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DEVIL'S JUMP-INDIE LABEL BLUES 1946-1957 / VARIOUS - DEVIL'S JUMP-INDIE LABEL BLUES 1946-1957 / VARIOUS CD

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DEVIL'S JUMP-INDIE LABEL BLUES 1946-1957 / VARIOUS - DEVIL'S JUMP-INDIE LABEL BLUES 1946-1957 / VARIOUS CD

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King Records was the brainchild of Syd Nathan a brash but imaginative entrepreneur. After many ventures (he sold jewelry, ran shooting galleries and promoted wrestling), he decided to go into selling records. He found a run-down premises and did a deal to buy an old employer's stock of records for 15¢ each. Sales racks and listening booths came free. Most of his stock was hillbilly records. He was surprised when 'tall, gaunt-faced folks with the lonesome sound of the mountains in their talk' began to frequent his store and buy his records. The next step for Nathan was to start a label. In November 1943, his first artists were Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones. King began a blues series in August 1945 with Bull Moose Jackson first in line. Further early sessions included Slim Gaillard, Walter Brown, Annisteen Allen and Lennie Lewis with Harold Tinsley. Pianists Lee Brown and Jimmie Gordon and guitarist Johnny Temple soon followed. Joe Von Battle was another local music fan, who recorded local talent, and, who then sold the masters on to King. Much of Von Battle's roster was country-blues oriented, like harmonica players Robert Richard and Walter Mitchell. The sound that Nathan and Von Battle produced was crude but the performances had both authenticity and excitement. Principal among them was John Lee Hooker, the city's leading bluesman, happy to record for any label and adopt any name. On the recordings bought by King he refers to himself as 'Poor Slim' but the attempt at disguise was utterly pointless. Other artists included Detroit Count, Robert Richard, Walter Mitchell, Eddie Burns and Johnny Wright. Other bluesmen journeyed to Cincinnati to record, while Nathan also travelled to Chicago to oversee a number of sessions. These four CDs are in roughly chronological sequence to better illustrate artists' styles and their development.


TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Horse Shooe Boogie
2 Ruby Moore Blues
3 Little Mary
4 Cheatin' Around
5 Rock That Boogie
6 Fast Life
7 Hastings Street Opera, Pt. 1
8 Hastings Street Opera, Pt. 2
9 Stomp Boogie
10 Who's Been Jiving You
11 Wig Wearin' Woman
12 New York Central
13 Black Man Blues
14 Poor Joe
15 Forgive Me Darling
16 Please Don't Think I'm Nosey
17 Since I Seen Your Smiling Face
18 Your Picture Done Faded
19 Blinds Blues
20 Slappin' the Boogie
21 Keep A-Walkin [Take 1] [Take]
22 Keep A-Walkin [Take 2] [Take]
23 Your Little Wagon
24 Mistreated Woman [Take 1] [Take]
25 Mistreated Woman [Take 2] [Take]
- Disc 2 -
1 Mistreated Blues
2 I Ain't Like That No More
3 New Little Girl, Little Girl
4 Nightmare Blues
5 Late Last Night
6 Lend Me Your Love
7 Pacemaker Boogie
8 Wandering Blues
9 Don't Go Baby
10 Slim's Boogie
11 A Letter Home
12 Ain't It Sad
13 One More Time
14 Down at the Depot
15 Alabama Boogie
16 Penny Pinchin' Mama
17 Do It No More
18 Gonna Hop on Down the Line
19 Do Right
20 Something's Wrong with My Little Machine
21 Old Battle Ax
22 Hello Miss Jessie Lee
23 Dealing with the Devil
24 No Shoes [Take 1] [Take]
25 No Shoes [Take 2] [Take]
- Disc 3 -
1 Low Land Blues
2 Round the World Boogie
3 My Baby's Acting Funny
4 It's My Time to Go
5 Devil's Jump
6 I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
7 Stop Messing Around
8 Pet Milk Blues
9 Moaning Blues
10 The Numbers
11 Root Hog
12 Gone Gone Gone
13 Baby' Don't Leave
14 (Sometimes I Feel Like a) Motherless Child
15 Life Is Like That
16 Baby Blues
17 In My Father's House
18 Mother Dear Mother
19 Side Walk Boogie
20 Early in the Morning
21 Miss Anna B
22 Door Bell Blues
23 Why'd You Do It
24 Boogie Baby
25 '54 Blues
- Disc 4 -
1 That Woman's a Pearl Diver
2 Jumping at the Club Blue Flame
3 Chain Gang
4 I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again
5 Dixie Flyer
6 Nobody Loves Me [Alt] [Alternate Take]
7 Midnight Jump
8 Hastings Street Woogie Man
9 Detroit Boogie
10 Heart Trouble Blues
11 Slim's Stomp
12 Please Don't Think I'm Nosey
13 Time for Lovin' to Be Done
14 Up and Down
15 I Ain't Got Over It Yet
16 I'll Never Walk in Your Door
17 Black Cat Trail
18 I Came to See You Baby
19 I'm a Boogie Man
20 My Baby Left Me
21 I Stayed Down
22 I Was in St,. Louis
23 Jivin' Mess [Take 1] [Take]
24 The Spell [Take 3] [Take]
25 The Wolf Pack [Take 10] [Take]