Dear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black rock and roll from the "Golden Age" of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only "originated" this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black "Rhythm and Blues" music was suddenly re-named "Rock and Roll" to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes on "Boss Black Rockers" are pretty well-known and some are pretty obscure - even if a lot of those were actually pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this series were actually household names in the "Rock and Roll World" of the '50s and early '60s. I sure hope with this great series to finally set things straight. After the massive success of this series on CD, we finally decided to release "Boss Black Rockers" on vinyl LPs, cherry-picking the best songs (a very hard task) from each and every volume. Dig it!
2 Big Boy Myles & the Shawwees - the Girl I Married
3 Lester Robertson - Oh Babe
4 Doc Starkes and the Nite Riders - Love Me Like Crazy
5 Ernie Freeman - Raunchy
6 Elton Anderson - I Love You
7 The Cadillacs - Holy Smoke Baby
8 Junior Wells - Messin' with the Kid
9 Jimmy Good - Watchdog
10 Al Garris - That's All
11 Baby Cortez - Eeny Meenie Minie Moe
12 The Clovers - Hey Doll Baby
13 Big Al Downing - Please Come Home
14 Richie Richardson and the Jaguars - the Jump
15 Ray Sharpe - Gonna Let It Go This Time
16 King Coleman - Black Bottom Blues
17 Titus Turner - Get on the Right Track Baby
18 Richard Berry - Yama Yama Pretty Mama
19 The Check Mates - Hey Mrs Jones
20 Red Smiley and the Veltones - Jailbird
21 Johnny Fuller - Sister Jenny
22 Sonny Knight - Teenage Party
23 Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes
24 Chuck Flamingo - Peepin' Tom
25 Willie Egan - Rock & Roll Fever
26 Henry and Mamie - Two Big Feet
27 The Jive Five - When I Was Single
28 Al Brown and His Tunetoppers - Take Me Back
Dear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black rock and roll from the "Golden Age" of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only "originated" this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black "Rhythm and Blues" music was suddenly re-named "Rock and Roll" to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes on "Boss Black Rockers" are pretty well-known and some are pretty obscure - even if a lot of those were actually pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this series were actually household names in the "Rock and Roll World" of the '50s and early '60s. I sure hope with this great series to finally set things straight. After the massive success of this series on CD, we finally decided to release "Boss Black Rockers" on vinyl LPs, cherry-picking the best songs (a very hard task) from each and every volume. Dig it!
