Track Listing

1. Hand Clappin' - Red Prysock
2. Shake, Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner
3. Jump, Jive, An' Wail - Louis Prima
4. Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
5. Rockin' at Midnight - Roy Brown
6. Hoy Hoy - Johnny Jones, Little Johnny Jones
7. Train Kept A-Rollin' - Tiny Bradshaw
8. Juicy Fruit [*] - Rudy Greene
9. In My Real Gone Rocket - Jackie Brenston
10. Cadillac Boogie [*] - Jimmy Liggins
11. Got My Mo-Jo Working (But It Just Won't Work on You) - Ann Cole
12. Hop, Skip and Jump - Roy Milton
13. Deacon's Hop [*] - Big Jay McNeely
14. Rock My Blues Away - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
15. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
16. 'Til the Well Runs Dry [*] - Sister Wynona Carr
17. Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me - Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats
18. Hello Little Boy - Ruth Brown

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72706 in Music
• Released on: 1992-11-10
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

She must have thought I was a real gone jerk
The CD features a great selection of "jump blues" songs from the late '40s to the mid '50s. Jump blues can be considered to be sort of a combination of swing music and the blues. Or you could just call it early r&b with horns. However you want to look at it, it was definitely a precursor to rock and roll. Many of the songs here would go on to be recorded by rock and rollers. (Elvis covered four of the songs here.) But putting the rock and roll connection aside, this music can stand on it's own merits. This is just plain fun, wild music. But don't take my word for it, listen to it and decide for yourself. Highly recommended.

Superb collection of the roots of the neo "swing" movement
This excellentCD presents a superb 15-year cross-section of an underappreciated branch of the blues. "Jump" blues seems to answer the never-posed question, where does swing end and the blues begin? For that matter, add rockabilly and electric blues, go way back to the late forties, and you have performances infinitely more powerful than Bill Haley and Jerry Lee Lewis. These artists suddenly seem embarrassingly derivative--especially when you hear the original Big Mama Thornton version of Hound Dog. You'll wish you'd never heard of Elvis.

Early R&B and R&R at its best!
This is a excellent example of the roots of R&B and R&R. The blues have never sounded so good! "Hand Clappin'"(#1) still uses the sounds of the big band era, and "Hoy, Hoy"(#6) brings blues and rockabilly to a new level. It is no surprise that Little Richard picked up his sound from Rudy Green's "Juicy Fruit"(#8). Wynona Carr's "'Til the Well Runs Dry"(#16)is an excellent example of the early R&B music sounds of Etta James in the late 50's. There were so many artists performing this type of music in the late 40's, but mainstream music critics never gave them their due. Many of the great rock n roll artists started their careers in blues music, including James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, and the Doors, unfortunately many stirred their talents toward mainsteam pop. Remember the names of these artists and those local jump blues bands in your community that honor their music.