King & Deluxe Acetate Series: Beef Ball Baby:New King & Deluxe Acetate Series: Beef Ball Baby:New CD

This 2015 entry in Ace's King/De Luxe Acetates series might be the most eagerly anticipated. During 1947 and 1948 the DeLuxe label held many pioneering sessions in New Orleans, long before most other independent labels got there. A significant number of the city's biggest names, including Roy Brown, Smiley Lewis and Dave Bartholomew made their first recordings at these sessions. The original DeLuxe acetates were thought to have perished in a fire in 1948, but when Ace began copying the acetates in 2005 we quickly established that most of them were in existence and still playable. Roy Brown and the company's local A&R man Paul Gayten apart, the surviving acetates by almost all of the other R&B artists who DeLuxe recorded in New Orleans are featured. They include eight previously unissued sides and two by Smiley Lewis, for which no 78 rpm disc is known to exist, so it might as well have not been issued. The rest will never have been heard in this kind of audio quality, as to all previous reissues have been from dubs of DeLuxe's poorly pressed 78s.

1. Answer to Chubby's Bedroom Blues - Eddie Gorman 2. Beef Ball Baby - Eddie Gorman 3. Don't Worry 'Bout Nothin' - Paul Gayten and His Band (Vocal) Eddie Gorman 4. Hey Now - Eddie Gorman 5. Telephone Blues - Eddie Gorman 6. Worrying About My Love - Eddie Gorman 7. You Don't Move Me No More - Eddie Gorman 8. Swimming Blues - Smiling Lewis 9. Turn on Your Volume Baby - Smiling Lewis 10. Here Comes Smiley - Smiling Lewis 11. Love Is Like a Gamble - Smiling Lewis 12. Phoney Women Blues - Cousin Joe 13. Little Woman Blues - Cousin Joe 14. It's Dangerous to Be a Husband - Cousin Joe 15. Give Me a Cue Baby - Jewel King 16. Go Now - Jewel King 17. Passion Blues - Jewel King 18. She's Got Great Big Eyes - Dave Bartholomew 19. Dave's Boogie Woogie - Dave Bartholomew 20. Chubby's Confession - Chubby Newsome 21. Back Bitin' Woman - Chubby Newsome 22. Bedroom Blues - Chubby Newsome 23. Close to Train Time - Chubby Newsome 24. New Orleans Lover Man - Chubby Newsome