Sykes,Roosevelt Collection 1929-47 CD

Roosevelt Sykes was a hugely popular and influential exponent of the rollicking barrel-house style of blues piano playing and composition whose core career spanned the decades spanning WWII. Recording initially under a variety of names, and finding his greatest popularity when he adopted the soubriquet 'The Honeydrippers', he recorded a substantial body of work variously for the Okeh, Decca and RCA Victor labels, which included classics of the genre like "The Honeydrippers", "Night Time Is the Right Time", "44 Blues", "Boot That Thing" and "Driving Wheel Blues". This great value 75-track 3-CD set selects material from across those key decades of his career from his earliest recordings through to the time when he began to be overtaken by the new electric blues in the late '40s. It includes solo recordings along with those as a duo with a drummer, and, in the later years, with a variety of small groups.

1. 44 Blues 2. Boot That Thing 3. Henry Ford Blues 4. Skeet and Garret 5. Roosevelt's Blues 6. Lost All I Had Blues 7. 32-20 Blues 8. 3-6 ; 9 9. Kelly's Special 10. Nasty But It's Clean 11. Highway 61 Blues 12. Big Legs Ida Blues 13. D-B-A Blues 14. Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know) 15. She Left Me Cold in Hand 16. Cannon Ball 17. Jet Black Snake 18. Driving Wheel Blues 19. Sister Kelly Blues 20. The Honey Dripper 21. Night Time Is the Right Time 22. Little and Low 23. Monte Carlo Blues 24. Hospital, Heaven or Hell 25. Drunken Gambler 26. Love Lease Blues 27. Hard Lead Pencil 28. Sad Yas Yas (You Fade Away Like Morning Dew) 29. The Road to Ruin 30. Mistake in Life 31. Night Time Is the Right Time No. 2 32. She's Long Gone 33. The Train Is Coming (No More Baby Talk) 34. Down on My Knees 35. Have You Seen Ida B 36. Bitter Cup Blues 37. Journey from the Germs 38. You Can't Fix It Back 39. Get Your Bow Out (Then You Will Understand) 40. Yellow Yam Blues 41. Right Now 42. Essie Mae Blues 43. She's Got What It Takes 44. Pistol Shootin' Blues 45. Eight Ball Blues 46. 47th Street Jive 47. Doin' the Sally Long (Flames Od Evaporation) 48. Low As a Toad 49. Prison Gate Blues 50. K.M.A. Blues 51. Just Hanging Around 52. Pay Day Blues 53. 15C a Day 54. Roll on Blues 55. Keep Your Hands Off Her 56. Skin and Bone Blues 57. Let the Black Have His Way 58. Third Degree Blues 59. Training Camp Blues 60. Sugar Babe Blues 61. I Wonder 62. Love Has Something to Say 63. Tender Hearted Woman Blues (I'll Wear the Pants) 64. Don't Push Me Around 65. Date Bait 66. Tonight 67. Living in a Different World 68. Flames of Jive 69. Bop de Bip 70. Bobby Sox Blues 71. Walkin' and Drinkin' 72. Mama Mama 73. Booze Blues 74. Until the Cows Come Home