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Little Joe Blue - Little Joe Blue's Greatest Hits (1996)

Little Joe Blue - Little Joe Blue's Greatest Hits (1996)

BAND/ARTIST: Little Joe Blue

  • Title: Little Joe Blue's Greatest Hits
  • Year Of Release: 2016
  • Label: Evejim Records
  • Genre: Blues
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 00:59:32
  • Total Size: 349 mb
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Tracklist

01. Big Leg Woman
02. Dirty Work Going On
03. Don't Start Me To Talking
04. Encourage Me Baby
05. Just Your Fool
06. Stop Wasting My Time/ Don't Waste My Time
07. Let Me Love You
08. How Could You Do It To Me
09. I'm Doing All Right Again
10. As Mean As I've Been Good(double Dealing)
11. WHO
12. I'm Not Blind
13. Me And My Woman
14. Devil In Disguise
15. My Tomorrow
16. You Keep My Nose To The Grinding Stone

Little Joe Blue, born Joseph Valery, Jr., was a relatively late starter as a blues artist. Born in Mississippi in 1934, his musical sensibilities were heavily influenced by the work of Louis Jordan, Joe Liggins, and B.B. King, which he encountered from his teens into his 20s. He didn't turn to music as a profession until the late '50s, when he was well into his twenties, forming his band the Midnighters in Detroit at the end of the decade. By the early '60s, Valery had moved to Reno, Nevada, where he began recording as an adjunct to his performances in local clubs before moving on to Los Angeles. He recorded for various labels, including Kent and Chess' Checker Records division during the early to mid-'60s, and never entirely escaped the criticism that he was a B.B. King imitator, which dogged him right into the '80s. The style that King popularized also happened to suit Valery, however, and he gained some credibility in 1966 when he racked up a modest hit in 1966 with the song "Dirty Work Is Going On," which has since become a blues standard. He had extended stints with Jewel Records and Chess from the late '60s into the early '70s, and recorded until the end of the '80s. Valery performed throughout the south, and later Texas and California, during that decade, and later toured Europe, including performances as part of the International Jazz Fest during the '80s. There is currently one CD of his work in print, the Evejim disc Little Joe Blue's Greatest Hits, a reissue of two LPs, I'm Doing Alright and Dirty Work Going On, that he cut in the '80s. His "Standing on the Threshold," featuring a powerful vocal performance and some beautifully soaring horns behind some lean, mean guitar and piano, also appears on Jewel Spotlights the Blues.



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