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    Shout, Rattle and Roll

    08/23/2005 | Proper Box Uk 

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    All Music Guide Review

    In his informative and wildly irreverent book -Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, Nick Tosches devotes a chapter to the life and career of blues shouter Big Joe Turner, whom he repeatedly refers to as "a big fat f ** k." Part of the charm of Tosches' book is he manages to make this sound like a compliment, and after listening to the exhaustive box set Shout, Rattle and Roll -- which collects a hundred Big Joe Turner sides recorded between 1938 and 1954 -- the appellation seems all the more appropriate. Big Joe was a man of profound appetites, and while his fabled girth testified to his love of a good meal, listening to his music offers ample evidence of his passion for women, whiskey, and wild living, which were the constant obsessions documented in his songs. Turner's style hardly changes a bit throughout these one hundred tunes and the sixteen years that separate the first from the last, and that's no insult -- Turner was less a mere blues singer than an honest-to-God force of nature, and no matter if he was being backed by a single pianist or a big jazz ensemble, Turner wailed like there was no tomorrow, ready to knock back some liquor and tell you all about the latest lady to turn his head (and it seems there were a bunch of them). Shout, Rattle and Roll collects a sizable majority of the material Turner waxed during the first 15 years of his recording career, and while the quality of the audio is expectedly uneven, the performances are not -- with Turner raising the rafters with some of the great men of blues and jazz (including Dave Bartholomew, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Elmore James, Albert Ammons, Art Tatum, Benny Carter, and many more), every track is a grand, howling paean to the pleasures of the flesh, and taken together it's a table-busting banquet of blues in true Big Joe proportions. (The set also includes an illustrated 48-page booklet with a fine biographical essay.) If this isn't the definitive Big Joe Turner set, that's only because Turner kept on singing and recording up until he dropped dead in 1987, leaving a lot more ground to cover, but this does offer a superb overview of the man's best and most influential stuff, and this box represents the true and glorious legacy of the "biggest, fattest f ** k" in the blues, who is doubtless still shouting in some honky tonk in the great beyond. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • It's All Right Baby
  • 2:34
  • 2
  • Goin' Away Blues
  • 2:43
  • 3
  • Roll 'Em Pete
  • 2:56
  • 4
  • Cherry Red
  • 3:01
  • 5
  • Lovin' Mama Blues
  • 3:21
  • 6
  • Café Society Rag
  • 3:05
  • 7
  • How Long How Long Blues
  • 3:22
  • 8
  • Shake It and Break It
  • 3:04
  • 9
  • Low Down Dirty Shame
  • 2:51
  • 10
  • I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • 3:17
  • 11
  • Joe Turner Blues
  • 2:50
  • 12
  • Piney Brown Blues
  • 2:57
  • 13
  • Lucille
  • 2:32
  • 14
  • Rock Me Mama
  • 2:57
  • 15
  • Rocks in My Bed
  • 3:13
  • 16
  • Goin' to Chicago (Blues)
  • 2:59
  • 17
  • Sun Risin' Blues
  • 2:49
  • 18
  • Blues in the Night
  • 2:29
  • 19
  • Cry Baby Blues
  • 2:54
  • 20
  • I Got a Gal (For Every Day of the Week)
  • 3:10
  • 21
  • Little Bittie Gal's Blues
  • 3:21
  • 22
  • Rebecca
  • 2:43
  • 23
  • It's the Same Old Story
  • 3:10
  • 24
  • S.K. Blues, Pt. 1
  • 2:55
  • 25
  • S. K. Blues, Pt. 2
  • 2:51
  • 26 (2)
  • Johnson & Turner Blues
  • 2:56
  • 27 (2)
  • Watch That Jive
  • 2:52
  • 28 (2)
  • S.K. Blues
  • 2:37
  • 29 (2)
  • My Gal's a Jockey
  • 3:06
  • 30 (2)
  • I Got Love for Sale
  • 2:31
  • 31 (2)
  • Sunday Morning Blues
  • 2:49
  • 32 (2)
  • Mad Blues
  • 2:23
  • 33 (2)
  • It's a Low Down Dirty Shame (Playboy Blues)
  • 2:35
  • 34 (2)
  • I'm Still in the Dark
  • 3:01
  • 35 (2)
  • Sally Zu-Zazz
  • 2:50
  • 36 (2)
  • Rock of Gibraltar Blues
  • 2:35
  • 37 (2)
  • That's When It Really Hurts
  • 2:46
  • 38 (2)
  • I'm in Sharp When I Hit the Coast
  • 2:52
  • 39 (2)
  • New Wee Baby Blues
  • 2:59
  • 40 (2)
  • Around the Clock, Pt. 1
  • 1:52
  • 41 (2)
  • Around the Clock, Pt. 2
  • 1:45
  • 42 (2)
  • Battle of the Blues, Pt. 1
  • 2:53
  • 43 (2)
  • Battle of the Blues, Pt. 2
  • 2:50
  • 44 (2)
  • Morning Glory
  • 2:28
  • 45 (2)
  • Low Down Dog
  • 2:34
  • 46 (2)
  • Empty Pocket Blues
  • 2:41
  • 47 (2)
  • Back Breaking Blues
  • 3:04
  • 48 (2)
  • Nobody in Mind
  • 3:12
  • 49 (2)
  • Rocks in My Bed
  • 2:36
  • 50 (2)
  • Whistle Stop Blues
  • 2:46
  • 51 (3)
  • Hollywood Bed
  • 2:40
  • 52 (3)
  • Howlin' Winds
  • 2:25
  • 53 (3)
  • Radar Blues
  • 2:45
  • 54 (3)
  • Wine-O-Baby Blues
  • 2:34
  • 55 (3)
  • Christmas Date Boogie
  • 2:37
  • 56 (3)
  • Tell Me Pretty Baby (How D'Ya Want Your Rollin' Done)
  • 2:48
  • 57 (3)
  • Old Piney Brown's Gone
  • 2:39
  • 58 (3)
  • My Heart Belongs to You
  • 2:39
  • 59 (3)
  • I Don't Dig It (1)
  • 2:16
  • 60 (3)
  • Rainy Weather Blues
  • 2:32
  • 61 (3)
  • Boogie Woogie Baby
  • 2:46
  • 62 (3)
  • I Love Ya I Love Ya I Love Ya
  • 2:37
  • 63 (3)
  • Born to Gamble
  • 2:56
  • 64 (3)
  • I Don't Dig It (2)
  • 2:40
  • 65 (3)
  • Ooo-Ouch Stop
  • 2:35
  • 66 (3)
  • Wish I Had a Dollar
  • 2:46
  • 67 (3)
  • Fuzzy Wuzzy Honey
  • 2:36
  • 68 (3)
  • Adam Bit the Apple
  • 2:50
  • 69 (3)
  • Still in the Dark
  • 2:49
  • 70 (3)
  • Just a Travelin' Man
  • 2:20
  • 71 (3)
  • Life Is Just a Card Game
  • 3:06
  • 72 (3)
  • Feeling Happy
  • 2:15
  • 73 (3)
  • After a While
  • 2:56
  • 74 (3)
  • When the Rooster Crows
  • 3:03
  • 75 (3)
  • Dawn Is Breaking Through
  • 3:19
  • 76 (4)
  • Jumpin' at the Jubilee
  • 2:51
  • 77 (4)
  • Story to Tell
  • 2:32
  • 78 (4)
  • Jumpin' Tonight (Midnight Rockin')
  • 2:23
  • 79 (4)
  • Lucille
  • 2:32
  • 80 (4)
  • Love My Baby (Little Bitty Baby)
  • 2:23
  • 81 (4)
  • After My Laughter Came Tears
  • 3:13
  • 82 (4)
  • Chains of Love
  • 3:23
  • 83 (4)
  • The Chill Is On
  • 2:47
  • 84 (4)
  • Bump Miss Suzie
  • 2:23
  • 85 (4)
  • I'll Never Stop Loving You
  • 3:19
  • 86 (4)
  • Sweet Sixteen
  • 2:56
  • 87 (4)
  • Don't You Cry
  • 2:30
  • 88 (4)
  • Poor Lover's Blues
  • 2:41
  • 89 (4)
  • Baby I Still Want You
  • 2:48
  • 90 (4)
  • Still in Love (With You)
  • 3:02
  • 91 (4)
  • Honey Hush
  • 2:40
  • 92 (4)
  • Crawdad Hole
  • 2:37
  • 93 (4)
  • Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop
  • 2:47
  • 94 (4)
  • TV Mama
  • 2:51
  • 95 (4)
  • You Know I Love You
  • 3:09
  • 96 (4)
  • Married Woman
  • 2:49
  • 97 (4)
  • Midnight Cannonball
  • 2:30
  • 98 (4)
  • Shake Rattle and Roll
  • 3:00
  • 99 (4)
  • Well All Right
  • 2:29
  • 100 (4)
  • In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down
  • 5:02

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