General Article name: Bluebird Recordings 1939-1942
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: DOXY Number of tracks: 41 Tracklist LP - 1 McClennan, Tommy - You Can Mistreat Me Here McClennan, Tommy - New "Shake' Em On Down McClennan, Tommy - Bottle It Up And Go McClennan, Tommy - Whiskey Head Woman McClennan, Tommy - Brown Skin Woman McClennan, Tommy - Cotton Patch Blues Baby Don't You Want To Go? McClennan, Tommy - Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me McClennan, Tommy - I'm going, don't you know McClennan, Tommy - New Highway 51 McClennan, Tommy - She's Just A Good Huggin' Size McClennan, Tommy - My Little Girl McClennan, Tommy - My Baby's Gone McClennan, Tommy - It's Hard To Be Lonesome   Tracklist - 2 McClennan, Tommy - My Baby's Doggin' Me McClennan, Tommy - She's A Good Looking Mama McClennan, Tommy - Whiskey Head Man McClennan, Tommy - New Sugar Mama McClennan, Tommy - Down To Skin And Bones Blues McClennan, Tommy - Katy Mae Blues McClennan, Tommy - Love With A Feeling McClennan, Tommy - Drop down mama McClennan, Tommy - Black Minnie McClennan, Tommy - Elsie blues McClennan, Tommy - Des'e my blues McClennan, Tommy - Cross Cut Saw Blues McClennan, Tommy - Classy Mae blues McClennan, Tommy - You can't read my mind   Tracklist - 3 McClennan, Tommy - Travelin' Higway Man McClennan, Tommy - Deep Blue See Blues McClennan, Tommy - I'm a guitar king McClennan, Tommy - It's a crying pity McClennan, Tommy - Mozelle Blues McClennan, Tommy - Blues Trip Me This Morning McClennan, Tommy - Mr So And So blues McClennan, Tommy - Roll me, baby McClennan, Tommy - I love my baby McClennan, Tommy - Shake it up and go McClennan, Tommy - Blue as I can be McClennan, Tommy - Bluebird Blues McClennan, Tommy - Boogie Woogie Woman McClennan, Tommy - Cross Cut Saw Blues (Alt Take)   Description Album Review (en)

McClennan's hoarse, shouted vocals, spoken vaudeville asides and scrappy guitar work make for a pretty irresistible combination, especially in light of the simple fact that most blues fans have never been exposed to his music in large doses. This double disc rounds up every known extant side recorded for Bluebird between 1939 to 1942, when the label dropped him for problems with alcohol. The music on here comes from five sessions and is uniformly excellent, if a bit samey. But it is blues at its most intense and unfettered, and tracks like "Bottle It Up and Go," "You Can Mistreat Me Here," "Baby Please Don't Tell On Me," "New Shake 'Em On Down," and "Baby Don't You Want to Go?" (the latter his adaption of "Sweet Home Chicago") are full of energy and verses worth requoting. This set is one of the true hidden treasures of the "Bluebird" period in blues history and, as such, deserves a much, much wider hearing. ~ Cub Koda

Cub Koda

Contributors Artist: Tommy McClennan Guest Artist: Robert Petway