Drifting Blues (LP)
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Charles Broqn
Drifting Blues (LP)
[ Waxtime / LP ]
Release Date: Friday 4 October 2019
This WaxTime LP release includes Charles Brown's underrated album, "Drifting Blues". This lost gem was originally issued as a 12" long play in 1957 by the Aladdin subsidiary Blabel Score, and has been long unavailable on vinyl. It contains selections of earlier recordings and Aladdin singles, taped between 1952 and 1955.
In addition to the original masterpiece, this WaxTime collector's edition also includes 2 bonus tracks from the same period: the catchy "Love's Like a River," and the 1956' staple "Merry Christmas Baby."
PERSONNEL:
CHARLES BROWN, vocals and piano, plus:
PETE LEWIS, JESSE ERVIN, or JUSTIN ADAMS (guitar)
EDDIE WILLIAMS or CURTIS COUNCE (bass)
LEARD BELL, LEE YOUNG (drums),
WALTER HENRY (baritone sax)
THE SONG STYLISTS(backing vocals),
among others.
Recorded in Los Angeles and new orleans, between 1953 and 1954.
Tracks:
SIDE 1
01. Cryin' and driftin' Blues
02. (Hot lips and) seven Kisses MaMBo
03. fool's paradise
04. please, don't drive Me away
05. By tHe Bend of tHe river
06. i'M saving My love for you
07. love's liKe a river (*)
SIDE 2
01. nite after nite
02. rising sun
03. My Heart is Mended
04. rolling liKe a peBBle in tHe sand
05. evening sHadows
06. Honeysipper
07. Merry Christmas Baby - 1956 Version (*)
(*) BONUS TRACKS
