Big Joe Turner

My Gal's a Jockey 1946 - 1950

(Jasmine)

Jasmine is the latest label to exhume these pre-Elvis jewels for contemporary appraisal, and the embryonic Blues rockin' still rings as brassy. Tracks compiled were put to wax in days when orchestras of hep players schooled in all-important grooves blared from phonographs and just-a-nickel jukeboxes. Among luminaries with whom mighty vocalist Joe rubbed shoulders were Wynonie Harris, Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, and Fats Domino. A perusal of 2024 sales charts illustrates the regrettable reality that talent such as struts here is no longer thought requisite; to savor it, we generally must repair to bygone documents.

Recommended: "My Gal's a Jockey," "It's a Lowdown Dirty Shame (Playboy Blues),"  "Sally Zu Zass," "I'm In Sharp When I Hit the Coast,"  "That's When It Really Hurts," "Battle Of the Blues (Part One"," "Battle Of the Blues (Part Two)," "Around the Clock" (Part One)," "I Don't Dig It," "Oo Ouch Stop," "Wine-O-Baby Boogie," "Mardi Gras Boogie," "Rainy Weather Blues," "Married Woman Blues," "Fuzzy Wuzzy Honey," "Adam Bit the Apple," "Life Is Just Like a Card Game," "I Want My Baby (When the Rooster Crows)," "Feelin' Happy," "Jumpin' At the Jubilee," "Jumpin' Tonight," "Love My Baby"

Video: "Feelin' Happy" (From 1956 film Shake, Rattle & Rock)

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