Piano Red – Atlanta Bounce / Arhoolie CD-379

Description

CD 379

Willie “Piano Red” Perryman ‚ piano & vocals; solo & with band.

Joyful exuberant 1972 solo performances by pianist-singer Piano Red, R&B hit maker of the ’50s and ’60s. Many previously unissued items plus “live” recordings with his band from the 1950s. Some of this material was previously issued on Arhoolie LP 1064.

1. Atlanta Bounce
2. Ten Cent Shot
3. Pushing That Thing
4. Red’s How Long Blues
5. Corrine Corrina
6. You Ain’t Got A Chance
7. My Baby Left Me
8. Let’s Get It On!
9. Got You On My Mind
10. Boogie Time
11. Blues Blues Blues
12. Please Baby Come On Home
13. Telephone Blues
14. Do She Love Me
15. Right String But The Wrong Yo-Yo (#1)
16. Right String But The Wrong Yo-Yo (#2)
17. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
18. Umph-Umph-Umph
19. Got You On My Mind (2)
20. Rockin’ With Red
21. Red’s Boogie

REVIEWS

“. . . Red was Willie Perryman the younger much younger brother of Rufus Perryman aka Speckled Red. His career started with a bang when he sold an alleged million copies of ‘Red’s Boogie’/’Rockin’ With Red’ in 1951. Later he made it a second time with ‘Dr. Feelgood’ and he took the name for his own. Chris Strachwitz pried Red loose from his band and recorded him alone at the piano in 1972. . .five tracks were recorded live at the Magnolia Ballroom Atlanta on March 5 1956 with a backing group made up of Blowtop Lynn on sax, John Peek on trumpet, Wes Jackson guitar, Kid Miller bass and Put Jackson drums. And what a show it must have been! Red was really rockin’ the group were thumping along and the audience were loving every minute of it. . .”

(Keith Briggs — Blues & Rhythm)