Title: Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues Artist: Various Artists Label: World Music Network Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 605633137545 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2019-01-25 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CARD
Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues Label: World Music Network - Named after the rough and ready bars where labourers gathered to drink and dance, barrelhouse was a raucous form of piano blues that got the juke joints swinging. From early pioneers such as Cow Cow Davenport and Speckled Red to the boogie-woogie legends Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, this collection charts the rise and incredible influence of this good-time blues.
Tracks: 1.1 Speckled Red - the Dirty Dozen 1.2 Jimmy Yancey - Slow and Easy Blues 1.3 Cripple Clarence Lofton - Strut That Thing 1.4 Will Ezell Heifer - Dust 1.5 Walter Roland - Watcha Gonna Do? 1.6 Skip James - If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road 1.7 Victoria Spivey - Hoodoo Man Blues 2.1 Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues 2.2 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie 2.3 Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues 2.4 Pete Johnson ; Albert Ammons - Barrelhouse Boogie 2.5 Montana Taylor - Detroit Rocks 2.6 Leroy Carr ; Scrapper Blackwell - Barrelhouse Woman No.2
