Cat. No. BCD 17536: CHAMPION JACK DUPREE ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17536. (IMPORT).

WHEN CHAMPION JACK DUPREE ROCKED THE HOUSE WHILE SEATED FOURSQUARE IN FRONT OF A PIANO, A PARTY INSTANTLY BROKE OUT NO MATTER WHAT THE VENUE. THE FLOORBOARDS THREATENED TO GIVE WAY UNDER HIS RHYTHMIC THRUST, AND THE WALLS SURROUNDING HIM STOOD IN SERIOUS DANGER OF COLLAPSE. THE NEW ORLEANS-BORN LEGEND WILL ALWAYS BE BEST KNOWN FOR HIS BARREL-HOUSE BLUES PIANO, YET THERE WAS A LOT MORE TO CHAMPION JACK THAN HIS MAMMOTH MUSICAL LEGACY. HE WAS A MIGHTY PROLIFIC PRESENCE IN THE RECORDING STUDIO DURING THE YEARS PRIOR TO ROCK’N’ROLL’S RISE, APPEARING ON A DIZZINGLY VARIETY OF LABELS AS HE CAVORTED WITH FELLOW SOUTHERN TRANSPLANTS BROWNIE McGHEE AND SONNY TERRY AND A VARIETY OF ADDITIONAL BANDSMEN, HE EVEN BACKED LITTLE WILLIE JOHN AT HIS FIRST SESSION FOR KING RECORDS IN 1955. LATER ON, DUPREE WAS A TRENDSETTER AS THE FIRST AMERICAN BLUESMAN TO FLEE THE RACISM AND DEGRADATION HE CONFRONTED ALL TOO OFTEN IN HIS HOMELAND BY SETTLING IN EUROPE AT THE DAWN OF THE ‘60s. HE WAS HAILED AS A MUSICAL HERO IN HIS ADOPTED SURROUNDINGS UNTIL HE DIED IN GERMANY IN 1992. GREAT ROCKIN’ BLUES AND RHYTHM AND BLUES *****

TRACK LISTING: All Night Party (released as Brownie McGhee) / Stumbling Block Blues / Number Nine Blues / Shake Baby Shake (1953) / Highway Blues / Drunk Again / Shim Sham Shimmy / Somebody Changed The Lock (as by Lightning Junior and The Empires) / The Ups (as Jack Dupree – Mr. Bear) / Lonely Road Blues (as Jack Dupree – Mr. Bear) / Story Of My Life (fast version) / When I Got Married / Dirty Woman / Old Time Rock And Roll / Down The Lane / Rocky Mountain / Just Like A Woman / Shake Baby Shake (1957) / The Wrong Woman / You’re Always Cryin’ The Blues / Woman Trouble Again / My Baby’s Like A Clock / Hello Darlin’ / Lollipop Baby / Shake Baby Shake (slow version) / Old Time Rock And Roll (fast version) / Stack-O-Lee / Frankie And Johnny / Nasty Boogie.

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