Waynell Jones -- The Chicken Song & Jaybird Boogie (1984 *High Water 424)

'High Water Recording Company is proud to introduce the first record by Waynell Jones, an artist with a truly distinctive sound. His music is downhome blues flavored with country and wester, modern rhythm and blues, and old-time songster material. It is a sound forged by years of performing music for a living on the streets of his home town of Henderson, Tennessee, playing for every kind of audience, black and white, young and old. Waynell was born in 1926 near Henderseon in rural Chester County and had lived there and in nearby Humboldt, Tennessee, his entire life. All of his thirty-nine aunts and uncles played instruments, and by the age of fifteen Waynell was playing guitar. He played for house parties and country picnics before becoming a street musician. For the past eighteen years he has been employed at Freed-Hardeman College in Henderson and now plays blues mostly for students and at special programs at the college. He is also the guitarist for the Gospel Travelers, a local community singing group. His years of performing in the community and at the college have made him one of Henderson's best known and best loved citizens. Both songs on this record are ones that he put together himself. "Jaybird Boogie" is the first song he ever made up. He was sitting on a country store porch playing his guitar, and the owner offered him a soft drink if he would make up a piece called "jaybird Boogie." When Waynell finished, the man gave him a whole case of drinks!' (David Evans, cover notes)

Waynell Jones -- The Chicken Song & Jaybird Boogie (1984 *High Water 424)

Flac + 320

Produced by Dr. David Evans for the High Water Recording Company at Memphis State University in Memphis, TN. 

(V/A) Let's Get Loose : Folk And Popular Blues Styles From The Beginnings To The Early 1940s (New World, 1978)

"[In the early 20th] century, professional traveling entertainers in the South, many of them women, began to incorporate blues into their stage acts. In 1912 the first blues sheet music appeared, and very shortly the blues moved into the mainstream of white popular music as well as southern white folk music. In 1920 the first blues record by a black vocalist appeared, initiating a flood of thousands of commercial recordings that continues today. These popularizing trends took place in a historical context of increasing migration of rural southern blacks to the northern urban centers. Blues have continued to flourish in the ghettos, mainly among people with strong and recent ties to the South. Hastened by the hit and star system of the record industry, a series of new performance styles grew up, containing elements that reminded the listener of the South but also reflecting the increasing sophistication and complexity of city life. Styles emanating from the cities had an influence on southern rural blues singers through records and through the recording artists' personal appearances, while at the same time the urban blues scene was nourished by a steady stream of new performers arriving from "down home." The blues on this album, all from commercial recordings, illustrate the major styles in which blues were performed from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War Il. Side One contains styles already in existence at the advent of recording, including examples of early white folkand popular-blues styles. Side Two presents styles that developed or came into prominence largely after or as a result of commercial recording." (album notes excerpt)




Just scored a heap of these 70's New World Records LP comps from Mississippi Records, on the cheap. This one's sporting some prime cuts, and there's plenty more like this that are on the way. 

(V/A) Let's Get Loose : Folk And Popular Blues Styles From The Beginnings To The Early 1940s (New World, 1978) *320 mp3

+ Liner notes *PDF

A1      Yank Rachell, Sonny Boy Williamson, Washboard Sam & Alfred Elkins - PeacH Tree Blues
A2 Pillie Bolling – Brownskin Woman
A3 The Johnson Boys – Violin Blues
A4 Monarch Jazz Quartet Of Norfolk – What's The Matter Now
A5 Buck Mountain Band – Yodeling Blues
A6 Hattie Hudson – Doggone My Good Luck Soul
A7 Clara Smith – Let's Get Loose
A8 George O'Connor – Nigger Blues
B1 Tyus And Tyus – Dad's Ole Mule
B2 Rufus & Ben Quillian – Keep It Clean
B3 Scrapper Blackwell - & Leroy Carr  Blue Night Blues
B4 Walter Roland – House Lady Blues
B5 Harlem Hamfats – I'm Cuttin' Out
B6 Tommy McClennan – Deep Blue Sea Blues
B7       Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alfred Elkins & Blind John Davis - Love Me, Baby
B8 The Five Breezes  – My Buddy Blues

Guitar Slim Green's "Stone Down Blues" -- With Johnny and Shuggie Otis (Kent, 1970)

"A great deal has been written about the blues and the people who sing them. Most enthusiasts are familiar with the names of Elmore james, Muddy Waters, Sonnyboy Williamson, Lightnin' Hopkins and Little Walter, for these are the names of artists who have won wide recognition for their talents and their contributions not only to the blues, but to Rock & Roll as well.

However, one should be aware that there were others, some still around, that were equally as talented, but not as fortunate. All too often their contributions were quickly recognized, borrowed or stolen and the artists themselves ignored and forgotten. Such was almost the tragedy that occured with GUITAR SLIM GREEN..." (Cover notes)

I've said it before, the Boogie Blues aren't generally my thing. I tend to be fairly selective. This 1970 Kent outing by Norman "Guitar Slim" Green is good & solid, though. Kept me steady rocking through a huge load of dishes tonight, with no complaints. (Well, aside from the dishes.) The back-up from Johnny and Shuggie Otis doesn't hurt much, either. 320 vinyl rip by yours truly. Word.



Guitar Slim Green's "Stone Down Blues" -- With Johnny and Shuggie Otis (Kent, 1970) *Re-upped 7/20/12

KST-549

1. Shake 'Em Up 2:11
2. Bumble Bee Blues 3:26
3. Make Love All Night 2:36
4. My Little Angel Child 3:57
5. 5th Street Alley Blues 3:13
6. Old Folks Boogie 2:13
7. This War Ain't Right 3:04
8. You Make Me Feel So Good 2:05
9. Big Fine Thing 2:48
10. Play On Little Girl 3:10