Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse 1 1928-1930

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 2028
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Document
• ASIN: B000000J4Y
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,125 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pine Top Blues (Take A) - Pine Top Smith

2. Pine Top Blues (Take B) - Pine Top Smith

3. Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Take A) - Pine Top Smith

4. Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Take B) - Pine Top Smith

5. I Got More Sense Than That - Pine Top Smith

6. I'm Sober Now - Pine Top Smith

7. Big Boy They Can't Do That - Pine Top Smith

8. Jump Steady Blues (Take A) - Pine Top Smith

9. Jump Steady Blues (Take B) - Pine Top Smith

10. Now Ain't Got Nothin At All - Pine Top Smith

11. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Pine Top Smith

12. Dearborn Street Breakdown - Charles Avery

13. Tee Rolller's Rub - Freddie 'Redd' Nicholson

14. Dirty No Gooder - Freddie 'Redd' Nicholson

15. You Gonna Miss Me Blues - Freddie 'Redd' Nicholson

16. I Ain't Sleepy - Freddie 'Redd' Nicholson

17. Freddie's Got The Blues - Freddie 'Redd' Nicholson

18. Ko Ko Mo Blues-Part 1 - 'Jabo' Williams

19. Ko Ko Mo Blues-Part 2 - 'Jabo' Williams

20. House Lady Blues - 'Jabo' Williams

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Musicians, Rotten Sound, December 13, 2010

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Curtiss Clarke (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse 1 1928-1930 (Audio CD)

I purchased this to get the classic version of "Pine Top Blues" by Pine Top Smith. The other artists on this compilation (Charles Avery, Freddie Nicholson, Jabo Williams) were also top-drawer artists from this period of piano players (late 1920's).

The problem is that you are going to have difficulty hearing them. This is one of the worst-sounding CD's I have ever listened to and for that reason it gets 1 star. It sounds as if the mastering was done to get rid of the surface noise on the 78's (or from whatever sources it was dubbed). The vocals & piano sound like there was a pillow over the microphone in the recording studio. (I believe the tracks here were electrically recorded).

For this reason, you likely won't want to buy this CD. Look elsewhere for these titles; they may be available on another label where better copies were used for the mastering, or intrusive noise-reduction techniques were not employed.

Also, my copy came with the insert sleeve cover showing a photograph of people hanging around a piano watching a couple dance. The advertised version on the Amazon site shows a nifty shot of Jabo Williams wearing his wide-brimmed fedora and a big grin.

One star only because of the talent presented on this disc, otherwise I would have rated it as zero.