VARIOUS – Home Of The Blues: Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me The Lost Memphis Masters Vol. 1 (1960 – 1962) – LP – 180g Vinyl [NOV 1]

LP – Limited Edition 180g Vinyl with 12 page colour booklet insert. Sixteen tracks of vintage rocking Memphis blues that went unissued at the label’s demise and were lost in a warehouse, ultimately rediscovered and released by Acoustic Archives.

Featuring artists Roy Brown, Thelma Brewer, Woodrow Adams, The ‘5’ Royales, Willie Cobs, Joseph Cooke, Charlie James and Dave Dixon.

Recorded in Memphis, 1960-62 by Home of the Blues Record Company – sixteen tracks of vintage rocking Memphis blues that went unissued at the label’s demise and were lost in a warehouse, ultimately rediscovered and released by Acoustic Archives.

All now remastered to perfection by Oz Fritz and a team of A&R experts working with the original masters, including ones made by Sam Phillips Recording Studios in Memphis.

Featuring the superb arrangements of trumpeter Willie Mitchell, accompanying some of the best singers of the day, with guitar by Sammy Lawhorn, bass by Lewi Steinberg and drums by AI Jackson Jr. Recorded in glorious mono by Scotty Moore at Sam Phillips Recording Service.

Each artist bio had been thoroughly researched under the guidance of Acoustic Archives producer Marc Ryan with the assistance of Dr. Dave Evans, head musicologist at Memphis State U. The story provided in the 12-page booklet includes how these cuts eventually surfaced from the early 1960s and features the photos and commentary on the recording artists, with how the original owners of the Home of The Blues Record Shop, once at 107 Beale Street, worked at the recordings.

Tracklist:

Side A
1 Roy Brown: Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me
2 Roy Brown: I Need Your Love
3 Thelma Brewer: My Man
4 Thelma Brewer: If You Ever Need Me
5 Woodrow Adams: Don’t You Know I Love You?
6 Woodrow Adams: I Love You O Yes I Do
7 The ‘5’ Royales: She Did Me Wrong
8 Sammy Lawhorn: The Home of the Blues

Side B
1 Willie Cobbs: You Ain’t Treatin’ Your Daddy Right
2 Joseph Cooke: The Way You Make Me Feel
3 Joseph Cooke: Waiting for My Baby
4 Charles James: It’s Alright
5 Dave Dixon: Don’t Make Me Cry
6 Sammy Lawhorn: 107 Beale
7 Roy Brown: So Long, Baby
8 Roy Brown: A Man With The Blues (Take 2)