Goin' In Your Direction

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  • Recording date: 1951-54
  • Release date: 1991
  • Label: Trumpet Records, Alligator Records
  • Catalogue #: AA-801, ALCD2803
  • Length: 41 minutes
  • Available: CD

TRACK LIST

  1. Goin' In Your Direction (2:36)
  2. From The Bottom (2:44)
  3. No Nights By Myself (2:59)
  4. Boppin' With Sonny (2:46)
  5. Empty Bedroom (2:38)
  6. Red Hot Kisses (2:32)
  7. Gettin' Out Of Town (2:22)
  8. Cat Hop (2:52)
  9. She Brought Life Back To The Dead (3:11)
  10. I'm Not Beggin' Nobody (2:42) *
  11. She's Crazy (2:45) *
  12. Sonny's Rhythm #2 (2:23) *
  13. Make A Little Love With Me (3:06) **
  14. Gonna Find My Baby (2:56) **
  15. Catfish Blues (2:58) ***

* Previously unreleased alternative takes.
** Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (as "Elmer James") & Sonny Boy Willamson.
*** Bobo "Slim" Thomas (as "Elmo James") & Sonny Boy Williamson.

 

MUSICIANS

  • Rusty Alfred (drums)
  • Junior Blackman (drums)
  • David Campbell (piano)
  • Frank Crawford (cuaraches)
  • Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (as "Elmer James") (vocals, guitar)
  • Herman Fowlkes (bass)
  • Cliff Givens (bass vocals, broom)
  • Buck Hinson (bass)
  • Carl "Wimpy" Jones (guitar)
  • Oneal Hudson (drums)
  • B.B. King (guitar)
  • Willie Kyles, Carlton Wells or Bernard "Bunny" Williams (saxophone)
  • Richard "Dickie Boy" Lillie (saxophone)
  • Willie Love (piano)
  • Johnny Morgan (bass)
  • Glen Ricketts (drums)
  • Raz Roseby (bass)
  • "Sam" (bass)
  • Bobo "Slim" Thomas (as "Elmo James") (vocals, guitar)
  • J.V. Turner (guitar)
  • Leonard Ware (bass)
  • Joe Willie Wilkins (guitar)
  • Bernard "Bunny" Williams (saxophone)
  • James Williams (guitar)
  • Lester Williams (guitar)

NOTES

Recorded by Lillian McMurry of Trumpet Records in Jackson, Mississippi and Bill Holford in Houston, Texas. Sonny Boy and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup had often played together since meeting in Belzoni, Mississippi many years before. The extensive liner notes by Marc Ryan include some hilarious anecdotes about Sonny Boy and Bobo "Slim" Thomas. Originally issued by Trumpet Records / Acoustic Archives as AA-801; reissued in the Alligator Records Trumpet Series in 1993 as ALCD2801.

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