MILTON ROY Rocks (Digipak, 36pgs Booklet)

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Any comprehensive list of postwar rhythm and blues pioneers has to position Roy Milton and his band, The Solid Senders, right near its top. The Los Angeles-based Milton was a rock-solid drummer whose rich, full-bodied vocals were perfect for the swinging stormers that comprise Bear Family’s ‘Roy Milton Rocks.’ His combo, anchored by Camille Howard’s rippling boogie piano and accentuated by a punchy small horn section (and as time went by, Johnny ‘Junior’ Rogers’ dazzling guitar work), helped define the jump blues genre, which in turn provided an indelible blueprint for the first wave of rock and roll. This compilation spans the band’s incredible career from their early days of recording in L.A. with the madly jumping Red Light to their hitmaking heyday on Specialty Records (Milton’s Boogie, Hop, Skip, And Jump, Oh Babe!, and the jaw-dropping Rogers-led instrumentals Junior Jives and Junior Jumps are among the highlights) through his mid-‘50s hookups with DooTone (Fools Are Getting Scarcer, You Got Me Reeling And Rocking, and two killers with his wife Mickey Champion fronting, the scorching Bam-A-Lam and a swaggering I’m A Woman) and King (the instrumental Succotash and Roy’s cover of Huey Smith and The Clowns’ Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu) and his later waxings for Warwick, Cenco, and Thunderbird. A plethora of additional heavyweights passed through The Solid Senders-saxists Buddy Floyd, Jackie Kelso, and Eddie Taylor, guitarists Roy Montrell and Roy Gaines, bassist Dallas Bartley - but Milton was the primary focal point, a visionary early R&B architect who deserves a considerably higher profile in the annals of music history.

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Milton, Roy
Rocks

1. You Got Me Reeling and Rocking
2. Wakin' Up Baby
3. Oh Babe
4. Hop, Skip and Jump (Cenco)
5. Succotash
6. My Blue Heaven
7. Baby, Don't Do That To Me
8. Little Boy Blue
9. I Want To Go Home
10. Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
11. That's the One For Me
12. Baby You Don't Know
13. It's Later Than You Think
14. Bam-A-Lam
15. Junior Jumps
16. One Zippy Zam
17. Train Blues
18. Milton's Boogie
19. Fools Are Getting Scarcer
20. Tell It Like It is
21. A Bird In the Hand
22. Red Light
23. Hop, Skip and Jump (Specialty)
24. I'm a Woman
25. Big Fat Mama
26. Playboy Blues
27. Junior Jives
28. Driveway Blues
29. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
30. Baby I'm Gone
31. What Can I Do