Track Listing

1. Blues Stay Away from Me
2. Freight Train Boogie
3. Trouble Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
4. Boogie Woogie Baby
5. Rounder's Blues
6. Mobile Boogie
7. Used Car Boogie
8. Pan American Boogie
9. Field Hand Man
10. Brown's Ferry Blues
11. Peach Tree Street Boogie
12. Blues You Never Lose
13. Steamboat Bill Boogie
14. Muddy Water
15. San Mountain Blues
16. Hillbilly Boogie
17. You Can't Do Wrong and Get By
18. Kentucky Mountain
19. Weary Day
20. Take It to the Captain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58905 in Music
• Released on: 2004-12-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Every Track Is a Delight
Several years ago The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website included a list entitled 500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll. The Delmore Brothers' "Hillbilly Boogie" made that list. After picking up this CD it's easy to see why. Though they were a country act, they incorporated blues, boogie and rockabilly elements into their sound. Rabon and Alton Delmore recorded for King from 1946 until 1952, when Rabon died of lung cancer. [Alton died in 1964.] The twenty tracks included here (half of which are originals) provide a terrific overview of two musicians who--as the liner notes point out--"were too modern for the determined traditionalism of bluegrass, (but) too oldtime for the hip-swivelling of rock 'n' roll." Every track is a delight. This is important listening. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Simply the Best
What a superb album. Taken from the Brothers' years with Cincinnati based King Records (1945 - 1952), the album features classics such as 'Blues Stay Away From Me', with its highly distinctive guitar work, and my own favorite, 'Hillbilly Blues', as well as the title track. The album is a nice mixture of blues and boogie-woogie, with the Brothers' sweet harmonies backed up by some great musicians. Apart from Wayne Raney's superb harmonica, check out Zeke Turner's electric guitar work on 'Boogie Woogie Baby'. And is that Merle Travis backing up on 'Hillbilly Blues'? And then there's Roy Lanham's electric guitar on 'Peach Tree Street Boogie'. But every track on this album has something to commend it. So don't mess around. Buy it! You won't regret it.

It Doesn't Get Better Than This !
Ace Records should be given a big pat on the back for releasing these Delmore Brothers classics cut for King Records between 1946 - 1952 . If you like bluesy , hillbilly , country boogie in its rawest form , this cd is a must . Fantastic vocal harmonies , great blues harp , great guitar picking and twenty tracks that are the equal to anything that you will find in American Roots music . These recordings are as earthy as the soil of the Elkmont farm that the brothers grew up on , and so influential in that they played a major part in laying down the blueprint for the Rock&Roll that was to change the 20th Century for ever . I can't think of higher praise than that !