WELLCOME BACK TO TOWN – LIVE R&B AND JUMP BLUES

Considered a disposable fad - and thus unworthy of expensive recording resources - by the concert promoters and radio executives of the day, live R&B, and its immediate predecessor jump blues, was only occasionally captured for posterity and only then, usually, because of its accidental inclusion in a larger program of "more laudable music" such as jazz. Which makes the enclosed two dozen rarities all the more welcome; whether taken from a live concert performance or a radio transcription, there is something magical and exciting about these little slices of musical time-travel. Fasten your safety belts!

EL TORO R&B 104 - VARIOUS ARTISTS - WELLCOME BACK TO TOWN – LIVE R&B AND JUMP BLUES
Tracking Lists:
1 Hot Lips Page with Fats Waller - Blues In B Flat (1942)
2 Saunders King & His Rhythm - B Flat Blues (Summertime Boogie) (1943)
3 T-Bone Walker - Married Woman Blues (1944)
4 Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - The Honeydripper (1945)
5 The Four Joes & A Jane - Caldonia (1946)
6 The Four Blazes - Oh Boy! That's Where My Money Goes (1947)
7 Cootie Williams Orch - Gatortail (1947) ---- Wrongly included in te track listing and booklet - not featured on the CD.
8 Eddie Mack with Cootie Williams Orch - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (1947)
9 Joe Turner - Playful Baby (1947)
10 Helen Humes - Million Dollar Secret (1950)
11 Helen Humes - E-Baba-Leba (1950)
12 Jimmy Witherspoon - Big Fine Girl (1949)
13 Jimmy Witherspoon - New Orleans Woman (1950)
14 Dinah Washington - Cool Kind Papa (1950)
15 Dinah Washington - Baby Get Lost (1950)
16 Dinah Washington - Fast Movin' Mama (1950)
17 Floyd Dixon - Baby, Let's Go Down To The Woods (1951)
18 Floyd Dixon - Too Much Jelly Roll (1951)
19 Jimmy Jackson All Stars - Honkin' (1952)
20 Billy Wright - Do Something For Me (1952)
21 Jimmy Witherspoon - Daddy Pinocchio (1951)
22 Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea's Combo - Hey Hey Baby (1947)
23 Joe Liggins & His Honey drippers - Pink Champagne (1951)
24 Johnny Otis Orch - Harlem Nocturne (1951)