Listen to this - besides rocking your socks off, about 1:40 in, Big Joe starts in on what is apparently his signature "yes yes" lick. When I first heard this I said "Wow! This sounds REALLY familiar". And it led me back to the first (and only) album by Rockpile, featuring Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner and..some drummer (Mr. Lazy strikes again). In Comments you will find that track "Oh ...
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By the time he signed to Atlantic and hit the big time with "Shake, Rattle and Roll" in 1954, Big Joe Turner was 43 years old, and had been performing for close to four decades, and recording for close to twenty. His tune "Lucille" is not to be confused with Little Richard's rock'n'roll stomper. This track was recorded in April 1950, and from the sound of it features Harry "Piano Man" van Walls...
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How can you NOT love a song with the title *Ooh-Ouch Stop*? Ok, it might remind you of a bad sex life, but otherwise? Big Joe is on a tear on this one. I really love the jump blues numbers he does like this. From the repeated lyrics I'm finding on this box set I'm guessing that Joe was doing a fair amount of improvising lyrically from his grab-bag of blues phrases.
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"??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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Happy Birthday to blues shouter "*Big Joe Turner*":http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kiftxq95ldae, born on this day in 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri. Blessed with a big voice that matched his king-size physique, Turner had an appropriately big impact on blues, swing, R&B and even rock & roll music.Big Joe was fortunate to have been born and raised in the musically rich Kansas City...
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| 2 It's the Shame Old Story |
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| 3 Rebecca |
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| 4 S. K. Blues Pt. 2 |
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| 5 Cry Baby Blues |
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