"THE BOOGIE BOX" CD 7-9

Massive 300 song, 15 CD set which includes R&B, blues, jazz, country, and rock 'n' roll. (This collection is now out of print)Definition: Originating in the lumber camps of East Texas, the relatively slow, heavily syncopated style of blues piano known as "boogie-woogie" was to have a tremendous influence on the development of American popular music. It was wildly popular among urban blues musicians after its introduction to vinyl on Pinetop Smith's 1928 disc "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"; it became a bonafide crossover craze in the early Forties, influencing several swing bands immeasurably; R&B-inclined jazz heads took a shine to it in the postwar years.

By the early Fifties, the form had mutated into three other genres it's commonly mistaken for: slowed-down and swung with a heavy backbeat, it became one of the principal components of rock and roll (see Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll"), while those who ramped up the beat and simplified it found themselves playing what would come to be known as "jump blues" (see Little Richard's "Rip It Up"), and early guitar heroes who transferred the eight-bar walking rhythm of the pianist's left hand to their fretboard -- instead of to the acoustic slap bass, where other bands placed it -- played the blues that came to be known simply as "boogie" (begun by John Lee Hooker on songs like "Boom Boom" and made most famous by white blues bands like ZZ Top on "Hush").

You can also hear the boogie woogie influence on rockabilly Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," and Chuck Berry cites it as a direct influence for his gently swinging straight rock and roll, most notably in more moderate numbers like "Almost Grown" and "Little Queenie." And you can find several rewrites of early boogie standards like Ray Charles' "Mess Around," a take on Cow Cow Davenport's "Cow Cow Boogie." The real stuff, however, always features that walking piano bass, moving through the blues scale in a one-four-five progression.

trax CD 7:

1. Barnyard Boogie - Louis Jordan 2. Freight Train Boogie - Red Foley 3. Ten Gallon Boogie - Pee Wee King 4. Rockin' Boogie - Joe Lutcher 5. Downtown Boogie - The Milo Twins 6. Roy Brown Boogie (1947) - Roy Brown 7. Nerke's Boogie Woogie Number One - Merle Travis 8. Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn 9. Oakie Boogie - Johnny Tyler 10. Lost John Boogie - Wayne Raney 11. Barnyard Boogie - The Delmore Brothers 12. Big Chief Boogie - Spade Cooley 13. Broad Bottom Boogie - Harry Dial 14. Frank Bull's Boogie - Jimmy Grissom 15. Boogie Woogie Blue Plate - Louis Jordan 16. Wynonie's Boogie - Wynonie Harris 17. Big Three Boogie - Big Three Trio 18. Oscar's Boogie - Oscar Peterson 19. Blue Book Boogie - Jesse Price 20. Joymaker's Boogie - Lloyd Glenn

trax CD 8:

1. Swanee River Boogie - Pete Johnson 2. Charlie The Boogie Man - King Porter 3. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 In Boogie - Hadda Brooks 4. Midnight Boogie - Lloyd Glenn 5. Joe's Boogie - Johnny Griffin 6. Fulson Boogie - Lowell Fulson 7. Boogin' In The Rain - Ivory Joe Hunter 8. Perry's Wiggle Boogie - King Perry 9. Pete's Boogie Special - Pete Johnson 10. Bump's Boogie - King Porter 11. Fat Stuff Boogie - Milt Buckner 12. After Hours Boogie - Pee Wee Crayton 13. Elevator Boogie - Mabel Scott 14. Minuet In "G" Boogie - Hadda Brooks 15. Whim Wham Whop Boogie - Faye Simmons 16. Roomin' House Boogie - Amos Milburn 17. Saturday Nite Boogie - Roy Brown 18. Louisiana Boogie - Harry Choates 19. Bull Fiddle Boogie - Pee Wee King 20. Mercury Boogie - K.C. Douglas

trax CD 9:

1. Rocket Boogie "88" (Part One) - Big Joe Turner 2. Chuck-A-Boogie - Johnny Griffin 3. Dog House Boogie - Hawkshaw Hawkins 4. Dirty Deal Boogie - Willie "The Lion" Smith 5. Guitar Boogie Woogie - T. Texas Tyler 6. Georgia Boogie - Curley Williams 7. Mississippi Boogie - Jimmy Liggins 8. Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker 9. Peach Street Boogie - The Delmore Brothers 10. Lightnin' Boogie - Lightnin' Hopkins 11. Humble Road Boogie - Curley Rash 12. Boogie Woogie Blues - Art Gunn 13. Papa's Boogie - Eddie Burns 14. Steel Guitar Boogie - Tommy Sargent 15. Boogie Woogie Baby - Big Joe Turner 16. Milton's Boogie - Roy Milton 17. Joggie Boogie - Lil Armstrong 18. Boogie - Snooky Pryor 19. Boogie Woogie March - Johnny Griffin 20. Mardi Gras Boogie - Big Joe Turner

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