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Various - Rhythm & Western Vol. 3 – Lovesick Blues (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewTHE ”MOJO” MAN SEZ: Friends I’m proud to present to you a new Boss series focused on black artists doing ”Country & Western” music, before Civil Rights and before artists like Charlie Pride and Linda Martell made it acceptable to the vast majority of white folks for an African American to do this type of music in the late 1960s. Before that it was not really in the book and to this day black artists in C&W are still considered pretty much a ”novelty” or an exception. The term ”Country Music” was coined in the 1940s because the earlier term ”Hillbilly Music” was deemed to be degrading. Around the same time the term ”Rhythm and Blues” replaced the term ”Race Music” or ”Sepia” for the same reason. The funny thing is… Black artists actually pioneered this genre but when record companies in the 1920s created musical ”Genres” to better market the records they were releasing, African Americans had to more or less leave it alone. The same thing happened to white artists doing Blues. The ones that continued to record it like Jimmy Rodgers (nowadays regarded as the ”Father of Country Music”), Gene Autry, Sam McGee (and many others) suddenly started to get labelled otherwise. The term ”Blues” suddenly was used only for black performers. On ”Rhythm & Western” I tried to cover African Americans doing C&W and its early incarnations at 360 degrees. Many tracks here are ”classic” C&W songs, a lot are numbers that were released as ”R&B” only because they were not sung by a white artist and others are ”novelty” songs with a strong Country flavour or just a C&W twist to it. DIG IT! -Little Victor (a.k.a. DJ ”Mojo” Man)
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Wills Billy Jack - Cadillac In Model ’A’ – Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD Digipak, 36-page booklet, 31 tracks, total playing time approx. 75 min.
Another exciting title in Bear Family Records®’ popular ’Gonna Shake This Shack’ series.
Billy Jack Wills was the youngest brother in the Texas Wills Western Swing dynasty.
He wrote the lyrics to Faded Love, the huge 1950 hit for his big brother Bob!
At the time, Billy Jack was running the Wills Point club in Sacramento for his brother Bob and formed a house band – one of the hippest Western swing bands of the 1940s and early ’50s – that accompanied him on these recordings.
Trademark: the hardest backbeat in country music at the time.
Jazzy rockin’ versions of Good Rockin’ Tonight, Crazy Man Crazy, All She Wants to Do Is Rock alongside (Western) Swing classics like Air Mail Special, C-Jam Blues and Cadillac in Model’ A’ – great Rhythm & Western in its purest form!
31 songs, described in detail in the extensive illustrated booklet with liner notes by Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber.Here is yet another exciting title in Bear Family Records®’ popular series ’Gonna Shake This Shack’.
Billy Jack Wills was the youngest brother of the Wills western swing dynasty. Born February 26, 1926, in Memphis, Hall County, TX, Billy Jack joined the family business as Johnnie Lee Wills’ bass player in his late teens. However, mighty Bob Wills ordered him to California to join the Texas Playboys as bass player and drummer. He was also occasionally featured as a vocalist, and he proved his worth by writing the lyrics to Faded Love, Will’s massive hit of 1950.In the late 1940s, Billy Jack Wills took over management of Wills Point, Bob’s club in Sacramento. While Bob and the Texas Playboys went on tour again, Billy Jack formed the house band that accompanied him on these recordings. Legendary Playboy Tiny Moore did not want to get back on the road with Bob and became the featured star and co-vocalist in Billy Jack’s Western Swing Band.
The band also included trumpeter and bassist Dick McComb, fiddler and bassist Cotton Roberts, rhythm guitarist Kenny Lowery, and later local teen steel guitarist, Vance Terry. Vance idolized the jazzy Hawaiian style of Noel Boggs.Since Billy Jack was twenty years younger than Bob, his musical influences were more up-to-date. Billy and Tiny had the most progressive band in the early and mid-1950s. Billy Jack also encouraged his members to improvise. Despite the jazzy solos of Terry and McComb, Billy Jack’s Western Swing Band had the hardest backbeat in country music. Billy Jack indeed was on the verge of rocking & rolling. The band had a strong following in the Pacific Northwest, and their covers of r & b hits of the day were dance floor magnets.
Bear Family Records® presents Billy Jack Will’s Western Swing band at their jazzy rockinest: The CD presents their splendid versions of Good Rockin’ Tonight, Crazy Man Crazy, All She Wants to Do Is Rock, alongside (western) swing classics such as Air Mail Special, C-Jam Blues, and the song Wills is genuinely famous for Cadillac in Model’ A’. Bear Family Records® presents the MGM version AND the rockin’ radio transcript recorded at KFBK Studios, Sacramento, CA. Most of the other songs also stem from the 1952-54 Sacramento sessions held at KFBK. Most western swing bands excelled during radio sessions – the informality brought out the best in the high-class improvisers of that genre. Thus, the tracks surpass any commercial studio recording of the time. Here are 31 selections of Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band – at their swinging finest!
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Williams Hank, Jr. - Rich White Honky Blues [Explicit Content] (LP)
€32,50Quick View2022 release. Hank Williams, Jr.’s sound has always been built on the blues and his album Rich White Honky Blues is a sonic testimony to that. The project came together over three hot days in Nashville, recorded live with the finest blues session players in the country at producer Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio. Never one to rest on his laurels, even after 56 studio albums, the acclaimed Country Music Hall of Fame member is still finding new creative ground to explore.
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Williams Hank, Jr. - Rich White Honky Blues [Explicit Content] (CD)
€18,00Quick View2022 release. Hank Williams, Jr.’s sound has always been built on the blues and his album Rich White Honky Blues is a sonic testimony to that. The project came together over three hot days in Nashville, recorded live with the finest blues session players in the country at producer Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio. Never one to rest on his laurels, even after 56 studio albums, the acclaimed Country Music Hall of Fame member is still finding new creative ground to explore.
