Black blues music in Blues Music

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"Black Night Is Falling: Collector's Classics" (06/22/2004) Blues Hooker, John Lee, Justin TimePreviously released as THE RISING SUN COLLECTION. Personnel: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar); John Garcia (guitar); Steve Jones (bass instrument); Larry "Wild Man" Martin (drums). Recording information: The Rising Sun, Montreal, Canada (05/05/1977).

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"The Best of the Black and White & Imperial Years" (01/11/2005) Blues Walker, T-Bone, Metro BlueOriginally released on Black & White and Imperial. Personnel: T-Bone Burnett (vocals, guitar); Les Hite (alto saxophone); Red Tyler, Sol Moore (baritone saxophone); Paul Campbell (trumpet); Allan Durham (trombone). Liner Note Author: Billy Vera. Recording information: 1940 - 1953.

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"The Black Godfather" (04/25/2000) Blues Williams, Andre, In The Red RecordsPersonnel includes: Andre Williams (vocals); Steve Mackay (saxophone); Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Countdowns, The Dirtbombs, The Compulsive Gamblers, Cheater Slicks. Engineers include: Mick Collins, Mike McHugh, Scott Waters. Recorded at The Distillery, Costa Mesa, California and Ghetto Records, Detroit, Michigan. A crazed, dirty, raw blend of blues, funk, soul, and gritty garage rock, THE BLACK GODFATHER finds the eternally eccentric R&B wildman Andre Williams at his most intense. Backed by a cast of characters that includes appropriately scrappy rockers like Dirtbombs leader Mick Collins (who also produced the album) and Jon Spencer, Williams generates a towering, unhinged wail that's easily the equal of the raucous din created by the aforementioned axemeisters. From the James Brown-meets-Captain Beefheart freak-funk of the title track to the trashy, in-your-face surf/garage-rock stomp of the gloriously sleazy "Whip the Booty" and the Tom Waits-goes-to-Memphis soul-blues of "Nasty Women," this is Williams at his loosest and toughest simultaneously, pushing it to the limit and well beyond. And that's not even mentioning the insane, psychedelic-tinged, extended version of the Cramps' mind-bending classic "I Cant Find My Mind" that closes out the album. Even by Williams's standards, it's a pretty twisted affair.

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"Jump & Swing With Black Top!" (02/24/1998) Blues Various Artists, Black Top (USA)Performers include: Grady Gaines, Rick Holmstrom, Greg Piccolo.

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"Big Black Cadillac" (06/06/2000) Blues Woods, Kipori, Louisiana Red HotPersonnel: Kipori Woods (vocals, guitar); David Tarantolo (Hammond B-3 organ); Roy Rope (bass); Tony Seruntine (drums). Producers: Kipori Woods, drik Flettrich, The Kipori Woods Band. Engineers: Erik Flettrich, Tim Leblanc. Recorded in the Egyptian Room at American Sector Studio, New Oleans, Louisiana.

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"Singing Cody B. Black" (09/12/2000) Blues Black, Cody B., Mustang Sally

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"Before the Blues: The Early American Black Music Scene, Volume 1" (03/19/1996) Blues Various Artists, YazooBEFORE THE BLUES: THE EARLY AMERICAN BLACK MUSIC SCENE, VOLUME 1 chronicles the evolution of blues from early religious music to its more modern form during the 1920s and 1930s. Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent. Includes liner notes by Don Kent and Richard Nevins.

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"Before the Blues: The Early American Black Music Scene, Volume 3" (03/19/1996) Blues Various Artists, YazooBEFORE THE BLUES: THE EARLY AMERICAN BLACK MUSIC SCENE, VOLUME 3 chronicles black musical forms from the 1920s and 1930s. Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent. Includes liner notes by Richard Nevins and Don Kent.

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"Before the Blues: The Early American Black Music Scene, Volume 2" (03/19/1996) Blues Various Artists, YazooBEFORE THE BLUES: THE EARLY AMERICAN BLACK MUSIC SCENE, VOLUME 2 chronicles black musical forms from the 1920s and 1930s. Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent. Includes liner notes by Don Kent and Richard Nevins.

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"Black Nights" (05/08/2001) Blues Fulson, Lowell, Ace Records (UK)Recorded between 1964 and 1967. Includes liner notes by Dick Shuman. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Contains 24 tracks.

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"Black Jack: 21 Essential Classics" (08/12/2003) Blues King, B.B., CleopatraPersonnel: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Sonny Boy Williamson (vocals). Includes liner notes by Athan Maroulis.

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"Old Time Black Southern String Band Music" (02/07/2006) Blues Butch Cage & Willie Thomas, Arhoolie RecordsButch Cage & Willie Thomas: Willie B. Thomas, Robert Jenkins (vocals, guitar); James "Butch" Cage (vocals, fiddle); Rosalie Wilkerson (vocals). Louisiana fiddle and guitar duo Butch Cage and Willie B. Thomas were recorded in 1959 by folklorist Harry Oster, who sought to capture a record of the fast-vanishing tradition of string bands who played dance and worship music for parties and church services. Primitive-sounding yet compelling, Cage and Thomas's versions of rarely heard ancient country blues songs like "I Had a Dream Last Night" and "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More" are a window into a bygone age, while their performance of "The Dirty Dozen" brings to light a song that, like the blues itself, has been constantly evolving for generations.

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"Black Widow Stinger: The Essential Recordings of Memphis Minnie Vol. 2" (11/23/1999) Blues Memphis Minnie, Indigo (UK)Recorded between 1935 and 1941. All tracks have been digitally remastered.

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"Black Snake Moan [Digipak]" (03/09/2004) Blues Jefferson, Blind Lemon, SnapperPersonnel: Blind Lemon Jefferson (vocals, guitar); George Perkins (piano). Recording information: 1926 - 1929.

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"My Black Mama - Part 1&2" (09/20/2005) Blues Various Artists, Blues Images

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"Black & White Piano Vol. 3 (1897-1929)" (08/05/2003) Blues Various Artists, Document (USA)Recorded between 1897 & 1929. Includes liner notes by Chris Smith.

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"Black Pearls" (08/26/2003) Blues Sardinas, Eric, Favored Nations Records (USA)This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: Eric Sardinas (vocals, guitar); Paul Loranger (bass); Mike Dupke (drums); Chris Frazier. Recorded at the Mothership, Los Angeles, California. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

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"Blues Is Black" (09/02/2003) Blues Various Artists, 441 Records

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"Black Night" (11/15/2005) Blues Brown, Charles, Masked Weasel

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"Black Midnight Sun" (05/06/2003) Blues Peterson, Lucky, Dreyfus Records (France)Personnel: Lucky Peterson (vocals, guitar, electric piano, organ, synthesizer); Henry Threadgill (arranger, flute, horns); Alex J. Harding (baritone saxophone); Graham Haynes (cornet); Jesse Dulman (tuba); Bill Laswell (bass); Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey (drums). Recorded at Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey between March & April 2002.

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"Black Vocal Groups Vol. 9 (1929-1942)" (09/2000) Blues Various Artists, Document (USA)Performers include: P.C. Johnson & His Singers, Four Wanderers, Deep River Plantation Singers, Dixie Symphony Four, Morris Brown Quartet, Silvertone Quartet, Royal Harmony Quartet.

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"My Black Name a-Ringin'" (10/26/1999) Blues Burnside, R.L., Genes RecordsPersonnel: R.L. Burnside (vocals, guitar); Jesse Vortis (guitar); Red Ramsey (harmonica). Recorded in Independence, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee in October 1969. Includes liner notes by Larry Hoffman & Denise Tapp. Digitally remastered by Larry Packer and Gene Rosenthal (1999, Uncle Punchy Studios). This is part of Genes Records' Blues Vault Series. In the '90s Burnside emerged as one of the most authentic and powerful blues artists in the world, gaining international recognition as a flagship artist of the raw, "real" blues label Fat Possum. His fierce electric sound was full of fire and fury, accompanied by bashing drums and frenetic slide guitar. 'Twas not always thus, however. MY BLACK NAME A-RINGIN' contains material from one of Burside's earliest sessions (1969), when he was still an acoustic artist, pounding out unamplified versions of tunes by his heroes Muddy Waters and Lightnin' Hopkins, his style a mixture of the two (in a typical example of confusing blues propietorship, Hopkins' "Last Night Blues" is listed as "Sat Down on My Bed and Cried," credited to Burnside). Burnside was already in his 40s in 1969, with plenty of hard living behind him. Consequently, these early recordings expose a voice full of experience and hard-learned lessons. BLACK NAME is far more focused and intense than the other pre-Fat Possum Burnside releases. Despite the acoustic setting, it's closer in spirit to Burnside's astounding '90s electric recordings.

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"Blackjack" (03/23/1999) Blues Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth", Sugar Hill RecordsPersonnel: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (vocals, guitar, mandola, fiddle, viola, harmonica); Jeff Pollard, Freddy Wahl (guitar); Don Buzzard (pedal steel guitar, electric dobro); Bobby Campo (flute, trumpet, flugelhorn); Rod Roddy (piano); Leon Medica (bass); David Peters (drums). Recorded at Studio In The Country, Bogalusa, Louisiana. Grammy Award winner Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown is surely the most versatile musician the blues idiom has ever known. Brown plays guitar, fiddle, harmonica, mandola and viola, along with singing in a gravely, robust voice. Brown plays the blues but refuses to be limited by the "bluesman" tag. He's gone from leading his own 23-piece big band in the late 1940s to being a deputy sheriff in New Mexico. He's moved from wailing the blues at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in the '70s to appearing on the TV show HEE HAW and making a hot album with country singer/guitarist Roy Clark. In 1977, Brown came out of retirement to record this incredibly varied and eclectic album (originally released on the Music is Medicine label). BLACKJACK is a rollicking party of an album, mixing blues (the shimmering "Blackjack"), jazz (the fleet "Pressure Cooker"), western swing ("Tippin' In"), country ("When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again") and bluegrass ("Up Jumped the Devil"). If you're a blues purist, you may be disappointed; if you like genre-branching music played with a sense of joy, calculated recklessness and hot musicianship, BLACKJACK holds the winning hand. Deal yourself in!

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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (07/01/1991) Blues Rainey, Ma, YazooPersonnel include: Ma Rainey (vocals); Tampa Red (guitar); Miles Pruitt (12-string guitar); Don Redman, Buster Bailey (clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (bass saxophone); Tommy Ladnier (cornet); Kid Ory (trombone); Claude Hopkins, Fletcher Henderson, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Lovie Austin (piano).

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"Black and White Piano, Vol. 2 (1929-1942)" (09/2000) Blues Various Artists, Document (USA)

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"Black Tornado" (05/19/1998) Blues Magic Slim, Blind Pig RecordsPersonnel: Magic Slim, Shawn Holt (vocals, guitar); Michael Dotson (guitar); Nick Holt (bass, background vocals); Allen Kirk (drums). Recorded at Hot Ham & Cheese, Chicago, Illinois. Includes liner notes by Wes Race.