Big Joe Turner - Shout, Rattle And Roll - 4CD-Box (2005) [FLAC]

CD: Big Joe Turner - Shout, Rattle And Roll (4CD Box Set) (C)2005
Proper Records Ltd. PROPERBOX 89 UK

Tracklist:

Disc 1: Roll 'em Pete (01:14:20)

01. It’s All Right Baby 02:35
02. Goin’ Away Blues 02:44
03. Roll ‘Em Pete 02:57
04. Cherry Red 03:01
05. Lovin’ Mama Blues 03:22
06. Cafe Society Rag 03:05
07. How Long How Long Blues 03:23
08. Shake It And Break It 03:04
09. Low Down Dirty Shame 02:52
10. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 03:17
11. Joe Turner Blues 02:51
12. Piney Brown Blues 02:58
13. Lucille 02:32
14. Rock Me Mama 02:58
15. Rocks In My Bed 03:14
16. Goin’ To Chicago (Blues) 03:00
17. Sun Risin’ Blues 02:49
18. Blues In The Night 02:30
19. Cry Baby Blues 02:54
20. I Got A Gal (For Every Day Of The Week) 03:11
21. Little Bittie Gal’s Blues 03:22
22. Rebecca 02:43
23. It’s The Same Old Story 03:11
24. S.K. Blues Pt 1 02:56
25. S.K. Blues Pt 2 02:51

Disc 2: Watch That Jive (01:07:43)

01. Johnson & Turner Blues 02:56
02. Watch That Jive 02:52
03. S.K. Blues 02:38
04. My Gal’s A Jockey 03:07
05. I Got Love For Sale 02:31
06. Sunday Morning Blues 02:50
07. Mad Blues 02:24
08. It’s A Low Down Dirty Shame (Playboy Blues) 02:35
09. I’m Still In The Dark 03:01
10. Sally Zu-Zazz 02:51
11. Rock Of Gibraltar Blues 02:35
12. That’s When It Really Hurts 02:46
13. I’m In Sharp When I Hit The Coast 02:52
14. (New) Wee Baby Blues 02:59
15. Around The Clock Blues Pt 1 01:53
16. Around The Clock Blues Pt 2 01:45
17. Battle Of The Blues Pt 1 02:53
18. Battle Of The Blues Pt 2 02:51
19. Morning Glory 02:29
20. Low Down Dog 02:34
21. Empty Pocket Blues 02:42
22. Back Breaking Blues 03:04
23. Nobody In Mind 03:13
24. Rocks In My Bed 02:36
25. Whistle Stop Blues 02:46

Disc 3: Boogie Woogie Baby (01:07:43)

01. Hollywood Bed 02:41
02. Howlin’ Winds 02:26
03. Radar Blues 02:45
04. Wine-O-Baby Boogie 02:34
05. Christmas Date Boogie 02:38
06. Tell Me Pretty Baby (How D’ya Want Your Rollin’ Done) 02:49
07. Old Piney Brown Is Gone 02:39
08. My Heart Belongs To You 02:39
09. I Don’t Dig It (1) 02:17
10. Rainy Weather Blues 02:32
11. Boogie Woogie Baby 02:46
12. I Love Ya I Love Ya I Love Ya 02:38
13. Born To Gamble 02:57
14. I Don’t Dig It (2) 02:40
15. Ooo-Ouch Stop 02:36
16. Wish I Had A Dollar 02:47
17. Fuzzy Wuzzy Honey 02:37
18. Adam Bit The Apple 02:50
19. Still In The Dark 02:50
20. Just A Travelin’ Man 02:21
21. Life Is Just A Card Game 03:07
22. Feeling Happy 02:16
23. After A While 02:56
24. When The Rooster Crows 03:03
25. Dawn Is Breaking Through 03:19

Disc 4: Jumpin' At The Jubilee (01:11:52)

01. Jumpin’ At The Jubilee 02:52
02. Story To Tell 02:32
03. Jumpin’ Tonight (Midnight Rockin’) 02:24
04. Lucille 02:32
05. Love My Baby (Little Bitty Baby) 02:23
06. After My Laughter Came Tears 03:14
07. Chains Of Love 03:24
08. The Chill Is On 02:47
09. Bump Miss Suzie 02:24
10. I’ll Never Stop Loving You 03:19
11. Sweet Sixteen 02:56
12. Don’t You Cry 02:31
13. Poor Lover’s Blues 02:42
14. Baby I Still Want You 02:49
15. Still In Love (With You) 03:03
16. Honey Hush 02:41
17. Crawdad Hole 02:37
18. Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop 02:47
19. Tv Mama 02:52
20. You Know I Love You 03:10
21. Married Woman 02:49
22. Midnight Cannonball 02:31
23. Shake Rattle And Roll 03:01
24. Well All Right 02:30
25. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) 05:02

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Review by Mark Deming, allmusic.com

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.