Relaxing Summer Chill
Relaxing Summer Chill
Jump Steady Blues
Jump Steady Blues
Clarence “Pinetop” Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune “Pine Top’s Boogie” featured rhythmic “breaks” that were an essential ingredient of ragtime music, but also a fundamental foreshadowing of rock and roll.[2] The song was also the first known use of the term “boogie woogie” on a record, and cemented that term as the moniker for the genre.
Smith was born in Troy, Alabama and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his nickname as a child from his liking for climbing trees. In 1920 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as an entertainer before touring on the Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) vaudeville circuit, performing as a singer and comedian as well as a pianist. For a time, he worked as accompanist for blues singer Ma Rainey and Butterbeans and Susie.
In the mid-1920s, he was recommended by Cow Cow Davenport to J. Mayo Williams at Vocalion Records, and in 1928 he moved, with his wife and young son, to Chicago, Illinois to record. For a time he, Albert Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis lived in the same rooming house.
On December 29, 1928, he recorded his influential “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie”, one of the first “boogie woogie” style recordings to make a hit, and which cemented the name for the style. It was also the first recording to have the phrase ‘boogie woogie’ in the song’s title.[6] Smith talks over the recording, telling how to dance to the number.[2] He said he originated the number at a house-rent party in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was the first ever to direct “the girl with the red dress on” to “not move a peg” until told to “shake that thing” and “mess around”. Similar lyrics are heard in many later songs, including “Mess Around” and “What’d I Say” by Ray Charles.
Morgan Greig
Morgan Greig Playlist
Craig Morgan Greer (born July 17, 1964) is an American country music artist. A veteran of the United States Army as a forward observer and current member of the United States Army Reserve, Morgan began his musical career in 2000 on Atlantic Records, releasing his self-titled debut album for that label before the closure of its Nashville division in 2000.
In 2002, Morgan signed to the independent Broken Bow Records, on which he released three studio albums: 2003’s I Love It, 2005’s My Kind of Livin’, and 2006’s Little Bit of Life. These produced several chart hits, including “That’s What I Love About Sunday”, which spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard country charts while also holding the No.
1 position on that year’s Billboard Year-End chart for the country format. A greatest hits package followed in mid-2008 before Morgan signed to BNA Records and released That’s Why later that same year. After exiting BNA, Morgan signed with Black River Entertainment and released This Ole Boy in 2012, followed by A Whole Lot More to Me in 2016. (ref Wikipedia)