Artist: Ike Turner, His Kings Of Rhythm
Title: Rhythm Rockin' Blues
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Ace Records
Genre: Blues
Quality: flac lossless
Total Time: 00:57:24
Total Size: 141 mb
Tracklist---------
01. The Way You Used To Treat Me
02. I Miss You So
03. Nobody Wants Me
04. Loosely (Hamp's Boogie Woogie)
05. All The Blues, All The Time
06. Sitting And Wondering
07. Early Times
08. The World Is Yours
09. Suffocate
10. Talkin' About Me
11. Walk My Way Home
12. I Ain't Drunk
13. The Road I Travel
14. Night Howler
15. My Heart In Your Hands
16. A Woman Just Won't Do
17. I'm Tired Of Being Dogged Around
18. You Got Me Way Down Here
19. Love Is Scarce
20. Nobody Seems To Want Me
This is the definitive early Ike Turner collection, at least until someone comes out with a box that assembles everything. The 21 tracks here are mostly drawn from Turner's early-'50s sessions with the Kings of Rhythm at the Clarksdale studio, done under the auspices of the Bihari Brothers' Modern, RPM, and Flair labels. Apart from a few well-known numbers like the classic "Rocket 88," much of the material here isn't in other collections, nor has it been assembled in one place before - some of it has shown up on vinyl, but never together on CD. It consists of Turner working with the Kings of Rhythm, evolving his guitar and piano technique and pumping up the volume and beat on R&B, pushing it toward rock & roll. The highlight for completists is the medley "All the Blues, All the Time," on which Turner, newly confident on the guitar, goes through an extended instrumental medley of B.B. King, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker material. Also included is some hard R&B-cum-rock & roll by the Kings of Rhythm fronted by J. W. Walker, Little Johnny Burton, Dennis Binder, Lonnie "The Cat," and Billy Gayles. The interesting thing is that "Rocket 88," for all of its renown, is just one of the good tracks here - "Early Times" by Dennis Binder could just as easily have caught the public's fancy with its beat. The sound is somewhat compressed on some of the early material (and, especially, the Johnny Wright/Ike Turner orchestra numbers, although Turner's guitar is real sharp on "The World Is Yours"), but generally it is equal or superior to any other digital incarnation of the individual tracks, and the notes are extremely thorough.
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