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Trio Records – 3A-118 Released 1973 Japan Track A – とん平のヘイ・ユウ・ブルース Hey You Blues I have promised myself to do  a post on Hidari’s “Hey You Blues”, since the day of his passing back in 2018. That was 7 years ago! Why do these things take me so long to get to? I recently pulled […]

Fire Records ‎– Cat. # 1026 US 1960 Track 1: I Want To Know Track 2: I’ve Got It I have always been a big fan of the Fire label and this single from Gay Poppers, as far as I’m concerned, is one of their best releases! Please any doo wop and rhythm and blues […]

Mercury DJ-369, 73387 Mono, Promo US 1973 Track 1 Hercules Track 2 Going Home Aaron Neville has a gentle voice that could bring the hardest man down to his knees. A distinctive voice that closes the eyes and opens the soul. Hercules is his lost gem that deserved to outshine so many popular soul hits […]

ABC Records 11343 Stereo Year 1972 Nolan Porter’s If I Could Only Be Sure is one of my absolute favourite soul 45’s, and while it gets copiousness amounts of rotations around the house, that fervor it holds to me has never dwindled. But once again, it’s a little sad to discover that the man behind […]

Hall Records 45-1925 US 1964, Hall-Way Records S-1795 US 1963 Track 1: Defrost 1963 Track 1: Thaw – Out 1964 Albert Collins was born on 1 October 1933, and was raised by two farming parents in Leona, Texas, approx. 100 miles north of Houston. He was introduced to the guitar at an early age through his cousin […]

King 4971 US Year 1956 Track 1 – Can’t Hardly Stand It Track 2 – Everybody’s Lovin’ My Baby In the music world, earning a legendary status doesn’t necessarily stem from hits, success and riches. Such is the case with the highly influential and respected rockabilly wonder, Charles Feathers. Yet this unique talent who was there […]

Dot Cat# 16026 USA Year 1960 Jerry Lott a.k.a. Marty Lott, was born 30 January 1938, near Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in rural Leaksville, Mississippi near the Alabama border. As a kid he played country music on the school stage, which progressed to playing at Paynas Furniture Store in Lucedale, Mississippi. Jerry started entering […]

Fury Records Cat# 1016 US Year 1959 Track 1 – Number 9 Train Track 2 – Wildcat Tamer Alden Bunn, aka Allen Bunn, Tarheel Slim, was born in the country side outside of Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1924, and grew up working in the tobacco fields and listening to his mom’s Blind Boy Fuller […]

Tower Cat# 190 US – Year 1966 Joe (Meek) Versus The Volcano! I have to say, Chills And Fever is one of my favourite R&B songs of all time. It’s had a handful of great and worthy interpretations, from reputable artists including Jet Harris, Allen Wayne and of course the unsurpassed Ron Dunbar. But being […]

Little Walter And His Jukes EP London REU 1061 Oct 1956 Track 1 – My Babe Written By – Willie Dixon  Track 2 – I Got To Go written by Marion Walter Jacobs Track 3 – Roller Coaster Written By – E. McDaniels Marion Walter Jacobs was born in Marksville, Louisiana, on  May 1, 1930 […]