Barrelhouse Piano Blue

Champion Jack Dupree | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Culture Press
• ASIN: B00000IJIQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,629,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Chain Gang Blues

2. Black Woman Swing

3. Angola Blues

4. Gamblin' Man Blues

5. Warehouse Man Blues

6. New Low Down Dog

7. Cabbage Greens, No. 1

8. Cabbage Greens, No. 2

9. Bad Health Blues

10. That's All Right

11. My Cabin Inn

12. Gibing Blues

13. Dupree Shake Dance

14. Weed Head Woman

15. My Baby's Gone

16. Junker Blues

17. All Alone Blues

18. Big Time Mama

19. Hurry Down Sunshine

20. Jackie P. Blues

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Another lost to Europe, April 20, 2007

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M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barrelhouse Piano Blue (Audio CD)

Dupree is a barrelhouse pianist par excellent - thick chords in a pounding rhythm, ornamentation in the right hand adding depth to the basic chording of the style. Add a straightfoward vocals of a unsophisticated style. What do you get? Not a run-of-the-mill traditional barrelhouse blues - a superb stylist who knows exactly how to squeeze every bit of emotion and art possible out of the genre. So naturally, he ends up in Europe from 1959 until his death. Despite recording with the (now) better known Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and Little Willie John, he found greater acceptance and recognition in Europe. Just give "Cabbage Greens No. 1" a listen - think of a contemporary performer, say Marcia Ball, and try to tell me that Dupree isn't an early master of a living tradition.

There is nothing particularly special about this collection - others showcase him as well. But if you have any interest in barrelhouse blues you MUST have some Champion Jack Dupree in your collection - preferable an anthology like this recorded primarily in the 1940's.