Blues

Shakey Jake - Further On Up The Road (1969)

2019-06-04T15:41:48Z

Shakey Jake - Further On Up The Road (1969)


A1 	Everything Gonna Be Alright 	
A2 	Hold That Bus, Conductor 	
A3 	Strollin' On The Strip 	
A4 	Respect Me Baby 	
A5 	I Will Always Love You 	
A6 	Three Times Seven 	
B1 	Further On Up The Road 	
B2 	A Hard Road To Travel 	
B3 	Save Your Money Baby 	
B4 	Too Hot To Hold 	
B5 	Long Distance Call

Bass – Robert "Mojo" Elem
Drums – Francis Clay
Guitar – Luther Allison
Harmonica [Harp] – Kenny Courtney (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A6, B1, B2, B5), Shakey Jake (tracks: A3, B3, B4)
Piano – Sunnyland Slim (tracks: A2 to A5, B2, B3, B5), Wandering John (tracks: A1, A6, B1, B4)
Vocals – Shakey Jake (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to A6, B1, B2, B5)

Shakey Jake Harris (April 12, 1921 – March 2, 1990) was an American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter. He released five albums over a period of almost 25 years. He was often musically associated with his nephew Magic Sam.

His debut recording was the single "Call Me if You Need Me", backed with "Roll Your Moneymaker", released by Artistic Records in 1958, featuring Magic Sam and Syl Johnson on guitar and produced by Willie Dixon. Harris was not paid for the session, but he won $700 shooting craps with label owner Eli Toscano.

In 1960, Bluesville Records teamed Harris with the jazz musicians Jack McDuff and Bill Jennings for the album Good Times. His later recording of Mouth Harp Blues returned to a more traditional blues style. Harris toured and was part of the American Folk Blues Festival tour in 1962.

Throughout the 1960s Harris and Sam appeared regularly in concert together around Chicago. Harris's patronage of younger musicians helped secure Luther Allison's recording debut. Harris moved on in the late 1960s, recording with Allison in Los Angeles on Further On up the Road. ---revolvy.com

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Shakey Jake - The Key Won't Fit (1983)

2018-09-10T12:00:20Z

Shakey Jake - The Key Won't Fit (1983)


A1 	Do The Boogie With You 	
A2 	Cross My Heart 	
A3 	The Key Won't Fit 	
A4 	Down So Long 	
A5 	What You Want Me To Do 	
B1 	Let Me Tell You Baby 	
B2 	Never Leave You 	
B3 	Save Your Money 	
B4 	Easy Baby

Bass – Bill Stuve (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B4), Larry Taylor (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3)
Blues Harp – Rod Piazza
Drums – Bill Swartz (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B4), Sam King (6) (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3)
Guitar – Hollywood Fats (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3), Junior Watson (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B4), Lee King (2) (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3)
Piano – Honey Alexander (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2, B4)
Vocals – Shakey Jake

Jake Harris knew how to shake a pair of dice in order to roll a lucrative winner. He also realized early on that his nephew, guitarist Magic Sam, was a winner as a bluesman. Harris may not have been a technical wizard on his chosen instrument, but his vocals and harp style were proficient enough to result in a reasonably successful career (both with Sam and without).

Born James Harris, the Arkansas native moved to Chicago at age seven. Admiring the style of Sonny Boy Williamson, Harris gradually learned the rudiments of the harp but didn't try his hand at entertaining professionally until 1955. Harris made his bow on vinyl in 1958 for the newly formed Artistic subsidiary of Eli Toscano's West Side-based Cobra Records. His only Artistic 45, "Call Me If You Need Me"/"Roll Your Moneymaker," was produced by Willie Dixon and featured Sam and Syl Johnson on guitars.

The uncompromising Chicago mainstream sound of that 45 contrasted starkly with Jake Harris' next studio project. Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary paired him with a pair of jazzmen -- guitarist Bill Jennings and organist Jack McDuff -- in 1960 for a full album, Good Times (the unlikely hybrid of styles working better than one might expect). The harpist encored later that year with Mouth Harp Blues, this time with a quartet including Chicagoan Jimmie Lee Robinson on guitar and a New York rhythm section (both of his Bluesville LPs were waxed in New Jersey).

Jake Harris and Magic Sam remained running partners for much of the '60s. They shared bandstands at fabled West Side haunts such as Sylvio's, where he was captured on tape in 1966 singing "Sawed Off Shotgun" and "Dirty Work Goin' On" (later available on a Black Top disc by Sam) -- and Big Bill Hill's Copacabana before Harris moved to Los Angeles in the late '60s. He recorded for World Pacific and briefly owned his own nightclub and record label before returning to Arkansas, where he died in 1990. ---Bill Dahl, allmusic.com

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Shakey Jake Harris - Good Times (1960)

2016-02-09T17:01:56Z

Shakey Jake Harris - Good Times (1960)


A1 	Worried Blues 	
A2 	My Foolish Heart 	
A3 	Sunset Blues 	
A4 	You Spoiled Your Baby 	
A5 	Tear Drops 	
A6 	Just Shakey 	

B1 	Jake's Blues 	
B2 	Still Your Fool 	
B3 	Keep A-Loving Me Baby 	
B4 	Call Me When You Need Me 	
B5 	Huffin' & Puffin' 	
B6 	Good Times

Shakey Jake Harris - Harmonica, Vocals
Bill Jennings - Guitar
Jack McDuff – Organ

Chicago harpist Shakey Jake Harris journeyed all the way to New Jersey to make his debut album in 1960. It was a huge stylistic departure for Harris -- he was paired with jazz mainstays Brother Jack McDuff on simmering Hammond organ and blues-tinged guitarist Bill Jennings. The trio located some succulent common ground even without a drummer, Harris keeping his mouth organ phrasing succinct and laying out when his more accomplished session mates catch fire. ---Bill Dahl, Rovi

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Shakey Jake - Mouth Harp Blues (1960)

2011-07-20T09:09:22Z

Shakey Jake - Mouth Harp Blues (1960)


A1. Mouth Harp Blues    		play
A2. Love Me Baby    
A3. Jake's Cha Cha    
A4. Gimme a Smile    
A5. My Broken Heart    		play
B1. Angry Lover    
B2. Things Is Alright    
B3. Easy Baby    
B4. Things Are Different Baby    
B5. It Won't Happen Again

Credits:
Shakey Jake- Vocal, Harmonica
Robert Banks- Piano 
Jimmy Lee Robinson-  Guitar 
Leonard Gaskin- Bass 
Junior Blackmon- Drums

The late James Harris earned the moniker Shakey Jake due to his proficiency at dice, but he was equally adept at the blues game. The Arkansas-born, Chicago-based singer and harmonica blower traveled to Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio in November 1960 to record this, his second album for the Bluesville label. Jake brought along Jimmie Lee Robinson, the brilliant, fast-fingered guitarist best known for his work with Little Walter's band. Also making tasty contributions to the session was Robert Banks, the New York R&B and gospel studio organist who, in this case, ably appointed himself as a two-fisted blues piano stylist. Among the 10 selections is the distinctively loping Easy Baby, a tune also associated with Jake's nephew Magic Sam.

Guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson, who died in 2002, was the soul of Acoustic Sounds' own APO Records. He was the first to record at Blue Heaven Studios, having made three records (one still unreleased) in the converted church, and he was there several more times to perform. A Chicago native and lifelong resident, Robinson began playing guitar in the open-air market on Maxwell Street in 1942 with the likes of Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk. He later teamed with Freddie King for a four-year partnership and went on to play guitar and bass with Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Eddie Taylor, Elmore James, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Reed, Magic Sam and of course Shakey Jake. This title is not eligible for further discount. --- soundstagedirect.com

When Harris returned to New Jersey later that same year to wax his Bluesville encore, he brought along fellow Chicagoan Jimmie Lee Robinson as his guitarist. A full rhythm section was used this time (New York cats all), but the overall approach was quite a bit closer to what he was used to hearing on Chicago's West side. ---Bill Dahl

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