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01. Little Joe Washington - Bossa Nova and Grits
02. Jimmy Nolen - The Way You Do
03. Little Esther - Cherry Wine
04. Be-Bop Wino - The Lamplighters
05. Titus Turner - Hold Your Loving
06. Juanita Nixon - Stop Knockin'
07. The Midnighters - We'll Never Meet Again
08. Jimmy Scott - Somewhere Down the Line
09. Camille Howard - You're Lower Than a Mole
10. Wynonie Harris - Good Mambo Tonight
11. Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men - She's Gone Too Long
12. King Syam - Syam's Blues
13. Gene Wilson & His Genies - Love Love Love D-R-E-A-M
14. Amos Milburn - Same Old Thing
15. Lula Reed & Freddy King - You Can't Hide
16. Sam Anderson & The Telstars - Back On The Block
17. Clarence Paul - Baby Don't You Leave Poor Me
18. The 5 Royales - Don't Be Ashamed
19. Little Willie John - Mister Glenn
20. Young John Watson - Space Guitar
ARTIST
TITLE
R&B Hipshakers Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits
FORMAT
CD

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CATALOG #
VAMPI 164CD VAMPI 164CD
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RELEASE DATE
10/2/2015

"Hold it, hold it -- this ain't over yet! I know: The passage of three long years since we last met may have led you to worry I'd abandoned my noble endeavor to unearth all of the mind-bending rhythm and blues in the nearly bottomless King and Federal vaults. But fear not. To paraphrase the immortal words of Titus Turner in 'Hold Your Loving,' I'm gonna keep at it till the meatballs bounce! I'm delighted to report that Bossa Nova and Grits features some showstopping acts new to the R&B Hipshakers series: there's 18-year-old Little Esther Phillips and her indelibly nasal voice, which would make her a star for decades to come; her fierce, piano-pounding fellow Texan Camille Howard, pushing 40 by the time she growled 'You mole, you!'; Angelenos The Lamplighters, led by a young Thurston Harris (doin' sixty-what'd-they-say?!); the otherworldly singer's singer Jimmy Scott, just before a sad 20-year lull in his recording career that would be followed by a fresh round of well-deserved accolades in the 1990s. And then there's our first dip into the oeuvre of guitar god Jimmy Nolen, who would basically invent funk guitar playing a decade later as a member of James Brown's band but is already wielding a pretty expressive instrument in 'The Way You Do.' Some old favorites are back, too: it wouldn't be a Hipshakers, after all, without brilliant new entries from Little Willie John, The 5 Royales, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Johnny Watson, and Freddy King -- he in a rousing dance-floor duet with series stalwart Lula Reed. Non-bouncing meatballs? We've got 'em. Slinky mambo beats? They're here. Back-to-back odes to vino? Yep. Wailing instrumentals? But of course. Twin blast-offs to outer space? Check. Prepare to taste the sound of these boss grits" --Mr Fine Wine. Also includes tracks by Little Joe Washington, Juanita Nixon, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men, King Syam, Gene Wilson & His Genies, Amos Milburn, Sam Anderson & The Telstars, and Clarence Paul. Tracks originally released between 1953 and 1967.