CD - VA - Wellcome Back To Town

Considered a disposable fad - and thus unworthy of expensive recording resources - by the concert promoters and radio executives of the day, live R&B, and its immediate predecessor jump blues, was only occasionally captured for posterity and only then, usually, because of its accidental inclusion in a larger program of "more laudable music" such as jazz. Which makes the enclosed two dozen rarities all the more welcome; whether taken from a live concert performance or a radio transcription, there is something magical and exciting about these little slices of musical time-travel. Fasten your safety belts!

1. Blues In B Flat - HOT LIPS PAGE

2. B Flat Blues (Summertime Boogie) - KING, Saunders

3. Married Woman Blues - WALKER, T-Bone

4. The Honeydripper - LIGGINS, Joe

5. Pink Champagne - LIGGINS, Joe

6. Caldonia - FOUR JOES & A JANE

7. Oh Boy! That's Where My Money Goes - FOUR BLAZES

8. Gatortail - WILLIAMS, Cootie

9. Things Ain't What They Used To Be - MACK, Eddie

10. Playful Baby - TURNER, Joe

11. Million Dollar Secret - HUMES, Helen

12. E-Baba-Leba - HUMES, Helen

13. Big Fine Girl - WITHERSPOON, Jimmy

14. New Orleans Woman - WITHERSPOON, Jimmy

15. Daddy Pinocchio - WITHERSPOON, Jimmy

16. Cool Kind Papa - WASHINGTON, Dinah

17. Baby Get Lost - WAHINGTON, Dinah

18. Fast Movin' Mama - WASHINGTON, Dinah

19. Baby, Let's Go Down - DIXON, Floyd

20. Too Much Jelly Roll - DIXON, Floyd

21. Honkin' - JACKSON ALLSTARS, Jimmy

22. Do Something For Me - WRIGHT, Billy

23. Hey Hey Baby - TARRANT, Rabon

24. Harlem Nocturne - OTIS ORCHESTRA, Johnny