Many of these tracks and artists may be footnotes in music history, but they're supremely enjoyable ones that deserve a wider hearing. (Raucous)
Everyone thinks of Chicago's Chess Records as being the home to Blues and R&B, but the Chess Brothers never missing an opportunity to make a dollar ended up trying to cash in on the rockabilly craze by purchasing most of these recordings from outside labels and producers. Names like Dale Hawkins, Eddie Fontaine, Rusty York, Dick Glasser, and Gene Simmons loom large in rockabilly lore and some of their best work is here. But there's some great one-shot performers here as well: Billy Barrix (Cool Off Baby), Jackie Cannon (Proof of Your Love), Bobby Sisco (Go Go Go), and Billy Miranda (Run Rose) are just a few of the goodies herein. Lovers of rockabilly will get a big kick out of these samples of the Chess Brothers' business acumen. (GMC) (Roots & Rhythm)
trax disc 1:
1. My Babe - Dale Hawkins 2. Nothin' Shakin', But The Leaves On The Trees - Eddie Fontaine 3. Cool Off Baby - Billy Barrix 4. Proof Of Your Love - Jackie Cannon 5. Go, Go, Go - Bobby Sisco 6. Breezin' Out - Lou Josie 7. Just Go Wild Over Rock And Roll - Bobby Dean 8. True Love Come My Way - Larry Diamond 9. Little Pig - Dale Hawkins 10. Crazy Love - Dick Glasser 11. Save It - Mel Robbins 12. I Can't Wait - Ray Stanley 13. Sugaree - Rusty York 14. All Night Long - Johnny Fuller 15. Take My Heart - Dale Hawkins 16. Hungry For Love - Baker Knight
trax disc 2:
1. Almost - Billy Barrix 2. Tall Dark And Handsome Man - Bobby Sisco 3. Don't Treat Me This Way - Dale Hawkins 4. Run Rose - Billy Miranda 5. Love Me - Jimmy Lee & Wayne Walker 6. Don't Ya Know - Eddie Fontaine 7. Chill Bumps - Jackie Cannon 8. Lazy Susan - Brothers 9. Baby, Baby - Dale Hawkins 10. Roses Are Blooming - The Silva-Tones 11. Rock Yea - Del Saint & The Devils 12. Bad Boy Willie - Gene Simmons 13. Why Did You Leave Me - Lou Josie 14. Hot Dog - Dale Hawkins
15. Pardon Mr. Gordon - Rod Bernard 16. Jet Tone Boogie - The Jet Tones
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"THE CHESS ROCKABILLY STORY"
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CD1
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CD2
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Nice to have all this in one place rather than bits and pieces across other comps. Great stuff
Thanks - Doug
BONUS 4 OF 6
THE PLIMSOULS - Everywhere At Once '83 @320
Even the musical wasteland that was the '80s did offer up a few beacons of hope, and LA power-poppers the Plimsouls were one of them. Granted, they're primarily known for one song, "A Million Miles Away," one of the decade's musical highlights, but they had a lot more good material up their sleeve. "Shaky City," the title track, and "Play the Breaks," also stand out, and the quality never dips below wonderful. Led by Peter Case, they coulda been contenders; certainly their wiry pop music was appealing enough. For one reason or another, it never happened. But time has finally caught up with them (and that perfect song), and the world is finally ready for the Plimsouls. --Chris Nickson
Everywhere at Once does contain the Plimsouls' greatest recorded achievement, "A Million Miles Away," which packs all of the passion and punch of some of John Lennon's finest recordings with a wonderful power-driven Byrds-like arrangement. Other standouts on this record include "Play the Breaks" which, while not quite as awesome as it is in a live performance (they were possibly the finest live band in Los Angeles in this period), still shines. (Allmusic)
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INFO
http://www.amazon.com/Everywhere-at-Once-Plimsouls/dp/B000000P0G
http://www.allmusic.com/album/everywhere-at-once-mw0000084319
BONUS 5 OF 6
TEENAGE SHUTDOWN, Vol. 11: Move It! @320
Frantic Frat-Stomp Fracas! Revved-Up & Rowdy Rockers! 1964-1968
From the countless garage band collections that threw a great variety of eras and styles onto one LP, the late '90s, led by the leading Teenage Shutdown series, have laid that method to rest by focusing on a particular style with each compilation. On the 11th high-quality volume, a selection of bands who paid little, or no, attention to the British Invasion are featured: all are raucous and a few downright inept. Move It! traces the four-year period of 1964 to 1968 when the Chuck Berry and soul influences of the band's homeland were accidentally adapted to a form of white-trash rock. As a collective, this subgenre of garage is classified as "frat," or in the words of Tim Warren, "frat-stomp," which describe the music's beer-fuelled, teen punk take on R&B totally devoid of any intricacies. This brief era disregarded meaningful lyrics or quality instrumentation in favor of the key elements of R&R: fun and volume. This is music solely for delinquents (which in the '90s are usually media employees of 30-plus with five-figure salaries). Opening with the im-"peck"-able Peck's Bad Boys' "Crazy World," a shouted soul-rap on life's problems, the remaining 18 tracks race along without putting a cog in the works with any hint of vocal harmonies or musical expertise. Out of the hefty weight in cover versions, Dylan's "On the Road Again" (the Deadlys) and Berry's "Johnny Be Goode" (the Retreds) are given a pounding punk rock treatment. While the Buccanneers take on Jesse Hill's "Oop Poo Pah Doo," which a third of the way cuts to the Isley Brothers' "Nobody but You," displays rough and tough white boys mastering the soul basics. In writing originals, a simplistic chord structure akin to "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," a catchy refrain, and stomp, stomp drums were all that was needed; "One More Time" (the Reasons Why) is a perfect example. And proving that a loud vocal, three chords, and the exemplary solo half way through in songs weren't entirely wiped out by the Grateful Dead, "True Love" by Bobby Runnel's Faux Pas, the latest offering, recorded in 1968, is clear evidence. As with all teenagers, a rude joke never has gone amiss and the Customs Five's "Let's Go in '69," which wasn't about the year, and "Lollipop" by the Royal Coachmen with its lyric rather obsessed by sucking again hint at the juvenile wonders of the "frat-stomp" genre. Yet again, another essential addition to the Teenage Shutdown series that will surely please each and every garage fanatic. (JON “MOJO” MILLS, Allmusic)
1. Peck's Bad Boys - Crazy World (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2 The Deadlys - On The Road Again (Columbus, OH, U.S.A.)
3 The Stompers - I Know (Mount Vernon, IA, U.S.A.)
4 The Buccaneers - Oop Poo Pah Doo (Ashtabula, OH, U.S.A.)
5 Dave & The Stone Hearts - Slow Down (Troy, OH, U.S.A.)
6 The Individuals - I Want Love (Danville, VA, U.S.A.)
7 The Chevron's V - Niat Pac Lavram (Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.)
8 The Retreds - Johnny B. Goode (Acton, MA, U.S.A.)
9 The Twiliters - Move It (Plattsburgh, NY, U.S.A.)
10 The Shondells - Something's Got A Hold On Me (Rio Linda, CA, U.S.A.)
11 The Reason Why - One More Time (Ocala, FL, U.S.A.)
12 The Creations - Don't Be Mean (Milford, CT, U.S.A.)
13 Bobby Runnel's Faux Pas - True Love - Heartaches (Miami, FL, U.S.A.)
14 Bill Tatman & The Rampagers - What's Wrong With You (Portsmouth, OH, U.S.A.)
15 The Galaxies - Gitchy-Gitchy-Goo (Garland, TX, U.S.A.)
16 The Banshees - Take A Ride With Me (Burlingame, CA, U.S.A.)
17 The Customs Five - Let's Go In '69 (U.S.A.)
18 The Royal Coachmen - Lollipop (U.S.A.)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/teenage-shutdown-move-it!-mw0000603207
BONUS 6 OF 6
BONUS 6 OF 6
6 STRING DRAG - Roots Rock 'N' Roll '15 @320
Some bands that reunite after a decade and a half away from the spotlight have to deal with the legacy of the music they left behind in their first incarnation, but that's not so much of an issue for 6 String Drag, who cut one good independent album in 1994 and a very good effort co-produced by Steve Earle, High Hat, in 1997 before fading away a year later. Unless you're from South Carolina or were an obsessive alt-country fan in the late '90s, there's a good chance you never heard 6 String Drag in the first place, which means the group's 2015 reunion set, Roots Rock 'n' Roll, gets to stand on its own merits rather than serving as the long-lost and fiercely awaited follow-up to High Hat. That said, it's a fine thing to be able to say this is one reunion effort that works both ways -- while Roots Rock 'n' Roll lacks the hard-edged and punchy production Earle and Ray Kennedy brought to High Hat, instead aiming for a looser, live-in-the-studio sound, from a standard of songwriting and performance this edition of 6 String Drag sounds every bit as fine as the band did in the '90s, and their fusion of rock & roll, Southern soul, and Dixie-fried twang feels as relevant and effective as ever. If Kenny Roby sounded like an old soul in 1997, he still does in 2015, and that works to his favor as the loose-limbed boogie of "Oooeeoooeeooo," the horn-infused rock of "Kingdom of Gettin' It Wrong," and the suitably greasy blues figures of "Choppin' Block" roll as correct here as they did when Roby was almost two decades younger. (And it's a good bet that the younger Roby couldn't have delivered the rueful "I Miss the Drive-In" with the same authority he brings to this performance.) And the core of 6 String Drag -- Roby on vocals and guitar, Scotty Miller on lead guitar, Rob Keller on bass, and Ray Duffey on drums -- delivers the goods, sounding loosely tight in the great Southern manner, and knowing just when to lay back and when to hit the gas. In short, Roots Rock 'n' Roll should thoroughly please fans who remember 6 String Drag's all-too-brief day in the sun, and if you're not familiar with the band's earlier recordings, this should still connect as clever, heartfelt rock & roll steeped in American musical traditions. It rocks with a steady roll, and that doesn't happen nearly enough on plastic these days, from either veterans or young gunslingers. (Mark Deming. Allmusic)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/roots-rock-n-roll-mw0002806010
What a week of amazing music shared by all. Thank you for the incredible variety. For those who didn't grab it the Rhiannon Giddens is already a candidate in my ears for album of the year - it's that good and will last like many of the older classics shared here.
RHIANNON GIDDENS - Tomorrow Is My Turn '15 @320
Rhiannon Giddens, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, makes her solo recording debut with Tomorrow Is My Turn, due out February 10, 2015, on Nonesuch Records. (The vinyl will follow on March 3.) The album was produced by T Bone Burnett.
Stepping away from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens teams up with producer T-Bone Burnett for her 2015 solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn. Giddens previously worked with Burnett on Lost on the River, an album where musicians added new music to lyrics Bob Dylan left behind during The Basement Tapes, and she also appeared in a concert he shepherded for the Coen brothers' folk revival opus Inside Llewyn Davis -- two projects steeped in history, as is Tomorrow Is My Turn. Here, Giddens expands upon the neo-string band of the Carolina Chocolate Drops by crafting an abbreviated and fluid history of 20th century roots music -- along with the older forms that informed it -- concentrating on songs either written or popularized by female musicians. As a torchbearer, not a revivalist, Giddins isn't concerned with replicating either the sound or feel of the past, so she comfortably slips a subdued hip-hop drum loop into "Black Is the Color," a standard here credited to Nina Simone, and blurs country and soul boundaries on Patsy Cline's "She's Got You." These two are the most overt tamperings with tradition but Giddens is sly throughout Tomorrow Is My Turn, giving Elizabeth Cotten's "Shake Sugaree" a deceptively lively little lilt and casting Dolly Parton's "Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind" as a rolling progressive folk tune that creates an invisible bridge between past and present. Much of Giddens' work on Tomorrow Is My Turn demonstrates the benefits of such careful, deliberate sculpting, making it a nice fit for Burnett's handsome acoustica. Thankfully, the austereness that sometimes creeps into T-Bone's new millennial work is nowhere to be found; there's a warmth that radiates from Giddens, which is crucial to the success of the record. Her easy, welcoming touch is a balm every time Tomorrow Is My Turn is played, but it's upon successive spins that the intricacies of Giddens' construction -- not to mention her subtle political messages -- begin to take hold. (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic)
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/tomorrow-is-my-turn-mr0004344293
http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Is-Turn-Rhiannon-Giddens/dp/B00Q9KEZV0
Thanks
The Plimsouls were great fun. I grew up in Southern Calif. and caught them a few times, and they rocked it. A breath of fresh air compared to all of the crappy new wave music flooding the airwaves at that time.
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Thank you for the Chess album Gyro
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