Good Uns [Import]

King Biscuit Boy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Unidisc
• ASIN: B00002DD62
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,828 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down Again

2. Boom, Boom Out Goes the Lights

3. Georgia Rag

4. Barefoot Rock

5. Boogie Walk, Pt. 1

6. Ranky Tanky

7. Twenty-Nine Ways to My Baby's Door

8. Bald Head Rhumba Boogie

9. Lord Pity Us All

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aptly Titled, December 26, 2003

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Herb Bowie (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Uns (Audio CD)

I first heard this album when I was reviewing rock albums for the Michigan Daily. Unfortunately, the album and its artists received little notice. It's a great album. The songs are classics, the vocals are powerful, the arrangements are superb, all of the playing is ferocious, the band is tight, the production is wonderful. This is all blues and boogie music, played by white boys, and by the time this album was released it should have sounded like old hat, but somehow the enthusiasm of this crew makes it sound fresh and vital, like it was being played for the first time, by people who were playing for all they were worth. Not to be missed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Mix of Blues From Chicago to Mississippi, January 13, 2005

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Michael Strom (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Uns (Audio CD)

In just nine songs, this disc covers an astounding range of blues styles, and delivers the best in all of them. The classic Chicago blues of Little Walter & Willie Dixon are well served by great covers of Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) & 29 Ways. Georgia Rag is an original that could pass for classic acoustic work by Blind Boy Fuller or Pink Anderson. They hit New Orleans big time with Bald-head Rhumba Boogie (a tribute to Professor Longhair) & Dr. John's Lord Pity Us All. The song You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down is a slow-but-stomping 12-bar that B.B. King really should have covered by now, with riotous lyrics ("Your eyeballs look like a road map. They're looking 2 different ways. You got your teeth in one hand & your wig in the other -- & you haven't looked this good in days"). Barefoot Rock & The Boogie Walk are self-explanatory, while Ranky Tanky defies categories.

Great songs, great playing & singing, & a good time to be had by all concerned.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I finally found this CD, May 2, 2010

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Stephen J. Pavlidis - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Good Uns (Audio CD)

Many years ago I had a copy of the original LP, including the flour sack it came in! I don't know what happened to the record, but when I found this CD I had to have it. Great blues, great harp, you'll love it. Richard Newell (King Biscuit Boy) has never been truly given his due as a musician, and I'll wager you will agree after listening to this CD.