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Juke Joints. Dark and noisy rooms bursting with loud music, drunken revelry and an air of imminent violence. A reality which few of us have experienced. Many then present held their lives cheap and carried guns and knives that were used to redress a momentary disagreement or a long-held grudge. Eddie Burns reckoned, 'Mississippi was a rough place. I've seen them gamble and everybody would lay their guns up on the table in the lamplight. There wasn't no electricity back then. So everybody get to shooting in there and the lights go out 'cause the lamplight got a tendency to don't stay lit. A lamp don't when they're shooting in a house.' The music seems to perfectly match the times. Tough, loud and raucous, it was intended to command the attention of people with plenty of distractions. Titles like Alley Special, Locked In Jail Blues and Broke And Hungry tell it like it was. But that's not the only story - songs like Ride My New Car With Me, You'll Always Have A Home and I'm Gonna Love You suggest it wasn't all misery. Here by popular demand is a further collection of sides that might otherwise have been forgotten. So compelling are they that we might - for an incautious second or two - wish ourselves back in those dives. Selection and notes are by Neil Slaven, so you know you're in safe hands.I'm a King Bee
My Woman Has a Black Cat Bone
Steady
Late Hours at Midnight
Ludella
Sail on, Little Girl
Alley Special
Play My Juke Box
Chicago Blues
Shackles Round My Body
Throw a Little Boogie
Dial 110 Blues
About to Lose My Mind
You Better Move on Away from Here
Applejack Boogie
Seems Like a Million Years [TK 1] [Take]
Western Union Man
Silver Haired Woman
She Got Me Walkin'
Ride My New Car with Me
After Hours
1958 Blues
Bad Feeling Blues [Alt] [Alternate Take]
Feel So Worried [TK 2] [Take]
I Want a Roller
Gary Stomp
Operator Blues [TK 3] [Take]
My Baby Left Me
Lookin' for My Baby [TK 5] [Take]
I'm Gonna Love You
She's Gone with the Wind
Eula Mae
Ardelle
Happy Home Blues
I've Got Love If You Want It
That's All Right
Hello Central, Please Give Me 209
Crying
I'll Move You
Awful Shame
Cadillac Blues
Hollywood Boogie
Chicken Stuff
Please Mam Forgive Me
You Better Watch That Jive
Walking Talking Blues
Locked in Jail Blues
Highway 51
Jet Black Woman
I Had a Dream
Got a Letter This Morning
Down South
She's Tough
Baker Shop Boogie [TK 1] [Take]
Ridin' Home
Sad and Lonely
Crawdad
No One to Love Me
Wonderin' and Worryin'
Lightnin' Slim Boogie
A & B Blues
Homesick Blues
Fat Mouth
Number Writer
King's Highway
John Henry
Jammin'
Take It Easy
Mr Ticket Agent
Which One Do I Love
Little School Girl
Excuse Me Baby
Have You a Match
Goin' to New Orleans
Want to Boogie-Woogie
Love Me Mama
Log House on the Hill
You'll Always Have a Home
Jimmie's Boogie
Rather Be Sloppy Drunk
G-Man Blues
No One to Love Me
Y M & V Blues
Sittin' Here Wonderin'
Strange Love
Size 4 Shoe
I'm in Love
You Gotta Lay Down Mama
Jelly Roll Man
Cold in the Evening
Mistreated Blues
My Baby's Gone
Forgive Me
Don't Do It Again
Good Lookin' Woman
Goin' Back to Mama
Truck 'Em on Down
Goin' Back Home Today
Uncle Sam Blues
Harlem Women
Don't Want Me Blues
Broke and Hungry
I Don't Know Why
Boogie
