Album Notes

Conjur Root Records Within Cdbaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/all/jwillia100aolcom) Presents: If you love Walter Cotton Jr Wells and Sonny Boy; The Southside Jukes Are "Down With It" 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