Label: Prestige Bluesville / Original Blues Classics.
Release Date: November 5, 1991.
Release Info: BV-1055 (OBCCD 544).
Recording Date: 1956 - 1961.
Styles: Dirty Blues, Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Chicago Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Early Jazz, Electric Chicago Blues, Jug Band, Piedmont Blues, Regional Blues.
Erotic, humorous, and loaded with double entendres, these dozen tunes were recorded between 1956-61 by Memphis Slim, Tampa Red, Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson, Pink Anderson, Memphis Willie B., and Blind Willie McTell. It includes "Let Me Play with Your Poodle," "I'm a Red Hot Mama," and "If You See Kay." ~ Roundup Newsletter
Credits: Pink Anderson - guitar, primary artist, vocals; Peter Chatman - composer; Walter Donaldson - composer; Lonnie Johnson - guitar, primary artist, vocals; Wendell Marshall - bass; Blind Willie McTell - guitar, primary artist, vocals; Memphis Slim - piano, primary artist, vocals; Memphis Willie B. - composer, guitar, harmonica, primary artist, vocals; Bessie Smith - composer; Elmer Snowden - guitar; Victoria Spivey - composer, piano, primary artist, vocals; Tampa Red - guitar, kazoo, primary artist, vocals; Traditional - composer; George A. Whiting - composer; Hudson Whittaker - composer.
Tracks: 1. Sweet Root Man - Memphis Slim; 2. Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Tampa Red; 3. I'm A Red Hot Mama - Victoria Spivey / Lonnie Johnson; 4. Jelly Roll Baker - Lonnie Johnson; 5. Churning Man Blues - Memphis Slim; 6. Try Some Of That - Pink Anderson; 7. Steady Rollin' Blues - Memphis Slim; 8. Jelly Whipping Blues - Tampa Red; 9. That Man - Victoria Spivey; 10. Car Machine Blues - Memphis Willie B.; 11. If You See Kay - Memphis Slim; 12. Beedle Um Bum - Blind Willie McTell.