Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2013
Label: Mississippi Records/Domino Sound
Track List
Side A
- Twist With The Morningstars
- Please Go Easy With Me
- Do Me Justice
- I Wish I Was A Cowboy
- She Caught Me Red Hot
- A Time In My Life
Side B
- My Lovely Elizabeth
- Advice To Schoolgirls
- Baby Lef Marah
- Nyalima Nyapoi
- Easy Baby
- Man Stupid Being
Notes
From the West African country of Sierra Leone, S.E. Rogie was a “palm wine” guitarist extraordinaire. With his guitar and smooth baritone voice, an early monophonic tape recorder, and a few pick up musicians, he produced a string of hit records which sold through Africa and Europe. Backing Rogie at the recording sessions was an ever changing band of followers playing combinations of maracas, claves, congas, and an empty box which was struck like a bass drum. These recordings from 1960-69 are the sounds of the soul in an era when Africans were breaking the chains of colonialism. They are the sounds of palm wine guitar music as it left the bars and burst forth on radio and record. They are lost sounds that have been found again and the world of music is the better for it. A co-release with Domino Sound of New Orleans, LA & Mississippi Records. Licensed from the Rogie family.
