CD MIDNIGHT STEPPERS

Popis - MIDNIGHT STEPPERS:
70-track 3CD set. The accompanying booklet is illustrated with label shots and record sleeves. Compiled and annotated by blues authority Mike Rowe, with discs devoted to the urban blues ('Bluebird Beat') of the '30s and '40s, the boogie woogie phenomenon and the post war years. Features 24 exponents of piano blues, ranging from legendary names like Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Big Maceo, Sunnyland Slim and Albert Ammons to less well known musicians, equally appreciated by blues connoisseurs. This title complements the label's recent blues guitar and harmonica bestsellers, 'Screaming And Crying' and 'Just Wailing', which have enjoyed significant success crossing over to the rock market.
DISC 1: BLUEBIRD BEAT:
1. Beer Drinking Woman (Memphis Slim)
2. Junker Blues (Champion Jack Dupree)
3. Midnight Steppers (Big Bill Broonzy feat. Josh Altheimer)
4. Let Me Hang My Stocking in Your Christmas Tree (Roosevelt Sykes)
5. Sugar Bowl Blues (Curtis Jones)
6. Worried Life Blues (Big Maceo)
7. You Got to Help Me Some (Memphis Slim)
8. 44 Blues (Roosevelt Sykes)
9. New Mistake in Life (Roosevelt Sykes)
10. Can't You Read? (Big Maceo)
11. New Come Back Baby (Walter Davis)
12. I See My Great Mistake (Memphis Slim)
13. I'm the Woogie Man (Bob White)
14. Frisco Blues (Walter Davis)
15. Tin Pan Alley (Curtis Jones)
16. Chicago Breakdown (Big Maceo)
17. Grinder Man Blues (Memphis Slim)
18. This Tavern Boogie (Roosevelt Sykes)
19. Won't Be a Fool No More (Big Maceo)
20. Drunk Again (Champion Jack Dupree)
21. Vicksburg Blues (Little Brother Montgomery)
22. Tears Come Rolling Down (Walter Davis)
23. Blues N Boogie (Roosevelt Sykes).
DISC 2: THE BOOGIE WOOGIE TRIO PLUS:
1. Honky Tonk Train Blues (Meade Lux Lewis)
2. Boogie Woogie Prayer (Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis)
3. Boogie Woogie Stomp (Albert Ammons)
4. B and O Blues (Pete Johnson)
5. Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Cripple Clarence Lofton)
6. State Street Special (Jimmy Yancey)
7. Boogie Woogie Blues (Albert Ammons)
8. Climbin' and Screamin' (Pete Johnson)
9. Indiana Avenue Stomp (Montana Taylor)
10. Pine Creek (Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons)
11. I Don't Know (Cripple Clarence Lofton)
12. Albert's Special Boogie (Albert Ammons)
13. Blues on the Down Beat (Pete Johnson)
14. Rising Tide Blues (Meade Lux Lewis)
15. At the Window (Jimmy Yancey)
16. In De Mornin' (Cripple Clarence Lofton)
17. Kaycee Feeling (Pete Johnson)
18. Five O'Clocks (Montana Taylor)
19. Had a Dream (Cripple Clarence Lofton)
20. Yancey Stomp (Jimmy Yancey)
21. Jimmy's Rocks (Jimmy Yancey)
22. Roses of Picardy (Albert Ammons)
23. Lady Be Good (Albert Ammons).
DISC 3: POST-WAR PIANO:
1. Dices! Dices! (Big Chief Ellis)
2. Little Mama Boogie (Thunder Smith)
3. Miss Minnie Lee Blues (Jimmy McCracklin)
4. Five Long Years (Eddie Boyd)
5. Chicken Shack Boogie (Amos Milburn)
6. Big Town Play Boy (Little Johnny Jones)
7. The Mojo (J B Lenoir feat. Sunnyland Slim)
8. Tired of Crying Over You (Morris Pejoe feat. Henry Gray)
9. I Have a Little Girl (Howlin' Wolf feat. Henry Gray)
10. Time Will Tell (Cecil Gant)
11. Roll, Tumble and Slip (Sunnyland Slim)
12. Hattie Green (Dr Hepcat)
13. Monday Woman (Willie Mabon)
14. Red's Boogie (Piano Red)
15. I Had to Let Her Go (Eddie Boyd feat. James Clark)
16. Young Fashioned Ways (Muddy Waters feat. Otis Spann)
17. Down in the Groovy (Lonnie Lyons)
18. Blue, Black and Evil (Leroy Ervin)
19. Little Willie's Boogie (Little Willie Littlefield)
20. Bicycle Boogie (Bob Gaddy)
21. Hepcat's Boogie (Dr Hepcat)
22. Sampson Street Boogie (Willie Johnson)
23. Dust My Broom (Robert Lockwood
24. Otis in the Dark (Otis Spann).