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BRUTON & PRICE:
SWINGMASTERS REVUE CD (AKCD-7801)
The debut release by Fort Worth, Texas' SWINGMASTERS! Featuring guitar
master T.Sumter Bruton (Juke Jumpers) and pumping piano man/vocalist,
Michael H. Price leading the way through fifteen tunes performed in the
style of T-Bone Walker -- none ever performed by T-Bone himself! A terrific
tribute to a true blues original! Produced by Jim Colgrove (Juke Jumpers).
Cuts include: CUTTIN' IN, I WANT A BOWLEGGED WOMAN, RAGS TO RICHES, RED
LIGHT, AGED AND MELLOW, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU and many more! AristoKraft
label distributed by Shel-Tone.
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FROM
HELL TO TEXAS by Michael H. Price & His Bluesicians (AKCD-7802)
Pulsating patchwork collection of 70s, 80s & 90s blues and honky tonk
tracks by renaissance music man, Michael H. Price Tack listing as follows:
1-2. Electrified! / 3. Sideman Blues / 4. The Best Ol' Fool / 5. Rollin'
and a-Tumblin' / 6. Red-Hot Kisses / 7. Aged and Mellow / 8. All Your
Love / 9. Stackalee / 10. Rose-Colored Glasses / 11. You Know My Love
/ 12. Tunnel of Love / 13. At The Dark End of the Street / 14. Rockin'
and a-Rollin' / 15. Santy Claus Is Goin' To Town. Released in 2000 by
AristoKraft Records,l distributed by Shel-Tone.
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DIDDY
WAH DIDDY CD (AKCD-7803)
Down through the ages, the forbidden mysteries of DIDDY WAH DIDDY have
enthralled and tormented mankind. But now . . . the veil of secrecy has
been shredded! Shel-Tone Records proudly announces its latest release,
DIDDY WAH DIDDY, on its AristoKraft subsidiary (AKCD-7803). This collection
features live recordings of the legendary Texas blues and swing band
that spanned the 1980s. Headed by the duo of Mike Price (Bruton & Price:
Swingmasters Revue) and Slim Richey (Jazz Pharohs), this quartet of musical
merry makers created a legend during its decade long tenure that exists
to this day in the Lone Star State. Selections includes two renditions
of their namesake tune as well as MINNIE THE MOOCHER (Cab Calloway),
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN, K.C. LOVING (Lieber & Stoller), AIN'T THAT FINE
(Ray Charles) and nine other blues tunes performed in the unique DIDDY
WAH DIDDY fashion. This is a release that no Texas blues fan can do without!
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CEMETERY
TOONS by
Michael Aitch
Price & His
Musical Miscreants
(AKCD-7804)
A rollicking rolling collection of fright-themed, "gallows humor" ditties
collected throughout the curious course of Price's career as a Bluesman-cum-Poverty
Row-movie maven. The 17 sinister tracks ravage the musical gamut from
Doo Wop to Hip Hop. Among the more memorable melodies is "Up Jurassic
Park," which was featured prominently on the nationally-syndicated "Dr.
Demento" radio show a few years back. Track listing as follows: 1. Tain't
No Sin (Dance Around In Yo' Bones) / 2. (Ooh I'm Scared Of The) Horrors
Of The Black Museum / 3. Up Jurassic Park / 4. Zombie Jamboree / 5. Song
Of The Moon / 6. X-Files Surfin' / 7. In The Midnight Hour-Haunted House
/ 8. Just Like George Romero's Blues, Approximately / 9. Leech Rap /
10. Lon Chaney's Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out / 11. Vampire /
12. Who's That Knocking? / 13. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place / 14. The
Mountaineer And The Jabberwock / 15. Danse Macabre (Skeletons At Midnight)
/ 16. Rockin Zombie-Strange Ears In The Night / 17. 'T A'in't A Fit Night
Out For Man Or Beast. Released in 2000 by AristoKraft Records,l distributed
by Shel-Tone.
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BRUTON & PRICE
SWINGMASTERS
REVUE
Vol.
2 (AKCD-7805)
Second boffo release by by Fort Worth, Texas' SWINGMASTERS! Led by world-class
guitarist Sumter Bruton (Juke Jumpers) and piano pumper/vocalist Michael
Price (Diddy Wah Diddy) . Joining them are bassist Ron Green, drummer
Larry Reynolds, additional vocalist / songwriter Kevin Coffey & violinist
Buddy Ray. From traditional electric blues to jazz to jump, this is one
release no true blues fan should be without! Track listing as follows:
1. Soft Winds (Goodman & Royal; ASCAP) / 2. I Wonder (Cecil Gant; BMI)
/ 3. Chillicothe Girls* (Kevin Coffey; Ray-Bruton-Price, ASCAP) / 4.
Medley: Last Hope Gone/I've Got a Mind To Give Up Livin' (Paul Butterfield;
BMI) / 5. Medley: Everything's Gonna Be All Right Tonight/Rockin' the
Pad/Rollin' the Boogie (O.K. Perry, John L. Chatham, Jos. Turner; BMI)
/ 6. Ooze on Up to Me* (Trad., Adap. Kevin Coffey; Ray-Bruton-Price,
ASCAP) / 7. Desert Sands / (Stuff Smith; ASCAP) / 8. Honey, Don't You
Cry No More (David Bromberg; ASCAP) / 9. Stuff's Blues (Blues for Janet)
/ (After Stuff Smith, Adap. R.J. Ray; Ray-Bruton-Price, ASCAP) / 10.
Operation Blues* (After Homer Clemons, Adap. Kevin Coffey; Ray-Bruton-Price,
ASCAP) / 10. Jimmy's Blues (Jas. Rushing, Buster Smith) . Produced & Arranged
by T. Sumter Bruton III & Michael H. Price AristoKraft label distributed
by Shel-Tone.
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| BILLY
BRIGGS & His X-I-T
Boys: Panhandle Shuffle |
From the liner notes by MICHAEL H. PRICE: Strange to consider
that we never used to listen to this stuff in my household,
even though my folks owned most of the records and I grew
up among the artists who made the music. Billy Briggs and
Jess Williams were pals of my father's from 'way back, and
Jess and his family lived right next door to my Grandmother
Lillian Ralston Wilson Lomen. She, in turn, was an accomplished
pattern-maker and seamstress who kept Billy Briggs & His
X-I-T Boys supplied with snazzy gimmick costumes for their
nightclub gigs around their home base of Amarillo, Texas.
Without the influence of Billy and Jess, who did their most striking work
during the 1946-into-1951 period represented here, the Texas Panhandle-Plains
region's own rock-and-roll and C&W scenes of the 1950s and '60s would have
been significantly less distinctive. Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Knox, Buddy Holly,
Charlie "Sugartime" Phillips, Ray Ruff, Roy Orbison and producer Norman
Petty-all have, at one time or another, acknowledged their admiration for
the Briggs-Williams combination, and especially for the insistent shuffle
rhythms and blues-influenced vocalizing that Billy and Jess brought to
the table.
BILLY, AS RESIDENT STEEL PLAYER, also harbored jazzman ambitions that show
through in his sophisticated chordings and horn-like punctuations. His
chief influence was Bob Dunn, of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies from Fort
Worth, but Billy introduced the innovation of a homemade nine-string steel
guitar, and he sang in a self-consciously declamatory style (typified by "You
Almost Killed My Soul" and the national-breakout hit, "Chew Tobacco
Rag") that might seem amateurish if not for its utter brash confidence
and prevailing air of indignation. The avant-garde saxophonist Ornette
Coleman, who briefly called Amarillo home during this period, has recalled
after-hours across-the-tracks jams with the X-I-T Boys: "That Briggs
cat was doing riffs on steel guitar that you just don't associate with
'country' music."
JESS WLLIAMS, of the heartbeat-steady rhythm guitar and plaintive whiskey-baritone
blues voice, held forth as co-leader of the X-I-T Boys even though Billy
took top billing. They composed most of their own material, assimilating
traditional and commercial influences but retaining an unusual lyrical
skew. Jess kept things going in Amarillo for years after Billy's (ultimately
frustrated) bid for greater recognition on the West Coast. The third lead
vocalist is Weldon Allard, who stayed in the music business well into the
1990s.
THE PRESENT COLLECTION, culled from wildly mismatched random sources with
the essential impurities of 78-r.p.m. surface noise and lost-generation
sub-dubs, makes no pretense at being a definitive representation of the
Briggs & Williams interests. It is merely an opening volley in what I can
only hope will become a more generalized process of rediscovery. A fuller
biographical treatment and sessionography are necessarily stories for another
day.
Twenty-Seven cuts in all, TRACK LISTING AS FOLLOWS: You Almost Killed My
Soul, Bluebonnet Waltz, XIT Song, Autograph Your Photograph, Got To Sleep
My Baby Boy, Coo Se Coo, Darlin' Waltz, Pretty Baby Boogie, Mardi Gras
In New Orleans, XIT Song (Reprise), Panhandle Shuffle, I'd Rather By Anything
Than What I Am, Yodeling Song, The Waltz You Didn't Save For Me, Waitress
Blues, Hankerchief Full Of Tears, Chew Tobacco Rag, Chew Tobacco Rag No.
2, Its A Crime, Midnight Dreams, Also Someone Else, I Love To Kiss, The
Old-Fashioned Waltz, I've Been Short-Changed, A Place In The Sunshine,
Coyote Shuffle And Amarillo Rose.
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| BILLY BRIGGS & His X-I-T
Boys: BODACIOUS BACKWATER BOOGIE |
From the liner notes by MICHAEL H. PRICE: BILLY BRIGGS and
Jess Williams were artists quite ahead of their time and
their culture in a community ill-prepared to deal respectfully
with their artistry. THAT MUCH WILL be self-evident, even
through the cracked mirror of these found-object recordings,
when one considers the repressive provincialism of the Texas
Panhandle region that allowed Billy and Jess to flourish,
within limits, as entertainers while denying them any piece
of the "oil, cattle and wealth" of which Billy
sings in the bravura anthem "Full-Blooded Texan".
When finally Billy Briggs & His X-I-T Boys broke through
on a national scale with "Chew Tobacco Rag" during the early
1950s, the hometown newspapers responded with, essentially,
a condescending "local boy makes good" tone-as
if surprised that anybody from Amarillo, Texas, might have
any business "making good" outside the jurisdiction of the
Chamber of Commerce.
'TWAS EVER THUS. BILLY AT LENGTH got his heart broken by the music business,
but it wasn't for want of trying-and trying diligently, far outside the
sheltering confines of Amarillo. Billy finally gave up in disgust, but
not before he had delivered some of the quirkiest and most progressive
proto-rock country-blues selections ever committed to the groove. Jess
held the fort in Amarillo for years after Billy's departure, becoming a
popular local-television host and keeping the X-I-T Boys united under various
successive identities on into the 1970s. When coaxed briefly out of retirement
in 1979 for a weekend show at Amarillo's Texas Moon Palace, Jess dominated
the proceedings through sheer generosity of spirit and musicianship, holding
in a thrall of awe us Young Turks who accompanied him on stage. -MICHAEL
H. PRICE in Fort Worth; 2001.
The source-recordings here, as on the previous Briggs collection Panhandle
Shuffle-and-Jive, are of dreadfully piebald origins and should not be construed
as any sort of Big Deal Last Word on the work of BILLY BRIGGS, JESS WILLIAMS
and their colleagues.
Twenty-Seven cuts in all, TRACK LISTING AS FOLLOWS: Freckle-Face Snaggle-Tooth
Girl, Dip Snuff Stomp, Big Little Darlin', I'm Not Gonna Lock The Door,
I'm Tired Of Taking Chances, Midnight In Old Amarillo, I'm Gonna Get Me
A Bottle, The Sissy Song, Alarm Clock Boogie, Third-Time Charm, I'm Hanging
My Tears Out To Dry, Also Someone Else, I Like Candy, Honky-Tonk Baby,
North Pole Boogie, *North Pole Boogie (Remake), On A Country Road, Full-Blooded
Texan, The Battery To My Heart, The Grandest Thing On Earth, Texico New
Mexico Joe, Tell Your Ma And Pa, On Top Of Pike's Peak, Send Me Some Love,
Coffee-Sippin' Blues, When? And I'll Bet You Never Cared.Exclusive radio-station
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| BIG BILL LISTER: THE 1983
SESSIONS |
COMPLETE OUTTAKES & STUDIO CONVERSATION
Assembled by co-producer of the original sessions, Michael
H. Price, this CD assembles some of the best work he
retrieved from the cutting room floor and NOT on Lister's
1983 album, "SHO' NUFF COUNTRY STUFF -- THE SECOND
TIME AROUND" (Tex-Grass Records LP TG-106). Despite the fact that
the original album received minimal distribution, it attracted an international
following with folks as far away as Japan and Germany tracking down MH
Price to find out whether or not more of this good ol' country stuff was
forthcoming. 18 years later, here it is, thanks to modern DIY computer
technology! The original sessions were recorded in co-producer Lee Thomas'
living room in Lakeside Village, Texas in 1983. Everything went down "live" with
no overdubbing and few retakes. Backing on most tracks is by legendary
Texas county/bluegrass giants, SALT LICK. 27 tracks plus 8 additional of
studio chatter/interviews with Big Bill. TRACK LISTING AS FOLLOWS: Foolish
Questions, Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me, Brakeman's Blues, Hello
Sunshine, Happy Lonesome, Now That She Is Gone, The Farther I Go, Second
Chance With You, This Thing Called Love, I'll Be Around, Soul-Mates Together,
The Drifter, Without Any Heart, Local Yokel, Drifting Apart, No More Runnin'
Around, You're Missing, Someone You Used To Know, Just For You, Dark Clouds,
If That's All Right With You, Ol' Hank (False Start), Ol' Hank, Rough & Rowdy,
Starvin' For Your Love, Spice Of Life, And Haunted Hungry Heart. Exclusive
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| PULP RADIO - Vol. 1 |
Lee Tracy Stars in 2 1950 shows
LEE TRACY stars in STORM PASSAGE and FOLLOW THAT MAN. Gruff-voiced
LEE TRACY found his most famous role - that of fast-talking
crackerjack reporter Hildy Johnson - in the 1930 Broadway
presentation of Ben Hecht & Charles
MacArthur's The Front Page. He often portrayed variations on Hildy in the
movies and on radio (including an actual remade-for-broadcast of The Front
Page in 1940), with scarcely a trace of burnout over the long haul.
By the time of these 1950 U.S. Government broadcasts, Tracy had long since
compromised his own stardom with a rambunctious public image; his escapades
had alienated the old-line major studio MGM as early as 1933. But even
in a drawn-out decline, Tracy remained a dependable crowd-pleaser and a
generous entertainer.
Tracy's radio work of the postwar years ranged from the hard-bitten high
adventure of Storm Passage to the hard-boiled private-eye lampoonery of
Follow That Man which looks in retrospect like nothing so much as an ancestor
of the TV-into-movies Naked Gun series of times more recent. Exclusive
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| PULP RADIO - Vol. 2 |
Lee Tracy Stars in 2 1950 shows
LEE TRACY stars in CONCERTO and JOHNNY APPLESEED. Gruff-voiced
LEE TRACY found his most famous role - that of fast-talking
crackerjack reporter Hildy Johnson - in the 1930 Broadway
presentation of Ben Hecht & Charles
MacArthur's The Front Page. He often portrayed variations on Hildy in the
movies and on radio (including an actual remade-for-broadcast of The Front
Page in 1940), with scarcely a trace of burnout over the long haul.
By the time of these 1950 U.S. Government broadcasts, Tracy had long since
compromised his own stardom with a rambunctious public image; his escapades
had alienated the old-line major studio MGM as early as 1933. But even
in a drawn-out decline, Tracy remained a dependable crowd-pleaser and a
generous entertainer.
CONCERTO is a desperate criminal-at-large yarn, involving a fugitive, a
beautiful concert pianist, and an even more desperate fugitive. JOHNNY
APPLESEED is the Early American folk tale, told a great deal more grimly
than the famous Disney version. Both programs date from the 1950 run of
the U.S. government-sponsored PROUDLY WE HAIL radio series, featuring Broadway
and Hollywood star Lee Tracy and featuring the orchestra of Lud Gluskin.
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| SPIKE JONES-RARE RADIO
APPEARANCES ON CD |
Archival CD - rarer by far than the mass-market
editions of Spike Jones's radio shows - captures the great
comedian/bandleader in his truer element, the concert stage
and the broadcasting studio, in 40+ tracks from 1943-50.
Recovered from 16-inch Radio Transcription Platters, the
CD contains 17 "live" novelty tunes (heavy on Jones'
trademark sound FX), plus two entire unexpurgated 15 minute
concerts (with chapter stops) featuring abundant music by
Jones' City Slickers and banter between Spike and host Don
Wilson - just as originally broadcast on the U.S. Navy's "Land's
Best Bands" series. Digital restoration, filtered to
minimize original disks' surface noise; two split-second
groove skips proved uncorrectable in master platters. In
addition to the Slickers' unique arrangement of "Anchors
Aweigh" the collection includes:
- PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE [Featuring the
Nilssen Twins]
- G.I. HAIRCUT [Featuring Del
Porter]
- IT NEVER RAINS IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA
[Featuring Carl Grayson & Red
Ingle]
- WANG WANG BLUES [Featuring
Del Porter]
- MY LITTLE GIRL [Featuring
Beauregard Lee]
- THE SOUND EFFECTS MAN [Featuring
Del Porter]
- RAGTIME COWBOY JOE [Featuring
the Nilssen Twins, Del Porter & Beauregard
Lee]
- THE VAMP [Featuring Del Porter]
- HE BROKE MY HEART IN THREE
PLACES [Featuring the Nilssen
Twins]
- BESAME MUCHO [Featuring Carl
Grayson & Red Ingle]
- I'M GOIN' BACK TO WHERE I
COME FROM [Featuring Del Porter]
- THE TROLLEY SONG [Featuring
the Nilssen Twins]
- RED WING [Featuring Del Porter]
THERE'S A FLY ON MY MUSIC [Featuring
Del Porter]
- ROW, ROW, ROW [Featuring
Del Porter & George Rock]
- I WANT A GIRL JUST LIKE
THE GIRL THAT MARRIED DEAR
OLD DAD [Featuring Beauregard
Lee]
- JINGLE BELLS
- INTRODUCTION
- MY GAL SAL
- PSA
- PSA
- MOLASSES
- DANCE OF THE HOURS
- DANCE OF THE HOURS
- PSA
- PSA
- YACKA HULA HICKEY DULA
- YACKA HULA HICKEY DULA
- OUTRODUCTION
- REINTRODUCTION
- REINTRODUCTION
- CHARLEY, MY BOY!
- PSA
- PSA
- SHORT'NIN' BREAD
- SHORT'NIN' BREAD
- SPIKE JONES CONVERSATES
WITH DON WILSON
- BALLET FOR BOSUN'S MATE
- BALLET FOR BOSUN'S MATE
- PSA
- FIVE FOOT-TWO, EYES OF BLUE
(HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL?)
- FIVE FOOT-TWO, EYES OF BLUE
(HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL?)
- EXTRODUCTION.
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