Name: Keep It Rollin': The Blues Piano Collection
Brand: Rounder
SKU: 18240
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Keep It Rollin'

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Album: Keep It Rollin': The Blues Piano Collection
#	Song Title	Time
1)	In the Beginning - Willie Tee
2)	Give Me a Woman - Charles Brown
3)	All Around the World - James Booker
4)	Arkansas Blues - Tuts Washington
5)	Booker's Boogie - Booker T. Laury
6)	A Closer Walk With Thee/Amazing Grace: A Closer Walk With Thee / Amazing Grace - Davell Crawford
7)	Hound Dog - James Booker
8)	Black Night - Charles Brown
9)	Hard Times - Eddie Bo
10)	Yancey Special - Tuts Washington
11)	Keep It Rollin' - Davell Crawford
12)	Early in the Morning - Booker T. Laury
13)	Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Charles Brown
14)	I'm Through Dealing - Eddie Bo
15)	On the Q-Tee - Willie Tee
16)	My Children - Art Neville
17)	Amen - James Booker

Album: Keep It Rollin': The Blues Piano Collection
#	Song Title	Time
1)	In the Beginning - Willie Tee
2)	Give Me a Woman - Charles Brown
3)	All Around the World - James Booker
4)	Arkansas Blues - Tuts Washington
5)	Booker's Boogie - Booker T. Laury
6)	A Closer Walk With Thee/Amazing Grace: A Closer Walk With Thee / Amazing Grace - Davell Crawford
7)	Hound Dog - James Booker
8)	Black Night - Charles Brown
9)	Hard Times - Eddie Bo
10)	Yancey Special - Tuts Washington
11)	Keep It Rollin' - Davell Crawford
12)	Early in the Morning - Booker T. Laury
13)	Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Charles Brown
14)	I'm Through Dealing - Eddie Bo
15)	On the Q-Tee - Willie Tee
16)	My Children - Art Neville
17)	Amen - James Booker

Performer Notes

Includes liner notes by Tom McDermott.
Digitally remastered by Toby Mountain (Northeastern Digital, Southborough, Massachusetts).
Personnel: Eddie Bo, James Booker, Booker T. Laury, Charles Brown (vocals, piano); Davell Crawford, Art Neville, Tuts Washington, Willie Tee (piano).
Audio Mixers: David Farrell ; Suzanne Dyer; Paul Mufson; Scott Billington; Steve Rosenthal.
Liner Note Author: Tom McDermott.
Recording information: Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN; Hyde Street Studio, San Fransisco, CA; The Magic Shop, NY; Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, LA.
Photographers: Michael P. Smith; Mike Terranova; Rick Olivier; Karen Pulfer Focht.
Arrangers: Davell Crawford; James Booker; Charles Brown.
Probably the most amazing thing about this record is how fresh the music sounds. In a genre that at best has been recycling its sounds for over 50 years, it's exciting to hear that indeed, there is a lot of blues piano music being made that is vibrant, individual, and yes, living. While this album has its share of "dum da dum da dum" repetition, what is simply stunning are the tracks that expose a rainbow of individualistic expression -- no small accomplishment on an instrument and a genre most would consider fairly rigid. Of special note are the mean ramblings of James Booker, the furious virtuosity of Davell Crawford, and the near brilliant, jazzy explorations of Willie Tee. Also revelatory are the tracks by Charles Brown, a musician who refuses to be filed in some musical museum. This stuff is good, real good. One can only wonder why these men aren't bigger stars than they are. If you want to know what's been happening in blues piano for the last 20 years, this is where you start. ~ Rob Ferrier