South Side Jukes Cool Cool Place to Go

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#		Title	Length
1		Rocket Sixty Nine (Johnny) Jumpin	3:13	Play
2		Black Nights (Joe Lee) Deep Harp	5:04	Play
3		Motorhead Babys (Johnny) Drivin'	3:06	Play
4		That Ain't Right (Johnny) Jukin'	4:02	Play
5		Worried Life Blues (Joe Lee) Wailin' Harp	4:04	Play
6		All Messed Up (Johnny) Crazy Lil Chick	3:46	Play
7		Been Down So Long (Joe Lee) Harp king	6:05	Play
8		House Rockin' Boogie (Johnny) Tell it	3:15	Play
9		Cool Cool Place to Go (Joe Lee) Too Cool	3:23	Play
10		Soon Forgotten (Joe Lee) Cryin' Harp	4:13	Play
11		You Better Watch Yourself (Joe Lee) Grovin'	2:35	Play
12		Atlanta Blues (Johnny) Preachin	6:49	Play
13		Irene (Johnny) Texas Stroll for Mama	3:08	Play
14		Merry Christmas Baby (Johnny) Well, Ya!	6:08	Play

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The Southside Jukes Down baby! A real living blues history lesson from the missing generation of artists who formed their style while in their teens from 1949 to 1959! The story involves Little Walter, Hank Ballard, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy I & II, Jimmy Nolan, Pete Guitar Lewis, Chuck Higgins, and many many more:
Liner notes:
Sometimes your blood gets on it! and it sticks! There's a bond with it! It's family and a deep thing! You already know what to do, so you do it! - there's not a blues people around then or now that's in it by a little easy choice; you in it because you need it "BAD" y'all!, Day by Day, to live on! You don't walk into a club and the band is far away, they're right there in your face, playin' for you makin' your night and theirs!!! A personal thing for everybody, you're all in it together, stuck together by the blood, because that's the way it is!!

Get this Southside Jukes album, put it in and get down on the floor with it! - If you doing the wild thing or feelin' Blue or just remembering one of those good old good things or those old dead guys whose life & music started this whole deal - Baby this is for you! All the way and just in time! This is the main deal here, just for you! Music gona' put you right there in Chess/ VeJay / Trumpet condition right now Mama & Daddy!! Hear these Jukes now and you're hearing yesterday too!

John A.(California) Williamson - Vocals, founder & creator of The Southside Jukes and Proud Rhythm Guitar Like Eddie Taylor do!

Joe Lee Bush - Screamin' Harmonica and vocals supreme in the top of the planet harp players - An Assassin schooled at 14 years old by 23 year old Little Walter Jacobs himself!

Frankie Moates - Hollywood burnin" guitar leads with Hard and Southern Smooth til you cant believe you stung by it! A guitar god in his own right!

KoKoMo Tim Gunther - Drums in all the way right "Art Decco" manner - straight in and to the point, not afraid to leave the "Green" while he brush on it! ( Note: Tim Gunther was tragically killed in an automobile accident returning from a show performing with "The Breeze Kings" a legendary Atlanta band in 2005, one of the reasons this Cd is being re-released is as a tribute to KoKoMo Tim Gunther "A Blue Star in the heavens right now!"

Mr. Slim Green - on that beautiful "All that Piano" drippin down tinklin' and ain't foolin'! Stompin' 88's Mr. "Pinetone Studio" Owner of the studio with the sound to hurt yo self with" All Nite Long ! coincidentally a master slide guitar player in his own right too! To Be heard on the second Southside Jukes Cd "1952 The Radio Jumps Again" It's coming Next!

Mister (Spelled All the way out- for respect) - Long Time Champion, owning the bottom throughtout the "South" by way of the Bass Guitar - Mr. consistant, L.T. (Lieutenant) Jones, Extreme and beauitful Power on the Bass! We love him and can't find him now.

Special Guests: The Cat Felex Reyes - plays it all on "Irene", John Mark Burton upright "Doghouse Bass" where you hear it!, Jimmy Bullard dropped in too!, Scott Callison - Drums on Irene with Daddy Felix, Scott's young and in the grove!

The Southside Jukes, "Cool Cool Place To Go" Cd liner notes:

Part I: "Peg Pants & Pompadours"

Three O'clock. The school bell rings, and the kids ran for their cars, diving thru the windows and snapping on their radios to catch the end of the intro to Hunter Hancock's rockin' radio show: "Swing to sweet, Bebop to Ballads & Blues to Boogie"
Circa 1957, give or take a year, Los Angeles,As kids, John Williamson and his friends skated at a local outdoor roller rink, bringing their own records Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Blues and B&R/R&B for skating, dancing and discovery. Hot Rods cruised the parking lot!

Then they were older, cutting school in the daytime, going to a house where the parents weren't home, three or four couples paired off in separate rooms, with portable record players, "Listen to this one! someone called out as Jimmy Reed's "Caress Me Baby" poured out of the tiny speaker.

At nite they'd cruise hot rods past the Frosty Freeze Drive-in or the Sunland Skateland skating rink, looking sharp in pegged pants with pompadours laden heavily with the sweet smell of"Three Flowers" vasoline. Drinking "Silver Satin" Wine!

As a group they might "take over" the boulevard, reversing lanes of traffic, or park up in the "The (Tujunga)Canyon" and listen to Dr. Jazzmo on XERB the Mighty 1090 AM, Booming In from Mexico via Del Rio Texas, the Ad's were outrageous: Jilted? Sister Christine's "Blessed Charm" would bring your lover back to you!

Blues, B&R/R&B, Doo Wop, came across the airwaves in one delicious swirl. It was the music that bound them together, and set them free! Parents didn't understand, but the music spoke to their loneliness, and their need for identity!

"Nobody Cares About Me I Don't Even Have a Friend, My Baby's Gone and Left Me, When Will My Troubles End? Black Nite is Falling, Yes! I Hate to be Alone. . ."

But mostly it was music for cruising, dancing, and romancing! It was simple enough to understand and exotic enough to be fascinating and highly hypnotic!

Part II: "The Worried Life Blues"

As California had it's canyons, roller rinks, and Mexican radio, Atlanta Ga. had its swimming pools, with mamouth juke boxes in the pavilions thundering the music from Ruth Brown,The Clovers, & Little Walter! Daddy Sears hosted "Diggin the Discs on WAOK AM Radio! It was one of the premier black black B&R/R&B radio stations on the east coast, but white kids were listening too! Doug Bush was among them! The 81 Theatre on Decatur St. featured a stage show every Saturday between movies, featuring black artists such as "Piano Red,The Cashmiers, and Frank Edwards. Doug Bush was 15 in 1953 when he rode the bus down to the show to compete in the "Talent Contest"! He performed the Harp Instrumental "Roller Coaster" and Jimmy Reed's "You Don't Have To Go" and brought the house down! The town was a paridice for a teenager that "Loved Blues"! Decatur Street was brimming with "Juke Joints", Pool Rooms, and lots of music. In 1955 Little Walter came to town! For three or four nites a week for several months, Doug rode his BSA Cycle down to the "Magnolia Club" where walter was playing. He'd meet Walter outside the club during intermission, and the 23- year- old "King of blues Harp" would share the secrets of his technique with Doug!

By 1961 Doug was also playing bass guitar, and got a job out of the Union Hall Office to play on a recording session with Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. He ended up touring with the band as an opening act, riding a bus from town to town, watching Hank drill his troops in the art of choreography; he was living a boyhood dream come true!

Part III: Southside Jukin' :

But by 1965 it was over; the British Invasion " swept across America ", leaving countless B&R/R&B artists in it's wake. Doug put his equipment away, got a day job and got married.

That might have been the end of the story, but in 1990 his wife left him, leaving a pain that no amount of drinking or crying could seem to heal. But Doug found an escape, a balm in the heartache, in the music he'd put aside but never forgotten. Harmonica cohorts like William Clarke, Rod Piazza,Steve Geiger and Rick Estrin guided his musical and emotional rebound, and Piazza put him in touch with with John Williamson one of Piazza's buddies from California who was now (in 1990) living in Atlanta.

The music that John Williamson and Doug Bush have made with The "Southside Jukes" is a pure unadulterated blast of late 40's early 50's Rhythm & Blues! Listen to the sound of it! We're not talking about some "American Grafffiti"-styled nostalgia. Or about modern players trying to mimic an old style. We're talking about men who are playing the music that shaped their lives!

The straight forward, emotionally honest music that blasted from those portable record players and pavilion juke boxes long ago has a timeless charm. The Southside Jukes remember the music! It's a music they still celebrate. So listen! Join the celebration! And don't forget your dancing shoes.
Bryan Powell
Musician/Writer
Atlanta, Georgia
Sept 1994

As close to the root as it is possible to be!