Jimmy McCracklin Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)

(2)

Listen to sample now:

0:00

$19.18 *

* incl. VAT / plus shipping costsDepending on the country of delivery, the VAT at checkout may vary.

Ready to ship today,
delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

catalog number: BCD17552
weight in Kg 0.115
PDF (deutsch) Download
PDF (english) Download

P Secure bonuspoints now

1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 minutes.... more

Close menu

Jimmy McCracklin: Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 minutes.

Bear Family Records® adds powerhouse pianist and vocalist Jimmy McCracklin to its 'Rocks' series.
For more than 50 years, the Bay Area pianist often recorded excellent blues and soul.
Bill Dahl focused on McCracklin's most rocking tracks for this jam-packed CD, telling the McCracklin story in the extensive booklet.
Carefully remastered from the best possible sources.

During more than half a century as a prolific and uncommonly versatile recording artist, Jimmy McCracklin made a lot of great blues and soul records. He also did more than his share of rocking. That’s the side of the Bay Area piano pounder’s massive discography that this jam-packed compilation concentrates on, McCracklin tears through his 1958 smash The Walk and plenty more, showing himself to be a highly distinctive artist with a penchant for potential dance crazes, driving rhythms, and intriguing lyrics that often told vivid slice-of-life tales of the gin joints he played at.

Jimmy‘s mighty combo, The Blues Blasters, was anchored first by guitarist Robert Kelton and then blistering fretsman Lafayette Thomas, whose slashing licks perfectly counterpointed tough horn sections and McCracklin’s own boogie-fired 88s. Rockin’ All Day, The Wobble, Let’s Do It (The Chicken Scratch), Georgia Slop—this collection is a non-stop rock and roll party!

Video von Jimmy McCracklin - Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)

Article properties: Jimmy McCracklin: Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)

Interpret: Jimmy McCracklin
Album titlle: Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102175527
weight in Kg 0.115

McCracklin, Jimmy - Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01	Gonna Tell Your Mother	Jimmy McCracklin
02	The Walk	Jimmy McCracklin
03	Take Care Of Yourself	Jimmy McCracklin
04	Rockin' All Day aka Reelin' And Rockin'	Jimmy McCracklin
05	I Know	Jimmy McCracklin
06	The Wobble	Jimmy McCracklin
07	He Knows The Rule	Jimmy McCracklin
08	Give My Heart A Break	Jimmy McCracklin
09	Everybody Rocks (New Orleans Beat)	Jimmy McCracklin
10	Gotta Cut Out	Jimmy McCracklin
11	Let's Do It (Chicken Scratch)	Jimmy McCracklin
12	Susie And Pat	Jimmy McCracklin
13	That's The Way (ItGoes)	Jimmy McCracklin
14	Get Tough	Jimmy McCracklin
15	Looking For A Woman	Jimmy McCracklin
16	What's Your Phone Number	Jimmy McCracklin
17	Come On	Jimmy McCracklin
18	Georgia Slop	Jimmy McCracklin
19	One Track Love	Jimmy McCracklin
20	I'm To Blame	Jimmy McCracklin
21	Steppin' Up In Class	Jimmy McCracklin
22	Country Baby	Jimmy McCracklin
23	Savoy's Jump	Jimmy McCracklin
24	Just Won't Let Her Go	Jimmy McCracklin
25	Trottin'	Jimmy McCracklin
26	Get Back	Jimmy McCracklin
27	Think	Jimmy McCracklin
28	Just Got To Know	Jimmy McCracklin
29	I Wanna Make Love To You	Jimmy McCracklin
30	I'm Through	Jimmy McCracklin

Jimmy McCracklin Jimmy McCracklin and His Blues Blasters Unlike a lot of his... more

Close menu

"Jimmy McCracklin"

Jimmy McCracklin

Jimmy McCracklin and His Blues Blasters

Unlike a lot of his blues-singing contemporaries, piano-pounding Jimmy McCracklin managed to roll with the punches when it came to musical trends and stayed modern when so many others fell by the wayside. He's cited both Helena, Arkansas and St. Louis as a birthplace, and for years swore he was a decade younger than his August 13, 1921 birthdate. There's no doubt about the massiveness of McCracklin's catalog: He's recorded for a daunting array of labels.

Pre-war pianist Walter Davis was one of his heroes growing up. "I was in St. Louis, Missouri, and I used to listen to Walter Davis. He was a good friend of my father's. I loved to see that guy sing," he says. "That's where I got started messin' with the blues, listening to him." Boxing was Jimmy's passion prior to an auto wreck. "I hurt my shoulder, got kind of knocked around, got cut around the eyes. So the doctor just advised me to get into something else," he says. When he got out of the Navy after World War II in California, McCracklin began recording in 1945 for tiny local labels, later barely acknowledging these sides' existence.

"I didn't even know how to regular sing," McCracklin says. "I was just trying to get into the business."

Living in the Bay Area, McCracklin grew sufficiently confident on piano to front his own Blues Blasters with Kansas-born guitarist Robert Kelton and drummer Little Red. He started cutting for Oakland producer Bob Geddins in 1947. "I just had got out of the service, and I was trying to sing. So I happened to meet Bob," said Jimmy. By 1949, McCracklin and his Blues Blasters were on Modern in L.A. The scorching Rockin' All Day was cut October 10 of that year with Kelton and young guitarist Lafayette Thomas dueling it out (saxist Earl Brown and Little Red round out the cast). Over the years, it's become known as Reelin' And Rockin' Twist after being mistitled as such on Crown's 'Twist With Jimmy McCracklin' LP. Jimmy shared writers' credit with Modern boss Jules Bihari (as Jules Taub).

A raft of subsequent sides on Modern, Swing Time, Peacock, and Premium predated McCracklin's breakthrough '58 dance hit The Walk for Checker, which he produced himself. "I walked around Chicago for a couple of weeks with 'The Walk' in my arms, trying to get some of them companies to accept it," says Jimmy. "All them people turned me down. So I went to Chess. He said, 'Well, come back. I'll listen to it tomorrow.' I go back tomorrow, it took about three or four days before he'd even accept listening to it. When I left it, then I had to leave town a day or so after. A couple of days later, I heard it on the radio." Jimmy's Just Got To Know was a '61 smash on his own Art-Tone logo. He scored big again in '65 with Think for Imperial, remaining musically active right into the new millennium and then some.

"You write a song according to your life. I've lived all these things," says Jimmy. "If you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you'll never know how to write a song, because you've never had no problems. But when you come up and you've had problems and stuff like that, it makes you write good songs."

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

PLUG IT IN! TURN IT UP!

Electric Blues 1939-2005. - The Definitive Collection!

Read, write and discuss reviews... more

Close menu

Customer evaluation for "Jimmy McCracklin - Rocks (CD)"

From: Jonas On: 1 Aug 2022

Hats off to Bear Family Records!

With a career spanning a full seven decades, it may be difficult to sum up Jimmy McCracklin's entire songbook on a collection of thirty tracks, but as usual, Bear Family Records has done so with brilliant results. Jimmy McCracklin is reputed to have said that nobody else sounds like me because I can only sound like myself. As true as that was said. The album starts strong with "Gonna Tell Your Mother" and just keeps going with one classic after another. "The Wobble", "The Walk" and perhaps the best in my opinion, "Georgia Slop" swings ferociously. A slightly messier recording of "Susie & Pat" from 1961 is much appreciated. A new fa-
vorit is "Get Tough" with awesome horns in the competency. The early 60's recordings that I haven't heard much of before surprise with a senseless swing. August 2021 would have been Jimmy McCracklin's 100th birthday, so this collection can truly be seen as a tribute to him and his music. Bear Family albums always feel lavish and this is no exception. Very nice packaging and a world class booklet. A very good album that brings out the best and the slightly more obscure from a long life's work. Hats off to Bear Family Records.