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Singer-pianist Edwin Joseph Bocage, known to fans and those in the New Orleans music industry simply as Eddie Bo, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 79.
Bocage's death was confirmed Friday by his close friend and booking agent, Karen Hamilton.
Hamilton said Bocage had a "sudden, massive heart attack" while out of town Wednesday.
It's a Shingaling Thing returns! Saturday March 21st witnesses the start of Spring and the return of this most delectable of club nights when resident DJs Will Bourton, Mark Ellis, Jo Sadler and French Fred will be joined by guests Ben Olins (Stag ‘O’ Lee Appreciation Society) and Richard Karstrom (Sweden) The downstairs is offering up smoking platters of Dancefloor Jazz, sizzling Latin Boogaloo and deep-fried side orders of cooking R’n’B with a dressing of red hot Jamaican Ska, A heady, steaming gumbo of Girl Group, Twist, Frat, Instrumental and Beat will also be available in The Watusi Room, upstairs. The evening’s entertainment also includes a live Latin dance performance by those sisters of sass, The Actionettes.
The venue for this night of merriment, the hip and happening hostelry The Apple Tree in Mount Pleasant, festivities starting at 8 and finishing late. £3 door tax and you’re in...
How to find it: Apple Tree Pub, 45, Mount Pleasant, WC1
Chancery
Lane: Walk up Gray's Inn Road. After the main junction with Theobalds
Road/Clerkenwell Road, take the second right, Elm Street and follow it
along (as it becomes Mount Pleasant) until you find the pub.
Farringdon: Turn right out of the station, then, at the main junction ahead turn right along Farringdon Road. At the crossroads with traffic lights, turn left down Clerkenwell Road, until you reach Laystall Street. Turn right along that road until you reach Mount Pleasant at the end, then turn right and keep ahead until you reach the pub on your right
Swedish rockabilly and r'n'b trio The Domestic Bumblebees will soon release their 3rd album, Crying For More. On the day of the release, there is a big party in Stockholm Sweden.
Made for Chess Records between 1950 and 1967, the 126 recordings on the five CDs here present an amazing recorded portrait by Little Walter. Starting with a Walter lead recorded with Muddy Waters in 1950, this set contains all of his solo masters for the label, featuring all of the hits and 9 previously unreleased recordings including a pair of songs recorded with Bo Diddley, “Feel So Bad” and “Make It Alright”. The majority of these recordings have not been available anywhere for well over a decade.
There are also complete track by track credits, numerous period photos, and extensive liner notes by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines, the authors of the definitive Little Walter biography, “Blues With A Feeling/The Little Walter Story.”
- 126 Killer Blues Tracks On 5 CDs
- 9 Previously Unreleased Recordings Including A Pair with Bo Diddley
- Includes #1 R&B hits “Juke” and “My Babe” and 12 other Top 10 R&B Hits
- Track By Track Credits
- Extensive Liner Notes by Little Walter biographers Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines
Read more about Little Walter - The complete Chess masters here
Disc 1
1. Evans Shuffle
2. Juke
3. Juke (alternate)
4. Cant Hold Out Much Longer
5. Cant Hold Out Much Longer (alternate)
6. Blue Midnight (alternate)
7. Blue Midnight
8. Boogie
9. Mean Old World
10. Sad Hours
11. Fast Boogie
12. Fast Boogie (alternate take 1) *
13. Fast Boogie (alternate take 2) *
14. Fast Boogie (alternate take 3)
15. Dont Need No Horse
16. Driftin
17. Driftin (alternate take)*
18. Dont Have To Hunt No More
19. Crazy Legs
20. Tonight With A Fool
21. Off The Wall (alternate)
22. Off The Wall
23. Tell Me Mama
24. Quarter To Twelve
25. Thats It
Disc 2
1. Blues With A Feeling (alternate)
2. Blues With A Feeling
3. Last Boogie
4. Too Late
5. Fast Boogie
6. Lights Out
7. Fast Large One
8. Youre So Fine
9. My Kind Of Baby
10. Come Back Baby
11. Rocker
12. I Love You So (Oh Baby)
13. Oh Baby
14. I Got To Find My Baby (alternate)
15. I Got To Find My Baby
16. Big Leg Mama
17. My Babe (Mercy Babe)
18. Last Night (first version)
19. Youd Better Watch Yourself
20. Blue Light
21. Instrumental
22. Last Night
23. Mellow Down Easy
24. My Babe
25. My Babe (overdubbed version)
Disc 3
1. Thunderbird
2. Roller Coaster
3. I Got To Go
4. Hate To See You Go (extended)
5. Little Girl
6. Crazy For My Baby
7. Cant Stop Loving You
8. One More Chance With You
9. Who
10. Boom, Boom Out Go The Lights
11. It Aint Right
12. Flying Saucer
13. Its Too Late Brother
14. Teenage Beat
15. Take Me Back
16. Just A Feeling
17. Nobody But You
18. Temperature (version 1)
19. Shake Dancer
20. Everybody Needs Somebody
21. Temperature (alternate -1)
22. Temperature (alternate 2) *
23. Temperature (take 30)
24. Temperature (take 35-38)
25. Temperature (version 2)
26. Ahw Baby (alternate)
27. Ahw Baby
Disc 4
1. Ive Had My Fun (alternate)
2. Ive Had My Fun (alternate -2) *
3. Ive Had My Fun
4. The Tottle (The Toddle)
5. Confessin The Blues
6. Key To The Highway
7. Rock Bottom
8. Rock Bottom
9. Walkin On (Rock Bottom alternate)
10. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (take 5) *
11. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (alternate)
12. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby)
13. One Of These Mornings (instrumental) *
14. Baby
15. My Baby Is Sweeter (alternate)
16. My Baby Is Sweeter
17. Crazy Mixed Up World (alternate)
18. Crazy Mixed Up World
19. Worried Life (alternate)
20. Worried Life
21. Everthings Gonna Be Alright (take 1)
22. Everythings Gonna Be Alright (alternate 1)
23. Everythings Gonna Be Alright (alternate 2)
24. Everythings Gonna Be Alright
25. Mean Old Frisco (alternate)
26. Mean Old Frisco
Disc 5
1. Back Track
2. One Of These Mornings
3. Blue And Lonesome (alternate)
4. Blue And Lonesome
5. Me And Piney Brown
6. Break It Up
7. Going Down Slow
8. You're Sweet
9. I Don't Play
10. As Long As I Have You
11. You Don't Know
12. Just Your Fool
13. Up The Line
14. I'm A Business Man
15. Dead Presidents
16. Southern Feeling
17. Back In The Alley
18. I Feel So Bad (take 1)
19. I Feel So Bad (take 2)
20. Chicken Shack
21. Feel So Bad *
22. Make It Alright *
23. Juke
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