1.I got a gal (for every day of the week) 2.Little bittie gal's blues 3.Rebecca 4.It's the same old story 5.S. K. blues part 1 6. S. K. blues part 2 7.Johnson and Turner blues 8.Watch that jive 9.Howlin' winds 10.Doggin' the blues 11.I got my discharge papers 12.Miss Brown blues 13.I'm still in the dark 14.My gal's a jockey 15.I got love for sale 16.Sunday morning blues 17.Mad blues 18.It's a low down dirty shame 19.I'm still in the dark 20.Miss Brown blues 21.Sally-zu-zazz 22.Rock of Gibraltar 23.Milk and butter blues 24.That's when it really hurts 25.I'm in sharp when I hit the coast 26.Ooh wee baby blues
Over 77 minutes of playing time. Recorded between 1944 and 1946. This is the birth of Rhythm and Blues. Big Joe Turner came out of the Kansas City music scene, where his band included the legendary Pete Johnson (look out for an instrumental called 'Rocket 88' by him - wow!), and he doubled up his singing with the 'gentle' art of 'bouncing' in those wild days. He later moved to New York and recorded for Atlantic, making the classic 'Boogie Woogie Country Girl' and other great rockers.
Joe Turner
Joe Turner had a tremendous voice and a talent for improvising lyrics. He was called the 'Boss of the Blues', and during the 1930s - Kansas City's musical heyday - 'Big Joe' Turner was the greatest blues singer in town. An innovator, he made enormous contributions to both jazz and rhythm-and-blues. He also played a seminal (though largely unappreciated) role in the development of rock'n'roll, and was a major influence on such later stars as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Elvis Presley. Joe Turner was born and raised in Kansas City. In the late 1920s, he got a job as a bartender at the Sunset Club, a night spot owned by Felix Payne. It was there, while mixing drinks, that he started singing to house pianist Pete Johnson's accompaniment. Turner's volcanic, half-shouted blues, along with Johnson's spectacular boogie-woogie piano, electrified club patrons and attracted the attention of such bandleaders as Bennie Moten, Andy Kirk, and Count Basie, with whom he later toured. In 1938, Turner and Johnson appeared in the 'From Spirituals to Swing' concert at Carnegie Hall, in New York City. Turner's early records include 'Roll 'Em, Pete', 'Goin' Away Blues' and 'Cherry Red' for the Vocalion record label and 'Piney Brown Blues', written for the manager of the Sunset Club, for Decca Records. Joe Turner went to the California in the late 1940s, where he performed on the Los Angeles circuit and recorded for a variety of small, independent record companies, eventually landing a contract with Atlantic Records. He had a string of hit records for Atlantic in the 1950s, including 'Shake, Rattle and Roll', a rock'n'roll classic. Although slowed in later years by health problems, Joe Turner continue to perform and record until shortly before his death in 1985. His album, 'Blues Train', recorded with the group Room Full of Blues, won a Grammy Award in 1983." David Conrads
Joe Turner - one of the originals of R&B.