Blues From The Gutter

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 36:34

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Jerry Wexler, the famed Atlantic Records producer who recorded Aretha Franklin's hits among others' rescued one of the great boogie woogie pianists from obscurity. From the slowpoke jive of Strollin' and T.B. Blues to the inestimably funky Dixieland of Frankie & Johnny and Stack-O-Lee, this album shakes, slides, and shimmies authentic piano blues. It amazes me that this was recorded in 1958. The lyrical themes of disease, heroin, death, and murder seem more like a Nick Cave project or a Fat Possum concept album than something produced before Chuck Berry hit his stride. These are great, dirty blues songs, well worth owning.

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