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New Orleans Barrel House Boogie

Champion Jack Dupree Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	Gamblin' Man Blues
2	Warehouse Man Blues
3	Chain Gang Blues
4	New Low Down Dog
5	Black Woman Swing
6	Cabbage Greens No. 1
7	Cabbage Greens No. 2
8	Angola Blues
9	My Cabin Inn
10	Bad Health Blues
11	That's All Right
12	Gibing Blues
13	Dupree Shake Dance
14	My Baby's Gone
15	Weed Head Woman
16	Junker Blues
17	Oh, Red
18	All Alone Blues
19	Big Time Mama
20	Shady Lane
21	Hurry Down Sunshine
22	Jackie P. Blues
23	Heavy Heart Blues
24	Morning Tea
25	Black Cow Blues

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1993
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 7 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000028QA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #281,744 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #250 in New Orleans Blues
- #339 in Piano Blues
- #418 in Jump Blues

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Joe = Maggie

piano boogie

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2013

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Another winner. Another classic.

With some repeats - although done differently.

But who's counting?

The mix is what counts here, and some songs are so good they are worth repeating - and listening to - over and over again.

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Pianoman

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2006

Champion Jack Dupree (1910 -- 1991) led an eventful and varied life as a bluesman, professional boxer, cook, and late in life, painter. This CD, part of Columbia's "roots & blues series" includes Champion Jack's earliest recordings, cut in Chicago and dating from 1940 --1941. The compilation includes 25 tracks, including 11 not previously relased. Dupree sings and plays the piano and is accompanied on most tracks by bass and guitar.

Dupree grew up in New Orleans. From infancy, when his parents died, until the age of 14 he was raised in that city's "Colored Waif's Home for Boys" where Louis Armstrong, ten years older, also spent his early years. Dupree learned the piano from barrelhouse performers in New Orleans and ultimately headed north to Indianapolis. He gave up music for a period and became a boxer in the lightweight division, fighting on the Joe Lous- Max Schmelling undercards. He resumed his musical career in 1940, when he made the recordings on this CD. Following two years as a Japanese prisoner of war in WW II, Dupree returned to music. In 1958, he became an expatriate and moved to London and ultimately to Hanover, Germany where he lived until his death in 1991. In the last two years of his life, he returned on triumphal tours of a United States he found had greatly changed.

Jack Dupree had a driving, energetic, and two-fisted piano style much in evidence on these early recordings. His playing features big, aggressive chords, frequently in both hands. But often the right hand plays trills or tremelo figures in the upper part of the instrument accompanying a heavy bass line. As a singer, Dupree, was definitely a "shouter" rather than a "crooner" with a gravely, gritty voice. (On a few tracks on this CD he briefly jumps into falseto passages.) He wrote most of his own lyrics, and the songs on this CD reflect his wandering, unsettled life. The songs are tough and describe a world of mistreating women and men, wandering, poverty, prison, and alcohol and substance abuse. (Champion Jack did not himself generally drink to excess or use substances.)

The tracks on this CD I most enjoyed were the companion tunes, "New Low Down Dog" and "Black Woman Swing", the double-sided "Cabbage Greens", which Dupree performed many times, the "Dupree Shake Dance" with its long piano opening, and his famous "Junker Blues", about the life of addiction. Many of the tracks on this CD, including "Big Time Mama" and the blues standard (not by Dupree) "Oh Red" have been recorded by many blues artists. The song "Hurry Down Sunshine" shows Dupree performing in an earlier style of blues that reminded me of Delta bluesmen, while the song "All Alone Blues" shows a pensive Dupree performing at a slower and more reflective tempo that the other cuts on this CD.

As his career progressed, Dupree became regarded more as an entertainer than as a blues artist. But these early recordings show his barrelhouse pianism at its best. Other recordings by Champion Jack Dupree that reward hearing include an LP "The Women Blues of Champion Jack Dupree" that he made for Moe Asch and Folkways Records following WW II, his famous 1957 LP "Blues from the Gutter" on Atlantic, and his final, eloquent testament, "Forever and Ever", recorded shortly before his death.

Robin Friedman

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Palmetto

Champion jack dupree the real deal

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2007

Let me tell you what, this CD captures the pre war bluesman's life in the south PERIOD. This man, Jack Dupree, is best in class with this original New Orleans/blues/boogie. The way he arranges his lyrics its just total period Americana, there is just nothing like it. It comes alive when you let it in. Get you some good bourbon whiskey a quiet surrounding and soak it in like the south Louisiana sunshine it is GOD BLESS NEW ORLEANS!

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Otis Spain

Fantastic reissue, the definitive one!

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2008

The music is essential piano blues if it ever was some, but let me tell you also that this reissue is simply superb: great sound, masterful packaging design, 20-pages booklet... 5 stars.

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pinball head

Influence on everyone, after him...

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2004

This man was a boogie woogie great. A pounding pianist, who had loads of energy and loved what he did! This cd showcases hsi ability to make any song into a jumping boogie woogie tinged blues. Exellent piano, and just plain fun, borders on r&b. He influenced every boogie or r&b, rock'n'roll pianist that came after him for the nect 25 years. Too bad he's only rememebered today for being a boxer, wannabe pianist, when he really was very good at playing boogie woogie piano, and pounding it out!!!

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DEWDROPINN

FANTASTIC!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2012

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A truly fantastic Cd with his 1940 and 1941 Okeh Chicago recordings.I still find
it strange that he recorded most of his recordings outside of his home town New Orleans and when I met him thirty odd years ago he laughed it off when I asked him.Please do listen to that fantastic right hand on 'cabbage greens' and 'Angola Blues' is for me one of his best ever recordings!This CD is a real gem for all New Orleans / boogie woogie freaks and the people who put together this CD are to be congratulated.A real gem!!!

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