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Pee Wee Crayton: Texas Blues Jumpin' In Los Angeles

(2014/Ace) 28 tracks.
Modern music sessions 1948-51.

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Interpret: Pee Wee Crayton
Album titlle: Texas Blues Jumpin' In Los Angeles
Genre Blues
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667059725
weight in Kg 0.1

Crayton, Pee Wee - Texas Blues Jumpin' In Los Angeles CD 1
01	Blues after hours	Pee Wee Crayton
02	I'm still in love with you	Pee Wee Crayton
03	Texas hop	Pee Wee Crayton
04	When darkness falls	Pee Wee Crayton
05	Central avenue blues	Pee Wee Crayton
06	Austin boogie	Pee Wee Crayton
07	I love you so	Pee Wee Crayton
08	Long after hours	Pee Wee Crayton
09	Brand new woman	Pee Wee Crayton
10	T for texas (mistreated blues)	Pee Wee Crayton
11	Blues for my baby	Pee Wee Crayton
12	Blues for my baby	Pee Wee Crayton
13	Tired of travelin'	Pee Wee Crayton
14	When a man has the blues	Pee Wee Crayton
15	The bop hop	Pee Wee Crayton
16	My everything	Pee Wee Crayton
17	Rockin' the blues	Pee Wee Crayton
18	Old fashioned baby	Pee Wee Crayton
19	Some rainy day	Pee Wee Crayton
20	Huckle boogie	Pee Wee Crayton
21	Change your way of lovin'	Pee Wee Crayton
22	Answer to blues after hours	Pee Wee Crayton
23	Crayton special	Pee Wee Crayton
24	California women	Pee Wee Crayton
25	Good little woman	Pee Wee Crayton
26	Thinking of you	Pee Wee Crayton
27	Poppa stoppa	Pee Wee Crayton
28	Tired of travelin'	Pee Wee Crayton

Pee Wee Crayton Taking T-Bone Walker's basic approach and cranking it up a notch or two... more

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"Pee Wee Crayton"

Pee Wee Crayton

Taking T-Bone Walker's basic approach and cranking it up a notch or two hotter, Pee Wee Crayton scored one of the first huge electric blues instrumental smashes in 1948 with his deliberate Blues After Hours, a kissin' cousin to Erskine Hawkins' '46 sensation After Hours. Crayton was a fine singer—a good portion of his catalog for Los Angeles-based Modern Records was vocal—but two of his three big hits were instrumentals.

Born Connie Curtis Crayton on December 18, 1914 in Liberty Hill, Texas, Crayton was raised in Austin. His nickname was laid on him at birth. "Years and years ago, they used to have suppers on Saturday nights in the country," said the late guitarist. "Well, my dad used to go to a lot of them, and there was a piano player that was named Pee Wee. He said his next kid, he was gonna nickname him Pee Wee. So I was him!" Crayton moved to L.A. in 1935, then Oakland in '41 to work in the Navy yards. He didn't get started playing guitar until he was in his early 30s, dazzled by two early electric axemen.

"T-Bone was a very good friend of mine," he said. "I loved to hear him play during his lifetime. Charlie Christian, he was a terrific guitar player. But the other guys,

I didn't bother with 'em too much. Those were the ones that I liked." After some chord tutelage from guitarist John Collins, Pee Wee began gigging around Oakland, starring at Slim Jenkins' club for a year. His 1947 debut 78 for 4 Star was entitled After Hours Boogie; when he got to Modern the next year, he recut the tune downbeat as Blues After Hours and paced the R&B hit parade for three weeks.

"That was my theme song," he said. "The tune came in mind, and I started playing it. It was just a theme song when I was either going off or coming on the stage. So he asked me, he said, 'I like that! Play it all the way through.' I said, 'I don't know where I'll play on it.' So I played it all the way through, and when it come out, it was 'Blues After Hours.' So he just named it 'Blues After Hours.'"

Not only did Modern boss Jules Bihari name it, he listed himself as co-author. "He's Taub," said Crayton. "He didn't know anything about no music. He didn't know 'Blues After Hours.' But I didn't know at the time, because I didn't have it copyrighted. But he copyrighted it, and he put his name on it too. So what could I do?"

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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