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    • Rock & Roll, Vol. 4: 1948

    10/16/2001 | Fremeaux & Assoc. Fr 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Rock & roll music scholars debate when the genre really began and which artist produced its first recording. But critics can agree that the music which defined a generation had its roots in the blues and rhythm & blues artists of the 1940s. Many of those early artists were African Americans who saw their songs recorded by young white musicians who liked their music so well they thought they wrote it. Setting aside the important issues of copyright piracy and musical equities, the kaleidoscope of contributors to the rock & roll idiom makes for interesting listening. This CD is part of a series that goes back to those days in the 1940s before rock & roll had a name and started a cultural revolution. This volume focuses on the year 1948, when an avalanche of great music was released, all bearing the throbbing beat that was to characterize the music later called rock & roll. Many of the artists on the album are well known to mainstream listeners: John Lee Hooker, Harry Choates, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Wynonie Harris, and Lightnin' Hopkins, to name a few. But they comprise only a small part of the wide array of artists featured on this album. The music enthusiast will be edified by hearing selections from the likes of Cat Anderson, Hankshaw Hawkins, Pee Wee King, the Buchanan Brothers, Spade Cooley, Eddie Shaw & the Wolf Gang, and many more. Hank Williams makes the list of rock & roll influences, turning in a scorching version of "The Blues Come Around." The influence of Southern blues is apparent in tunes like King Porter's "Chittlin' Ball," Curly Williams' "Georgia Boogie," and "Hole in the Wall Tonight" performed by Albinia Jones. Blue Lu Barker belts out "Here's a Little Girl," a song penned for her by her husband, Danny Barker, who accompanies her on guitar. If one ever wondered where the term "Let's Boogie!" came from, this album will set the record straight with one great boogie after another. When the CD is over, there is bound to be a better appreciation of where rock & roll came from and where it was going from the vantage point of the year 1948. ~ Rose of Sharon Witmer, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • 1
  • I Want My Fanny Brown
  • Harris, Wynonie
  • 3:06
  • 2
  • Louisiana Boogie
  • Choates, Harry
  • 2:46
  • 3
  • Hop, Skip and Jump
  • Milton, Roy
  • 2:34
  • 4
  • Bull Fiddle Boogie
  • King, Pee Wee
  • 2:35
  • 5
  • Two Can Play Your Game
  • Tyler, Johnny
  • 2:32
  • 6
  • Muddy Jumps One
  • Waters, Muddy
  • 2:27
  • 7
  • Mercury Boogie
  • Douglas, K.C.
  • 2:26
  • 8
  • Dog House Boogie
  • Hawkins, Hawkshaw
  • 2:39
  • 9
  • The Twister
  • Williams, Paul
  • 4:49
  • 10
  • Dirty Deal Boogie
  • Smith, Willie [Piano/Vocals]
  • 2:34
  • 11
  • Guitar Boogie Woogie
  • T-Texas Tyler
  • 3:07
  • 12
  • I Can't Understand
  • Mc Cracklin, Jimmy
  • 3:01
  • 13
  • Big Chief Boogie
  • Cooley, Spade
  • 2:46
  • 14
  • Georgia Boogie
  • Williams, Curley
  • 2:55
  • 15
  • Mississippi Boogie
  • Liggins, Jimmy
  • 2:42
  • 16
  • Red Hot Blues
  • Fowler, T.J.
  • 2:33
  • 17
  • Bounce Pee Wee
  • Crayton, Pee Wee
  • 2:49
  • 18
  • Beef Stew
  • Singer, Hal
  • 2:29
  • 19 (2)
  • Boogie Chillen'
  • Hooker, John Lee
  • 3:09
  • 20 (2)
  • The Blues Come Around
  • Williams, Hank
  • 2:42
  • 21 (2)
  • Midnight Jump
  • Memphis Slim
  • 2:45
  • 22 (2)
  • Chittlin' Ball
  • Porter, King
  • 2:27
  • 23 (2)
  • Peach Tree Street Boogie
  • Delmore Brothers
  • 2:41
  • 24 (2)
  • California Hop
  • Mc Neely, Big Jay
  • 2:33
  • 25 (2)
  • Hole in the Wall Tonight
  • Jones, Albinia
  • 2:39
  • 26 (2)
  • Lightnin' Boogie
  • Hopkins, Lightnin'
  • 2:19
  • 27 (2)
  • Humble Road Boogie
  • Rash, Curley
  • 2:19
  • 28 (2)
  • Boogie Woogie Blues
  • Gunn, Art
  • 2:22
  • 29 (2)
  • Papa's Boogie
  • Burns, Eddie
  • 2:43
  • 30 (2)
  • Cotton Pickers' Special
  • Howard, Paul
  • 2:58
  • 31 (2)
  • Mine All Mine?
  • Wakely, Jimmy
  • 2:57
  • 32 (2)
  • High Tempered Mama
  • Buchanan Brothers
  • 2:25
  • 33 (2)
  • Here's a Little Girl
  • Barker, Blue Lu
  • 3:17
  • 34 (2)
  • Down in the Groovy
  • Lyons, Lonnie
  • 2:56
  • 35 (2)
  • Steel Guitar Boogie
  • Sargent, Tommy
  • 3:01
  • 36 (2)
  • Drop Dead!
  • Williams, Tex
  • 2:08

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