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THE JAZZ RAG 138

AUTUMN 2015

Featuring

  • British Jazz Awards 2015 with Art Themen nominated
  • Alan Barnes talks to Ron Simpson
  • Keeping it in the Family (Jazz Siblings)
  • Four Others (British Jazz Brothers & one Sister)
  • The Elusive Mike Taylor (1960s Jazz Pioneer)

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THE JAZZ RAG 137

SUMMER 2015

Featuring

  • Leroy Jones (New Orleans Trumpeter)
  • The Surprising Melody Gardot (Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Pianist)
  • Visiting Birmingham (European Musicians at the Jazz Festival)
  • Club 90’s Revisited (Jazz 90, Albrighton)
  • Keep On Keepin’ On (Clark Terry Documentary)
  • A Tale of Three Cities (A Jazz Journey by Peter Vacher)

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THE JAZZ RAG 136

SPRING 2015

Featuring

  • Melody Gardot (CD Review)
  • Holiday in Birmingham (Billie Holiday 100th Birthday Year Celebrated)
  • Happy Birthday Billie (Madeleine Peyroux Tribute)
  • keeping Louis Alive (Louis Armstrong House Museum, New York)
  • In the Shadow of Tubby Hayes (Simon Spillett Book)
  • New Orleans Legend (George Lewis in Print)
  • Clark Terry One of a Kind

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THE JAZZ RAG 135

WINTER 2015

Featuring

  • Digby’s Half Dozen at 20 (20th Anniversary)
  • Vick Ash (Jazz Clarinettist Remembered)
  • Mike Burney (Jazz Tenor Saxist Remembered)
  • 2014’s Top Trumpet (Jazz Trumpeter Steve Waterman)
  • Bernard ‘Acker’ Bilk (A Life in Photographs)
  • Happy 100th to the Jazz Kids of 1915

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THE JAZZ RAG 134

WINTER 2014

FEATURING

  • Lady Sings the Blues, Celebrating Billie Holiday
  • Brian Lemon, Jazz Pianist Remembered
  • The 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival
  • Tierney: From Omaha to Paris (American Singer Tierney Sutton)
  • Count Basie (Views on Classic Albums)

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THE JAZZ RAG 133

AUTUMN 2014

FEATURING

  • Coleridge Goode (A Tribute to the Jazz Bassist)
  • On the Road with the Basie Band
  • Los Angeles Jazz Legacy
  • 2014 Birmingham International Jazz Festival
  • Jonah Jones (Remembering the Jazz Trumpeter)

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THE JAZZ RAG 132

SUMMER 2014

FEATURING

  • Brecon Jazz Festival (Celebrating 30 Years)
  • 10 Overlooked Jazz Greats
  • Red Hot Pepper (Pepper and the Jellies from Italy)
  • Propaganda Swing (Jazz as Propaganda in Second World War Germany)
  • Southport Winter Jazz
  • Lithuania’s Singer of the Year (Featuring Giedre Kilciauskiene)
  • The Fresh Sound of Barcelona

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THE JAZZ RAG 131

SPRING 2014

FEATURING

  • Curtis Stigers (American Singer/Songwriter/Saxophonist)
  • Happy 100th Birthday (Jazz Musicians born in 1914)
  • Retrieving the Memories (Ron Simpson talks to Jazz Singer Chris Ellis)
  • Midem 2 (Return to Cannes. Yue Yang’s survey of the International Jazz Scene)
  • The changing world of Jazz Festivals (Swansea, Titley, Le Tor de Jazz, Brecon, Upton, Bude, London and Birmingham)

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Catalogue Jump, Jive & Swing Catalogue

King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys

BEAR30: KING PLEASURE & THE BISCUIT BOYS

Track Listing:

King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys

  1. That’s A Groovy Thing
  2. Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
  3. Quiet Whiskey
  4. Shotgun Boogie
  5. Pretty Eyed Baby
  6. Ain’t Enough Room Here to Boogie
  7. Steppin’ Out
  8. Reet Petite And Gone
  9. Look Out Mountain
  10. Hide And Seek
  11. Voo-It
  12. Flirting With The Blues
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Big Bear Records Catalogue Jazz Catalogue

Out Looking For The Lion: Duncan Swift

OUT LOOKING FOR THE LION:  DUNCAN SWIFT

Catalogue number BEAR28

Track listing:

  1.  Carolina Shout
  2. Lullaby of the Leaves
  3. Honey Babe
  4. Jeepers Creepers
  5. Can’t Help Loving That Man
  6. Blues My Naughtie Sweetie  Gives To Me
  7. Handful of Keys
  8. Lady Be Good
  9. Al’s Blues
  10. It’s Alright With Me
  11. Sweet Georgia Brown
  12. Faith

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Big Bear Records Catalogue Jazz Catalogue

Groove Juice Comin’ To Town: Groove Juice Special

Groove Juice Comin’ To Town: Groove Juice Special

Catalogue number BEARCD29

Track listing:

  1.  Groove Juice Comin’ To Town
  2. A Porter’s Love Song To A Chambermaid
  3. Save The Bones for Henry Jones
  4. Big Bill
  5. Southern Comfort
  6. Sweet Substitute
  7. The Joint Is Jumping
  8. Who Stole the Lock From The Henhouse Door?
  9. Lazy Bones
  10. Brewin’
  11. You’ve Been A Good Old Wagon
  12. West End Cafe Blues
  13. Spider Crawl

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Big Bear Records Catalogue Jazz Catalogue

British Jazz Awards 1987: Various Artists

BRITISH JAZZ AWARDS 1987: VARIOUS ARTISTS

Catalogue number BEAR27

Musicians Featured:

Humphrey Lyttelton – Trumpet

Roy Williams – Trombone

Peter King – Alto Saxophone

Dick Morrissey – Tenor Saxophone

John Barnes – Baritone Saxophone

Martin Taylor – Guitar

Brian Lemon – Piano

Dave Green – Double Bass

Allan Ganley – Drums

Track listing:

  1. Carolina Diner
  2. Cherokee
  3. I May Be Wrong But I Think You’re Wonderful
  4. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
  5. Time’s A Wastin’
  6. Jumpin’ At The Woodside

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Big Bear Records Catalogue Jazz Catalogue

The M&B Jam Session 1984: Various Artists

THE M&B JAM SESSION 1984: VARIOUS ARTISTS

Catalogue number BEAR26

Recorded live at Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park in 1984, described by Bebop Spoken Here as “probably as close as we’ll ever get to matching the legendary Buck Clayton Jam Sessions and possibly better than many of the JATP concerts recorded by Norman Granz.”

Featuring:

Trumpets: Humphrey Lyttelton and Digby Fairweather

Trombones: Roy Williams and Roy Crimmins

Clarinets: Randy Colville and Dave Shepherd

Alto Saxophone: Bruce Turner

Tenor Saxophone: Dick Morrissey

Guitar: Jim Douglas

Piano: Mick Pyne

Double Bass: Harvey Weston

Drums: Johnny Richardson

Track listing:

  1. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
  2. On the Alamo
  3. Frankie & Johnny
  4. Crazy Rhythm
  5. Jumpin’ At The Woodside
  6. The Hucklebuck
  7. Honeysuckle Rose

Available on LP, download and streaming, and as part of Jazz City UK Volume 2

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Big Bear Records Catalogue Jazz Catalogue

Kansas City Giants: Claude Williams

KANSAS CITY GIANTS: CLAUDE WILLIAMS

Catalogue number BEAR25

Track listing:

  1. One for the Count
  2. Kansas City
  3. The Fiddler
  4. Teach me Tonight
  5. A Little Bit of Country
  6. 51st & Swope
  7. Them There Eyes
  8. That Certain Someone
  9. Texicana
  10. A Hundred Years from Today

Featuring:

Claude Williams – Violin and vocals

Frank Smith – Piano

Gerry Leonard – Bass Guitar

Richard Ross – Drums

Available digitally and on LP

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Big Bear Records Catalogue

Live At The Barrel Organ

BRUM1

VARIOUS ARTISTS: LIVE AT THE BARREL ORGAN

Catalogue number BRUM1

Track listing: 

  1. Bright Eyes – The Lonely Ones
  2. Bright Eyes – Casablanca
  3. The Lazers – Headache
  4. The Lazers – Rivet
  5. Willy & The Poorboys – My Babe
  6. Willy & The Poorboys – Hoy Hoy Hoy
  7. The Quads – When Every Thing Is Said And Done
  8. The Quads – Wonders Never Cease
  9. Rockers – It Takes A Thief
  10. Speed Limit – Alright On The Night
  11. Speed Limit – CJ
  12. Dansette Damage – All Little Girls Taste The Same
  13. Dansette Damage – Invaders
  14. Mayday – Moving In Time
  15. Mayday – Standing On The Edge Of The World
  16. Dangerous Girls – Demolition
  17. Playthings – Sally Daydream
  18. The Thrillers – To The Top
  19. The Thrillers – Breakout
  20. Spoonfull – On Your Trail
  21. Spoonfull – Nine ‘Til Five
  22. Eclipse – Enjoy Yourself

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Big Bear Records Catalogue

There Must Be Thousands : The Quads

 

 

THERE MUST BE THOUSANDS by THE QUADS

Catalogue number BEAR23

 

Track listing:

  1. There Must Be Thousands

 

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

American Blues Legends ’79: Various Artists

AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’79 by VARIOUS ARTISTS

Catalogue number BEAR23

Track listing:

  1. Love With You Baby – Eddie C Campbell
  2. Look What You Done – Eddie C Campbell
  3. High Rise Blues – Chico Chism
  4. 480 Pounds – Chico Chism
  5. I Wish I Had Somebody – Good Rockin’ Charles
  6. I’m Goin’ Home Where Women Got Meat On Their Bones – Good Rockin’ Charles
  7. Buzzard Luck – Billy The Kid  Emerson
  8. Conjured – Billy The Kid  Emerson
  9. Don’t Throw Your Love On Me So Strong  –   Little Smokey Smothers
  10. All Your Love – Little Smokey Smothers
  11. I’m Trying – Lester Davenport
  12. No Peace  – Lester Davenport
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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Shake Your Boogie: Snooky Pryor

SHAKE YOUR BOOGIE by SNOOKY PRYOR

Catalogue number BEAR14

 

Track listing:

  1. Shake Your Boogie
  2. Bottle Up & Go
  3. You Don’t Know My Name
  4. Bluebird Blues
  5. Can’t Love Me & Homesick Too
  6. Baby Left Me a Mule to Ride
  7. Jump & Shout
  8. Gonna Have a Good Time
  9. So Sweat
  10. Crazy ‘Bout You

 

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Homesick James & Snooky Pryor

HOMESICK  JAMES & SNOOKY PRYOR

Catalogue number BEAR21

Track listing:

  1.  Crossroads
  2. Nothing But Trouble
  3. Shake Your Money Maker
  4. Crosstown
  5. Careless Love
  6. After You There Won’t Be Nobody Else
  7. The Woman I Love
  8. I Fell Alright
  9. Drivin’ Dog
  10. She Knows How to Love Me
  11. Homesick Blues Again

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Big Bear Records Catalogue

Music Is Our Message: Muscles

 

 

MUSIC IS OUR MESSAGE by MUSCLES

Catalogue number BEAR24

Track listing:

  1. Make Me Happy
  2. Do It Good
  3. Funky Music
  4. People
  5. Music Is Our Message
  6. Love Is All I’ve Got
  7. Muscle Hustle
  8. I’m Gonna Synthesise You
  9. Love Fire

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Boogie Piano Chicago Style: Erwin Helfer

BOOGIE PIANO CHICAGO STYLE by ERWIN HELFER

Catalogue number BEAR11

Track listing:

  1. Hallucinating
  2. Rubbish Boogie
  3. Rodez Stomp
  4. Inside
  5. Sneaky Pete
  6. Homage to AA and PJ
  7. Dirty Dozens
  8. Thin & Thirty
  9. Big Joe
  10. Fat City
  11. 4 O’Clock Blues
  12. Oysters

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Home Sweet Homesick James

HOME SWEET HOMESICK JAMES by HOMESICK JAMES

Catalogue number BEAR10

Track listing:

  1. Highway 51
  2. Lonesome Train
  3. Homesick’s original Dust My Broom
  4. Kissing In the Dark
  5. Sweet Home Chicago
  6. Mailman
  7. Shake Your Money Maker
  8. Dust My Broom
  9. Worried About My Baby
  10. Gotta Move – Can’t Stay Here No More
  11. Tin Pan Alley
  12. Careless Love

Personnel:

Homesick James, vocals, guitar; Bob Brunning, bass; Bob Hall, piano; John Hunt, bass; (Lonesome) Jimmie Lee Robinson, bass; Pete York, drums

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Big John’s Boogie: Big John Wrencher

 

BIG JOHN’S BOOGIE: BIG JOHN WRENCHER 

Catalogue number BEAR4

 

Track listing:

  1. Honeydripper
  2. Third Degree
  3. Now Darling
  4. Where Did You Stay Last Night?
  5. Trouble Makin’ Woman
  6. Lonesome In My Cabin
  7. How Many More Years?
  8. Come On Over
  9. Telephone Blues
  10. Runnin’ Wild

Not available on CD, download and streaming only

 

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Take A Look Inside: Mickey Baker

 

TAKE A LOOK INSIDE:  MICKEY BAKER

Catalogue number  BEAR5

Track listing:

  1. Make Your Bed Up Mama
  2. Don’t Doubt Me
  3. Take A Look Inside
  4. Blues Fell This Morning
  5. Diggin’ In My Potatoes
  6. Playing With Danger
  7. I’ll Always Be In Love With You
  8. She Brings Out The Animal
  9. New York, New York
  10. Tight Ropes & Bumpy Roads
  11. Bewildered

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Ready For Eddie: Eddie “Playboy” Taylor

READY FOR EDDIE: EDDIE “PLAYBOY” TAYLOR

Catalogue number BEAR6

Track listing:

  1. I’m a Country Boy
  2. Seems Like a Million Years
  3. Gamblin’ Man
  4. After Hours
  5. Sloppy Drunk
  6. Ready for Eddie
  7.  You Don’t Love Me
  8. Too Late to Cry
  9. You’ll Always Have a Home
  10. Playboy Boogie
  11. My Little Machine
  12. Cross Cut Saw

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

The Comeback: Willie Mabon

WILLIE MABON: THE COMEBACK

Catalogue number: BEAR9

Track Listing:

  1. Klickety Klock
  2. Lonesome Blues
  3. Come On Baby
  4. Keep My Lover With Me
  5. Shake That Thing
  6. I Still Don’t Know
  7. The Comeback
  8. I Don’t Know
  9. My Baby Won’t Write To Me
  10. Boogie Woogie Special
  11. I’m Hungry
  12. I’ll Keep On Hurtin’

Personnel:

Willie Mabon: Vocals, Piano and Harmonica

Mickey Baker: Guitar

Dan Armstrong: Bass Guitar

Pete York: Drums

Not available on CD, download and streaming only:

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

American Blues Legends ’75 by Various Artists

AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’75: VARIOUS ARTISTS

Catalogue number BEAR8

Track listing:

  1. Eddie Guitar Burns – Biscuit Bakin’ Mama
  2. Eddie Guitar Burns – Bury Me Back In the USA
  3. Billy Boy Arnold – I Wish You Would
  4. Billy Boy Arnold – Sugar Mama
  5. Tommy Tucker – Alimony
  6. Tommy Tucker – Hard Luck Blues
  7. Homesick James – If I Could Live My Life All Over Again
  8. Homesick James – Baby Please Set a Date
  9.  Little Joe Blue – A Fool Is What You Want
  10. Little Joe Blue – Five Long Years
  11. Lonesome Jimmy Lee Robinson – Chicken Head
  12. Lonesome Jimmy Lee Robinson – Mean Mistreater
  13. American Blues Legends ’75 – Got My Mojo Working
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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Detroit Blackbottom: Eddie Guitar Burns

BEARCD07

DETROIT BLACKBOTTOM:  EDDIE GUITAR BURNS

Catalogue number BEAR7

Track listing:

  1. Do It If You Wanna
  2. I’m Going – But I’ll Be Back
  3. Detroit Blackbottom
  4. Every Jug Stands On Its Own Bottom
  5. I Wanna Trade With You
  6. I’ve Got A Lot Of Respect
  7. Bull Head- Go Ahead Angie
  8. Toni Louise
  9. Mississipi Country Farm
  10. Pee Pa Pobbie

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

American Legends Blues ’74: various artists

AMERICAN BLUES LEGENDS ’74  by  VARIOUS ARTISTS

Track listing:

  1. Big John’s Boogie – Big John Wrencher
  2. I’m A Root Man –  Big John Wrencher
  3. How Many More Years?  – Big John Wrencher
  4. I Can’t Lose With The Stuff I Use – Cousin Joe From New Orleans
  5. Problems – Cousin Joe From New Orleans
  6. It Seems Like A Dream –  Doctor Ross
  7. On My Way To School –  Doctor Ross
  8. Boogie Disease No2  – Doctor Ross
  9. I Used To Have Some Friends  – Eddie Taylor
  10. I Know My Baby – Eddie Taylor
  11. You Don’t Love Me  – Eddie Taylor
  12. 12th Street Boogie – G. P. Jackson
  13. A Letter Dressed In Red – G. P. Jackson
  14. Leavin’ Kansas City – G. P. Jackson
  15. Railroad Avenue
  16. Blues Legends ’74

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Gospel-Wailing, Jazz Playing, Rock ‘N’ Rolling, Soul Shouting, Tap Dancing Bluesman From New Orleans: Cousin Joe

 

GOSPEL- WAILING, JAZZ PLAYING, ROCK ‘N’ ROLLING, SOUL SHOUTING, TAP DANCING BLUESMAN FROM NEW ORLEANS:  COUSIN JOE

Catalogue number BEAR3

 

Track listing:

  1. When a Woman Loves a Man
  2. Checkin’ Out
  3. Touch Me
  4. I Got News for You
  5. Too Late to Turn Back Now
  6. Lipstick Traces
  7. Railroad Avenue
  8. You Talk Too Much
  9. Barefoot Boy
  10. How Come My Dog Don’t Bark
  11. Night Life

Not available on CD, download and streaming only

 

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Let The Good Times Roll: The Mighty Flea

 

 

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL: GENE THE MIGHTY FLEA CONNORS with MICKEY BAKER

Catalogue number BEAR19

 

Track listing:

  1. Let The Good Times Roll
  2. Honky Tonk
  3. Tain’t Nobody’z Buzness If I Do
  4. Charley Stone
  5. Bloodhot Eyes
  6. Hi-Heel Sneakers
  7. Goin’ to LA.
  8. Let’s Go Get Stoned
  9. The Chocolate Cowboy Rides Again
  10. GM Blues

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Doctor Ross: The Harmonica Boss

 

THE HARMONICA BOSS by DOCTOR ROSS

Catalogue number BEAR2

 

Track listing:

  1. Boogie Disease No 2
  2. Baby Please Don’t Go
  3. Harmonica Boogie
  4. Decoration Day
  5. How Much More Long?
  6. Don’t Worry ‘Bout the Bear
  7. That’s All Right Now Mama
  8. Blues In The Night
  9. Do The Boogie Woogie
  10. Rockin’ After Midnight
  11. Ethal Mae
  12. San Francisco Breakdown

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

American Blues Legends ’73

AMERICAN  BLUES  LEGENDS ’73:

Catalogue number BEAR20

Track listing:

  1. Viper Song – Boogie Woogie Red
  2. After Hours – Boogie Woogie Red
  3. Red’s Boogie – Boogie Woogie Red
  4. Dangerous Woman – Snooky Pryor
  5. Sloppy Drunk – Snooky Pryor
  6. Bottle Up & Go – Snooky Pryor
  7. Shake Your Moneymaker – Homesick James
  8. Tin Pan Alley – Homesick James
  9. Dust My Broom – Homesick James
  10. I Fell So Fine – Washboard Willie
  11. Kansas City – Washboard Willie
  12. Sassy – Red & Mose
  13. Take Me Back Baby – Whispering Smith
  14. Texas Flood –  Whispering Smith
  15. Love Bug – Lightnin’ Slim
  16. Walking In The Park – Lightnin’ Slim

Not available on CD, download and streaming only

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Big Bear Records Blues Catalogue Catalogue

Blues From Mars: Johnny Mars

 

BLUES  FROM  MARS:  JOHNNY MARS

Catalogue number  BEAR17

 

Track  Listing: 

  1. Rocket 88
  2. Off the Wall
  3. It’s My Own Fault
  4. Me & Piney Brown
  5. My Dream ( Blues In My Sleep)
  6. Don’t Start Me To Talkin’
  7. Bring It On Home
  8. Break It Up
  9. Back Track
  10. Aw Baby
  11. Meet Me In The Alley

 

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Big Bear Records Catalogue

Rudi the Red Nosed Reindeer – The Steam Shovel

 

RUDI THE RED NOSED REINDEER by THE STEAM SHOVEL (AKA Locomotive)

 

Track listing:

  1. Rudy the Red Nosed Reindeer
  2. White Christmas

 

Not available on CD, download and streaming only

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