The Hard Driving Blues of Roosevelt Sykes [sound recording]
date: label: Date
content: 1968
name: label: performer
content: Sykes, Roosevelt
label: performer
content: Homesick James 1910-2006
notes: label: Notes
content: All compositions by Roosevelt Sykes. Performer(s): Roosevelt Sykes, vocals/piano ; in part with Homesick James Williamson, guitar. Production notes: Recorded in Chicago, May 17, 1963.
label: Table of contents
content: Red-eye Jesse Bell (3:00) --I like what you do (1:44) --We gotta move (2:55) --North Gulfport boogie (3:00) --Watch your step (2:20) --Ho! ho! ho! (3:00) --Living the right life (2:40) --New fire detective blues (3:00) --Run this boogie (2:27) --Slidell blues (3:25) --Mistake in life (2:20) --She's got me straddle a log (2:35)
label: Track information
content: 101 Red-Eye Jesse Bell / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 102 I Like What You Do (When You Do What You Did Last Night) / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 103 We Gotta Move / Roosevelt Sykes, Homesick James. Piano
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content: 104 North Gulfport Boogie / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 106 Ho! Ho! Ho! / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 105 Watch Your Step (If You Just Can't Be Good) / Roosevelt Sykes, Homesick James. Piano
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content: 201 Living the Right Life / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 202 New Fire Detective Blues / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 203 Run This Boogie / Roosevelt Sykes, Homesick James. Piano
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content: 204 Slidell Blues / Roosevelt Sykes, Homesick James. Piano
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content: 205 Mistake in Life / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
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content: 206 She's Got Me Straddle a Log / Roosevelt Sykes. Piano
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: Illinois
label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: Chicago (Ill.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Blues (Music)
label: Topic
content: Piano
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: African American
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content: Frederic Ramsey audiorecordings collection, circa 1950s 287448
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: Delmark.607
label: Local number
content: RA-RAMS-LP-0004
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 phonograph record : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in