Friday 19 October 2018

Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues


Rating: 5/5

Review:
Another fantastic compilation from Rough Guides

This is yet another fantastic compilation from Rough Guides.

Barrelhouse was a piano-based blues form which morphed into boogie-woogie and is real good time music. As ever, Rough Guides have collected the obscure and the well-known to form an authoritative and hugely enjoyable from the rough and ready (but terrific) beginnings to the sophistication of piano geniuses like Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.

The sound is as good as can be expected from recordings of this vintage, and sometimes surprisingly excellent and you simply can’t go wrong here. If you have any interest in this sort of music, don’t hesitate – this is brilliant.

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