Trapeze Catalogue Home / Shop / Trapeze Catalogue / Various Artists - Los Angeles Rhythm & Blues 1944-54 (2CD) Various Artists - Los Angeles Rhythm & Blues 1944-54 (2CD) Various Artists - Los Angeles Rhythm & Blues 1944-54 (2CD) £12.00 Stock Status: In Stock Add to your Wish List Information Specifications Los Angeles Blues can to all intents and purpose also be called West Coast Blues or even California Blues. For the purpose of this compilation we have used the former, simply because every track was cut in the city of Los Angeles. Just about all of the genre's main practitioners came to prominence in the city even if they were not actual natives of the state. Due to the huge influx of immigrants to work in the munitions plants for the war effort during the early Forties the city became host to a great many Texans as well as mid westerners. The guitar style of Los Angeles blues was almost entirely formulated by Texans, led by T- Bone Walker. Other influential musicians included Oklahomans, Lowell Fulson and Jay McShann, although as an actual style it is perhaps more piano-based and jazz-influenced than other regional types. The vocalists who exemplify the genre were in the main smooth and urbane, influenced no doubt by the pop stylings of Nat King Cole and several other vocalists from the Big Band era - Cecil Gant, quickly followed by Charles Brown and Amos Milburn, were the leading lights. Los Angeles was also home to numerous small jump blues outfits and due to the city?s huge nightclub opportunities many of these bands ended up taking permanent residence there. Disc 1 Track Artist Title 1 Midnight On Central Avenue Cecil Gant 2 Flying Homes Pts 1 & 2 Illinois Jacquet 3 Drifting Blues Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers 4 Blues In Los Angeles Cecil Gant 5 Voodoo Woman Jay Mcshan W/ Jimmy Witherspoon 6 When I'm In My Tea Jo Jo Adams 7 Saturday Night Fish Fry Eddie Williams 8 Guitar In My Hand Clarence Gatemouth Brown 9 Strange Woman Blues Jay Mcshan W/ Jimmy Witherspoon 10 Mississippi Blues Floyd Dixon 11 Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn 12 Courtroom Blues Johnny Otis 13 Woman Don't Want A Good Man No More Earl Jackson 14 Bowlegged Boogie Vivian Greene 15 He's The Man (He's Tall & Cool) Vivian Greene 16 B&O Blues Charles Brown 17 When A Man Has The Blues Smiley Turner 18 Rocket Boogie 88 Pt 2 Pete Johnson 19 This Joints Too Hip For Me Betty Hall Jones 20 Everyday I Have The Blues Lowell Fulson 21 Lonely Boy Blues Smiley Turner 22 Beer Drinking Baby Billy Valentine 23 Wine-O-Baby Boogie Big Joe Turner 24 Bad Bad Whiskey Amos Milburn 25 Great Big Mama Smokey Hogg Disc 2 Track Title Artist 1 What's Good For One Is Good For All Chuck Norris 2 Black Night Charles Brown 3 The Hustle Is On T Bone Walker 4 Chica-Boo Lloyd Glenn 5 Safronia B Calvin Boze 6 Kinda Sick Kinda Worried Chuck Norris 7 I Got Loaded Peppermint Harris 8 When It Rains It Pours Pee Wee Crayton 9 Kissa Me baby Ray Charles 10 Pork Chops and Mustard Greens Ernie Andrews 11 High Scool baby Frankie Ervin 12 Daybreak Pee Wee Crayton 13 Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn 14 West Coast Blues J.D.Edwards 15 The Candles Burning Low Johnny Otis 16 Lovin A Married Woman Earl Brown 17 Brwonskin Butterball Johnny Otis 18 Unlucky Man Mel Walker 19 Good Good Whiskey Amos Milburn 20 Pachuko Hop Ike Carpenter 21 Feelin' Mighty Lonesome Mel Walker 22 They Were Doin The Mambo Joe Liggins 23 Yeah Yeah Yeah Joe Liggins 24 I Ain't Drunk Jimmy Liggins 25 No More Alcohol Jimmy Liggins EAN: 824046302221 Discs: 2 Release: June 2011 Artist: Various Artists Brand: Acrobat Product Code: ADDCD3022 Weight: 0.12kg
