Rocks

by Champion Jack Dupree

Overview

The entries in Bear Family's ongoing Rocks series spotlight the hardest-rocking moments in an artist's catalog, sometimes offering a counter-narrative to an established narrative. In the case of Champion Jack Dupree, the hard-driving New Orleans blues and R&B pianist, his Rocks provides an introduction to his career that wasn't otherwise available when this was released in 2018. Drawing from recordings originally cut (and usually released) for Atlantic, Groove, Apollo, Red Robin, and Vik between 1951-1958, this is one of the rare cross-licensed collections from Dupree. Better still, all of the 29 tracks are electrically charged, gutbucket New Orleans R&B, exciting music that showcases Dupree's growl and groove in equal measure. Dupree would continue to record into the 1990s, and he also began recording ten years earlier than the decade showcased here, and while those sessions are often first-rate, the sides collected on Rocks were meant to be played on jukeboxes and had an eye for the outer reaches of the charts, which is why this is such a thrilling, invigorating listen: this is blues and R&B not made for posterity, but for living. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	02/09/2018
Label:	Bear Family Records
UPC:	5397102175367
Rank:	113255

Tracks

1. All Night Party
2. Stumbling Block Blues
3. Number Nine Blues
4. Shake Baby Shake
5. Highway Blues
6. Drunk Again
7. Shim Sham Shimmy
8. Somebody Changed the Lock
9. The Ups
10. Lonely Road Blues
11. Story of My Life
12. When I Got Married
13. Dirty Woman
14. Old Time Rock and Roll
15. Down the Lane
16. Rocky Mountain
17. Just Like a Woman
18. Shake Baby Shake
19. The Wrong Woman
20. You're Always Cryin' the Blues
21. Woman Trouble Again
22. My Baby's Like a Clock
23. Hello Darlin'
24. Lollipop Baby
25. Shake Baby Shake
26. Old Time Rock and Roll
27. Stack-O-Lee
28. Frankie and Johnny
29. Nasty Boogie

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Champion Jack Dupree   Primary Artist
Lightning Junior and the Empires   Primary Artist
Brownie McGhee   Primary Artist
Mr. Bear   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jack Dupree   Composer
Nico Feuerbach   Master Research
Sven T. Uhrmann   Photo Scanning
Lucille Dupree   Composer
Jacques Demetre   Cover Photo,Photography,Illustrations
Harry Smith   Composer
Jack Burke   Composer
Katrin Duckhorn   Project Coordinator
Tom Meyer   Mastering
Mary Smith   Composer
Nicolas Teurnier   Photo Scanning
Bill Dahl   Liner Notes,Reissue Producer