Big Bear Music

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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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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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

 

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

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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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