Description
• With more than 70 CD releases since 2002, the ‘Rocks’ series on Bear Family Records® is one of the most successful and extensive in our catalog.
• • Specializing in artist CDs full to the brim, ‘Rocks’ presents R&B pioneers as well as popular and obscure rockers of various origins.
• • The compilation ‘Bear Family Records ROCKS, Vol. 1’ provides a thorough overview of the genre – featuring 30 outstanding rocking black jumping R&B, R’n’R and blues
performers such as Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo, the Drifters, etc.
• • The ‘Rocks’ series is characterized by excellent sound quality and informative liner
notes by Bill Dahl from Chicago – as is the case here with this extremely entertaining crosssection.
• Includes 36 page booklet.
Bear Family’s mammoth series of ‘Rocks’ CDs have set a lofty standard for savage rocking.
‘Bear Family Records ROCKS, Vol. 1 – Black Rockers and Rhythm ‘n’ Blues From The 1950s’ is sure
to rip the roof off any no-holds-barred juke joint soiree, its 30 selections ranging from New Orleans
R&B legends Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, and Smiley Lewis to guitar scorchers Clarence ‘Gatemouth’
Brown and Bo Diddley. Chuck Berry and Little Richard show why they’re regarded as the fathers of
rock and roll, though their forefathers Big Joe Turner, Amos Milburn, and Roy Milton and His Solid
Senders illustrate that jumping R&B thrived long before the emergence of either one of them.
The set offers plenty of rocking blues via Jimmy Reed, Little Junior Parker, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup,
Champion Jack Dupree, and Slim Harpo, encompasses the era’s top vocal groups in the ‘50s R&B
field with The Coasters, Drifters, Midnighters, “5” Royales, and Cadillacs, and pays loving tribute to
the best lounge acts ever with storming entries by The Treniers and Louis Prima. Every one of these
30 artists has his or her own entry in the ‘Rocks’ series save one: Johnny Otis, whose Good Golly
makes it obvious that he deserves the honor in the not-too-distant future. Get ready to rock, jump, and
roll with this one!
TRACKLISTING:
• Fats Domino: Be My Guest Champion Jack Dupree: Nasty Boogie Lloyd Price: Where You At? Little Richard: Good Golly, Miss Molly Jimmy McCracklin: Get Tough Arthur Crudup: I’m Gonna Dig Myself A Hole Jimmy Reed: She Don’t Want Me No More
• Little Junior Parker: I Wanna Ramble Ella Mae Morse: Have Mercy Baby Roy Milton and his Band: You Got Me Reeling And Rocking
• The Cadillacs: Holy Smoke Baby The Midnighters: Henry’s Got Flat Feet (Can’t Dance No More) Bo Diddley: You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover Smiley Lewis: Lillie Mae The Coasters: Three Cool Cats The Platters: Out Of My Mind Chuck Berry: Reelin’ And Rocking Slim Harpo: Don’t Start Cryin’ Now Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown: Boogie Uproar Clyde McPhatter: Deep Sea Ball
• Piano Red: She’s Dynamite Joe Turner and His Blues Kings: Morning, Noon And Night The ‘5’ Royales: Monkey Hips And Rice
• The Treniers: Poon-Tang Louis Prima: Jump, Jive An’ Wail The Drifters: No Sweet Lovin’ Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and The Chicken Hawks: Just Don’t Care Amos Milburn and his Aladdin Chickenshackers: One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
• Shirley & Lee: I Feel Good The Johnny Otis Show: Good Golly
GENRE: Rock N Roll
BARCODE: 4000127177346
RELEASE DATE: 26/01/2024
