The Doctor Is In! [Box set]

Piano Red, Dr. Feelgood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1994)
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001B0N
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,311,471 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Jumpin' the Boogie

2. Rockin' With Red

3. Let's Have a Good Time Tonight

4. Red's Boogie

5. Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Decatur Street Blues

2. I Ain't Fattening Frogs for Snakes [#]

3. Big Rock Joe from Kokomo

4. Pay It No Mind

5. Jump Man Jump

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Ain't Nobody's Fool

2. Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo

3. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

4. Umph-Umph-Umph

5. Got You on My Mind

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Doctor Feel-Good

2. Mister Moonlight

3. The Swabble

4. Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo

5. I'll Be Home One Day

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This four-CD set, containing 122 songs (23 of them previously unreleased) cut between 1950 and 1966 for RCA, Groove, Okeh, and Columbia is, literally, the best of Piano Red, and may be the best box in the entire Bear Family catalog. This is about as good as piano blues and R&B got, and also some of the best piano-based rock & roll you'll ever hear -- rivaling anything that Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard ever cut -- with barely a second-rate track. Even the multiple versions of his signature tune, "Right String but the Wrong Yo-Yo," are welcomed, from its lean, mean piano-bass-drums original 1950 version, to the live 1955 rendition and the broader 1961 remake (at the "Mr. Moonlight" session), because they're each different enough to justify their presence. And, yet, the most amazing thing about the 16 years covered on these four discs is the consistency of the music and performances -- Red hardly changed at all until the early '60s, always giving his audience a good show whether he was making records or playing live. The second and third discs are arguably the best parts of the set, with Red at the peak of his prowess as a pianist and singer. He made the jump into rock & roll more easily than most bluesmen of his age, with the result that his music from this period is as solid as anything else he ever did. Still later, on the fourth disc, once he moves into a more produced, pop-oriented R&B sound, he holds up almost as well. The sound is excellent, the notes are thorough, and the $100 list price of this 122-song set makes it proportionately more attractive than any $15/15-song best-of on Red that might ever show up (and there isn't one). ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PIANO RED * DR. FEELGOOD, May 18, 2009

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This is one of the best hidden artist around. Love his singing and piano playing. A must have if like the old style rock n roll and blues.