Amos Milburn was one of the pioneers of piano-based R&B to emerge from Texas in the post-war

Amos Milburn was one of the pioneers of piano-based R&B to emerge from Texas in the post-war years to become one of the artists who helped frame the template for rock 'n' roll, along the way enjoying a run of memorable hits from 1947 through into the mid-'50s.He developed from his beginnings as a boogie-woogie pianist to become a jump blues bandleader, scoring his first hit with 'Chicken Shack Boogie,' and after that helped the Los Angeles-based Aladdin label to become a major force, with his run of hits including his specialist strand of rocking booze-related hits like 'Bad Bad Whiskey', 'Thinking And Drinking', 'Let Me Go Home Whiskey', 'One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer' and 'Good Good Whiskey'. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises nearly half of the 106 A & B sides he released on Aladdin, and naturally includes all of his 19 Billboard R&B chart hits, the majority of his A sides and selected B sides. It provides a hugely entertaining showcase for his talents as a vocalist, pianist, songwriter and bandleader, with boogie-woogie and blues, hot R&B, and proto rock 'n' roll during the '50s as he competed with the wave of new artists who overtook those who had laid the groundwork.

Track Listing

• After Midnight
• My Baby's Booging
• Down The Road A Piece
• Operation Blues
• Money Hustlin' Woman
• Blues At Sundown
• Sad And Blue
• Train Time Blues
• Pool Playing Blues
• It Took A Long, Long Time
• Chicken Shack Boogie
• Bewildered
• A & M Blues
• Jitterbug Parade
• Hold Me Baby
• In The Middle Of The Night
• Rooming House Boogie
• Empty Arms Blues
• Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby
• Real Pretty Mama Blues
• Drifting Blues
• Tell Me How Long Has The Train Been Gone
• Johnson Rag
• Walkin' Blues
• Square Dance Boogie
• Birmingham Bounce

• Two Years Of Torture
• Sax Shack Boogie
• Bad Bad Whiskey
• I'm Going To Tell My Mama
• Tears, Tears, Tears
• Let's Rock A While
• That Was Your Last Mistake
• Just One More Drink
• Ain't Nothin' Shaking
• Trouble In Mind
• Thinkin' And Drinkin'
• Flying Home
• Put Something In My Hand
• Roll Mr. Jelly
• Greyhound
• Let Me Go Home Whiskey
• One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
• Let's Have A Party
• Good, Good Whiskey
• Milk And Water
• Baby, Baby All The Time
• Vicious, Vicious Vodka
• I Done Done It
• All Is Well
• House Party
• Soft Pillow

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: R & B

Language: English

Run Time: 143 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/12/16

UPC: 824046315122