Label: World Music
Released 2019
UK Import
Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues Label: World Music Network - Named after the rough and ready bars where labourers gathered to drink and dance, barrelhouse was a raucous form of piano blues that got the juke joints swinging. From early pioneers such as Cow Cow Davenport and Speckled Red to the boogie-woogie legends Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, this collection charts the rise and incredible influence of this good-time blues.
Track listing:
- Speckled Red - the Dirty Dozen
- Jimmy Yancey - Slow and Easy Blues
- Cripple Clarence Lofton - Strut That Thing
- Will Ezell Heifer - Dust
- Walter Roland - Watcha Gonna Do?
- Skip James - If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road
- Victoria Spivey - Hoodoo Man Blues
- Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
- Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
- Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
- Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons - Barrelhouse Boogie
- Montana Taylor - Detroit Rocks
- Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Barrelhouse Woman No.2