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Champion Jack Dupree - Live With The Big Town Playboys

Size: 171,0 MB
Time: 73:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: JSP Records
Art: Front

01. In The Evening (7:52)
02. I Used To Love You (5:40)
03. Sweet Little Baby (4:43)
04. Freedom Blues (7:37)
05. Wine, Wine, Wine (5:00)
06. Lawdy, Lawdy (3:58)
07. Junker Blues (7:26)
08. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (5:19)
09. Rock The Boogie Woogie (6:33)
10. Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living (7:33)
11. I Keep On Drifting (7:36)
12. She's Gone (4:25)

Recorded live in England in 1989. Live with the Big Town Playboys.

A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor. But there was nothing lighthearted about his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake Baby Shake," the entire room had no choice but to acquiesce.

Dupree was notoriously vague about his beginnings, claiming in some interviews that his parents died in a fire set by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the blaze was accidental. Whatever the circumstances of the tragic conflagration, Dupree grew up in New Orleans' Colored Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also spent his formative years there). Learning his trade from barrelhouse 88s ace Willie "Drive 'em Down" Hall, Dupree left the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and then Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Indianapolis, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.

In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Chicago A&R man extraordinaire Lester Melrose and OKeh Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia subsidiary exhibited a strong New Orleans tinge despite the Chicago surroundings; his driving "Junker's Blues" was later cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Fat Man." After a stretch in the Navy during World War II (he was a Japanese P.O.W. for two years), Dupree decided tickling the 88s beat pugilism any old day. He spent most of his time in New York and quickly became a prolific recording artist, cutting for Continental, Joe Davis, Alert, Apollo, and Red Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Sham Shimmy" in 1953), often in the company of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Brother Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the truly imaginative Meat Head Johnson for Gotham and Apex.

King Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart hit, the relaxed "Walking the Blues.") Dupree's King output rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Doorbell Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Mule" (Dupree's vocal on the latter emphasizing a harelip speech impediment for politically incorrect pseudo-comic effect).

After a year on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic. 1958's Blues From the Gutter is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boasting marvelous readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blues," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Nasty Boogie." Dupree was one of the first bluesmen to leave his native country for a less racially polarized European existence in 1959. He lived in a variety of countries overseas, continuing to record prolifically for Storyville, British Decca (with John Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.

Perhaps sensing his own mortality, Dupree returned to New Orleans in 1990 for his first visit in 36 years. While there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Festival and laid down a zesty album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in New Orleans. Two more albums of new material were captured by the company the next year prior to the pianist's death in January of 1992. Jack Dupree was a champ to the very end. ~Biography by Bill Dahl

Thanks to DrPeak.
Live With The Big Town Playboys



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Oznake: Champion Jack Dupree, Piano Blues

Various - Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues

Styles: Chicago Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piano Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 1979
Label: Storyville
File: mp3@320K/s (from vinyl)
Size: 205.2 MB
Time: 89:38
Art: front

Side 1
1. Smoky Babe - Boogy - 2:40
Smoky Babe (vocals, guitar)

2. Avery Brady - I Don't Want You No More - 2:57
Avery Brady (vocals, guitar)

3. Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues - 4:44
Doug Quattlebaum (vocals, guitar)

4. Huddie Ledbetter - Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2 - 2:38
Huddie Ledbetter (vocals, guitar)

5. Arthur Weston - Someday Baby - 1:36
Arthur Weston (vocals, guitar), George Robertson (harmonica)

6. Big Joe Williams - Long Road Blues - 2:13
Big Joe Williams (vocals, guitar)

7. Big Bill Broonzy - You Better Mind - 2:12
Big Bill Broonzy (vocals, guitar)

Side 2
8. Clarence Edwards - Mean Old Frisco - 3:23
Clarence Edwards (vocals, guitar), Cornelius Edwards (guitar), Butch Cage (fiddle)

9. Bert Logan - Four O'Clock In The Morning - 2:47
Bert Logan (vocals, guitar), Russ Logan (vocal, washboard), Big Joe Williams (guitar)

10. Big Joe Henry Miller - Down Here By Myself - 4:14
Big Joe Henry Miller (vocals, guitar), Jimmy Lee Miller (guitar)

11. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - 21 Below Zero - 2:40
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires (vocals, guitar), Johnny Joung (guitar)

12. Johnny Young - Green Door Blues - 4:03
Johnny Young (vocals, mandolin), John Lee Graunderson (guitar), John Wrencher (harmonica)

13. Arthur Weston - Roll Me Over Slow - 2:41
Arthur Weston (vocals, guitar), Big Joe Williams (guitar), George Robertson (harmonica)

Side 3
14. Champion Jack Dupree - Back Door Special - 2:47
Champion Jack Dupree (vocal, piano)

15. Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Style Piano - 5:29
Roosevelt Sykes (piano)

16. Henry Brown - Low Down Drag - 4:39
Henry Brown (piano)

17. Memphis Slim - Funky Blues - 4:25
Memphis Slim (piano)

18. Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special - 4:17
Jimmy Yancey (piano)

19. Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's Boogie - 2:57
Sunnyland Slim (piano)

Side 4
20. Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues - 3:36
Speckled Red (vocal, piano)

21. Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue - 3:36
Otis Spann (vocal, piano)

22. Memphis Slim - A Letter Home - 3:05
Memphis Slim (vocal, piano)

23. Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes - 3:15
Otis Spann (vocal, piano)

24. Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues - 4:55
Memphis Slim (vocal, piano), Sonny Boy Williamson (vocal, harmonica)

25. Willie Mabon - I'm The Fixer - 3:04
Willie Mabon (vocal, piano), Billy Emerson (organ), Lacy Gipson (guitar), Jack Myers (bass), Al Duncan (drums)

26. Champion Jack Dupree - I Just Want To Be Free - 4:32
Champion Jack Dupree (vocal, piano)

Notes: Recorded mostly between 1960 and 1965, except track 4 NY 1939 and track 18 Chicago 1950
05. Jimmy Brewer - Big Road Blues, Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes - this Jim Brewer track is actually / erraneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!! ~ www.wirz.de

Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues, part 1
Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues, part 2

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Champion Jack Dupree - Champion Of The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 36:21
Size: 83.2 MB
Styles: Piano blues, New Orleans blues
Year: 1961/2005
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. I Had A Dream
[3:23] 2. Roll Me Over Roll Me Slow
[3:39] 3. Reminiscin' With Champion Jack
[2:51] 4. That's All Right
[2:56] 5. Daybreak Stomp
[3:03] 6. House Rent Party
[2:45] 7. Snaps Drinking Woman
[3:29] 8. One Sweet Letter From You
[3:02] 9. New Vicksburg Blues
[2:39] 10. When Things Go Wrong
[2:33] 11. Johnson Street Boogie Woogie
[3:06] 12. Misery Blues


A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor. But there was nothing lighthearted about his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake Baby Shake," the entire room had no choice but to acquiesce.

Dupree was notoriously vague about his beginnings, claiming in some interviews that his parents died in a fire set by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the blaze was accidental. Whatever the circumstances of the tragic conflagration, Dupree grew up in New Orleans' Colored Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also spent his formative years there). Learning his trade from barrelhouse 88s ace Willie "Drive 'em Down" Hall, Dupree left the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and then Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Indianapolis, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.

In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Chicago A&R man extraordinaire Lester Melrose and OKeh Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia subsidiary exhibited a strong New Orleans tinge despite the Chicago surroundings; his driving "Junker's Blues" was later cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Fat Man." After a stretch in the Navy during World War II (he was a Japanese P.O.W. for two years), Dupree decided tickling the 88s beat pugilism any old day. He spent most of his time in New York and quickly became a prolific recording artist, cutting for Continental, Joe Davis, Alert, Apollo, and Red Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Sham Shimmy" in 1953), often in the company of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Brother Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the truly imaginative Meat Head Johnson for Gotham and Apex.

King Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart hit, the relaxed "Walking the Blues.") Dupree's King output rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Doorbell Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Mule" (Dupree's vocal on the latter emphasizing a harelip speech impediment for politically incorrect pseudo-comic effect).

After a year on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic. 1958's Blues From the Gutter is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boasting marvelous readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blues," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Nasty Boogie." Dupree was one of the first bluesmen to leave his native country for a less racially polarized European existence in 1959. He lived in a variety of countries overseas, continuing to record prolifically for Storyville, British Decca (with John Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.

Perhaps sensing his own mortality, Dupree returned to New Orleans in 1990 for his first visit in 36 years. While there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Festival and laid down a zesty album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in New Orleans. Two more albums of new material were captured by the company the next year prior to the pianist's death in January of 1992. Jack Dupree was a champ to the very end. ~bio by Bill Dahl

"The percussive sounds heard on several of the tracks are made by stomping of Champion Jack's feet."

Recorded at: Storyville Records in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Champion Of The Blues

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