Freight Train Boogie [Import]

Delmore Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 28, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B0000009HW
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,588 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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  • #5 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Traditional Country
  • #11 in Music > Country > Classic Country > Old-Time Country

Track Listings

1. Blues Stay Away from Me

2. Freight Train Boogie

3. Trouble Ain't Nothin' but the Blues

4. Boogie Woogie Baby

5. Rounder's Blues

6. Mobile Boogie

7. Used Car Boogie

8. Pan American Boogie

9. Field Hand Man

10. Brown's Ferry Blues

11. Peach Tree Street Boogie

12. Blues You Never Lose

13. Steamboat Bill Boogie

14. Muddy Water

15. San Mountain Blues

16. Hillbilly Boogie

17. You Can't Do Wrong and Get By

18. Kentucky Mountain

19. Weary Day

20. Take It to the Captain

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Track Is a Delight, January 21, 2001

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freight Train Boogie (Audio CD)

Several years ago The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website included a list entitled 500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll. The Delmore Brothers' "Hillbilly Boogie" made that list. After picking up this CD it's easy to see why. Though they were a country act, they incorporated blues, boogie and rockabilly elements into their sound. Rabon and Alton Delmore recorded for King from 1946 until 1952, when Rabon died of lung cancer. [Alton died in 1964.] The twenty tracks included here (half of which are originals) provide a terrific overview of two musicians who--as the liner notes point out--"were too modern for the determined traditionalism of bluegrass, (but) too oldtime for the hip-swivelling of rock 'n' roll." Every track is a delight. This is important listening. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the Best, July 25, 2000

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Philip Westwood (Lichfield, Staffordshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freight Train Boogie (Audio CD)

What a superb album. Taken from the Brothers' years with Cincinnati based King Records (1945 - 1952), the album features classics such as 'Blues Stay Away From Me', with its highly distinctive guitar work, and my own favorite, 'Hillbilly Blues', as well as the title track. The album is a nice mixture of blues and boogie-woogie, with the Brothers' sweet harmonies backed up by some great musicians. Apart from Wayne Raney's superb harmonica, check out Zeke Turner's electric guitar work on 'Boogie Woogie Baby'. And is that Merle Travis backing up on 'Hillbilly Blues'? And then there's Roy Lanham's electric guitar on 'Peach Tree Street Boogie'. But every track on this album has something to commend it. So don't mess around. Buy it! You won't regret it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Doesn't Get Better Than This !, January 7, 2003

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P. D. Laffey (Hitchin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freight Train Boogie (Audio CD)

Ace Records should be given a big pat on the back for releasing these Delmore Brothers classics cut for King Records between 1946 - 1952 . If you like bluesy , hillbilly , country boogie in its rawest form , this cd is a must . Fantastic vocal harmonies , great blues harp , great guitar picking and twenty tracks that are the equal to anything that you will find in American Roots music . These recordings are as earthy as the soil of the Elkmont farm that the brothers grew up on , and so influential in that they played a major part in laying down the blueprint for the Rock&Roll that was to change the 20th Century for ever . I can't think of higher praise than that !