Roosevelt Sykes - Raining In My Heart (2000)

01 – Fine And Brown [00:02:59]
02 – Lucky Blues [00:02:45]
03 – Raining In My Heart [00:03:05]
04 – Heavy Heart [00:02:41]
05 – 400 Blues [00:03:08]
06 – Too Hot To Handle (Hot Boogie) [00:02:51]
07 – Tell Me True [00:03:13]
08 – Ruthie Lee [00:02:35]
09 – Something Like That [00:03:03]
10 – Security Blues [00:02:50]
11 – Boogie Sykes [00:02:34]
12 – Listen To My Song (She’s The One For Me) [00:02:25]
13 – Toy Piano Blues [00:03:04]
14 – Been Through The Mill [00:02:53]
15 – Walkin’ This Boogie [00:02:29]
16 – Come Back Baby [00:02:39]
17 – 44 Blues [00:03:11]
18 – 400 Blues-alt. [00:02:59]
19 – Fine And Brown [00:02:56]
20 – Listen To My Song (She’s The One For Me)-alt. [00:02:39]

Personnel: 
Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano, celesta);
John Porter (guitar); 
Remo Biondi (violin); 
Oett "Sax" Mallard (alto saxophone); 
Robert "Sax" Crowder , J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); 
Armand Jump Jackson, Fred Below (drums).

Raining in My Heart album by Roosevelt Sykes was released Apr 16, 1995 on the Delmark label. This fine collection of Sykes's early-'50s sides for Chicago's United Records was reissued on Delmark in 2000. Raining in My Heart music CDs It contains some of the pianist's finest work with his jumping combo, the Honeydrippers (with unusual augmentation from violinist Remo Biondi on one 1952 date). "Toy Piano Blues" finds Sykes switching over to celeste, but "Too Hot to Handle," "Walking the Boogie," and "Fine and Brown" are in the customary Sykes mode Raining in My Heart songs. --- Bill Dahl, Rovi

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