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nedjelja, 23.02.2014.

Little Willie Littlefield - Paris Streetlights

Styles: Boogie-Woogie, Jump Blues, Piano Blues, West Coast Blues
Label: Auvidis/EPM
Released: 1992
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 101,0 MB
Time: 44:06
Art: front + back

1. Paris Streetlights - 3:01
2. I Got The Blues Over You - 4:47
3. Cours De Vincennes - 6:14
4. Sometimes - 4:17
5. Messin' Arround Town - 3:37
6. Dirty - 6:25
7. My Baby's Back in Town (And I Won't Be Lonely Now) - 3:37
8. Paris - 4:35
9. Little Willie's Boogie - 3:30
10. So Long - 3:59

Little Willie Littlefield Paris Streetlights (1980 French only 10-track LP recoded in Saint-Nom-La-Breteche on May 14th that year, glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just the lightest shelfwear & the vinyl is immaculate - a great copy PLB228508)


Notes: Littlefield was born in El Campo, Texas, and grew up in Houston with his mother. By 1947, at the age of sixteen, Littlefield was already a local attraction on many of Houston's Dowling Street clubs and was recording for local record shop proprietor Eddie Henry who ran his own label, "Eddie's". He formed his first band with saxophonist Don Wilkerson, a school friend.
Littlefield was strongly influenced by boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons. A particular favourite of his was Ammons' Swanee River Boogie, which he later recorded for Eddie's Records. Other major influences on Littlefield's style were Texas musicians Charles Brown and Amos Milburn Littlefield learned most of their "chops" and soon developed his own distinctive "triplet style", which, by the early 1950s, was widely copied in the R&B field, particularly by Fats Domino who incorporated it into his successful New Orleans rhythms.
His first recording, "Little Willie’s Boogie" was a hit in Texas in 1949, and brought him to the attention of Jules Bihari, one of the Bihari brothers of Modern Records in Los Angeles, California, who were searching for a performer to rival the success of Amos Milburn. Bihari flew to Houston in July 1949 to investigate the city's black entertainment venues and heard of a "teenage wonder boy pianist" who was causing a stir at the Eldorado Ballroom. Bihari went to hear Littlefield and soon arranged for an audition at a local studio. The session was captured on acetate disc, with Bihari, clearly audible in the background, calling for Littlefield to play the popular R&B tunes of the day. More


Paris Streetlights



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petak, 08.11.2013.

Little Willie Littlefield - Yellow Boogie & Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:02
Size: 148.9 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Jump blues, Boogie woogie
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. Everyday I Have The Blues
[3:44] 2. New Orleans Blues
[3:33] 3. Goodmorning Judge
[3:25] 4. The Last Date
[2:07] 5. Do You Want To Boogie
[4:20] 6. Georgia On My Mind
[2:18] 7. Rancho Grande
[3:26] 8. Lowdown Shame
[5:00] 9. Me And My Bobby McGee
[2:51] 10. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[5:20] 11. Stormy Monday Blues
[2:34] 12. Rocking Chair Boogie
[4:58] 13. Chief And Job Blues
[2:22] 14. Rockin' The Blues
[3:12] 15. Gonna Tell My Mama
[3:59] 16. Lucky Old Sun
[2:22] 17. Trembling
[3:59] 18. Wampie Blues
[2:35] 19. Those Kansas City Nights


Before he was 21 years old, Texas-born pianist Little Willie Littlefield had etched an all-time classic into the blues lexicon. Only trouble was, his original 1952 waxing of "Kansas City" (titled "K.C. Loving") didn't sell sufficiently to show up on the charts (thus leaving the door open for Wilbert Harrison to invade the airwaves with the ubiquitous Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition seven years later).

Influenced by Albert Ammons, Charles Brown, and Amos Milburn, Little Willie was already a veteran of the R&B recording wars by the time he waxed "K.C. Loving," having made his debut 78 in 1948 for Houston-based Eddie's Records while still in his teens. After a few sides for Eddie's and Freedom, he moved over to the Bihari brothers' Los Angeles-headquartered Modern logo in 1949. There he immediately hit paydirt with two major R&B hits, "It's Midnight" and "Farewell" (he added another chart entry, "I've Been Lost," in 1951).

Littlefield proved a sensation upon moving to L.A. during his Modern tenure, playing at area clubs and touring with a band that included saxist Maxwell Davis. At Littlefield's first L.A. session for King's Federal subsidiary in 1952, he cut "K.C. Loving" (with Davis on sax), but neither it nor several fine Federal follow-ups returned the boogie piano specialist to the charts.

Other than a few 1957-58 singles for Oakland's's Rhythm logo, little was heard from Little Willie Littlefield until the late '70s, when he began to mount a comeback at various festivals and on the European circuit. While overseas, he met a Dutch woman, married her, and settled in the Netherlands, where he remains active musically. ~ Bill Dahl

Yellow Boogie & Blues

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Oznake: Little Willie Littlefield, Piano Blues
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