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dermahrk

Drinking, pistols and Big Joe Turner

Posted about 1 year ago

Artist:

Big Joe Turner
Album:

Shout Rattle and Roll
Track:
- PLAY
- QUEUE
Wine-O-Baby Boogie

"??If you see me sleeping, baby, Please don't think I'm drunk.I got one eye on my pistolAnd the other one on my trunk.??" - Thus begins ??Wine-O-Baby Boogie??, with a kind of 30s-gangsta attitude, from *Big Joe Turner* - taken from the Proper box set ??Shout, Rattle & Roll?? (we can no longer rely on album tags to say what we input).Another jump blues tune from one of the masters.

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ivylander says He really is the gold standard for jump blues, isn't he? (Louis Jordan being in a category by himself....)

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Spike says I remember seeing him play at a small club in San Francisco in the early or mid-Seventies with local ex-Paul Butterfield and Electric Flag guys backing him up. Later I read that he had had to tour because the Atlantic record label had cheated him (and their other r&B artists) out of royalties.

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waydutch says This really is some fun music. 30s-gangsta certainly is much better that current gangsta.

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Sturgell says drinking and pistols go really well together, I imagine.

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