CD set selects material from across those key decades of his career from his earliest recordings through to the time when he began to be overtaken by the new electric blues in the late '40s. It includes solo recordings along with those as a duo with a drummer, and, in the later years, with a variety of small groups.

Tracklist:

  1. K.M.A. Blues
  2. Just Hanging Around
  3. Pay Day Blues
  4. 15c A Day
  5. Roll On Blues
  6. Keep Your Hands Off Her
  7. Skin And Bone Blues
  8. Let The Black Have His Way
  9. Third Degree Blues
  10. Training Camp Blues
  11. Sugar Babe Blues
  12. I Wonder
  13. Love Has Something To Say
  14. Tender Hearted Woman Blues (I'll Wear The Pants)
  15. Don't Push Me Around
  16. Date Bait
  17. Tonight
  18. Living In A Different World
  19. Flames Of Jive
  20. Bop De Bip
  21. Bobby Sox Blues
  22. Walkin' And Drinkin'
  23. Mama Mama
  24. Booze Blues
  25. Until The Cows Come Home
  26. Love Lease Blues
  27. Hard Lead Pencil
  28. Sad Yas Yas (You Fade Away Like Morning Dew)
  29. The Road To Ruin
  30. Mistake In Life
  31. Night Time Is The Right Time No. 2
  32. She's Long Gone
  33. The Train Is Coming (No More Baby Talk)
  34. Down On My Knees
  35. Have You Seen Ida B.
  36. 44 Blues 1939
  37. Bitter Cup Blues
  38. Journey From The Germs
  39. You Can't Fix It Back
  40. Get Your Bow Out (Then You Will Understand)
  41. Yellow Yam Blues
  42. Right Now
  43. Essie Mae Blues
  44. She's Got What It Takes
  45. Pistol Shootin' Blues
  46. Eight Ball Blues
  47. 47th Street Jive
  48. Doin' The Sally Long (Flames Of Evaporation)
  49. Low As A Toad
  50. Prison Gate Blues

UPC: 824046904029
Label: ACROBAT
Release Date: 8.12.14
Format: CD

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