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Showing posts with label Imperial Label. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imperial Label. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2022

Essential Rockabilly - The Imperial Story - various artists

 


1-1 Bob Luman– Red Hot

1-2 The Strikes – Rockin'

1-3 Dennis Herrold– Hip Hip Baby

1-4 Dorsey & Johnny Burnette*– Warm Love

1-5 Laura Lee Perkins– Kiss Me Baby

1-6 Ricky Nelson – Stood Up

1-7 Johnny Garner– Didi Didi

1-8 Lew Williams– Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop

1-9 Gene Henslee– Rockin' Baby

1-10 Bob Luman– Red Cadillac & A Black Moustache

1-11 Merle Kilgore– Everybody Needs A Little Lovin'

1-12 Lew Williams– Centipede

1-13 The Strikes – If You Can't Rock Me

1-14 Ricky Nelson – Boppin' The Blues

1-15 Laura Lee Perkins– Oh La Baby

1-16 Ronnie Smith – Long Time No Love

1-17 Slick Slavin– Speed Crazy

1-18 Billy Eldridge– Let's Go Baby

1-19 Bob Luman– Your Love

1-20 Lew Williams– Gone Ape Man


2-1 Dennis Herrold– Make With The Lovin'

2-2 Lew Williams– Cat Talk

2-3 The Strikes – I Don't Want To Cry Over You

2-4 Weldon Rogers– So Long, Good Luck & Goodbye

2-5 Bob Luman– Make Up Your Mind

2-6 Laura Lee Perkins– I Just Don’t Like This Kind Of Livin'

2-7 Jay Blue– Get Off My Back

2-8 Jimmy Craig – Oh Little Girl

2-9 Dorsey & Johnny Burnette*– My Honey

2-10 Johnny Garner– Kiss Me Sweet

2-11 Lew Williams– Abracadabra

2-12 Merle Kilgore– Ernie

2-13 Ricky Nelson – My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

2-14 Bob Luman– All Night Long

2-15 Jackie Walker– Only Teenagers Allowed

2-16 The Strikes – Baby I'm Sorry

2-17 Laura Lee Perkins– Don’t Wait Up

2-18 Gene Henslee– Dig'n And Datin'

2-19 Lew Williams– Something I Said

2-20 Bill Allen – Please Give Me Something


The Imperial Story - one

The Imperial Story - two

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Jimmy Bryant...The Fastest Guitar In the Country...original Imperial LP


Jimmy Bryant (March 5, 1925 – September 22, 1980) was a prominent American session guitarist. He was billed as "The Fastest Guitar in the Country".

Ivy J. Bryant, Jr. was born in Moultrie, Georgia, the oldest of 12 children. During the Great Depression he played the fiddle on street corners to help the family buy food, pushed to do so by his father.

After being wounded in World War II, he began working seriously on his guitar playing, influenced heavily by Django Reinhardt. After the war, he returned to Moultrie, then moved to Los Angeles county where he worked in Western films and played music in bars around L.A.'s Skid Row, where he met pioneering pedal steel guitarist Speedy West. West, who joined Cliffie Stone's popular Hometown Jamboree local radio and TV show, suggested Bryant be hired when the show's original guitarist departed. That gave Bryant access to Capitol Records since Stone was a Capitol artist and talent scout.

In 1950 Tex Williams heard Bryant's dizzying jazz/country style and used him on his recording of "Wild Card". In addition, Bryant and West played on the Tennessee Ernie Ford-Kay Starr hit "I'll Never Be Free", leading to both men being signed to Capitol as instrumentalists. Bryant and West became a team, working extensively with each other.

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