New Arrivals/Restock

Title: Garden City Blues
Artist: Various Artists
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065718824
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2015-08-07
Number of Discs: 4

Once the heart of America's motor industry, many of Detroit's production lines are derelict and 30,000 houses are empty or demolished. Neighbors now grow vegetables for neighbors, while industrialised farming waits to take over. The inner city tries to regenerate itself but wholesale bankruptcy acts as a deterrent. Music and gas-guzzling cars stagger on but the city that nurtured the talents of the artists featured here has all but vanished. As well as automobiles, there was music. But until Motown, Detroit even lacked a major record label. Activity - and there was plenty - came from a handful of independents - Fortune, JVB, Sensation and Staff among them - who relied on local talent. Then there was Elmer Barbee, the owner of a record store with a studio in the rear. He it was who found John Lee Hooker playing a little bar on Monroe Street. The pair persisted for a year before - through the success of Boogie Chillun - Hooker's talent became increasingly widely known. Here are many of Hooker's early Detroit recordings and of the many - Sylvester Cotton, Bobo Jenkins, Eddie Kirkland, Eddie Burns among them - who hoped to achieve, and occasionally did achieve - similar success.

Tracks:
1.1 Rocks - John Lee Hooker
1.2 Leavin' Chicago - John Lee Hooker
1.3 Wednesday Evening Blues - John Lee Hooker
1.4 Mercy Blues - John Lee Hooker
1.5 Boogie Woogie - John Lee Hooker
1.6 Good Business - John Lee Hooker
1.7 Poor Skin [Take 1] - John Lee Hooker
1.8 Shake Your Boogie - John Lee Hooker
1.9 Poor Slim [Take 2] - John Lee Hooker
1.10 Down So Long - John Lee Hooker
1.11 Miss Pearl Boogie - John Lee Hooker
1.12 Boogie Awhile - John Lee Hooker
1.13 Tuesday Evening - John Lee Hooker
1.14 Christmas Time Blues - John Lee Hooker
1.15 Cotton Pickin' Boogie - John Lee Hooker
1.16 Low Down Boogie - John Lee Hooker
1.17 We Gonna Everything Alright - John Lee Hooker
1.18 Must I Wait Til Your Man Is Gone - John Lee Hooker
1.19 Roll Me Baby - John Lee Hooker
1.20 Miss Rosie Mae - John Lee Hooker
1.21 Highway Blues - John Lee Hooker
1.22 I Love to Boogie - John Lee Hooker
1.23 Real Gone Gal - John Lee Hooker
1.24 Little Boy Blue - John Lee Hooker
2.1 Questionnaire Blues - John Lee Hooker
2.2 My Daddy Was a Jockey - John Lee Hooker
2.3 Feed Her All Night - John Lee Hooker
2.4 How Long Must I Be Your Slave - John Lee Hooker
2.5 Ground Hog - John Lee Hooker
2.6 Mean Old Train - John Lee Hooker
2.7 Catfish - John Lee Hooker
2.8 Have Mercy on Poor Me - John Lee Hooker
2.9 I Came to See You Baby - John Lee Hooker
2.10 I'm a Boogie Man - John Lee Hooker
2.11 My Baby Left Me - John Lee Hooker
2.12 I Ain't Cheatin' - Eddie Burns
2.13 Sunnyland Blues - Eddie Burns
2.14 Making a Fool Out of Me - Eddie Burns
2.15 Gangster Blues - Eddie Burns
2.16 Grieving Blues - Eddie Burns
2.17 Where Did You Stay Last Night - Eddie Burns
2.18 Squeeze Me Baby - Eddie Burns
2.19 Decoration Day Blues - Eddie Burns
2.20 She Keeps Me Guessing - Eddie Burns
2.21 Sitting Here Wondering - Eddie Burns
2.22 I Love to Jump the Boogie - Eddie Burns
2.23 Tavern Lounge Boogie - Eddie Burns
2.24 Stolen Property - Howard Richard/Robert Richard
2.25 Going Down Slow - Big Jack Reynolds
3.1 Three Cent Stamp Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.2 Brownskin Woman - Sylvester Cotton
3.3 Ugly Women - Sylvester Cotton
3.4 Christmas Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.5 Cottonfield Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.6 Stormy Weather Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.7 Wife Lovin' Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.8 Stranger in Your Town [Take 1] - Sylvester Cotton
3.9 Big Chested Mama Blues [Take 1] - Sylvester Cotton
3.10 Thanksgiving Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.11 Sak-Relation Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.12 Pay Day Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.13 I Tried - Sylvester Cotton
3.14 When I'm Gone [Take 1] - Sylvester Cotton
3.15 Waterlee Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.16 Single Man Blues - Sylvester Cotton
3.17 Way Down in Hell - Sylvester Cotton
3.18 Stranger in Your Town [Take 2] - Sylvester Cotton
3.19 Big Chested Mama Blues [Take 2] - Sylvester Cotton
3.20 When I'm Gone [Take 2] - Sylvester Cotton
3.21 Mae Liza [Take 1] - Alfred Dunham
3.22 Sweet Lucy - Alfred Dunham
3.23 Hattie Mae - Alfred Dunham
3.24 Little Bitty Woman [Take 1] - Alfred Dunham
3.25 I Got a Woman - Alfred Dunham
3.26 She Left Me - Alfred Dunham
4.1 I Found Out - Alfred Dunham
4.2 Genevee - Alfred Dunham
4.3 Nezeree Blues - Alfred Dunham
4.4 Mae Liza [Take 2] - Alfred Dunham
4.5 Little Bitty Woman [Take 2] - Alfred Dunham
4.6 When the Sun Was Shining - Sam Kelly/L.C. Green
4.7 Little School Girl - Sam Kelly/L.C. Green
4.8 Remember Way Back - Sam Kelly/L.C. Green
4.9 Shine Mine Light - Sam Kelly/L.C. Green
4.10 Eva Lee - James Walton
4.11 If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving - James Walton
4.12 Papa Do - James Walton
4.13 Decoration Day Blues [Take 1] - Bobo Jenkins
4.14 Seasick and Water Bound - Bobo Jenkins
4.15 Ten Below Zero - Bobo Jenkins
4.16 Baby Don't You Want to Go - Bobo Jenkins
4.17 Decoration Day Blues [Take 2] - Bobo Jenkins
4.18 Mercy Blues - Eddie Kirkland
4.19 I'll Move You - Eddie Kirkland
4.20 Train Done Gone - Eddie Kirkland
4.21 You Know I Love You - Eddie Kirkland
4.22 Blood on Your Hands - Eddie Kirkland
4.23 Love You Till the Day I Die - Eddie Kirkland
4.24 I Must Have Done Somebody Wrong - Eddie Kirkland

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