Sammy Price - Sammy Price & The Blues Singers Vol. 2 *

Artist:

Price, Sammy

UPC:

714298566826

Description:

Personnel includes: Sammy Price (piano); Lether McGraw, James Carter, Nora Lee King, Wee Bea Booze, Herman "Peetie Wheatstraw" Ray (vocals).
Recorded between 1939 & 1949.
Personnel: James Carter, Harmon Ray, Lether McGraw, Nora Lee King, Wee Bea Booze (vocals); Lonnie Johnson (guitar); Jimmy Hamilton, Buster Bailey (clarinet); J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); Abe Bolar, Wellman Braud, Charlie Drayton (bass saxophone); Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Sam Price (piano); O`Neill Spencer, Hal West (drums).
Audio Remasterer: Gerhard Wessely.
Liner Note Author: Chris Frazer Smith.
In 1998, the Wolf label released a four-CD set packed with 94 examples of pianist and Decca session man Sammy Price`s wide-ranging recorded interactions with blues singers during the years 1929-1950. That compilation was useful but randomly sifted, like a shuffling iPod. When Document revisited a modest number of these recordings in 2001, the tunes were arranged a bit more carefully so as to spotlight half a dozen vocal acts and bring Price`s collaborative works into clearer focus. SAMMY PRICE AND THE BLUES SINGERS: 1938-1941 zooms the lens down to 24 titles, opening with two spirituals and two blues sung by the Ebony Three and featuring clarinetist Buster Bailey. Other seasoned instrumentalists who pop up on this collection are trumpeter Charlie Shavers, trombonist J.C. Higginbotham, guitarists Lonnie Johnson and Leonard Ware, bassist Richard "Dick" Fullbright, and drummer O`Neill Spencer. The singers who make this collection resound with bracingly honest reflections on human behavior are Bea Foote; Hester Lancaster (backed by the Harlem Stompers); a woman who billed herself as Sweet Georgia Brown; Yack Taylor; and Bessie Smith`s niece, Ruby Smith.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Do Your Duty - (featuring Lether McGraw)
2. Low Down Dirty Groundhog
3. Death Letter Blues - (featuring James Carter)
4. Death Cell Blues
5. Let Me Rock Your Home - (featuring Nora Lee King)
6. Why Don`t You Do Right? - (Take A)
7. Love Me
8. Yump da da Da
9. Cannon Ball
10. Deep Sea Diver
11. If I`m a Fool - (featuring Wee Bea Booze)
12. I Love to Georgia Brown So Slow
13. Uncle Sam Come and Get Him
14. If I Didn`t Love You
15. See See Rider Blues - (Take B)
16. Let`s Be Friends - (Take A)
17. Catchin` as Catch Can
18. War Rationin` Papa
19. Mr. Freddie Blues
20. Gulf Coast Blues
21. Working Man (Doing the Best I Can) - (featuring Herman Ray)
22. Trouble Blues
23. President`s Blues
24. I`m a Little Piece of Leather

Album Information

Release Date:

06/03/2002

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Document (USA)

Producer:

Johnny Parth; Johnny Parth (Compilation)

Catalog Number:

DOCD 5668

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

69 : 20

Guest Artist:

Lether McGraw; James Carter; Nora Lee King; Wea Bea Booze; Herman Ray

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