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Whistle Bait: 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups (CD)

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DISC 1 for Whistle Bait: 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Whistle Bait - Larry Collins  
2   You're Humbuggin' Me - Lefty Frizzell  
3   Snatch It and Grab It - Freddie Hart  
4   Raw-Hide - Link Wray/The Wraymen  
5   Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor - Johnny Horton  
6   Wild Wild Young Men - Rose Maddox  
7   Bop-a-Lena - Ronnie Self  
8   Ugly and Slouchy - Maddox Brothers  
9   Everybody's Rockin' - Wurly Fairburn  
10   Jive After Five - Carl Perkins  
11   Bo Bo Ska Diddle Daddle - Wayne Walker  
12   Ah, Poor Little Baby - Billy "Crash" Craddock  
13   Hoy Hoy - The Collins Kids  
14   Dig Boy Dig - Freddie Hart  
15   Guitar Rock and Roll - Joe Maphis  
16   I Got a Hole in My Pocket - Little Jimmy Dickens  
17   Big Fool - Ronnie Self  
18   All Over Again - Johnny Cash  
19   Romp Stompin' Boogie - Jaycee Hill  
20   Baboon Boogie - Jimmy Murphy  
21   Good Rockin' Baby - Sid King & The Five Strings  
22   Rocky Road Blues - Ronnie Self  
23   Pink Pedal Pushers - Carl Perkins  
24   I'm Coming Home - Johnny Horton  
25   Mean Mama Blues - Marty Robbins  
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (8/11/00, p.83) - "...These songs leap from the speakers like half-crazed, priapic cartoons..." - Rating: B+

Title Note

Producers include: Don Law, Grady Martin, Norman Petty, Frank Jones, Joe Maphis.

Compilation producers: Eddie Gorodetsky, Bruce Dickenson.

Recorded between 1955 & 1959. Includes liner notes by Eddie Gorodetsky.

Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).

In the 1950s there was a wild fusion music that shocked and scandalized the world, and laid the groundwork for rock & roll: it was called rockabilly. A mutant variant of country music (then often referred to as "hillbilly"), raw and laced with the electricity of the blues and the romp of boogie woogie, it was the sound that gave birth to Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins's careers and gave the Beatles powerful inspiration. WHISTLE BAIT collects 25 early-to-mid-'50s prime rockabilly gems from the vaults of Okeh and Columbia.

Highlights include: the wild, scary guitar work of Little Jimmy Dickens' "I Got a Hole in My Pocket"; the hopped-up, stripped-down honky-tonk of Johnny Horton's "I'm Coming Home"; and the scorching, almost berserk "Bop-A-Lena" by Ronnie Self, which makes the Cramps sound like Garth Brooks. There are also a few tunes by country performers Freddie Hart, Lefty Frizzell and Marty Robbins trying their hand at rockabilly, and they don't do badly at all. This set is highly recommended to rockabilly collectors, music fans who want to investigate the roots of rock & roll and non-Nashville country, and rockers who think there was nothing going on before 1965.

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