New CD from Bear Family : "Little Junior Parker rocks"

[Mister Moon]

To be released March 1, 2019 :

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https://www.bear-family.com/parker-little-junior-little-junior-parker-rocks-cd.html

[elvislady]

Thanks, Mr Moon. Nice article, I like the front and back cover of this CD.

[Ben]

My Beard Family Parker CD is one of my most played (double) disc. The singles. He had an amazing way to deliver an a better voice. One of the true underrated greats.

[Mojo Filter]

Bear Family's "Rock" series is a great idea, but for completeness it leaves a lot to be desired. While it concentrates on the up tempo numbers, which of course is the whole idea, it leaves out the slower numbers. And in Junior Parker's case he did some wonderful stuff.

I have this wonderful double CD which i recommend:

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I do prefer Bear Family's cover for their CD, though...

Thanks for bringing it to our attention, MM.

[Mister Moon]

My Beard Family Parker CD is one of my most played (double) disc. The singles. He had an amazing way to deliver an a better voice. One of the true underrated greats.

Ben, the 2-CD set you have is not by Bear Family. I believe we discussed this earlier.

It would be nice to see all of his Sun stuff compiled in just one place, although it would not warrant an entire CD. He had two singles only, and then you would have about four other songs that weren't originally issued, plus maybe a couple of alternate takes.

This may be the reason why Bear Family has not approached Parker in a "completist" way yet, like he has done with many other Sun artists. Maybe the solution would be to include his earlier stuff too, I don't know.

[Mojo Filter]

My Beard Family Parker CD is one of my most played (double) disc. The singles. He had an amazing way to deliver an a better voice. One of the true underrated greats.

Sounds like you're talking about the one I've posted above?

Junior Parker is cool!!!

[Mojo Filter]

Just got this wonderful CD;

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[Mister Moon]

Just got this wonderful CD;

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I should get this CD too. I have a few cuts by Ella on compilations and she was a fine singer, despite being a little too heavy on R&B covers. I like the tracks where she was backed by folks like Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West. Good stuff.

[Mojo Filter]

Just got this wonderful CD;

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I should get this CD too. I have a few cuts by Ella on compilations and she was a fine singer, despite being a little too heavy on R&B covers. I like the tracks where she was backed by folks like Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West. Good stuff.

Yeah, lot of R&B covers. Not that keen on her version of "Ain't That A Shame" but the rest are pretty cool performances. Her voice is quite powerful. It's a great CD.

As expected from Bear Family the CD is first class in presentation, great notes and discography. Some wonderful photos of Ella too.

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[Mojo Filter]

Just bought these two great CDs, well about three weeks ago. Well worth getting if you're into this Blues and R&B stuff.

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[Mister Moon]

Just bought these two great CDs, well about three weeks ago. Well worth getting if you're into this Blues and R&B stuff.

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Wonderful stuff.

Have Slim Harpo and Smiley Lewis been inducted into the R&RHOF yet ?

Do those clowns know who these great men were ?

Who cares !

[Mojo Filter]

Just bought these two great CDs, well about three weeks ago. Well worth getting if you're into this Blues and R&B stuff.

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Wonderful stuff.

Have Slim Harpo and Smiley Lewis been inducted into the R&RHOF yet ?

Do those clowns know who these great men were ?

Who cares !

The people (the so-called "experts" ) who do the inductees to the R&RHOF don't know there arse from their elbow. If there not famous then they are not worth it. Just waiting for Roger Whittaker or some other unimportant person to be inducted.

The "real" hall of fame is in my house on the shelf - namely my CD collection.

[Mojo Filter]

Mister Moon, how would you rate the Don Gibson "Rocks" CD?

Don is one of the few country artists I've never really delved into.

[Mister Moon]

Mister Moon, how would you rate the Don Gibson "Rocks" CD?

Don is one of the few country artists I've never really delved into.

Sorry, I don't have that CD, but I'm sure it's a classy one. Of course, Don was never a rocker, but I guess this is a compilation of some of his uptempo recordings.

Here's a recent topic on Gibosn :

Don Gibson - "Blue Blue Day" (featuring Hank Garland) - 1957
https://www.theelvisforum-phoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9795

[Mojo Filter]

Mister Moon, how would you rate the Don Gibson "Rocks" CD?

Don is one of the few country artists I've never really delved into.

Sorry, I don't have that CD, but I'm sure it's a classy one. Of course, Don was never a rocker, but I guess this is a compilation of some of his uptempo recordings.

Here's a recent topic on Gibosn :

Don Gibson - "Blue Blue Day" (featuring Hank Garland) - 1957
https://www.theelvisforum-phoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9795

Thanks for the reply.

Of course I know some of the songs Don as written for which some of them won't be on this CD because they are slower songs.

I noticed "Sweet, Sweet Girl" is on there. This song is great - though I seriously doubt Warren Smith's version will be beat.

I suppose i'll have to youtube some of the songs that are on his "Rock's" CD to see if it's worth getting.

I lot of these Country artists start to sound the same to me, and it starts to border on boring, which is why i have very few of them in my collection except for a "best of" compilation CD.

I was gonna get the Marty Robbins one but when I looked at the track listing they didn't include his "Singing The Blues" which wasn't good for me (plus I think it's the best version of the song), so I just kept Bear Family's earlier CD "Rockin' Rollin' Robbins".