Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hurry, Hurry
2. Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
3. Around the Clock, Pt. 1
4. Around the Clock, Pt. 2
5. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
6. Yonder Goes My Baby
7. Wynonie's Blues
8. Here Comes the Blues
9. Straighten Him Out
10. Young Man's Blues
11. Baby, Look at You
12. She's Gone With the Wind
13. Somebody Changed the Lock on My Door
14. That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch
15. I Gotta Lyin' Woman
16. Rebecca's Blues
17. Everybody's Boogie
18. Time to Change Your Town
19. I Gotta Lyin' Woman [Alternate Take]
20. Everybody's Boogie [Alternate Take]

Disc 2:

1. Playful Baby
2. Take Me Out of the Rain
3. Papa Tree Top
4. Young and Wild
5. Good Morning Corinne
6. Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Pt. 1
7. Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Pt. 2
8. In the Evenin' Blues
9. Dig This Boogie
10. Lightning Struck the Poor House
11. My Baby's Barrel House
12. Drinkin' by Myself
13. Mr. Blues Jumped the Rabbit
14. Rugged Road
15. Come Back, Baby
16. Whiskey and Jelly-Roll Blues
17. You Got to Get Yourself a Job, Girl
18. Hard Ridin' Mama
19. Big City Blues
20. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You

Disc 3:

1. Battle of the Blues, Pt. 1
2. Battle of the Blues, Pt. 2
3. Goin' Home
4. Blues
5. Love Is Like Rain
6. Rose Get Your Clothes
7. Wynonie's Boogie
8. Your Money Don't Mean a Thing
9. Good Morning Mr. Blues
10. Blow Your Brains Out
11. Blowin' to California
12. Crazy Love
13. From Bad to Good Blues
14. Bite Again, Bite Again
15. Good Rockin' Tonight
16. Lollipop Mama
17. I Believe I'll Fall in Love
18. Grandma Plays the Numbers
19. She Just Won't Sell No More
20. I Want My Fanny Brown

Disc 4:

1. I Feel That Old Age Coming On
2. Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
3. All She Wants to Do Is Rock
4. I Can't It Take No More
5. Sittin' on It All the Time
6. I Like My Baby's Pudding
7. Triflin' Woman
8. Baby, Shame on You
9. Rock Mr. Blues
10. Stormy Night Blues
11. Good Morning Judge
12. Be Mine My Love
13. Mr. Blues Is Coming to Town
14. I Want to Love You Baby
15. Put It Back
16. Oh Babe!
17. Teardrops From My Eyes
18. Love Untrue
19. Triflin' Woman
20. Man, Have I Got Troubles
21. Confessin' the Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40955 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Best of, Box set
• Dimensions: .51 pounds

Album Description
UK compilation featuring 81 tracks recorded by the blues shouter and R&B pioneer during his 1944 to 1950 heyday. Includes 52 page illustrated booklet. 2001 release. Four standard jewel cases housed together in a deluxe slipcase.

Album Details
81 tracks from 1944 to 1950 from the blues shouter with a jump style who was a pioneer of R&B and an essential influence on rock n roll.

Customer Reviews

Mr Blues Lives Again in 4 disc box
Along with Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing, Wyonnie Harris is regarded as the greatest of the blues shouters, and one of the most popular and influential artists in the years after World War II. First emerging on record with Lucky Millender's Big Band, Harris' vocal "Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well," was a success for the Millender band. He recorded for several labels including Philo/Aladdin, Apollo, Hamptone, and Bullet before signing with King in July 1947. With King, he enjoyed his greatest success. The British Proper label has put together a four-disc box, "Rockin the Blues," which contains all of recordings (81 in total) through 1950. It is handy to have all of Harris' Philo/ Aladdin and Apollo recordings along with rarities from Hamptone and Bullett along with his first 37 King recordings in one place. Harris was accompanied by bands that included some of the finest jazz players of the postwar era including Howard McGhee, Teddy Edwards, Illinois Jacquet, Charles Mingus, Jack McVea, Gene Phillips, Arnett Cobb, Milt Buckner, Sun Ra (credited as pianist on the four sides recorded for Bullett in Nashville in March/April 1946), Tab Smith, Bill Doggett, Hot Lips Page, Hal Cornbread Singer, Tom Archia, Buddy Tate, Sonny Thompson and Cat Anderson). This is quite a roster of players and they provide terrific support on a collection of earthy blues, bawdy rockers and jump numbers. Its been over thirty years since Harris died, and, thus never enjoyed the type of career revival that Big Joe Turner enjoyed in the seventies and eighties. And so many of the songs here have become classics. The level of the music on these is consistently first-rate. Wyonnie Harris may have be a bit of a bragger when he called himself Mr. Blues, but few shouted the blues with the power and skill that he did.