Mystery Train

James Cotton, Pat Hare, Junior Parker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B0000002C9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,587 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #4 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Memphis Blues
  • #7 in Music > Indie Music > R&B > Classic R&B
  • #27 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Memphis Blues

Track Listings

1. Mystery Train

2. Love My Baby

3. Feelin' Good

4. Fussin' And Fightin' (Blues)

5. Feelin' Bad

6. Love My Baby (Alt. Take)

7. Sittin' Drinkin' And Thinkin'

8. Sittin' At The Bar

9. Sittin' At My Window (Please Baby Blues)

10. Cotton Crop Blues

11. Hold Me In Your Arms

12. My Baby

13. Bonus Pay

14. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby (Cheatin' And Lyin' Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent memphis blues, March 8, 2000

By 

Andrew T. Olson (La Crose, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mystery Train (Audio CD)

Vocalist Junior Paker cut some of the finest blues/R&B records ever laid to wax in the 50's and early 60's and was a dominant influence on legions of blues, R&B, and soul artists-Bobby Bland, Otis Rush, and Al Green, to name a few. Sadly, he remains to this day an unsung hero in a genre of unsung heroes, probabaly because he was never big with white rock musicians. On the upside, the 1990's saw a number of fine Parker compilations released, "Mystery Train" being one of them. "Mystery Train" consists of the brooding title track(yes, later covered by Elvis) and everything else Parker cut for Sam Phillip's Sun label in the early 50's. These tracks are a brilliant hybrid of country and urban blues stylings. Despite uniformly superb performances, these sessions yielded only two R&B chart entries-the aformentioned title track and "Feelin' Good," a John Lee Hooker inspired boogie. Perhaps the finest track from these sessions, though, is "Love My Baby," a wild proto-rockabilly number featuring the nasty, distorted, twin guitar attack of Floyd Murphy and Pat Hare. Hare's punishing fretboard work is also heard to good effect on an included James Cotton Sun single, "Cotton Crop Blues" and Hare's only solo side, the now darkly ironic(it's a long story)"I'm Gonna Murder My Baby." All in all, this music is as powerful and unique as anything cut by any of Sun's more famous artists.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gold Record!, December 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mystery Train (Audio CD)

Feelin'good; the best song ever recorde