Champion Jack Dupree – Blues Pianist of New Orleans, Vol. 1-3 (2019) [FLAC FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

3-CD box set of recordings made by blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer William Thomas “Champion Jack” Dupree in Denmark, during his years spent in Europe from 1959 through to the ’70s.

He always spoke very highly of the time he spent in Denmark, playing and recording with bands like Papa Bue’s Viking Jazz Band and Fessor’s Big City Band, and later the Kenn Lending Blues Band. He recorded for Storyville Records every time he was in Copenhagen, especially in the sixties. The music in this box set is from these great recordings.

After the war he moved to New York, where he made multiple recordings for many labels, including his legendary 1958 album for Atlantic Records, ‘Blues From The Gutter’. He went to England shortly thereafter, where he settled and got married. Through the sixties and the beginning of the seventies he lived in Halifax and briefly in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1975, after getting divorced, he moved to Hannover, Germany, where he lived until he died of cancer in 1992.

He toured constantly throughout his years in Europe, recording almost everywhere he went. he could be the bluesman with the most recordings in history. He invented songs for every recording he made – songs that in many cases he would only sing that one time. The first time he was recording for Rounder Records in New Orleans in 1990. They had booked the studio for two days, and after they were finished, there was material for at least three albums. After the first take, producer Ron Levy said, ‘Wow, that was great, Jack! Why don’t you do it again so we have an alternate take?’ ‘Oh, yeah’, Jack said, and then he did something else.

Tracklist:

Vol. 1
01. Gravier Street Rag (2:11)
02. New Vicksburg Blues (3:04)
03. Old Woman Blues (2:41)
04. Lonesome Bedroom Blues (3:13)
05. I’m a Gamblin’ Man (4:15)
06. Shake Baby, Shake (2:23)
07. Whiskey Head Woman (2:21)
08. Shirley May (2:59)
09. In the Evening (3:55)
10. Number Nine (3:11)
11. 41 Highway (2:28)
12. How Long Blues (2:43)
13. Blues Before Sunrise (3:57)
14. Midnight Hour Blues (3:56)
15. My Baby’s Gone (2:59)
16. My Mother is Gone (4:29)
17. Drive ‘Em Down Special (2:46)
18. I Just Want to Be Free (4:23)
19. Drivin’ Me Mad (4:09)
20. Back Door Special (3:48)
21. Keep Your Big Mouth Shout (2:29)
22. I Hate to Be Alone (2:59)
23. Tv Mama (4:15)

Vol. 2
01. Storybook (5:46)
02. Careless Love (4:46)
03. Mama Don’t Allow (3:52)
04. See See Rider (4:32)
05. Woodpecker (2:40)
06. You Can Make It (4:38)
07. Sometimes I Feel Like A (4:17)
08. Unborn Child (3:44)
09. When I Left Home (2:56)
10. 10Cross Eyed Woman (2:40)
11. I Lost a Good Woman (2:21)
12. Things I Used to Do (4:44)
13. Self Pity (4:43)
14. Ain’t That a Hard Pillow (4:36)
15. Have You Ever Been Alone (3:32)

Vol. 3
01. Automobile Blues (4:55)
02. Alberta (2:02)
03. Rocky Mountain Blues (3:56)
04. Deep Sea River (3:58)
05. Rock Me Mama (2:38)
06. Big Fat Mama (2:54)
07. Cryin’ Woman Blues (4:10)
08. Schoolday Blues (4:25)
09. Free and Equal (5:10)
10. My Heart Beat for You (4:03)
11. Trouble, Trouble (3:32)
12. I Ain’t Got to Be Your L (2:30)
13. Daybreak Blues (4:07)
14. Calcutta Blues (3:56)
15. Please Don’t Dog Your Wo (4:30)
16. Tee-Na-Nee-Na (3:09)
17. Bad Dog Blues (2:10)
18. Bus Station (2:58)

Download:

Vol.1
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Vol.2
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Vol.3
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