Champion Jack Dupree Blues From the Gutter

180g High Quality Pressing!
This is the 1958 masterwork album of Champion Jack Dupree's long and prolific career. Cut in New York with a blasting band that included saxist Pete Brown and guitarist Larry Dale, the Jerry Wexler-produced Atlantic collection provides eloquent testimony to Dupree's eternal place in the New Orleans blues and barrelhouse firmament. There's some decidedly down-in-the-alley subject matter -- "Can't Kick the Habit", "T.B. Blues", a revival of "Junker's Blues" -- along with the stomping "Nasty Boogie" and treatments of the ancient themes "Stack-O-Lee" and "Frankie & Johnny".

Features:

• 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany

Musicians:

• Champion Jack Dupree, piano, vocals
• Pete Brown, alto saxophone
• Ennis Lowery, guitar
• Wendell Marshall, bass
• Willie Jones, drums

Selections:

Side A
1. Strollin'
2. T.B. Blues
3. Can't Kick the Habit
4. Evil Woman
5. Nasty Boogie
Side B
1. Junker's Blues
2. Bad Blood
3. Goin' Down Slow
4. Frankie & Johnny
5. Stack-O-Lee

Recording: 1958 in New York by Tom Dowd