Description
Bear Family 15981
1-CD Album Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 35 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 mns.
Sleepy LaBeef rocks – yes, he really rocks on these 35 classic recordings. We’re talking raw and authentic 1950s rockabilly here. And some 1960s and 1970s recordings that rock even harder, if possible, while retaining the uncompromising spirit that only a true original artist can. Sleepy LaBeef was there in the mid-1950s when rockabilly was born. He heard and saw it all, and he was a part of it. From his first records for Starday and Dixie in Texas, through small Houston labels and the major national label, Columbia, Sleepy still kept rocking. He carried on rocking on the reactivated Sun label in the 1970s. It was a marriage made in rock ‘n’ roll heaven.
On stage Sleepy LaBeef has long had the reputation as a human jukebox, a living, breathing, guitar-picking history of American music. After fifty years, he still dispenses pulsating rocking blues and country songs, one after the other in amazingly quick succession. This CD is as close as the listener can get to that kind of live experience. And, better still; you get the original master in pristine quality.
01 All The Time
02 I’m Through
03 Baby Let’s Play House
04 All Alone
05 I Ain’t Gonna Take It
06 Lonely
07 Don’t Make Me Go
08 Little Bit More (alt)
09 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
10 Turn Me Loose
11 You’re So Easy To Love
12 Ridin’ Fence
13 The Ways Of A Woman In Love
14 Walkin’ Slowly
15 Ride On Josephine
16 Home Of The Blues
17 Tore Up
18 Little Bit More
19 You’re The Nearest Thing To Heaven
20 Goodnight Irene
21 Guess Things Happen That Way
22 Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind
23 I Found Out
24 You Can’t Catch Me
25 Shame, Shame, Shame
26 Ain’t Got No Home
27 Too Much Monkey Business
28 Honey Hush
29 Good Rockin’ Boogie
30 Roll Over Beethoven
31 I’m Coming Home
32 Shot-Gun Boogie
33 Honky Tonk Man
34 Lonesome For A Letter
35 Ride On Josephine