Boogie Uproar - Texas Blues & R&B 1947-1954 (2006)

CD1 (entire disc is Clarence Gatemouth Brown)
01 - Gatemouth Boogie 
02 - Guitar In My Hand 
03 - After Sunset 
04 - Without Me Baby 
05 - Didn't Reach My Goal 
06 - Atomic Energy 
07 - Mercy On Me 
08 - My Time's Expensive 
09 - Mary Is Fine 
10 - I Live My Life 
11 - 2 O'Clock In The Morning 
12 - Boogie Rambler 
13 - I've Been Mistreated 
14 - It Can Never Be That Way 
15 - Justice Blues 
16 - Just Got Lucky 
17 - She Walk Right In 
18 - Win With Me Baby 
19 - Too Late Baby 
20 - Taking My Chances 
21 - Baby Take It Easy 
22 - She Winked Her Eye 
23 - Sad Hour 
24 - Pale Dry Boogie Part 1 
25 - Pale Dry Boogie Part 2

CD2
01 - Dirty Work At The Crossroad 
02 - You Got Money 
03 - September Song 
04 - Boogie Uproar 
05 - Please Tell Me Baby 
06 - Hurry Back Good News 
07 - Gate Walks To Board 
08 - Midnight Hour 
09 - Good Looking Woman 
10 - For Now, So Long 
11 - That's Your Daddy Yaddy Yo 
12 - Okie Dokie Stomp 
13 - Depression Blues 
14 - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
15 - Headlight Blues 
16 - Cry, Cry, Cry 
17 - Stavin' Chain 
18 - A Weary Silent Night 
19 - Boogie Woogie Nighthawk 
20 - My Baby Left Me 
21 - Lost 
22 - Crazy About My Baby 
23 - Waiting For Love 
24 - R.B. Boogie 
25 - New Kind Of Loving

CD3 (all tracks are by Goree Carter)
01 - Love's A Gamble
02 - Christmas Time
03 - Sweet Ole Woman's Blues
04 - Back Home Blues
05 - Rock Awhile
06 - I'll Send You
07 - How Can You Love Me
08 - My Love Is Coming Down
09 - Hoy - Hoy
10 - I Just Thought Of You
11 - She's Just Old Fashioned
12 - Workin' With My Baby
13 - Is It True
14 - What A Friend Will Do
15 - She's My Best Bet
16 - Serenade
17 - Come On Let's Boogie
18 - Lonely World
19 - Drunk Or Sober
20 - You Are My Everything
21 - Every Dog Has His Day
22 - Everybody's Love Crazy
23 - I'm Just Another Fool
24 - If It's True What They Tell Me
25 - Let's Rock
26 - True Love Is Hard To Find

CD4 (Goree Carter and Lester Williams)
01 - Seven Days
02 - When Night Falls
03 - Bull Corn Blues
04 - My Wish
05 - I've Got News For You
06 - I'm Your Boogie Man
07 - Please Say You're Mine
08 - Tell Me, Is There Still A Chance
09 - Let's Make Love
10 - Winter Time Blues
11 - I'm So Glad I Could Jump And Shout
12 - Dowling Street Hop
13 - All I Need Is You
14 - I Know That Chick
15 - Don't Treat Me So Low Down
16 - Texas Town
17 - Hey Jack
18 - The Folks Around The Corner
19 - Mary Lou
20 - I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use
21 - My Home Ain't Here
22 - Trying To Forget
23 - Let Me Tell You A Thing Or Two
24 - Lost Gal
25 - Sweet Lovin' Daddy
26 - Brand New Baby
27 - If You Knew How Much I Loved You

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and his Don Robey-produced sides are the clear stars here, but this 103-track set blankets the Lone Star State in its quest for the best blues sides! Includes My Time Is Expensive; Mary Is Fine Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night Zuzu Bollin; A Weary Silent Night James "Wide Mouth" Brown; My Baby Left Me Nelson Carson, and more. --- softarchive.net

For fans of postwar rockin' blues, the JSR label's Boogie Uproar: Texas Blues and R&B 1947-1954 will come as a revelation. Showcasing legendary blues icon Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's best early cuts, the set also features a treasury of hard to find sides by such lesser-known talents as Goree Carter, Zuzu Bollin, Nelson Carson, R.B. Thibadeaux, and Lester Williams. Given the general rarity of these recordings and overall high quality of the collected tracks, Boogie Uproar amounts to no less than a must-buy collection. ---Matt Collar, allmusic.com

Four discs.69,66,72,71 min. each approximately. Remastered sound-a little flat but considering the era,the sound is good to fine. For fans of T-Bone Walker this is a real find! All the artists here owe a deep debt to Walker. The arrangements,guitar,the vocals,even the overall sound is straight out of the Walker school. Are they mere imitations or the real deal? I'm happy to say that these artists are the real deal.

Except for a few tracks by (probably) Goree Carter the rest feature a horn section typical of the era. Combined with an upfront guitar sound this is music that typifies the era and the locale. The styles of music range from slow blues-r&b to shuffles and everything in between. Of the people featured, 'Gatemouth' Brown is probably the most well-known. His career lasted well into the twentieth century,and he made several fine albums(One More Mile,Okie Dokie Stomp)which stand up to this day. His portion of this collection includes his Peacock Recordings,which are some of his finest(the well-known Okie Dokie Stomp)songs he ever recorded. On these tracks Brown's vocals are more urgent sounding(a good thing)than Walker's. Additionally,the arrangements for the band,especially the horns,make the sound much fuller than one would think by just reading the notes. This set even has a two-part beer ad Brown recorded in the early fifties. All things considered,these are probably the finest tracks he ever recorded and it's nice to have them in one set.

The other major artist in this set is Goree Carter. A fine guitarist and vocalist,he was a lot closer in both guitar and vocal style to T-Bone Walker than Brown. His career was short and primarily confined to Texas. This set includes a number of tracks that are closer to straight Texas blues,some with a small group and others with several horns. The debt he owed to Walker is obvious,but if you're a fan of T-Bone Walker these tracks are very enjoyable.

Lester Williams,who has 18 tracks in this collection,was a singer very much in the style of both Walker and Carter. The arangements are tight and swinging and if he isn't well-known that doesn't stop the music from being first-rate Texas style blues,again with horn arrangements. Zuzu Bollin,another musician from the Walker school actually knew and learned from T-Bone Walker. Again the arrangements are typical and his voice is in emulation of Walker. It's interesting that well-known jazz musician David 'Fathead' Newman made his recording debut on the tracks in this set for Bollin.

The rest of the tracks in this set are taken up by James 'Widemouth'Brown,Nelson Carson and R.B.Thibadeaux. Brown's two tracks consist of a slower blues and one jump blues-aptly titled Boogie Woogie Nighthawk. Carson's tracks are a mixture of slow and fast songs,that while nothing exceptional,are good Texas/Walker style tunes. The two sides by Thibadeaux are a bit of a mystery as is the man. The only person in this set that doesn't play guitar,he never seemed to move past these tunes. Being critical,these are nothing to get excited over-what with their rather mundane arrangements and a vocal style none to exciting or expressive. However,it is nice to have things like this to keep the mind wondering-just who was he and what happened to him?

As usual the JSP folks have included fairly good notes,with each cd in it's own jewel case with their usual flimsy outer box. Saying that,I hope they continue putting these box sets out for a long time to come. The music,notes and the price are virtually unbeatable! If you're looking for information on other great JSP box sets,look for reviews under my name in the review section. --- Stuart Jefferson, amazon.com

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