#667 :: Rhythm Bomb Records & Koko Mojo Records Mix (14 Nov 2018)

Rhythm Bomb Records (RBR) is known internationally as one of the most innovative brands in "Rockin Roots" music. After over a decade in the music business, they are known for their passion for quality 1950s style music and their close connection with the rockin szene. 

Rhythm Bomb Records was founded 2003 in Hamburg, Germany and very soon after that established its first vintage recording studio in Berlin, Germany.

Quickly developing a fan base in the rockin szene, the label became synonymous for authentic Rockabilly music. Rhythm Bomb Records rapidly grew into an internationally known brand and opened subsidiaries in London and Los Angeles.

Most recently, they have developed from a traditional record company to a music marketing and promotion agency.

They also have another side, Koko Mojo Records, it's called, "the dark side of Rhythm Bomb Records. The approach of Koko Mojo Records is very simple: to release danceable 1950s Blues/Rhythm & Blues music on vinyl! Its compiled by DJs and their main goal is to make you dance!

Here's an ALL-MUSIC episode featuring some sizzling tracks from very hip bands on the szene, and then some *classics from the groovers and shakers from yesteryears.

Tracklist

The Red Hot Serenaders - Me & My Cauffeur Blues

Andi's Blues Orchester - Statesboro Blues

Gone Hepsville - Show Me That You Can Rock

The Nut Jumpers - Blow Your Top

Nico Duportals Rhythm Dudes feat. Jai Milano - Rocket Girl

The Hoodoo Tones - Do It For The Road

The Railbones - If You Want My Love

Shakedown Tim & The Rhythm Revue - Icepick's Shakedown Th'owdown

Rob Ryan Roadshow - Got My Mojo Working

Shaun Young and The Texas Blue Dots - Baby Stop Your Jivin Me

Dusty Dave & The Heart Attacks - Love-Hate

SaraLee - 1-2-3 He's Mine

Ruzz Guitar's Blues Revue - Mine All Mine

*Jackie Brenston - Trouble Up The Road 

*Juke Boy Bonner - Well Baby 

*Lazy Lester - I Hear You Knockin' 

*David Dean's Combo - Double Freeze

*Big Amos - Move With You Baby

*Van Walker - The Crawl

*Sonny Boy Williams - Another Half A Pint 

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#562 :: Big Road Blues with Jeff Harris (Jookin' – Honkin' Sax From New York Pt. 1)

The Blues Room #562

Wednesday 9 November 2016

9pm-10pm, FreeFM89.0, Hamilton, NZ.

LIVE stream: http://tunein.com/radio/The-Blues-Room-p446677/

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For many years Nate has been following a vintage blues radio show hosted by Jeff Harris called Big Road Blues. Jeff presents his 2-hour show each Sunday from 5 to 7 PM (EST) on WGMC Jazz90.1 (Rochester, NY) and it streams live on the web from http://www.jazz901.org/listen-live/. Jeff has kindly given permission for Big Road Blues to be re-run on The Blues Room each month, on the second Wednesday. This episode here is a classic example of what you'll hear from Jeff; superb tracks, great commentary, and a taste of classic and often rare and forgotten blues. As Jeff's shows are two hours long, Nate will post a link for listeners to check out the second half of his show. For archived shows of Big Road Blues please check out http://sundayblues.org/. So a big thank you goes out to Jeff and we look forward to sharing some of his outstanding shows on The Blues Room.

"Today's show is a part one of our look at some great New York based sax men who's honkin' sound was heard on hundreds of records in the 40's and 50's. This show is one of several sax based shows this year starting a few months ago with a two-part show of Chicago horn men , followed by two spotlighting some great L.A. Horn blowers. Illinois Jacquet is cited as the one who kicked off the era of honkin' sax in 1945 with his famous solo on "Flying Home" while working with Lionel Hampton's band. As Big Jay McNeely said of of the song, "every time we picked up our horns we were just elaborating on that, trying to make it bigger, wilder, give it more swing, more kick. If you want to know where rhythm and blues began, that's it brother." Today we spin some great honkin' sax records, some cut by the horn men themselves and others featuring their raucous playing behind some great blues singers, both well known and obscure. The records were issued on a myriad of small New York independent labels labels such as Atlas, Derby, Coral, Apollo, Groove, Fire/Fury, Savoy and bigger players such as King and Atlantic. Along the way we'll hear some exciting instrumentals and hear them back some terrific blues singers, both famous like Wynonie Harris, Big Joe Turner and Ruth Brown, to the obscure such as Eddie Mack, Mr. Bear and Edna McGriff. Among those featured today are legendary horn men such as Hal Singer and Freddie Mitchell who played on countless sessions as well as recording some exciting sides under their own names. Then there were sax men primarily know for their session work such as the prolific Sam “The Man” Taylor, Budd Johnson and Big Al Sears. There were the sax men who led their own bands and were stars in their own right such as Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, Red Prysock, Earl Bostic and Bullmoose Jackson. Others heard today include the incendiary Noble “Thin Man” Watts, the rising star King Curtis, Willis “Gator” Jackson, Buddy Lucas, Frank Culley and others. On part two we'll spin more great tracks by theses sax men as well as hearing form others such as Sil Austin, Buddy Tate, Charlie Singleton and more. We'll provide some background on some of today's artists and fill in details about the rest next week." Read more at Jeff's site: Sunday Blues

Big Road Blues Show :: Jookin' – Honkin' Sax From New York Pt. 1

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And check out Pt. 2 here

1. Hal Singer & Carl Davis - I Feel So Good

2. Hal Singer - Disc Jockey Boogie

3. Wynonie Harris w/ Frank Culley & Hal Singer - I Feel That Old Age Coming On

4. Ruth Brown w/ Freddie Mitchell - I Would If I Could

5. Eunice Davis & Freddie Mitchell Orchestra - Rock Little Daddy

6. Freddie Mitchell - Rockin' With Coop

7. Big Joe Turner w/ Sam Taylor - In The Evening

8. Bull Moose Jackson w/ Sam Taylor - Cherokee Boogie

9. Bull Moose Jackson w/ Red Prysiock - Big Ten Inch

10. Wynonie Harris w/ Red Prysiock - Down Boy Down

11. Red Prysock - Jump Red, Jump

12. Willis Jackson - Good To The Bone

13. Eddie Mack w/ Willis Jackson - Mercenary

14. Big Joe Turner w/ Al Sears - Ti - Ri – Lee

15. Nappy Brown w/ Big Al Sears - Well Well Well Baby

16. Big Al Sears - Marshall Plan 

#558 :: Big Road Blues with Jeff Harris (Rockin & Jumpin' Honkin Sax from New York pt.2)

The Blues Room #558

Wednesday 12 October 2016

9pm-10pm, FreeFM89.0, Hamilton, NZ.

LIVE stream: http://tunein.com/radio/The-Blues-Room-p446677/

Left click this link to listen to episode #558

Or right-click this link to download episode #558

For many years Nate has been following a vintage blues radio show hosted by Jeff Harris called Big Road Blues. Jeff presents his 2-hour show each Sunday from 5 to 7 PM (EST) on WGMC Jazz90.1 (Rochester, NY) and it streams live on the web from http://www.jazz901.org/listen-live/. Jeff has kindly given permission for Big Road Blues to be re-run on The Blues Room each month, on the second Wednesday. This episode here is a classic example of what you'll hear from Jeff; superb tracks, great commentary, and a taste of classic and often rare and forgotten blues. As Jeff's shows are two hours long, Nate will post a link for listeners to check out the second half of his show. For archived shows of Big Road Blues please check out http://sundayblues.org/. So a big thank you goes out to Jeff and we look forward to sharing some of his outstanding shows on The Blues Room.

Today's show is part two of a look at some of the great New York based sax men who's honkin' sound was heard on hundreds of records in the 40's and 50's. This show is one of several sax based shows this year that Jeff has aired, starting a few months ago with one based in Chicago, followed by two spotlighting some great L.A. Horn blowers. Illinois Jacquet is cited as the one who kicked off the era of honkin' sax in 1945 with his famous solo on "Flying Home" while working with Lionel Hampton's band. As Big Jay McNeely said of of the songe, "every time we picked up our horns we were just elaborating on that, trying to make it bigger, wilder, give it more swing, more kick. If you want to know where rhythm and blues began, that's it brother." 

 Today Jeff spins some great honkin' sax records, some cut by the horn men themselves and others featuring their raucous playing behind some great blues singers, both well known and obscure. The records were issued on a myriad of small New York independent labels such as Atlas, Derby, Coral, Apollo, Groove, Savoy and bigger players such as King and Atlantic. Among those featured today are legendary horn men such as Hal Singr and Freddie Mitchell who played on countless sessions as well as recording some exciting sides under their own names. Then there were sax men primarily know for their session work such as the prolific Sam “The Man” Taylor, Budd Johnson and Big Al Sears. There were the sax men who lead their own band and were stars in their own right such as Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, Red Prysock, Earl Bostic and Bullmoose Jackson. Others heard today include the incendiary Noble “Thin Man” Watts, the rising star King Curtis, Willis “Gator” Jackson, Buddy Lucas, Frank Culley, Sil Austin, Buddy Tate, Jesse Powell and others. Sil Austin once said, "exciting horn, honking horn, gutbucket horn is what kids wanted to hear, so I made sure I played more of that. They called it rock 'n' roll. And the records sold."

Big Road Blues Show :: Rockin' And Jumpin' – Honkin' Sax From New York Pt. 2

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1. Buddy Lucas - Hustlin Family Blues

2. Buddy Lucas - Big Bertha

3. Wynonie Harris w/ Buddy Lucas - Triflin' Woman

4. Joseph "Google Eyes" August w/ Buddy Tate - Rock My Soul

5. Rene Hall w/ Buddy Tate - Blowin' Awhile

6. Wynonie Harris w/ Buddy Tate - Mr. Blues Is Coming To Town

7. Arbee Stidham w/ Hal Singer - Stidham Jumps

8. Hal Singer - Buttermilk And Beans

9. Fank Floorshow Culley - After Hours Session

10. Jimmy Rushing w/ Frank Culley - Lonesome Daddy Blues

11. Frank Floorshow Culley - Floorshow

12. Freddie Mitchell - Moondog Boogie

13. Honey Brown w/ Freddie Mitchel - Rockin' And Jumpin'

14. Bullmoose Walker w/ Sam Taylor - Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again

15. Sam "The Man" Taylor - Oo-Wee

16. Champion Jack Dupree w/ Jesse Powell - Fifth Avenue Blues

#545 :: Big Road Blues with Jeff Harris (Mix Show)

The Blues Room #545

Wednesday 13 July 2016, 

9pm-10pm, FreeFM89.0, 

http://player.wizz.co.nz/freefm89/, 

Hamilton, NZ.

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Zippy download

For many years Nate has been following a vintage blues radio show hosted by Jeff Harris called Big Road Blues. Jeff presents his 2-hour show each Sunday from 5 to 7 PM (EST) on WGMC Jazz90.1 (Rochester, NY) and it streams live on the web from http://www.jazz901.org/listen-live/. Jeff has kindly given permission for Big Road Blues to be re-run on The Blues Room each month, on the second Wednesday. This episode here is a classic example of what you'll hear from Jeff; superb tracks, great commentary, and a taste of classic and often rare and forgotten blues. As Jeff's shows are two hours long, Nate will post a link for listeners to check out the second half of his show. For archived shows of Big Road Blues please check out http://sundayblues.org/. So a big thank you goes out to Jeff and we look forward to sharing some of his outstanding shows on The Blues Room.

Click this link to listen to the second half of this episode.

1. Washboard Sam - Diggin' My Potatoes 

2. Arbee Stidham - You'll Be Sorry 

3. Roosevelt Sykes - Fine and Brown 

4. Big Bill Broonzy - Tomorrow Black, Brown And White

5. Earl Hooker & Bobby Saxton - Dynamite 

6. Roosevelt Sykes - Honey Child 

7. Roosevelt Sykes - Feel like Blowing My Horn

8. Maggie Jones - Box Car Blues

9. Ora Brown - T. W. A. Blues 

10. Sharlie English - Tuba Lawdy Blues 

11. Elzadie Robinson - Love Crazy Blues

12. Three Dynamites - Dig These Dynamites 

13. Jimmy Nolen - Strollin' with Nolen I 

14. Ivory Joe Hunter - Old Gal, New Gal Blues 

15. Lyin' Joe Holley - Big Machine Blues 

16. Lyin' Joe Holley - Drinking Budweiser