The Chicken Shack Boogie Man

構成数 : 2枚
合計収録時間 : 02:24:43
Personnel: Amos Milburn (vocals, guitar, piano); Amos Milburn; Billy Smith , Maxwell Davis, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis (tenor saxophone); Willie Simpson, Willie Simpson Jr. (baritone saxophone); Ralph Hamilton (bass instrument); Harper Cosby (bass guitar); Eldeen McIntosh, Calvin Vaughan (drums); Chuck Norris , Gene Phillips, Johnny Brown (guitar); Don Wilkerson (tenor saxophone); Lee Young, Jesse Sailes, Oscar Lee Bradley (drums). Liner Note Author: Joop Visser. Recording information: Los Angeles, CA (09/12/1946-04/18/1951). Although the two-disc THE CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE MAN isn't perfect--it strangely omits what is perhaps Amos Milburn's most famous tune, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"--it is the most comprehensive Milburn collection available. The set trumps the skimpy budget-priced single-disc compilations in terms of selection, and offers better-than-average sound and liner notes to boot. Although Milburn never had the crossover breakthrough of contemporaries such as Charles Brown and Chicago blues mainstay Otis Spann, his hard-driving piano boogie and hard-drinking lyrics epitomize the rougher end of jump blues. And yet Milburn, like Brown, was capable of soulful, mature ballads ("Everything I Do Is Wrong"), adding weight to silly novelties like "Atomic Baby" and hedonistic rockers like "Down the Road Apiece."
録音 : モノラル (Studio)