CD - VA - Southern Bred - Tennessee Arkansas R&B Rockers Vol. 21

The concept of Southern Bred Tennessee and Arkansas allows the sourcing of a variety of wide-ranging black music chosen by the theme of birth to be collected onto the albums. The series like its predecessors are made by people who are active on the music scene, for people who enjoy the excellence of sound and quality of music. The series concept is to research an artist's birth state and compile albums around their Southern Bred heritage. By doing so the musical concept radically differs from that of a regional or label-based compilation and therefore opens the variety of sound within the album and series.

On The Floor, Southern Bred Tennessee and Arkansas Koko Mojo (KM-CD - 87) is the introductory album, looking at the birth heritage Tennessee and Arkansas which is consolidated into the anthology due to it being referred to as West Memphis.

The album introduces traditional Blues and R&B performers: Stick McGhee and His Buddies, Robert Lockwood Jr., Washboard Sam, and Big Willie, and several more rockin’ roots musicians. The formative jump music style emanates from "The King of the Jukebox” who always had a gleam in his eyes Louis Jordan with His Tympany Five. The charismatic bandleader Lucky Millinder used several Southern-bred artists to front his Orchestra and he will reappear in the series providing instrumentation for more performers.

Rhythm & Blues encompasses guitar rockers, loud saxophones, and piano boogies, and the cream of the genre includes, heavyweights Jimmy Witherspoon, and Big John Greer. The jelly rolling mamas, Big Maybelle, Christine Kittrell, and the sassy Lillian Offitt. The new breed Rock 'n' Roll and Doo-Wop artists add charm to the album and included are; the volatile Little Willie John, Gene Allison, Little Charles and The Daffodils, and Dee Clark.

Our Southern Bred albums have; sleeve notes which are written by series compiler Mark Armstrong, stunning design from design artist Michael van Merwyk, and twenty-eight songs, remastered at Black Shack Studios by our sound expert Heiko Schultz. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. You are listening to music from the past and preserving the future! Koko Mojo Records “often imitated, never duplicated.”

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01. Jimmy Witherspoon with Jesse Stone Orch. - All Right Miss Moore (Stone) 02:19 RCA Victor 1957

02. Little Willie John - Do You Love Me (John) 01:58 King 1960

03. Gene Allison - If Things Don't Change (Jarrett) 02:24 Champion 1959

04. Dee Clark - Kangaroo Hop (Clark) 02:18 Falcon 1957

05. Big Maybelle - My Country Man (Kirkland, Wyche) 02:33 Okeh 1953

06. Billy 'Red' Love and His Orch. - Drop Top (Love) 02:39 Chess 1952

07. Murfreesboro with Jimmy Beck and Orch. - Real Good Man (Garner) 02:31 Champion 1959

08. Stick McGhee and His Buddies - House Warmin' Boogie (S&B McGhee) 03:07 Atlantic 1951

09. Little Charles and The Daffodils - No Fool No More (Bubis) 02:11 Champion 1959

10. Robert Lockwood Jr. with Rhythm Acc. - (I'm Gonna) Dig Myself A Hole (Lockwood Jr.) 02:37 Mercury 1951

11. Chicago Sunny Boy - On The Floor (Louis) 02:57 Meteor 1953

12. Big John Greer - Soon, Soon, Soon (Biggs, Thomas) 02:39 Groove 1955

13. Jimmy Witherspoon with Jay McShann - Voodoo Woman Blues (Demetrius) 02:35 Mercury 1946

14. Ford Nelson Quintet (vocal) Frank Brown - Little Annie (Brown Jr.) 02:13 RCA 1952

15. Lucky Millinder and His Orch. with Rosetta Tharpe - Shout, Sister Shout (Millinder, Doggett) 02:49 Decca 1942

16. Cecil Gant - Nashville Jumps (Gant) 02:54 Bullet 1946

17. Frank Frost with The Nighthawks - Now Twist (Frost) 01:50 Phillips International 1962

18. Washboard Sam and His Washboard Band - River Hip Mama (Brown) 02:38 Bluebird 1942

19. Jimmy Witherspoon and The Quintones - My Girl Ivy (Smith, Evelyn, Withabig) 02:19 Atco 1956

20. Little Willie John - Until You Do (Toombs, McCoy) 02:14 King 1957

21. Dee Clark - Seven Nights (Clark, Twiggs) 02:21 Falcon 1957

22. Al Garner - Chantilly Lace (Richardson) 02:18 Grand Award 1959

23. Arthur Gunter - My Heart's Always Lonesome (Gunter) 02:27 Excello 1961

24. Little Al - Easy Ridin' Buggy (Gunter) 02:13 Excello 1958

25. Christine Kittrell - Call His Name (Kittrell) 02:23 Republic 1955

26. Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - ?Texas And Pacific (Fine, Hirsch) 03:03 Decca 1947

27. Lillian Offitt - Miss You So (Babb) 02:09 Excello 1957

28. Big Willie - Bogey Man (no writer credit) 03:10 Apollo 1953