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Billy Lee Riley hat nichts von seinem Charisma und seiner Stimme eingebüßt. Treibender Backbeat,... more

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Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops: Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops - Still Got My Mojo! (CD)

Billy Lee Riley hat nichts von seinem Charisma und seiner Stimme eingebüßt. Treibender Backbeat, schneidende Gitarren, Standbass und Bluesharp, beigesteuert von den BELLHOPS und Billy's rauhe Stimme ergeben ein perfektes Rock & Roll Album. Sofort bestellen, die Nachbarn warnen und Bier aufmachen!sk - HIS LAST RECORDINGS -

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Interpret: Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
Album titlle: Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops - Still Got My Mojo! (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Price code AH
Year of publication 2008
Label Rhythm Bomb Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4260072720961
weight in Kg 0.1

Riley, Billy Lee - Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops - Still Got My Mojo! (CD) CD 1
01	Havin' A Whole Lot Of Fun	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
02	Worried 'Bout You Baby	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
03	No Naggin', No Draggin'	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
04	Crazy Me	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
05	Mojo Man	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
06	Ballin' The Jack	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
07	Have Mercy Miss Percy	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
08	Don't Start Crying Now	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
09	Rooster Blues	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
10	Kiss Me Baby	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
11	I Hear You Knockin'	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
12	Loud Mouth Lucy	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
13	Song, Wine And Women	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops
14	Not Meant To Be	Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops

Billy Lee Riley K ay attracted an answer disc, Wendy Dawn's John, in which Kay hears the... more

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"Billy Lee Riley with the Bellhops"

Billy Lee Riley

Kay attracted an answer disc, Wendy Dawn's John, in which Kay hears the record and comes home to live happily ever after. Instead, here’s Kay in Memphis. In Billy Riley's former lives, he'd been a radio hillbilly singer in Arkansas, a rockabilly singer on the original Sun label (in fact, just possibly the best rockabilly singer on any label), a blues man (his Lightnin' Leon single fooled the compilers of the original Blues Records discography), and a club-a-go-go singer. He'd been an artist, backing musician, label owner, and producer. Some of his tracks had appeared on a Bo Diddley album, and he'd recorded under more pseudonyms and for more labels than anyone besides John Lee Hooker. In 1967, an album he recorded for his own Mojo label was acquired by Stax Records in Memphis. Riley was in Atlanta at the time but decided that Memphis was happening again.

Stan Kesler, known to Riley from his first go-round in Memphis, was running the Sounds of Memphis studio and that's where Riley recorded Kay with a sharp-tip funk groove. He resituated the song in Memphis aka Soul City USA, so the line about Ft. Campbell (the military base north of Nashville where Jimi Hendrix served), was gone. The gulf between Memphis and Nashville was never more evident. Riley's rhythm track was created by Kesler's in-house group: guitarist Charlie Freeman, bassist Tommy McClure, drummer Sammy Creason, and Jim Dickinson on keyboards. The wah-wah guitarist could be Riley himself. All the musicians were white, but this was funk from the ground up.

On the label, Kay was credited to Riley’s Libra Productions. Riley played Kay for Sam Phillips, who said it was Riley's finest record. "Sam suggested I play it for Shelby Singleton who had just bought all the old Sun masters and had formed the Sun International label," Riley said later. "I did all the arranging and I had part of the Memphis Symphony, the Memphis Horns. I had the cream of the crop on that one. Shelby bought the record and gave me a job as producer and moved me to Fort Walton Beach, Florida to produce in his studio there." Singleton licensed it on June 17, 1969, a couple of weeks before he officially bought Sun from Phillips. Soon after Riley left for Florida, Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records whisked Kesler's studio group away to Criteria Studios in Miami, and Kesler himself left for Nashville. Once again, everybody was leaving town. Riley grew disillusioned, but lived to enjoy late acclaim for his early records. He died on August 2, 2009. COLIN ESCOTT

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