Piano Blues

Compiled and Edited by Samuel Charters

RBF Records – RBF 12

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 1966
Genre: Blues, World, & Country
Style: Piano Blues
[Tracklist] A1 Big Mama: Walter Roland (02:32)
A2 Dice's Blues: Walter Roland (02:46)
A3 Broke Man Blues: Sylvester Palmer (03:04)
A4 Skippy Whippy: Mississippi Jook Band (02:50)
A5 Fanny Lee Blues: Wesley Wallace (03:15)
A6 Number 29: Wesley Wallace (03:13)
A7 Pratt City Blues: Jabo Williams (03:19)
B1 M & O Blues #3: Walter Davis (02:52)
B2 Dyin' Rider Blues: Romeo Nelson (03:09)
B3 On the Wall: Louise Johnson (03:04)
B4 Lost All I Had Blues: Roosevelt Sykes (03:20)
B5 The First Time I Met You: Little Brother Montgomery (02:55)
B6 Jab Blues: Jabo Williams (03:23)
B7 Good Woman Blues: Peetie Wheatstraw (02:55)
[Credits]
Compiler and Editor: Samuel Charters, Photographer: Ann Charters, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
"Everybody had their own style," Jelly Roll Morton said of blues and jazz piano players. This collection explores the music of famous and less well-known blues pianists in the 1920s "classic blues" era and in the 1930s, when the distinctive boogie-woogie style of piano playing began to emerge.