Red Peters with Big Boy Bloater - The Deacon moves in
Brilliant danceable Rhythm And Blues from Red Peters. If you liked the Big Boy Bloater CD, you won't be disappointed with this. It's SO danceable, and their pianist (The Deacon) is magic, a sort of latter day Henry van Walls......
1.The Deacon moves in 2.I ain't comin' back 3.The giggler 4.Turn the lamps down low 5.The Devil came a callin' 6.Big boy's jump
Red Peters with Big Boy Bloater - The Deacon moves in
America in the early 50's - music was changing, the big dance bands were breaking up, smaller combos were becoming the 'in thing'. Black America was finding a wilder, freer form of music. Band leaders like Johnny Otis were leading the way in this sometimes brash form of jive. In the 40's they called it Race music, but by the 50's it was known as Rhythm and Blues, or if you were really 'hep' R'n'B. A host of female 'Blues Shouters' were coming to the forefront, it was the era of the 'Big Mamas', Big Mama Thornton and Big Maybelle.
"In a smoky basement club somewhere downtown, a heavy beat fills the air, honkin sax, screaming trumpet! A slick combo sways to the solid beat, these cats are really in the groove. The spotlight hits centre stage, there stands a girl who starts shouting the blues as hard hitting as the boys behind her."
This is Rhythm and Blues ......... the white people of America were already calling this music by a new name ....... Rock'n'Roll!
This CD is made in the preservation of this spirit...
"Red Peters and Big Boy Bloater are all vintage clothes and vinyl. They adhere to the jump blues formula as if there has been no music since. Their new release, The Deacon Moves In (Spindrift) will definitely appeal to dancers. There's no doubt that Red Peters has an impressive set of pipes, and she is the perfect counterpoint to Big Boy Bloater's flat, bluesy growl. She is almost too perfect, and while at only six songs the disc is over before it wears thin, the catchiest songs on the record are the instrumentals." Christian Puffer
Brilliant danceable Rhythm And Blues from Red Peters. If you liked the Big Boy Bloater CD, you won't be disappointed with this. It's SO danceable, and their pianist (The Deacon) is magic, a sort of latter day Henry van Walls......