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Barrelhouse Chuck
Prescription For The Blues
Genres: Blues, Pop

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Sitting On Top of The World
2. My Own Lonesome Blues
3. Mean Mistreater Mama
4. Tin Pan Alley
5. Double D
6. Prescription for the Blues (Barrelhouse Chuck vocal and Erwin Helfer piano)
7. Going Back to Memphis
8. Ain?t Times Hard
9. Corrine, Corrina
10. Straight Alky Blues
11. Nutty Boogie
12. Johnson Machine Gun
13. Barrelhouse Woman
14. Ain?t Nobody?s Business
15. Yamato Stomp
16. Rooster?s Blues

CD Details

All Artists: Barrelhouse Chuck
Title: Prescription For The Blues
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: The Sirens Records
Original Release Date: 6/17/2002
Release Date: 6/17/2002
Genres: Blues, Pop
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 820718500421

Synopsis

Album Description

Barrelhouse Chuck?s blues piano playing is filled with heartfelt soul, high energy, and low down greasy blues. His loyalty to carry on the works of legendary players, like his mentors Little Brother Montgomery and Sunnyland Slim, contribute to his style. On this disc, Chuck plays four classic Leroy Carr songs and two tunes by Sunnyland Slim, and he sings Little Brother?s masterpiece on the title track. Each cover performance is fresh and exciting. This disc also includes three duets with Erwin Helfer, another Chicago blues piano master. Erwin and Chuck?s duets are spontaneous and thrilling like a live performance. Barrelhouse Chuck is keeping the blues piano tradition alive and has earned his own place among the masters.

CD Reviews

"I NOW FEEL CURED"

TOM SANCES | CHICAGO ILL | 02/13/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"WHEN IT COMES TO "BLUES" TODAY , THERE ARE VERY FEW TRUE BLUESMEN LEFT !!! LISTENING TO PRESCRIPTION FOR THE BLUES IMMEDIATLEY CURES YOU BY TOUCHING YOUR SOUL AND LETTING YOU KNOW THAT A SMALL HANDFUL OF REAL BLUESMEN DO STILL EXIST , HOLDING THE LINE OF EMOTION IN THEIR MUSIC THAT WOULD MAKE THEIR FOREFATHERS PROUD KNOWING THAT MUSICIANS LIKE BARRELHOUSE CHUCK AND IRWIN HELFER CARRY ON A STYLE OF BLUES PIANO THAT ONLY THE GREATS REALLY ACCOMPLISHED! IM SURE THAT SUNNYLAND,SPANN,LITTLE BROTHER AND LEROY CARR ARE ALL HANGIN OUT AND SMILING EAR TO EAR WHENEVER THIS DISC IS PLAYED! THANK YOU FOR THIS " PRESCRIPTION FOR THE BLUES " I NOW FEEL CURED! TOM SANCES/BLUES FANATIC!"

The real thing

TOM SANCES | 02/05/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Barrelhouse chuck has captured the essence of what blues is supposed to be. When he plays, you can hear Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Leroy Carr and other influences of the great blues piano masters. Erwin Helfer, another great Chicago blues pianist, also plays on some of the tracks. If you want to hear the grease, the pain and joy of what blues is about, then you had better get this CD, you won't be disapponted."

Prescription for the Blues

TOM SANCES | 02/04/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The sound of his playing and singing is real and from the heart. Old time blues piano. Chuck tells you a story with his tunes and he remembers all his teachers! I love this cd very much. Buy it!"