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Tracklist

Disc One
1. Rebecca – Joe Turner
2. Mop! Mop! – Louis Jordan
3. Red Bank Boogie – Count Basie
4. I Wonder – Cecil Gant
5. Sweet Man – Miss Rhapsody
6. You Can't Get That No More – Louis Jordan
7. I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues – Duke Ellington & Al Hibbler
8. No Baby, Nobody But You – Lil Green
9. Tippin' In – Erskine Hawkins
10. Cecil's Boogie – Cecil Gant
11. Blues Jumped A Rabbit – Hot Lips Page
12. Albinia's Blues – Albinia Jones
13. Strange Things Happening Every Day – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14. Caldonia – Louis Jordan
15. You Ain't Nothin' Daddy – Floyd Williams & Etta Jones
16. Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well? – Wynonie Harris & Lucky Millinder
17. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird – King Perry
18. Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door – Louis Jordan
19. Johnny's Boogie – Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
20. That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch – Buddy & Ella Johnson
21. This Tavern Boogie – Roosevelt Sykes
22. The Honeydripper Part 1 – Joe Liggins
23. The Honeydripper Part 2 – Joe Liggins
24. Preachin' The Blues – Ray Stokes
25. Baby Look At You – Wynonie Harris
26. He May Be Your Man – Helen Humes

Disc Two
1. Jockey Blues – Bill Samuels
2. Penny's Worth Of Boogie – Russell Jacquet
3. Jimmy's Blues – Jimmy Rushing
4. Somebody's Knocking – Clyde Bernhardt
5. Bartender Boogie – Jack McVea
6. Come On Over To My House – Julia Lee
7. My Baby's Business – Johnny Otis & Jimmy Rushing
8. Jelly Jelly – Billy Eckstine
9. It's Just The Blues – Four Jumps Of Jive
10. Round The Clock – Johnny Otis & Jimmy Rushing
11. Bluesin' The Boogie – Hadda Brooks
12. Buzz, Buzz, Buzz – Jim Wynn
13. Hootie Boogie – Jay McShann
14. Garfield Avenue Blues – Crown Prince Waterford & Jay McShann
15. Beulah's Boogie – Lionel Hampton
16. Buzz Me – Sippie Wallace
17. Blues At Sunrise – Ivory Joe Hunter
18. Be-Baba-Leba – Helen Humes
19. M.F.T. Boogie – Ace Harris
20. Shipyard Woman Blues – Jay McShann & Jimmy Witherspoon
21. I Need It Bad (Groove Juice) – Buddy Banks
22. Naggin' Woman Blues – Jack McVea & Rabon Tarrant
23. 7th Street Boogie – Ivory Joe Hunter
24. We Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues – Bull Moose Jackson
25. Reefer Head Woman – Buster Bennett

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The R&B Years 1942-1945 Volume Two • 2CD Set

The R&B Years 1942-1945 Volume Two • 2CD Set

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The R&B Years 1942-45 Volume Two 2CD Set

The years between 1942 and 1945 changed the course of American popular music. As the Swing era reached its peak, a new generation of performers began stripping away the formality of the big bands, replacing polished dance music with smaller groups, stronger rhythms and bluesier vocals. The R&B Years 1942-45 Volume Two captures this remarkable period with fifty recordings that trace the emergence of the sound that would soon become known as Rhythm & Blues.

Featuring pioneering artists including Louis Jordan, Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Helen Humes, Johnny Otis, Joe Liggins, Jay McShann, Ivory Joe Hunter and many more, the collection moves effortlessly between jump blues, boogie woogie, jazz, gospel-infused rhythm and early urban blues. Classics such as Caldonia, The Honeydripper, Strange Things Happening Every Day and Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well? sit alongside a wealth of fascinating recordings that deserve far wider recognition.

One of the greatest pleasures of this collection is hearing familiar musical ingredients being combined in exciting new ways. The infectious backbeats become more pronounced, guitar and piano take on a greater role, saxophones begin to drive the arrangements and singers deliver their performances with an energy that points directly towards the Rock 'n' Roll era. Rather than presenting separate musical styles, this anthology reveals how naturally they blended together during the war years.

Beautifully remastered and expertly compiled, The R&B Years 1942-45 Volume Two is an essential companion for anyone interested in the origins of Rhythm & Blues, Rock 'n' Roll and modern popular music. It captures a moment when musical history was quietly but dramatically changing direction.

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