woensdag 30 november 2016

* Betty Lavett(e) *




















Betty Lavett-'My Man - He's A Lovin' Man' ('62 Atlantic 2160)

Betty Lavett-'You'll Never Change' ('62 Atlantic 2198)

Betty Lavett-'Witch Craft In The Air' ('63 Lu-Pine 123)

'(Happiness Will Cost You) One Thin Dime' ('64 Scepter - unreleased)

Betty Lavette-'Let Me Down Easy' ('65 Calla 102-A)

Betty Lavette-'What I Don't Know (Won't Hurt Me)' - '65 Calla 102-B

Betty LaVette-'He Made A Woman Out Of Me' ('69 Silver Fox 17)

zondag 27 november 2016

* Harold Burrage (1950-1966) *


Hi-Yo Silver ('50 78rpm-single Decca 48175, backed by the Horace Henderson Orchestra)

You Eat Too Much ('56 Cobra 5004)

Messed Up ('57 Cobra 5012)

*Satisfied ('57 Cobra 5018)

Stop For The Red Light ('57 Cobra 5018)

She Knocks Me Out ('57 Cobra 5022)

*I Don't Care Who Knows [Alternate Take 2]

Crying For My Baby ('59 Vee-Jay 318)

*You Ought To Love Me ('62 Foxy 009)

Master Key ('62 M-Pac! 7201)

*Got To Find A Way ('65 M-Pac!7225)

More Power To You ('66 M-Pac! 7229)

woensdag 16 november 2016

* Harmonica Frank Floyd *















Swamp Root (1951, Chess)





























Rock A Little Baby (1958, F&L)
* song included on LP 'Black' Rock 'N' Roll/Savage Kick vol.1 (!) 




https://www.discogs.com/artist/1638933-Harmonica-Frank-Floyd

zaterdag 5 november 2016

* The Hangman's Blues *


                                                  Prison Songs in Country Music ('56-72)

                                                  Freddie Hart-'The Wall'
                                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMxntxXBlE
                                                  Jimmy Minor-'Death Row'
                                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdzox-qVPE
                                                  Jaycee Hill-'Crash Out'
                                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdfAd8gVfVg

First released August 2016 as a 16 track LP (Iron Mountain Analogue Research IMAR 103LP), featuring the songs above PLUS outstanding tunes by Lonesome Johnny ('Death Row'), Stonewall Jackson ('Run'), Country Johnny Mathis ('Caryl Chessman') and Al Dean ('Hangman').

Second release October 2016 as a 28 track CD (Omni 187). Sounds like a better deal? Not sure.

The vinyl comes with two tracks that are missing from the expanded edition, one by Dee Mullins ('Prison Grey') and another by Jimmy Van ('The Ballad of Caryl Chessman').
The latter, not on YouTube, is otherwise only available on a rare 45 from 1960 - and simply brill.

On the other hand, the expanded CD adds great songs by Porter Wagoner ('Lonesome Whistle'), Eddie Noack ('Invisible Stripes'), Steve Davis ('Life-Timer'), Danny Dill ('The Eyes of Death'), Tommy Dee ('The Chair'), Howard Crockett ('I Got Stripes') and Johnny Paycheck ('21 Miles to L.C. Prison').