Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues / Various - Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues / Various - Music CD

Named after the rough and ready bars where labourers gathered to drink and dance, barrelhouse was a raucous form of piano blues that got the juke joints swinging. From early pioneers such as Cow Cow Davenport and Speckled Red to the boogie-woogie legends Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, this collection charts the rise and incredible influence of this good-time blues.01 Speckled Red: The Dirty Dozen 03:11 02 Jimmy Yancey: Slow And Easy Blues 02:3203 Cripple Clarence Lofton: Strut That Thing 02:5604 Will Ezell: Heifer Dust 02:57 05 Walter Roland: Watcha Gonna Do? 02:5706 Cow Cow Davenport: Cow Cow Blues 03:0807 Romeo Nelson: Head Rag Hop 02:5608 Roosevelt Sykes: 32-20 Blues 03:0709 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie 03:1010 Skip James: If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road 02:5211 Turner Parrish: Fives 03:1612 Bert Mays: You Can't Come In 03:0613 Meade Lux Lewis: Honky Tonk Train Blues 02:5814 Charlie Spand: Soon This Morning Blues 02:5615 Herve Duerson: Avenue Strut 02:4716 Victoria Spivey: Hoodoo Man Blues 02:3617 Henry Brown: Henry Brown Blues 02:5718 Little Brother Montgomery: Vicksburg Blues 02:5619 Jabo Williams: Pratt City Blues 03:1920 Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons: Barrelhouse Boogie 03:0121 Bob Call: 31 Blues 02:3922 Freddie "Redd" Nicholson: You Gonna Miss Me Blues 03:0323 Montana Taylor: Detroit Rocks 03:1924 Louise Johnson: On The Wall 03:0025 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell: Barrelhouse Woman No.2 02:39