{"product_id":"roy-milton-rocks-cd-4000127177124-bcd17712","title":"Roy Milton Rocks CD","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eRoy Milton Rocks CD\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAny comprehensive list of postwar rhythm and blues pioneers has to position Roy Milton and his band, The Solid Senders, right near its top.\u003cbr\u003eThe Los Angeles-based Milton was a rock-solid drummer whose rich, full-bodied vocals were perfect for the swinging stormers that comprise \u003cem\u003eRoy Milton Rocks\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eHis combo, anchored by Camille Howard’s rippling boogie piano and accentuated by a punchy small horn section (and as time went by, Johnny ‘Junior’ Rogers’ dazzling guitar work), helped define the jump blues genre, which in turn provided an indelible blueprint for the first wave of rock 'n' roll.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection spans the band’s incredible career from their early days of recording in L.A. with the madly jumping Red Light to their hitmaking heyday on Specialty Records (\u003cem\u003eMilton’s Boogie, Hop, Skip, And Jump, Oh Babe!\u003c\/em\u003e, and the jaw-dropping Rogers-led instrumentals \u003cem\u003eJunior Jives\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJunior Jumps\u003c\/em\u003e are among the highlights) through his mid-‘50s hookups with DooTone (\u003cem\u003eFools Are Getting Scarcer, You Got Me Reeling And Rocking\u003c\/em\u003e, and two killers with his wife Mickey Champion fronting, the scorching \u003cem\u003eBam-A-Lam\u003c\/em\u003e and a swaggering \u003cem\u003eI’m A Woman\u003c\/em\u003e) and King (the instrumental \u003cem\u003eSuccotash\u003c\/em\u003e and Roy’s cover of Huey Smith and The Clowns’ \u003cem\u003eRocking Pneumonia and The Boogie Woogie Flu\u003c\/em\u003e) and his later waxings for Warwick, Cenco, and Thunderbird.\u003cbr\u003eA plethora of additional heavyweights passed through The Solid Senders-saxists Buddy Floyd, Jackie Kelso, and Eddie Taylor, guitarists Roy Montrell and Roy Gaines, bassist Dallas Bartley - 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