Label: Ripete Records.
Release Date: November 19, 1996.
Recording Time: 37 minutes.
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Electric Blues, Electric Country Blues.
In 1996 Ripete Records brought out The Best of Both Worlds, a pleasantly rowdy electric blues album by Napoleon "Nappy" Brown and the late Kip Anderson, natives of North and South Carolina, respectively. Stocked with standard jump blues material, some of it dating from the heyday of Brown's early successes as a Savoy recording artist, the punchy '90s production makes this a natural choice for cheerful reckless celebration and stress release. Highlights are a cover of Sticks McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," a jammin' rendition of "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well," Brown's famous "Night Time," and "Don't Be Angry," Anderson's rockin' "Knife and Fork," and a kicker of a version of "Hit the Road, Jack." If you're fixing to blow off a little steam, want to light a fire under a party, or just need a nice friendly kick in the butt, this might do it for you.
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Credits: Kip Anderson - composer, performer, primary artist; Gary P. Bass - harp; Jackie Brenston - composer; Nappy Brown - composer, primary artist, vocals; Mario Cartelli - vocals; Marion Carter - producer; Randy Gilkey - keyboards; Lew Herman - composer; Richard Jones - trumpet; James Kelley - vocals (background); Bernie Kenerson - sax (alto), sax (baritone), sax (tenor); Fred Madison - composer; Dave Mann - bass; Percy Mayfield - composer; Rose Marie McCoy - composer; Sticks McGhee - composer; Matt Robinson - bass; Fred Shaw - drums, engineer, mixing; Ronnie Waters - guitar; J. Mayo Williams - composer.
Tracks: 1) Rocket 88; 2) Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee; 3) It Should've Been Me; 4) (Night Time Is) The Right Time; 5) Down in the Bottom; 6) Knife and a Fork; 7) Big Foot May; 8) Don't Be Angry; 9) When You're Ugly Like Me; 10) Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well; 11) Hit the Road Jack; 12) You Never Had It So Good.