EDDIE BURNS "Treat Me Like I Treat You"

Great collection of tough Detroit blues on the great Moonshine label. (Very hard to find)In the decade following World War II, the epicenters of the urban blues boom were in Chicago, Houston, Oakland, and Los Angeles. But other cities made essential contributions as well, notably Detroit, where musicians from the Black Bottom to Paradise Valley specialized in swing, jump blues, boogie-woogie piano, and electrified country blues. Detroit’s most happening scene was along Hastings Street, with its black-owned shops, clubs, and restaurants, as well as its gambling dens, bordellos, and ongoing house parties. John Lee Hooker, Eddie Burns, Baby Boy Warren, Willie D. Warren, Calvin Frazier, Henry Smith, Washboard Willie, Eddie Kirkland, Bobo Jenkins, and other Detroit bluesmen came here to play for tips and cut storefront singles for local blues entrepreneurs such as Bernie Bessman and Joe Von Battle. Eddie Burns, 82, is the last of Detroit’s early postwar legends to still live in the Motor City. The European-based Moonshine label issued "Treat Me Like I Treat You", a compilation of Burns’ raw early singles from the 50's and 60's with a pair of 1982 performances. (Jas Obrecht Music Archive)
read about Eddie Burns here:
http://jasobrecht.com/detroit-blues-the-eddie-burns-interview/

trax:
01 Hello Miss Jessie Lee '52 02 Notoriety Woman '84 03 Dealing With The Devil '52 04 Papa's Boogie '84 05 Treat Me Like I Treat You '57 06 Superstition '54 07 Don't Cha Leave Me Baby '57 08 Biscuit Baking Mama '54 09 Hard Hearted Woman '61 10 The Thing To Do '61 11 You Better Cut That Out '65 12 Orange Driver '61 13 Messin' With My Bread '61 14 Mean And Evil '61 15 That A Work '82 16 Don't Even Try It '82
...served by Gyro1966...