Boss Black Rockers Vol 5: Just Rockin' & Various - Boss Black Rockers Vol 5: Just Rockin' & Rollin (Various Artists) (CD)

Dear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black Rock and Roll from the "Golden Age" of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only "originated" this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black Rhythm and Blues music was suddenly re-named "Rock and Roll" to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes are pretty well-known but the vast majority are not. I'm pretty sure you have never heard a lot of the tracks included here - even if a lot of them were pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this new collection were actually household names in the "Rock and Roll World" of the 50s and early 60s. I sure hope this new series of 10 complimentary volumes will finally set things straight. Dig it!

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Eddie Clearwater - A Real Good Time
2. Frankie Lucas - I Want To Rock You Baby
3. Bobby Flare - Variety
4. Count Yates - Chimpanzee
5. “Slick” Gipson ; The Sliders - Foot Loose ; Fancy Free
6. The Ray Ellington Quartet - Giddy Up A Ding Dong
7. Brook Benton - Hurtin’ Inside
8. Larry Birdsong - Little School Girl
9. Luther ; Little Eva - Ain’t Got No Home
10. Davey Jones - The Chase
11. Harvey - Da Da Goo Goo
12. Bobby ; Buddy - What’s The Word-Thunderbird
13. Leonard Carbo - Pig Tails And Blue Jeans
14. Cornell Blakely - Don’t You Do It
15. The Blue Dots - Saturday Night Fish Fry
16. Buster Brown - Fannie Mae
17. Eddie Bo - I’m Wise
18. Dave “Baby” Cortez - You Give Me Heebie Jeebies
19. Joe Shepard - A Thousand Times
20. Shirley And Lee - Rockin’ With The Clock
21. Big Bob - What Am I
22. The Gentlemen - Something To Remember You By
23. Preston Epps - Bongo Rock
24. Bobby Freeman - (I Do The) Shimmy Shimmy
25. Professor Longhair - Look What You’re Doing To Me
26. V. and B.B. - They Just Rocking And Rolling
27. The Corvairs - Hey, Sally Mae
28. Ike Haley ; The Red Blazers - Lucille