Red Hot & Blue: Lee Atwater & Friends

Lee Atwater, Various Artists - R&B/Soul

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 16, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Curb Special Markets
• ASIN: B000000CSI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #170,507 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu - Lee Atwater

2. Knock on Wood - Lee Atwater, Chuck Jackson, Carla Thomas

3. Take What I Want - Sam Moore, Billy Preston

4. Hold On! I'm Comin' - Maxine Brown, Chuck Jackson

5. Rescue Me - Chuck Jackson, Carla Thomas

6. Just a Little Bit/Treat Her Right - Lee Atwater, Arletta Nightengale

7. Bad Boy - Lee Atwater

8. Red Hot & Blue [Instrumental] - Lee Atwater

9. Ya Ya - Lee Atwater, Chuck Jackson, Carla Thomas

10. Buzz Me - B.B. King

11. I'm in the Mood - Isaac Hayes, Billy Preston

12. Life Is Like a Game - Lee Atwater

13. People Get Ready - Lee Atwater

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hidden treasure!, December 10, 2001

By	Dean Esmay (Westland, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Never heard of Lee Atwater? No matter. More important is the all-star cast on this wonderful album. Isaac Hayes, B.B. King, Carla Thomas, Sam Moore, Billy Prestonm , The Memphis Horns, Chuck Jackson, Arlette Nightingale--a fabulous collection of great R&B roots musicians. The effort was put together by Lee Atwater, a political activist with a history as a musician. He was a competent guitarist and singer, but the album was put together as a charity event with a simply fabulous cast.

The song selections and arrangements are excellent. Anyone who enjoyed the old Stax records sound, or just enjoyed the music of The Blues Brothers, is virtually guaranteed to love this album. The fact that it's so cheap is just a bonus! Buy it while you still can!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Hot Blues- 91' Grammy Award Winner-Great BBQ, September 1, 1998

By A Customer

Awesome blues mix. Atwater is onfire on this CD which was a 1991 Grammy Award winner. These tunes can be heard at Atwaters BBQ chain after the name sake- Red Hot & Blue. The name was from the 50's radio program hosted by Dewy Phillips in Memphis. This CD is fantastic and features the late Lee Atwater along with such Blues greats as BB King, Isaic Hayes, and Areatha Franklin

5.0 out of 5 stars "Bad Boy" does Good, October 2, 2009

By	Bruce L. Robinson "Bruce's Basement Books" (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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As a mobile DJ with a large political client list, this is the CD I go to for the first and last cuts at fundraisers, announcement events, bull roasts and town hall meetings for one reason. Everybody knows and loves the tunes and artists that put this together.

I first read about the collection int he biography of Lee Atwater. He played these tunes as a teenager in garage bands, and at the peak of his professional career in American politics, pulled together the artists everyone loved to hear. Isaac Hayes, Chuck Jackson, B.B. King. Sam Moore, Arletta Nightengale, Billy Preston, Carla Thomas - these are classic names in rhythm and blues.

Isaac Hayes is much ore than "Shaft". Billy Preston played with George Harrison in the "Concert for Bangladesh". The Memphis Horns set the standard for the brass lines from the sixties through the nineties. B.B. King - what more can I say? And the vocals, that make you want to sing along. Why is this stuff so good? It was what we were raised on, that's why.

"Knock on Wood", Hold on, I'm Coming", "Rescue Me" - you can hear the melody and words running through your mind at the mention of the titles. This CD contains those songs plus ten more to make your heart sing.

From the party at your home to the road trip tot he iPod, this is a must have CD for your collection.