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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. After Midnight
2. My Baby's Boogying
3. Down the Road Apiece
4. Amos' Blues
5. Amos' Boogie
6. Operation Blues
7. Clinch Blues, The
8. Everything I Do Is Wrong
9. Blues at Sundown
10. Money Hustlin' Woman
11. Sad and Blue
12. Aladdin Boogie
13. Nickel Plated Baby
14. Real Gone
15. Train Time Blues
16. Bye Bye Boogie
17. Pot Luck Boogie
18. It's a Married Woman
19. My Tortured Mind
20. Hold Me Baby
21. Chicken Shack Boogie
22. Hard Driving Blues
23. I'm Gonna Leave You
24. I Love Her
25. Pool Playing Blues
26. Anybody's Blues
DISC 2:
1. It Took a Long Long Time
2. Wolf on the River
3. Empty Arms Blues
4. Bewildred
5. A&M Blues
6. In the Middle of the Night
7. Jitterbug Fashion Parade
8. My Luck Is Bound to Change
9. Roomin' House Boogie
10. Walkin' Blues
11. Blue and Lonesome
12. Drifting Blues
13. Real Pretty Mama Blues
14. Boogie Woogie
15. Atomic Baby
16. She's Gone Again
17. Sax Shack Boogie
18. Birmingham Bounce
19. Let's Rock a While
20. Hard Luck Blues
21. Two Years of Torture
22. I'm Gonna Tell My Mama
23. Bad Bad Whiskey
24. Tears Tears Tears
25. I Love You Anyway
26. Just One More Drink
| Details | | Distributor: | City Hall | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Amos Milburn (vocals, piano); Chuck Norris, Gene Phillips, Johnny Brown (guitar); Don Wilkerson, Maxwell Davis, Billy Smith (tenor saxophone); Willie Simpson Jr. (baritone saxophone); Ralph Hamilton (bass instrument); Harper Cosby (bass guitar); Lee Young, Jesse Sailes, Calvin Vaughan, Oscar Lee Bradley (drums).
Recording information: Los Angeles, California (1946 - 1951).
Although the two-disc THE CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE MAN isn't perfect--it strangely omits what is perhaps Amos Milburn's most famous tune, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"--it is the most comprehensive Milburn collection available. The set trumps the skimpy budget-priced single-disc compilations in terms of selection, and offers better-than-average sound and liner notes to boot. Although Milburn never had the crossover breakthrough of contemporaries such as Charles Brown and Chicago blues mainstay Otis Spann, his hard-driving piano boogie and hard-drinking lyrics epitomize the rougher end of jump blues. And yet Milburn, like Brown, was capable of soulful, mature ballads ("Everything I Do Is Wrong"), adding weight to silly novelties like "Atomic Baby" and hedonistic rockers like "Down the Road Apiece."
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