[.ca] Rockin The Blues

Mr Blues Lives Again in 4 disc box:
Along with Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing, Wyonnie Harris is regarded as the greatest of the blues shouters, and one of the most popular and influential artists in the years after World War II. First emerging on record with Lucky Millender's Big Band, Harris' vocal "Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well," was a success for the Millender band. He recorded for several labels including Philo/Aladdin, Apollo, Hamptone, and Bullet before signing with King in July 1947. With King, he enjoyed his greatest success. The British Proper label has put together a four-disc box, "Rockin the Blues," which contains all of recordings (81 in total) through 1950. It is handy to have all of Harris' Philo/ Aladdin and Apollo recordings along with rarities from Hamptone and Bullett along with his first 37 King recordings in one place. Harris was accompanied by bands that included some of the finest jazz players of the postwar era including Howard McGhee, Teddy Edwards, Illinois Jacquet, Charles Mingus, Jack McVea, Gene Phillips, Arnett Cobb, Milt Buckner, Sun Ra (credited as pianist on the four sides recorded for Bullett in Nashville in March/April 1946), Tab Smith, Bill Doggett, Hot Lips Page, Hal Cornbread Singer, Tom Archia, Buddy Tate, Sonny Thompson and Cat Anderson). This is quite a roster of players and they provide terrific support on a collection of earthy blues, bawdy rockers and jump numbers. Its been over thirty years since Harris died, and, thus never enjoyed the type of career revival that Big Joe Turner enjoyed in the seventies and eighties. And so many of the songs here have become classics. The level of the music on these is consistently first-rate. Wyonnie Harris may have be a bit of a bragger when he called himself Mr. Blues, but few shouted the blues with the power and skill that he did.

• Hurry, Hurry
• Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
• Around the Clock, Pt. 1
• Around the Clock, Pt. 2
• Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
• Yonder Goes My Baby
• Wynonie's Blues
• Here Comes the Blues
• Straighten Him Out
• Young Man's Blues
• Baby, Look at You
• She's Gone With the Wind
• Somebody Changed the Lock on My Door
• That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch
• I Gotta Lyin' Woman
• Rebecca's Blues
• Everybody's Boogie
• Time to Change Your Town
• I Gotta Lyin' Woman \oAlternate Take\c
• Everybody's Boogie \oAlternate Take\c
• Playful Baby
• Take Me Out of the Rain
• Papa Tree Top
• Young and Wild
• Good Morning Corinne
• Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Pt. 1
• Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Pt. 2
• In the Evenin' Blues
• Dig This Boogie
• Lightning Struck the Poor House
• My Baby's Barrel House
• Drinkin' by Myself
• Mr. Blues Jumped the Rabbit
• Rugged Road
• Come Back, Baby
• Whiskey and Jelly-Roll Blues
• You Got to Get Yourself a Job, Girl
• Hard Ridin' Mama
• Big City Blues
• I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
• Battle of the Blues, Pt. 1
• Battle of the Blues, Pt. 2
• Goin' Home
• Blues
• Love Is Like Rain
• Rose Get Your Clothes
• Wynonie's Boogie
• Your Money Don't Mean a Thing
• Good Morning Mr. Blues
• Blow Your Brains Out
• Blowin' to California
• Crazy Love
• From Bad to Good Blues
• Bite Again, Bite Again
• Good Rockin' Tonight
• Lollipop Mama
• I Believe I'll Fall in Love
• Grandma Plays the Numbers
• She Just Won't Sell No More
• I Want My Fanny Brown
• I Feel That Old Age Coming On
• Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
• All She Wants to Do Is Rock
• I Can't It Take No More
• Sittin' on It All the Time
• I Like My Baby's Pudding
• Triflin' Woman
• Baby, Shame on You
• Rock Mr. Blues
• Stormy Night Blues
• Good Morning Judge
• Be Mine My Love
• Mr. Blues Is Coming to Town
• I Want to Love You Baby
• Put It Back
• Oh Babe!
• Teardrops From My Eyes
• Love Untrue
• Triflin' Woman
• Man, Have I Got Troubles
• Confessin' the Blues