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Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues - The Definitive Collection, Pt. 2: 1954-1967
Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues - The Definitive Collection, Pt. 2: 1954-1967
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Format: CD (3 disc)
Release Date: Jun 15, 2012
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Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Illustrators: R.A. Andreas; Victor Pearlin.
Photographers: R.A. Andreas; Victor Pearlin.
The second volume of Bear Family's four-part electric blues series Plug It In! Turn It Up! features the years 1954-1967 but that's slightly misleading, as much of the latter years are bunched up on the third disc, which rounds up 29 significant instrumentals. The rest of the collection concentrates on continuing the story the first volume began, as West Coast, Delta, and Chicago blues all began to swing harder and play louder, working their way onto rock & roll jukeboxes as they did so. Some of these singles do play like rock & roll -- that's particularly true of Bo Diddley's heavy-footed rumble and Hank Ballard's easy shuffle on "Look at Little Sister" -- but this is primarily devoted to electrified blues that jolts and jumps like a bare wire. There are plenty of big names and classics here, songs that would later be standards in any number of house bands across the country: "Kansas City," "I'm Ready," "My Babe," "I'm a Man," "I Wish You Wouldn't," "I Can't Quit You Baby," "Got My Mojo Working," "I'm a King Bee," "Texas Flood," "Kansas City," "Baby What You Want Me to Do," "The Sky Is Crying," "Wham!," "Frosty." It's a crash course in history that plays like a party, even on that third disc of high-octane instrumentals. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Illustrators: R.A. Andreas; Victor Pearlin.
Photographers: R.A. Andreas; Victor Pearlin.
The second volume of Bear Family's four-part electric blues series Plug It In! Turn It Up! features the years 1954-1967 but that's slightly misleading, as much of the latter years are bunched up on the third disc, which rounds up 29 significant instrumentals. The rest of the collection concentrates on continuing the story the first volume began, as West Coast, Delta, and Chicago blues all began to swing harder and play louder, working their way onto rock & roll jukeboxes as they did so. Some of these singles do play like rock & roll -- that's particularly true of Bo Diddley's heavy-footed rumble and Hank Ballard's easy shuffle on "Look at Little Sister" -- but this is primarily devoted to electrified blues that jolts and jumps like a bare wire. There are plenty of big names and classics here, songs that would later be standards in any number of house bands across the country: "Kansas City," "I'm Ready," "My Babe," "I'm a Man," "I Wish You Wouldn't," "I Can't Quit You Baby," "Got My Mojo Working," "I'm a King Bee," "Texas Flood," "Kansas City," "Baby What You Want Me to Do," "The Sky Is Crying," "Wham!," "Frosty." It's a crash course in history that plays like a party, even on that third disc of high-octane instrumentals. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - You Upset Me Baby
2 - I'm Ready
3 - Mamma Talk to Your Daughter
4 - Hard-Hearted Woman
5 - You Know - Yeah
6 - Mother's Love
7 - Bad Boy
8 - My Babe
9 - She's Five Feet Three
10 - Aw Aw Baby
11 - I'm a Man
12 - Quicksand
13 - Wee Wee Hours
14 - I Wish You Would
15 - Three Hours Past Midnight
16 - Don't Start Me Talkin'
17 - Need Your Love So Bad
18 - Rockin'
19 - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
20 - My Next Door Neighbor
21 - Smokestack Lightning
22 - I'm Tore Up
23 - Dimples
24 - I Can't Quit You Baby
25 - Next Time You See Me
Disc 2:
1 - Who Do You Love
2 - Honky Tonk, Pt. 1
3 - Rock My Blues Away
4 - Gonna Wait for My Chance
5 - Walking by Myself
6 - My Home Is a Prison
7 - Got My Mojo Working
8 - I'm a King Bee
9 - Farther Up the Road
10 - Walking with Frankie
11 - All Your Love
12 - Family Rules
13 - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
14 - Texas Flood
15 - Sugar Coated Love
16 - Living with the Blues
17 - That Will Never Do
18 - As the Years Go By
19 - Kansas City
20 - Look at Little Sister
21 - Baby What You Want Me to Do
22 - Messin' Around
23 - Rooster Blues
24 - Fannie Mae
25 - Sky Is Crying
Disc 3:
1 - Texas Hop
2 - Junior Jives
3 - Strollin' with Bones
4 - Tiny's Boogie
5 - Hawaiian Boogie
6 - Easy
7 - Huckle-Buck
8 - Space Guitar
9 - Hopkins' Sky Hop
10 - Okie Dokie Stomp
11 - Big Boy
12 - Shake Walkin'
13 - Strollin' with Nolen
14 - Congo Mambo
15 - Lucky Lou
16 - Johnny's House Party, Pts. 1-2
17 - Guitar Boogie
18 - Big Push
19 - Back Track
20 - Steppin' Out
21 - Hard Grind
22 - Royal Earl Shuffle
23 - Prancing
24 - Red Light
25 - Remington Ride
26 - Wham!
27 - Frosty
28 - Finger Lickin'
29 - Looking Good
1 - You Upset Me Baby
2 - I'm Ready
3 - Mamma Talk to Your Daughter
4 - Hard-Hearted Woman
5 - You Know - Yeah
6 - Mother's Love
7 - Bad Boy
8 - My Babe
9 - She's Five Feet Three
10 - Aw Aw Baby
11 - I'm a Man
12 - Quicksand
13 - Wee Wee Hours
14 - I Wish You Would
15 - Three Hours Past Midnight
16 - Don't Start Me Talkin'
17 - Need Your Love So Bad
18 - Rockin'
19 - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
20 - My Next Door Neighbor
21 - Smokestack Lightning
22 - I'm Tore Up
23 - Dimples
24 - I Can't Quit You Baby
25 - Next Time You See Me
Disc 2:
1 - Who Do You Love
2 - Honky Tonk, Pt. 1
3 - Rock My Blues Away
4 - Gonna Wait for My Chance
5 - Walking by Myself
6 - My Home Is a Prison
7 - Got My Mojo Working
8 - I'm a King Bee
9 - Farther Up the Road
10 - Walking with Frankie
11 - All Your Love
12 - Family Rules
13 - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
14 - Texas Flood
15 - Sugar Coated Love
16 - Living with the Blues
17 - That Will Never Do
18 - As the Years Go By
19 - Kansas City
20 - Look at Little Sister
21 - Baby What You Want Me to Do
22 - Messin' Around
23 - Rooster Blues
24 - Fannie Mae
25 - Sky Is Crying
Disc 3:
1 - Texas Hop
2 - Junior Jives
3 - Strollin' with Bones
4 - Tiny's Boogie
5 - Hawaiian Boogie
6 - Easy
7 - Huckle-Buck
8 - Space Guitar
9 - Hopkins' Sky Hop
10 - Okie Dokie Stomp
11 - Big Boy
12 - Shake Walkin'
13 - Strollin' with Nolen
14 - Congo Mambo
15 - Lucky Lou
16 - Johnny's House Party, Pts. 1-2
17 - Guitar Boogie
18 - Big Push
19 - Back Track
20 - Steppin' Out
21 - Hard Grind
22 - Royal Earl Shuffle
23 - Prancing
24 - Red Light
25 - Remington Ride
26 - Wham!
27 - Frosty
28 - Finger Lickin'
29 - Looking Good