50 track double-disc set presenting the very best of Wynonie Harris - one of the greatest Rhythm & Blues singers of the 1940s and '50s, and an influential artist in the birth of Rock 'n' Roll.
He scored a string of Jump Blues hits which are now considered Rock 'n' Roll classics, with many being covered by other artists.
You'll find all the greats on this massive collection, including Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well, Good Rockin' Tonight and many others. (Raucus)![Wynonie-Harris-Jump-Mr-Blues-1.jpg]()
There was no one like Wynonie Harris during his lifetime and there’s been no one like him since his demise. Wynonie was more of everything, more of a blues singer, more of a personality, more of a self-publicist, more of a womaniser. He devoured life in man-sized chunks and spat out the bits he didn’t need. He began as a dancer then worked as an MC at clubs in his home town of Omaha, Nebraska. With Jimmy Rushing and ‘Big’ Joe Turner as his models, he became an exuberant blues singer.
He scored a string of Jump Blues hits which are now considered Rock 'n' Roll classics, with many being covered by other artists.
You'll find all the greats on this massive collection, including Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well, Good Rockin' Tonight and many others. (Raucus)
There was no one like Wynonie Harris during his lifetime and there’s been no one like him since his demise. Wynonie was more of everything, more of a blues singer, more of a personality, more of a self-publicist, more of a womaniser. He devoured life in man-sized chunks and spat out the bits he didn’t need. He began as a dancer then worked as an MC at clubs in his home town of Omaha, Nebraska. With Jimmy Rushing and ‘Big’ Joe Turner as his models, he became an exuberant blues singer.He joined Lucky Millinder’s band in 1944 and had his first R&B No.1 with ‘Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well’. ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight’ and ‘All She Wants To Do Is Rock’ also made No.1, and a string of hits, including ‘Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee’, ‘Sittin’ On It All The Time’, ‘Grandma Plays The Numbers’, ‘I Like My Baby’s Pudding’, ‘Bloodshot Eyes’ and ‘Lovin’ Machine’, reflected his popularity during the late 1940s and early 1950s.Moving to the West Coast, Harris recorded for a number of independent labels, including Apollo, Aladdin and Hamp-Tone, as well as the Nashville-based Bullet, before joining King in December 1947 and cutting ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight’ at his first sessions. His raucous, sexually explicit repertoire struck a chord with audiences, who watched his outrageous stage act at the concert tours that became a constant in his life. Off-stage he was just as uncompromising, surrounding himself with compliant females, despite being married with a daughter.
Drink flowed and morals collapsed with relentless regularity. Artists and audiences alike identified him as a force of nature prepared to ignore society’s rules.Harris’s career ended with the arrival of the 1960s. Music had moved on and he was suffering the consequences of the life he’d led. Nevertheless, a remake of ‘Bloodshot Eyes’ for Roulette in 1960 revealed an undiminished talent. The strength of that talent to sing and entertain is captured to full effect in these 50 tracks. (R&B Review)
trax disc 1:
01 Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well 02 Around The Clock (Part 1) 03 Wynonie's Blues 04 Young Man's Blues 05 That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch 06 Playful Baby 07 Hey, Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Part 1) 08 In The Evenin' Blues 09 My Baby_s Barrel House 10 Mr Blues Jumped The Rabbit 11 You Got To Get Yourself A Job, Girl 12 Big City Blues 13 Battle Of The Blues (Part 1) 14 Good Morning Mr Blues 15 From Bad To Good Blues 16 Good Rockin' Tonight 17 Lollipop Mama 18 Grandma Plays The Numbers 19 She Just Won't Sell No More 20 I Want My Fanny Brown 21 I Feel That Old Age Comin' On 22 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 23 All She Wants To Do Is Rock 24 Sittin' On It All The Time 25 I Like My Baby's Pudding
trax disc 2:
01 Triflin' Woman 02 Rock Mr Blues 03 Good Morning Judge 04 Mr Blues Is Coming To Town 05 Oh! Babe 06 Confessin' The Blues 07 Bloodshot Eyes 08 Here Comes The Night 09 Lovin' Machine 10 My Playful Baby's Gone 11 Keep On Churnin' (Till The Butter Comes) 12 Drinking Blues 13 Adam Come And Get Your Rib 14 Bring It Back 15 Bad News Baby (There'll Be No Rockin' Tonite) 16 Mama Your Daughter Done Lied On Me 17 Christina 18 Drinkin' Sherry Wine 19 Fishtail Blues 20 Good Mambo Tonight 21 Wine Wine Sweet Wine 22 That's Me Right Now 23 A Tale Of Woe 24 Sweet Lucy Brown 25 Bloodshot Eyes
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