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Roosevelt SykesThe Original

HoneydripperBPCD 5155

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1. Cow Cow Blues2. Drivin’ Wheel3. Honeysuckle Rose4. St. James Infirmary5. I Like What You

Did6. What’d I Say7. I’m A Nut8. Running The

Boogie9. Too Smart To Soon

10. Viper Song11. Don’t Talk Me To

Death12. Early Morning

Blues13. Please Don’t Talk

About Me When I’m Gone

14. Dirty Mother For You

Key Data:Release Date: October 1st, 2013

Orders Due: September 18th, 2013

File Under: Blues

List Price: $20.98

Format: CD / jewel-case

Picture Roosevelt Sykes (1906-1983): The dapper gentleman at the piano keys, cigar firmly set in the corner of his benevolently smiling round face, singing and playing to a lively, appreciative audience. It’s 1977 and you’re front row in Ann Arbor’s fabled Blind Pig Café, and on stage is The Honeydripper, Roosevelt Sykes, the consummate entertainer that enjoyed a career that spanned some sixty years.

Remastered and with two original outtakes, this first reissue of that live show spans the length and breadth of Sykes’ career. Opening with his interpretation of Cow Cow Davenport’s trailblazing 1928 boogie woogie composition, and featuring seven of Sykes’ own compositions including “Drivin’ Wheel,” now regarded as a blues standard, this recording gives us a brief retrospective of his career and the many influences on his piano style.

This is a classic live recording by one of our greatest and most beloved blues masters.

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