Release type
ALBUM
Barrelhouse Mamas: Born In The Alley, Raised Up In The Slum
Product information
From $9.90
1999
23 Tracks
01:10:54
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Yazoo
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Much of Barrelhouse Mamas makes it a great companion to the now-standard Copulatin' Blues, being a collection of 23 songs featuring blueswomen singing of sex, drunkenness, and general debauchery, with the occasional cautionary song thrown in. The majority of this collection is piano blues (with a notable guitar sneaking in occasionally), and ranges from the elegant Dorethea Trowbridge's "Bad Luck Blues") to the stomping and sexual, which is most of the disc. Indeed, the material on this CD is of almost as much interest for the accompanists (including Little Brother Montgomery and Speckled Red) as the singers, who are pretty formidable in their own right. The opening number, "State Street Jive," offers Ivy Smith half talking and shouting her way through a rippling piano blues by Cow Cow Davenport. "Dawn of Day Blues" is beautifully sung by Mary Johnson, the one-time spouse of Lonnie Johnson, and if her expressive singing isn't enough to pull you in, check out the slide guitar of Tampa Red backing her up, and Judson Brown's barrelhouse piano behind Red. St. Louis Bessie, aka Bessie Mae Smith, dominated "Meat Cutter Blues" with her vocal performance on lyrics that leave little to the imagination, about a woman complaining her man hasn't cut her meat and her damper needs turning down. Lucille Bogan's rollicking "Alley Boogie" and her slower "They Ain't Walkin' No More" both feature an unnamed pianist of uncommon dexterity who's worth hearing on his own terms. Margaret Thornton's one and only record, cut in 1927, is a crying shame because it was her only record -- anyone who could have as much fun with a song as she does with "Jockey Blues" should've gotten more opportunity than that. Freddy Brown presents two sides of her persona here, the playful and suggestive "Whip It to a Jelly" and the serious, almost ominous-sounding "Raised in the Alley Blues," which is an even better performance, highlighted by the singer's brilliantly vamped keening over the break in the middle. Speaking of ominous, "Satan Is Busy in Knoxville" by Leola Manning tells of a series of unsolved murders in the city of the title at the outset of the 1930s. ~ Bruce Eder
1. State Street Jive
- Primary Artist
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Ivy Smith & Cow Cow Davenport
Charles "cow Cow" Davenport
Ivy Smith
2. Dawn of Day Blues
by Mary Johnson
- Primary Artist
- Mary Johnson
3. Meat Cutter Blues
- Primary Artist
- St. Louis Bessie
4. Alley Boogie
- Primary Artist
- Lucille Bogan
5. Sloppy Drunk Blues
- Primary Artist
- Lucille Bogan
6. They Ain't Walking No More
- Primary Artist
- Lucille Bogan
7. Steady Grinding Blues
- Primary Artist
- Dorothy Baker
8. Fort Worth and Denver
- Primary Artist
- Bessie Tucker
9. Key to the Mountain
by Mary Johnson
- Primary Artist
- Mary Johnson
10. Santa Claus Crave
- Primary Artist
- Elzadie Robinson
11. Texas Bound Blues
- Primary Artist
- Margaret Thornton
12. Good-Bye Rider
by Ida May Mack
- Primary Artist
- Ida May Mack
13. Taint a Cow in Texas
- Primary Artist
- Margaret Whitmire
14. Jockey Blues
- Primary Artist
- Margaret Thornton
15. Whip It to a Jelly
by Freddy Brown
- Primary Artist
- Freddy Brown
16. Raised in the Alley Blues
by Freddy Brown
- Primary Artist
- Freddy Brown
17. Satan Is Busy in Knoxville
- Primary Artist
- Leola Manning
18. Evil Man Blues
by Lil Johnson
- Primary Artist
- Lil Johnson
19. Bad Luck Blues
- Primary Artist
- Doretha Trowbridge
20. Riot Call Blues
- Primary Artist
- Elizabeth Washington
21. He Treats Me Like a Dog
- Primary Artist
- St. Louis Bessie
22. Morning Sun Blues
by Mary Johnson
- Primary Artist
- Mary Johnson
23. Tight in Chicago
- Primary Artist
- Mozelle Alderson
Technical Specifications
- Volume
- 1 volume only
- Tracks
- 23 tracks available
- Type
- ALBUM
- Format
- Digital Media
- Duration
- 1 hour, 10 minutes and 54 seconds
- Explicit
- None
- Coverart
- Available and up to 1448x1448 px
- Booklet
- Not available
- Max Quality
CD Quality (Lossless)
16bit / 44.1 kHz
Stereo
- Audio Extension
Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF
Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA
- Archive Format
- Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR
- Lyrics
- 3/23 tracks have lyrics
- Synchronized Lyrics
- No synced lyrics found
- Genres
- Blues
- Label
- Yazoo
- Music Distribution Service
- E1 [Koch Entertainment]
- Country
United States- Language
- English (United States)
- Popularity
- Popularity 0/10
- Release Date
- Apr 19, 1999
- Track Preview
- Available
- Delivery Charge
- Free
- Delivery Method
- Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site
- UPC
- 16351204424
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