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Jimmy McCracklin: Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)
1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 minutes.
Bear Family Records® adds powerhouse pianist and vocalist Jimmy McCracklin to its 'Rocks' series.
For more than 50 years, the Bay Area pianist often recorded excellent blues and soul.
Bill Dahl focused on McCracklin's most rocking tracks for this jam-packed CD, telling the McCracklin story in the extensive booklet.
Carefully remastered from the best possible sources.
During more than half a century as a prolific and uncommonly versatile recording artist, Jimmy McCracklin made a lot of great blues and soul records. He also did more than his share of rocking. That’s the side of the Bay Area piano pounder’s massive discography that this jam-packed compilation concentrates on, McCracklin tears through his 1958 smash The Walk and plenty more, showing himself to be a highly distinctive artist with a penchant for potential dance crazes, driving rhythms, and intriguing lyrics that often told vivid slice-of-life tales of the gin joints he played at.
Jimmy‘s mighty combo, The Blues Blasters, was anchored first by guitarist Robert Kelton and then blistering fretsman Lafayette Thomas, whose slashing licks perfectly counterpointed tough horn sections and McCracklin’s own boogie-fired 88s. Rockin’ All Day, The Wobble, Let’s Do It (The Chicken Scratch), Georgia Slop—this collection is a non-stop rock and roll party!
JIMMY MCCRACKLIN / ROCKS
TracksCredits
1 Gonna Tell Your Mother
2 The Walk
3 Take Care of Yourself
4 Rockin' All Day Aka Reelin' and Rockin'
5 I Know
6 The Wobble
7 He Knows the Rule
8 Give My Heart a Break
9 Everybody Rocks (New Orleans Beat)
10 Gotta Cut Out
11 Let's Do It (Chicken Scratch)
12 Susie and Pat
13 That's the Way (Itgoes)
14 Get Tough
15 Looking for a Woman
16 What's Your Phone Number
17 Come on
18 Georgia Slop
19 One Track Love
20 I'm to Blame
21 Steppin' Up in Class
22 Country Baby
23 Savoy's Jump
24 Just Won't Let Her Go
25 Trottin'
26 Get Back
27 Think
28 Just Got to Know
29 I Wanna Make Love to You
30 I'm Through
