Joe Turner Big Joe Is Here (LP, 180g colored Vinyl, Ltd.)

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Joe Turner: Big Joe Is Here (LP, 180g colored Vinyl, Ltd.)

(Music On Vinyl) 12 tracks, 180g colored vinyl in silver, numbered limited edition of 750 copies.

Joe Turner was an American blues singer known by his nickname "Big Joe Turner" (because of his corpulent stature), but also known by several other nicknames, such as "Boss of the Blues". However, his greatest fame came during his rock and roll phase in the 1950s. During this period, he released his album "Big Joe Is Here", an album that represents Turner's post-R&B era. The album focuses on the jazzy blues side of Turner's career, closer to Kansas City jazz and traditional pop than his breakthrough R&B hits.

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Interpret: Joe Turner
Album titlle: Big Joe Is Here (LP, 180g colored Vinyl, Ltd.)
Label MUSIC ON VINYL
Genre R&B, Soul
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 8719262024328
weight in Kg 0.3

Turner, Joe - Big Joe Is Here (LP, 180g colored Vinyl, Ltd.) LP 1
01	Wee Baby Blues	Joe Turner
02	Rock A While	Joe Turner
03	Baby I Still Want You	Joe Turner
04	The Chill Is On	Joe Turner
05	Poor Lover’s Blues	Joe Turner
06	Don’t You Cry	Joe Turner
07	Ti-Ri-Lee	Joe Turner
08	Married Woman	Joe Turner
09	Midnight Cannonball	Joe Turner
10	I’ll Never Stop Loving You	Joe Turner
11	After My Laughter Came Tears	Joe Turner
12	Bump Miss Susie	Joe Turner

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"Joe Turner"

Joe Turner and His Blues Kings

T.V. Mama

(Lou Willie Turner)

Atlantic 1016

Leather-lunged blues shouter Big Joe Turner commenced a full-frontal career renaissance upon signing with Atlantic in 1951. Turner got in the habit of recording on the road, and on October 7, 1953, he happened to be in Chicago cutting the ribald TV Mama with none other than Elmore James on pungent slide guitar. The ad hoc Blues Kings also incorporated pianist Johnny Jones, bassist Jimmy Richardson, drummer Red Saunders, and three horns. Joe composed the #6 R&B hit but copyrighted it under his wife's name.

The school of Kansas City-style blues shouting begins with Big Joe. He was born there on May 18, 1911, his huge physique enabling him to slip into local gin joints in his teens to belt a hearty blues (his pipes were so powerful that a microphone was unnecessary). Turner formed a musical partnership with pianist Pete Johnson (Joe sometimes doubled as a bouncer or bartender at the same clubs), their fame spread, and in 1936 John Hammond caught their act at the Sunset, one of K.C.'s swingingest joints. He invited the pair to co-star at his fabled 'Spirituals To Swing' concert at Carnegie Hall in December of '38, leading to their first sides for Vocalion the next year and a long-term gig (and with fellow 88s pounders Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, the start of the boogie-woogie craze) at Barney Josephson's Café Society in Greenwich Village.

Though he made fine postwar sides for National (My Gal's A Jockey was a '46 hit), Freedom (ditto Still In The Dark in '50), and a host of other firms big and small, Big Joe had fallen out of commercial favor and was working as Count Basie's vocalist when Ahmet Ertegun rescued him by dangling an Atlantic pact in 1951. Turner hit right out of the box with Ertegun's Chains Of Love, then The Chill Is On and Sweet Sixteen. He was in New Orleans when he cut his jumping '53 smash Honey Hush; next up was his jaunt to Chicago, supervised by Ahmet and Jerry Wexler.

Yet when Turner made his unlikely transformation into a pioneering rock 'n' roller with the epochal Shake, Rattle And Roll in 1954 and its follow-ups Flip, Flop And Fly and Corrine, Corrina , he was back recording at Atlantic's New York headquarters. In his 40s, Big Joe memorably appeared in one of the first quickie rock 'n' roll flicks, 'Shake, Rattle & Rock!,' and he kept on roaring to the end of the decade on Atlantic. The ensuing decades only vaguely diminished his rafter-rattling pipes. He died November 24, 1985 in L.A.

- Bill Dahl -
Chicago, Illinois

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