Both of Riley's rare and sought-after Mojo albums available now for the first time in 30 years. - The'Vintage' rock 'n' roll album features rockabilly legend Larry Donn whose red-hot rockin' piano helps Riley rip through ten rock 'n' roll classics in half an hour. Way to go! 'Southern Soul At The Brave-Falcon' serves up another 12 hypnotic tracks in a visceral, bluesy set of shuffling, rocking rhythms. You can practically smell the magnolia. Also included are the rare Mojo single as by Skip Wiley and a clutch of unissued tracks including a longer version of the Chuck Berry Medley. -- The late Billy Lee Riley was one of the titanic but unsung pioneers of rock 'n' roll. He was better looking than Carl Perkins, his multi-instrumental ability surpassed Elvis's, his confidence equalled Jerry Lee Lewis's. And he was important to Sun Records in ways other were not. Riley's musicians, co-opted as studio session-men, plotted the course of rock 'n 'roll as much as many a more celebrated band. - Like the household names, Riley had a life after Sun and this 29-track CD contains two diverse but equally versatile albums made some 14 years apart. 'Vintage', from 1980, is a solid, renascent set of immortal rock 'n 'roll classics inspired by the renewed European interesting rockabilly and Sun Records. Then there's 'Southern Soul At The Brave-Falcon' which features R&B standards, Top 40 tunes and Riley's own songs in a live nightclub recording which captures the best sounds of the era. It's sexy, blues 'n' boogie based soulful music and when Riley hollers 'Do the Temptation Walk' it's the mid-60s all over again. - As Bear Family always goes that extra, obsessional mile, we've included a longer undubbed version of the Chuck Berry Medley, several other previously unissued performances and a rare Mojo single issued under de pseudonym of Skip Wiley.
CD content:
- 1. Good Rockin' Tonight
- 2. Great Balls Of Fire
- 3. Be Bop A Lula
- 4. Go Go Go
- 5. Rock And Roll Music
- 6. Shake, Rattle And Roll
- 7. Mean Woman Blues
- 8. I'm In Love Again
- 9. You're My Baby
- 10. Sweet Little Sixteen
- 11. Twist And Shout
- 12. Poor Side Of Town
- 13. In The Midnight Hour
- 14. Michael
- 15. Speed Lovers
- 16. Chuck Berry Medley
- 17. Long Time Man
- 18. Susie Q
- 19. Nowhere Man
- 20. Barefootin'
- 21. I Washed My Hands In Muddy Waters
- 22. Southern Soul (That Soul Song )
- 23. Barefootin' (f/s undubbed alternative)
- 24. Barefootin' (undubbed alternative)
- 25. Long Time Man (undubbed alternative)
- 26. Medley: Twist And Shout / Annie Had A Baby
- 27. Chuck Berry Medley
- 28. Fast Livin' (as Skip Wiley)
- 29. Hill Country Music (as Skip Wiley)
Artist: BILLY LEE RILEY
Title: "MOJO ALBUMS, PLUS"
Label: BEAR FAMILY
Condition: New
Media: CDs