Description
DESCRIPTION
Roosevelt Sykes was a hugely popular and influential exponent of the rollicking barrel-house style of blues piano playing and composition whose core career spanned the decades spanning WWII. Recording initially under a variety of names, and finding his greatest popularity when he adopted the soubriquet 'The Honeydrippers', he recorded a substantial body of work variously for the Okeh, Decca and RCA Victor labels, which included classics of the genre like "The Honeydrippers", "Night Time Is the Right Time", "44 Blues", "Boot That Thing" and "Driving Wheel Blues". This great value 75-track 3-CD set selects material from across those key decades of his career from his earliest recordings through to the time when he began to be overtaken by the new electric blues in the late '40s. It includes solo recordings along with those as a duo with a drummer, and, in the later years, with a variety of small groups.
44 Blues
Boot That Thing
Henry Ford Blues
Skeet and Garret
Roosevelt's Blues
Lost All I Had Blues
32-20 Blues
3-6 & 9
Kelly's Special
Nasty But It's Clean
Highway 61 Blues
Big Legs Ida Blues
D-B-A Blues
Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know)
She Left Me Cold in Hand
Cannon Ball
Jet Black Snake
Driving Wheel Blues
Sister Kelly Blues
The Honey Dripper
Night Time Is the Right Time
Little and Low
Monte Carlo Blues
Hospital, Heaven or Hell
Drunken Gambler
Love Lease Blues
Hard Lead Pencil
Sad Yas Yas (You Fade Away Like Morning Dew)
The Road to Ruin
Mistake in Life
Night Time Is the Right Time No. 2
She's Long Gone
The Train Is Coming (No More Baby Talk)
Down on My Knees
Have You Seen Ida B
Bitter Cup Blues
Journey from the Germs
You Can't Fix It Back
Get Your Bow Out (Then You Will Understand)
Yellow Yam Blues
Right Now
Essie Mae Blues
She's Got What It Takes
Pistol Shootin' Blues
Eight Ball Blues
47th Street Jive
Doin' the Sally Long (Flames Od Evaporation)
Low As a Toad
Prison Gate Blues
K.M.A. Blues
Just Hanging Around
Pay Day Blues
15C a Day
Roll on Blues
Keep Your Hands Off Her
Skin and Bone Blues
Let the Black Have His Way
Third Degree Blues
Training Camp Blues
Sugar Babe Blues
I Wonder
Love Has Something to Say
Tender Hearted Woman Blues (I'll Wear the Pants)
Don't Push Me Around
Date Bait
Tonight
Living in a Different World
Flames of Jive
Bop de Bip
Bobby Sox Blues
Walkin' and Drinkin'
Mama Mama
Booze Blues
Until the Cows Come Home
