Young Jessie

Obediah Donnell Jessie, dit Young Jessie est né le 28 décembre 1936 à Lincoln Manor, Dallas.

Avec Richard Berry il forme les Flairs en 1952 et enregistrent en 1953 leur premier single pour le label Flairs des frères Bihari "I had love / She wants to rock" (Flair 1012). Rebaptisé The Hunters pour cette occasion, ils enregistrent encore "Rabbit on the log". En 1954 lui et Berry débutent une carrière solo. En 1954 il enregistre une reprise de Big Mama Thornton "I smell a rat", puis en 1955 le fameux "Mary Lou" qui deviendra un hit en 1959 grâce à une reprise de Ronnie Hawkins. En 1956 Young Jessie enregistre "Hit, git and split". En 1957 il fera une session d'enregistrement avec les Coasters, en particulier pour les titres "Young blood" et "Searchin'". Atco publiera également à cette époque un titre solo, "Shuffle in the gravel", tandis que "Margie" parraîtra sur Atlantic.

Dans les années soixante, Young Jessie met sa carrière en veilleuse. Il réapparait en 1972 sur la label Stone Dog sous le nom de Obie Jessie and the Seeds of Freedom. Il continue par la suite une carrière jazz sous le nom de Obie Jessie et réalise deux albums "What happened to Jr." et "Here's to life".

Young Jessie - I'm Gone
The Legendary Modern Recordings (1953-1957)
Ace Records CDCHD 607

01 - Mary Lou (O. Jessie, S. Ling) 1955
02 - Lonesome Desert (O. Jessie) 1953
03 - Rabbit on a Log (R. Berry) 1953
04 - Don't Think I Will (J. Josea, S. Ling, O. Jessie, M. Davis, J. Watson) 1955
05 - Well Baby (O. Jessie) 1963
06 - Nothing Seems Right (O. Jessie) 1955
07 - Down at Hayden's (O. Jessie) 1953
08 - I Smell a Rat (M. Stoller, J. Leiber) 1953
09 - Why Do I Love You (O. Jessie)
10 - Pretty Soon (O. Jessie)
11 - Oochie Coochie (L. Williams) 1957
12 - Don't Happen No More (O. Jessie) 1956
13 - Hit, Git and Split [Take 1] (M. Smith, L. Paul) 1956
14 - Here Comes Henry (G. Motola, M. Stoller, J. Leiber) 1957
15 - Hot Dog (M. Stoller, J. Leiber)
16 - Do You Love Me [Alternate Take] (O. Jessie, S. Claybourn) 1955
17 - Well Baby [Alternate Take] (O. Jessie)
18 - Pretty Soon [Take 2] (O. Jessie)
19 - Do You Love Me (O. Jessie, S. Claybourn) 1955
20 - This Is Young Jessie (Spoken Word)
21 - Hit, Git and Split (M. Smith, L. Paul) 1956
22 - I Hear You Knockin'
23 - Maybellene (C. Berry)

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Otis Rush

Otis Rush (vocal/g) Philadelphia, Mississippi, 29 avril 1934.




Biographie à revoir

The essential Otis Rush
The classic Cobra recordings 1956-1958
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01 - I Can't Quit You Baby (Dixon) 1956
02 - Sit Down Baby (Bedno) 1956
03 - Violent Love (Dixon) 1956
04 - My Love Will Never Die (Dixon) 1956
05 - Groaning the Blues (Dixon) 1957
06 - If You Were Mine (Dixon) 1957
07 - Love That Woman (Leak) 1957
08 - Jump Sister Bessie (Dixon) 1957
09 - Three Times a Fool (Rush) 1957
10 - She's a Good 'Un (Eskridge, White) 1957
11 - It Takes Time (Rush) 1958
12 - Checking on My Baby (Rush) 1958
13 - Double Trouble (Rush) 1958
14 - Keep on Loving Me Baby (Rush) 1958
15 - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Rush) 1958
16 - My Baby Is a Good 'Un (Dixon) 1956
17 - I Can't Quit You Baby [Take 3] (Dixon) 1956
18 - Little Red Rooster (Dixon) 1982
19 - Groaning the Blues [Take 3] (Dixon) 1957
20 - My Love Will Never Die [Take Unknown] (Dixon) 1956
21 - She's a Good 'Un [Take 4] (Eskridge, White) 1957
22 - Three Times a Fool [Take Unknown] (Rush) 1956
23 - Double Trouble [Take 3] (Rush) 1958
24 - Sit Down Baby [Take Unknown] (Bedno) 1956

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Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs dit Little Walter (vocal/hca/ g) Marksville, Louisiane, 1er mai 1930 - Chicago, Illinois, 15 février 1968.



Biographie à revoir

Little Walter - Blues with a feelin' 1952-1966 (2CDs)
MCA MCD 09357

Disque 1

Little Walter : vocal, harmonica (all tracks)
Muddy Waters : guitar (1,2)
Jimmy Rogers : guitar (1,2)
Louis Myer : guitar (3-13)
Dave Myer : guitar (3-10,14)
Robert Jr Lockwood : guitar (11-20)
Leonard Gaston : guitar (15)
Luther Tucker : guitar (16-20)
Henry Gray : piano (6)
Otis Spann : piano (13)
Willie Dixon : bass (4,5,11-20)
Elga Edmunds : drums (1,2)
Fred Below : drums (3-20)

01 - Juke (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1952
02 - Can't Hold Out Much Longer (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1952
03 - Blue Midnight (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1952
04 - Fast Boogie (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1953
05 - Driftin' (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) 1953
06 - Tonight With A Fool (Walter Jacobs) 1953
07 - That's It (Walter Jacobs) 1953
08 - Blues With A Feeling (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1953
09 - My Kind Of Baby (Walter Jacobs) 1953
10 - Last Boogie (Walter Jacobs) 1953
11 - Come Back Baby (Walter Jacobs) 1954
12 - I Love you So (Oh Baby) (Walter Jacobs) 1954
13 - Big Leg Mama (Walter Jacobs) 1954
14 - Mercy Babe (aka My Babe) (Willie Dixon) 1954
15 - Thunderbird (Walter Jacobs) 1955
16 - Crazy For My baby (Willie Dixon) 1955
17 - Can't Top Lovin' You (Walter Jacobs) 1955
18 - Who (Willie Dixon) 1955
19 - Flying Saucer (Walter Jacobs) 1956
20 - Teenage Beat (Walter Jacobs) 1956

Disque 2

Little Walter : vocal, harmonica (all tracks)
Muddy Waters : slide guitar (4)
Robert Jr Lockwood : guitar (1-3,10,11,16,17)
Luther Tucker : guitar (1-18)
Buddy Guy : guitar (19)
Lee Jackson : guitar (20)
Otis Spann : piano (5,10,11,14,15,18)
Lafayette Leake : piano (19)
Billy Emerson : organ (19)
Jarrett Gibson & Donald Hawkins (saxes (19)
J.T. Brown : tenor sax (20)
Willie Dixon : bass (1-4,6-11,16-18)
Freddie Robinson : bass (5,14,15), guitar (6-9,18)
Jack Myer : bass (19)
Junior Pettis : bass (20)
Fred Below : drums (1-3,18)
George Hunter : drums (4-9,12-17)
Bill Stepney : drums (10,11)
Al Duncan : drums (19)
George Cook : drums (20)

01 - Temperature (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1957
02 - Shake Dancer (Walter Jacobs) 1957
03 - Ah'w Baby (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1957
04 - Rock Botton (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1958
05 - You Gonne be Sorry (Someday Baby) (Walter Jacobs) 1959
06 - Baby (Walter Jacobs) 1959
07 - My Baby Is Sweeter (Alternate) (Willie Dixon) 1959
08 - Crazy Mixed Up World (Alternate) (Willie Dixon) 1959
09 - Worried Life Blues (Maceo Merriweather) 1959
10 - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1959
11 - Mean Old Frisco (Alternate) (Arthur Crudup) 1959
12 - One Of These Mornings (Walter Jacobs) 1959
13 - Blue And Lonesome (Alternate) (Walter Jacobs) 1959
14 - Me And Piney Brown (Walter Jacobs) 1959
15 - Break It Up (Walter Jacobs) 1959
16 - Going Down Slow (James Oden) 1960
17 - You're Sweet (Walter Jacobs) 1960
18 - You Don't Know (Walter Jacobs) 1960
19 - I'm A Businessman (Willie Dixon,Billy Emerson) 1963
20 - Chicken Shack (Walter Jacobs) 1966

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Voir aussi chez Soulbeats :

Little Walter
Boss Blues Harmonica

The "5" Royales

De 1951 à 1966





Biographie à revoir

The Five Royales
King KCD-678

01 - I Know It's Hard But It's Fair
02 - Miracle Of Love
03 - My Sugar Sugar
04 - When You Walked Through The Door
05 - School Girl
06 - Get Something Out Of It
07 - Tell Me You Care
08 - Wonder Where Your Love Has Gone
09 - It Hurts Inside
10 - Mine Forever
11 - One Mistake
12 - Women About To Make Me Go Crazy

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El Pauling

Juan have posted this message:
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Hi, I don't know how to contact you. I usually look at your blog, lots of quality stuff here.
I have made a cd for a friend compiling all 5, 45's that guitarist-singer EL PAULING did for FEDERAL records in the early 60's. El Pauling was a member of the 5 Royales.
I uploaded the cd to rapidshare, the link is: http://rapidshare.com/files/19764352/EL_PAULING_Complete_Federal_Recordings___more.rar

If you like it or want to share it on your blog or something, no problem at all.

Best,

Juan
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Many thanks to Juan for this collector's gem.

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Big Joe Williams

Joseph Lee Williams dit Poor Joe ou Big Joe Williams (vocal/g) Crawford, Mississippi, 16 octobre 1903 Macon, Mississippi, 17 décembre 1982.



Biographie à revoir

Big Joe Williams - Complete Recorded Works - Volume 1 (1935-1941)
Document Records BDCD-6003

Big Joe Williams : vocal, guitar (all tracks)
Henry Townsend : guitar (2)
"Dad" Tracy : one-string fiddle (7-10)
Chasey Collins : washboard (7-10)
Robert Lee McCoy : guitar (11-14)
Sonny Boy Williams (John Lee) : harmonica (11-14,19-24)
William Mitchell : bass (15-18)
Alfred Elkins : bass (19-24)

01 - Little leg woman (Williams) 1935
02 - Somebody's been borrowing that stuff (J. Williams, S.W. Williams) 1935
03 - Providence help the poor people (Williams) 1935
04 - 49 Highway blues (Williams) 1935
05 - My grey pony (Williams) 1935
06 - Stepfather blues (Williams) 1935
07 - Baby please don't go (Williams) 1935
08 - Stack o' dollars (Williams) 1935
09 - Wild cow blues (Williams) 1935
10 - Worried man blues (Williams) 1935
11 - I know you gonna miss me (Williams) 1937
12 - Rootin' ground hog (Williams) 1937
13 - Brother James (Williams) 1937
14 - I won't be in hard luck no more (Williams) 1937
15 - Crawlin' king snake (Williams) 1941
16 - I'm getting wild about her (Williams) 1941
17 - Peach orchard mama (Williams) 1941
18 - Meet me around the corner (Williams) 1941
19 - Throw a boogie woogie (Williams) 1941
20 - North wind blues (Williams) 1941
21 - Please don't go (Williams) 1941
22 - Highway 49 (Williams) 1941
23 - Someday baby (Williams) 1941
24 - Break 'em on down (Williams) 1941


Big Joe Williams - Complete Recorded Works - Volume 2 (1945-1949)
Document Records BDCD-6004

Big Joe Williams : vocal (1-19), guitar (all tracks)
Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee) : harmonica (1-4,6-17)
Jump Jackson : drums (1-4)
Clifford Dinwaddie : washboard (5)
Ransom Knowling : bass (6-17)
Judge Riley : drums (6-17)
Singleton Palmer : drum (18-19)
Chasey Collins : vocal, washboard (20-21)
"Dad" Tracy : one-string fiddle (20-21)

01 - Drop down blues (Williams) 1945
02 - Somebody's been worryin' (Williams) 1945
03 - Wanita (Williams) 1945
04 - Vitamin A (Williams) 1945
05 - His spirit lives on (Williams) 1945
06 - Baby please don't go (Williams) 1947
07 - Stack of dollars (Estes arr. Williams) 1947
08 - Mellow apples (Williams) 1947
09 - Wild cow moan (Williams) 1947
10 - P vine blues (Patton arr. Williams) 1947
11 - Bad and weakhearted blues (Williams) 1947
12 - King biscuit stomp (Williams) 1947
13 - I'm a highway man (Williams) 1947
14 - Banta rooster blues (Williams) 1947
15 - Mean step father blues (Williams) 1947
16 - House lady blues (Williams) 1947
17 - Don't you leave me here (Williams) 1947
18 - Jivin' woman (Williams) 1949
19 - She's a married woman (Williams) 1949
20 - Walking blues (Unidentified) 1935
21 - Atlanta town (Unidentified) 1935

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Également sur d'autres blogs :

Chez Bastet & Corwyn's Music
- Nine string guitar blues - 1961

Chez Blues Masters
- Blues From The South Side
- Meet Me Around The Corner

Chez Blues Town
- Big Joe Williams at folk city - 1964

Mable John

Cette soeur aînée de Little Willie John n'a pas connu le même succès que son jeune frère. Ce n'est pourtant pas faute de talent.

Née le 3 novembre 1930 à Bastrop en Louisiane, Mable John est l'aînée d'une fratrie de 10 enfants. La famille se déplace vers l'Arkansas alors qu'elle est encore enfant, puis à Detroit. Après des études supérieures, elle commence à travailler pour une compagnie d'assurance dirigée par Bertha, la mère de Berry Gordy.

C'est dans ces circonstances qu'elle rencontre, en 1956, le fondateur de Tamla. Elle réalise son premier enregistrement en 1959 pour ce label dont elle est la premières artiste féminine. Son premier single "Who wouldn't love a man like this" paru en 1960 ne connaît aucun succès. Les suivants n'en connaissent pas davantage. En fait Tamla ne promotionne pas ses disques de blues et en 1962 son contrat avec la firme n'est pas renouvellé. Mable devient membres des Raelettes de Ray Charles.

Le parcour professionnel de son mari conduit Mable a migrer ensuite à Chicago. En 1966 elle tente une nouvelle carrière solo chez Stax. Un premier single, de soul cette fois, connaît un certain succès : "Your good thing is about to end". Aucun de ses six autres singles pour le label ne renouvellera l'exploit.

En 1968 elle quitte Stax et retourne au sein des Realetts dont elle devient la directrice et la soliste. Elle a coécrit 52 chansons avec Ray Charles. Après 1973 elle quitte la scène profane et se consacre uniquement à la religion à la musique gospell, enregistrant occasionnellement. Elle autoproduit un album de musique religieuse "Where can I find Jesus" et trois autres albums, disponible uniquement sur son site internet.

Elle réside a présent à Los Angeles où elle est devenu pasteur. Ses activités sont néanmoins variées, puisqu'elle a coécrit avec David Ritz deux ouvrages sur la musique soul "Sanctified Blues" et "Stay out of the kitchen". Elle restera en contact avec Ray Charles jusqu'aux derniers moments de celui-ci.

Mable John - Stay Out Of The Kitchen
The Stax Recordings 1966-1968
Stax SCD-8578-2

01 - Stay Out of the Kitchen (Banks, Cropper)
02 - Left Over Love (Hayes, Porter)
03 - Able Mable (M. John, L. John)
04 - Shouldn't I Love Him (Banks, Cropper)
05 - Catch That Man (M. John,Parker)
06 - Ain't Giving It Up (M. John)
07 - Running Out (Ashford, Simpson)
08 - Love Tornado (M. John,Parker)
09 - Bigger and Better (Hayes, Porter)
10 - Sweet Devil (Hayes, Porter, M. John)
11 - It's Catching (Parker, Thigpen)
12 - Drop on In (Booker T. Jones)
13 - That Woman Will Give It a Try (M. John)
14 - That's What My Love Can Do (M. John)
15 - I Love You More Than Words Can Say (Floyd, Jones)
16 - Have Your Cake (M. John, Parker)
17 - Be Warm to Me (M. John)
18 - I Taught You How (Hayes, Porter, M. John)
19 - If You Give up What You Got (See What You Lost) (Parker, Catron)
20 - Don't Get Caught (Hayes, Porter)
21 - Man's Too Busy (M. John)
22 - I'm a Big Girl Now (Hayes, Porter)
23 - To Love What I Want, and Want What I Love (M. John)
24 - Sorry About That (Floyd, Jones)
25 - I Need Your Love So Bad (Mertis John Jr.)

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