Description
Release Date: 1996
Label: Delmark
Track List
- Buy Me Some Juice ( Blu Lu Barker )
- Where’s Joe ( Blu Lu Barker )
- Lyin’ In Jail ( Blu Lu Barker )
- Easy Riding Blues ( Wee Bea Booze )
- I Just Ain’t Feelin’ Right ( Wee Bea Booze ) ( alternate )
- Feel It ( Baby Dee )
- I Want To See My Daddy ( Baby Dee )
- Don’t You Feel My Leg ( Blu Lu Barker )
- That Made Him Mad ( Blu Lu Barker )
- I Feel Like Laying In Another Woman’s Husband’s Arms ( Blu Lu Barker )
- Don’t Tell Me Nothin’ ‘Bout My Man (Wee Bea Booze )
- I’m Gonna Put You Down ( Wee Bea Booze )
- I Just Ain’t Feelin’ Right ( Wee Bea Booze )
- Look What Baby’s Got For You ( Baby Dee )
- Baby Dee Blues ( Baby Dee )
- Buy Me Some Juice ( Blu Lu Barker ) ( alternate )
- You Gotta Show It To Me Baby ( Blu Lu Barker )
- There Was A L’il Mouse ( Blu Lu Barker )
Personnel
- Blu Lu Barker – vocals
- Wee Bea Booze – vocals
- Baby Dee – vocals
- Danny Barker – guitar
- Shad Collins – trumpet
- Teddy McRae – tenor sax
- Norman Lester – piano
- Ernest Williamson – bass
- Jerry Jerome – tenor sax
- Woodie Nichols – drums
- Larry Johnson – organ, piano
- George Kelly – tenor sax
- Chris Power – bass
- Panama Francis – drums
- Bill Campbell – piano
Notes
Subtitled “Apollo’s Lady Blues Singers,” this Delmark CD has nine numbers (three previously unissued) by Blue Lu Barker, five from Wee Bea Booze and four by Baby Dee. Barker was rather limited but ironically was easily the best-known singer of the three. She is assisted on some cuts (all outfitted by Danny Barker lyrics) by trumpeter Shad Collins and either Teddy McRae or Jerry Jerome on tenor and is at her best on the remake of her hit “Don’t You Feel My Leg.” Wee Bea Booze (joined by a quartet that includes tenorman George Kelly and organist Larry Johnson) and Baby Dee (backed by an unidentified but talented sextet) were actually stronger vocalists despite being long-forgotten, and are the main reasons to acquire this fine early R&B/jump music set.
