Jamaica Selects Jump Blues Strictly For You

Jamaica Selects Jump Blues Strictly For You selects 28 highlights from the original 85-track selection. This is the music that provided the inspiration for ska and all that followed, and is sure to appeal to both Jamaican music fans and followers of hard-hitting Fifties R&B alike.

After the highly-successful Jumping The Shuffle Blues, Fantastic Voyage takes another dip into the bubbling cauldron of R&B which sowed the seeds for ska on Jamaica’s sound systems in the 1940s and 50s, lashing together further sizzling biscuits from that formative, feet-finding era. It’s well established that the US R&B which started bombarding the island through radio after World War II was picked up by sound systems such as Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd and Prince Buster, germinating into ska after mating with the Caribbean’s own calypso and other local musical strains. The records being produced in America’s Southern states and cities like New Orleans were loosely termed ‘shuffle blues’; contagious, jumping and bulging with animated incitements to party, dance or get down and dirty, many boasting some of the most caterwaulingly volcanic saxophone solos known to man.

Jamaica Selects Jump Blues Strictly For You is compiled and annotated by leading reggae collector & authority Phil Etgart, and draws together some of the most popular of these influential sound system favourites. These discs should come with a warning: lethal rocking and leaping skank blueprints running amok, beautifully presented with knowledgeable, fact-packed annotation.

Tracklist

The Roots Of Shuffle Blues (1944-1951)
1-1.   Louis Jordan - GI Jive
1-2.   Joe Liggins - The Honeydripper (Parts 1 & 2)
1-3.   Roy Milton - Milton's Boogie
1-4.   Sherman Williams - Baby Don't You Want To Go
1-5.   Joe Liggins - TWA
1-6.   Sherman Williams - Sherman's Boogie
1-7.   Louis Jordan - Run Joe
1-8.   Felix Gross - Worried About You Baby
1-9.   Hal Singer - Corn Bread
1-10.   Paul Williams - The Huckle-Buck
1-11.   Dave Bartholomew - Country Boy
1-12.   Roy Byrd - Bald Head
1-13.   Lowell Fulson - Rocking After Midnight
1-14.   Jimmy Liggins - Saturday Nite Boogie Woogie Man
1-15.   Amos Milburn - Sax Shack Boogie
1-16.   Teddy Brannon - Don Newcomb Really Throws That Ball
1-17.   Calvin Boze - Waiting And Drinking
1-18.   Roy Brown - New Rebecca
1-19.   Erline Harris - Jump And Shout
1-20.   T-Bone Walker - Strollin' With Bones
1-21.   Willis Jackson - Call Of The Gators
1-22.   Gene Phillips With Jack McVea Orchestra - Slippin' And Slidin'
1-23.   Joe Thomas - Raw Meat
1-24.   Amos Milburn - Bad, Bad Whiskey
1-25.   Peppermint Harris - I Got Loaded
1-26.   Lynn Hope - Blue Moon

The Golden Years Of Shuffle Blues (1951-1954)
2-1.   Oscar McLollie - The Honey Jump
2-2.   James Waynes - Please Baby Please
2-3.   Chuck Higgins & His Mellotones - Motor Head Baby
2-4.   Oscar McLollie - All That Oil In Texas
2-5.   Jimmy McCracklin - What's Your Phone Number
2-6.   Rosco Gordon - New Orleans Wimmen
2-7.   Fats Domino - Goin' Home
2-8.   Rosco Gordon - Booted
2-9.   Lloyd Glenn - Cuba Doll
2-10.   Ruth Brown - 5-10-15 Hours
2-11.   Jack Dupree - Ain't No Meat On De Bone
2-12.   Kenny Graham's Afro Cubists - Bongo Chant
2-13.   Chuck Willis - You're Still My Baby
2-14.   The Hawks - I-Yi
2-15.   Fats Domino - Going To The River
2-16.   Guitar Slim - Well, I Done Got Over It
2-17.   George Green With Jimmy Binkley Jazz Quintet - Brand New Rockin' Chair
2-18.   The Charms - Bye Bye Baby
2-19.   Harold Burrage With Jimmy Binkley & His Orchestra - Way Down Boogie
2-20.   Johnny Perry's Orchestra - Got Good News For Ya, Baby
2-21.   Marvin & Johnny - Tick Tock
2-22.   Tommy Ridgley - Jam Up
2-23.   Louis Jordan - Messy Bessy
2-24.   Earl Curry - I Want Your Lovin'
2-25.   Slim Saunders - Let's Have Some Fun Honey
2-26.   The Rocking Brothers - Play Boy Hop
2-27.   Floyd Dixon - Moonshine
2-28.   Mike Gordon - You Got To Give
2-29.   George Stevenson - Grandma's Joint

The Big Three Take Over (1955-1960)
3-1.   Nappy Brown - Don't Be Angry
3-2.   Boo Breeding - Country Woman
3-3.   Plas Johnson - Blue Jean Shuffle
3-4.   The Dodgers - The Cat Hop
3-5.   The Penguins - Baby Let's Make Some Love
3-6.   The Mello-Harps - Ain't Got The Money
3-7.   The Turbans - When You Dance
3-8.   Big Joe Turner - Flip, Flop And Fly
3-9.   Jack Dupree & Mr Bear - Walking The Blues
3-10.   Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
3-11.   Vince Monroe - Give It Up (Or Tell Where It's At)
3-12.   Smiley Lewis - She's Got Me Hook, Line And Sinker
3-13.   Lloyd Price - Forgive Me, Clawdy
3-14.   Ivory Joe Hunter - Since I Met You Baby
3-15.   The Pastels - Been So Long
3-16.   Dave Bartholomew - The Monkey
3-17.   Sil Austin - Slow Walk
3-18.   Professor Longhair - Misery
3-19.   Clyde McPhatter - Rock And Cry
3-20.   The Bobbettes - Mr Lee
3-21.   Oscar McLollie & Jeanette Baker - Hey Boy Hey Girl
3-22.   The Gone All Stars - The Gee Gee Walk
3-23.   Preston Brown - Walk On
3-24.   Johnny Otis Show - You Just Kissed Me Goodbye
3-25.   Earl (Connelly) King - I Don't Want Your Love
3-26.   Billy Hope - Riding West
3-27.   Earl Hooker - Do The Chickin
3-28.   Ernie Freeman - Live It Up
3-29.   Hal Paige And The Whalers - Going Back To My Home Town
3-30.   Rosco Gordon - Surely I Love You