Roosevelt Sykes - Collection 1929-47 (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. 44 Blues
2. Boot That Thing
3. Henry Ford Blues
4. Skeet and Garret
5. Roosevelt's Blues
6. Lost All I Had Blues
7. 32-20 Blues
8. 3-6 ; 9
9. Kelly's Special
10. Nasty But It's Clean
11. Highway 61 Blues
12. Big Legs Ida Blues
13. D-B-A Blues
14. Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know)
15. She Left Me Cold in Hand
16. Cannon Ball
17. Jet Black Snake
18. Driving Wheel Blues
19. Sister Kelly Blues
20. The Honey Dripper
21. Night Time Is the Right Time
22. Little and Low
23. Monte Carlo Blues
24. Hospital, Heaven or Hell
25. Drunken Gambler
26. Love Lease Blues
27. Hard Lead Pencil
28. Sad Yas Yas (You Fade Away Like Morning Dew)
29. The Road to Ruin
30. Mistake in Life
31. Night Time Is the Right Time No. 2
32. She's Long Gone
33. The Train Is Coming (No More Baby Talk)
34. Down on My Knees
35. Have You Seen Ida B
36. Bitter Cup Blues
37. Journey from the Germs
38. You Can't Fix It Back
39. Get Your Bow Out (Then You Will Understand)
40. Yellow Yam Blues
41. Right Now
42. Essie Mae Blues
43. She's Got What It Takes
44. Pistol Shootin' Blues
45. Eight Ball Blues
46. 47th Street Jive
47. Doin' the Sally Long (Flames Od Evaporation)
48. Low As a Toad
49. Prison Gate Blues
50. K.M.A. Blues
51. Just Hanging Around
52. Pay Day Blues
53. 15C a Day
54. Roll on Blues
55. Keep Your Hands Off Her
56. Skin and Bone Blues
57. Let the Black Have His Way
58. Third Degree Blues
59. Training Camp Blues
60. Sugar Babe Blues
61. I Wonder
62. Love Has Something to Say
63. Tender Hearted Woman Blues (I'll Wear the Pants)
64. Don't Push Me Around
65. Date Bait
66. Tonight
67. Living in a Different World
68. Flames of Jive
69. Bop de Bip
70. Bobby Sox Blues
71. Walkin' and Drinkin'
72. Mama Mama
73. Booze Blues
74. Until the Cows Come Home