Champion Jack Dupree – Blues From The Gutter (1958)

01.Walking The Blues 3:01

02.T.B. Blues 3:38

03.Can't Kick The Habit 3:39

04.Evil Woman 4:17

05.Nasty Boogie 3:06

06.Junker's Blues 3:09

07.Bad Blood 3:56

08.Goin' Down Slow 4:01

09.Frankie & Johnny 3:03

10.Stack-O-Lee 3:57.

Alto Saxophone – Pete Brown

Bass – Wendell Marshall

Drums – Willie Jones

Guitar – Ennis Lowery

Piano,Vocal – Champion Jack Dupree.

The 1958 masterwork album of Champion Jack Dupree‘s long and prolific career. Cut in New York (in stereo!) with a blasting band that included saxist Pete Brown and guitarist Larry Dale, the Jerry Wexler-produced Atlantic collection provides eloquent testimony to Dupree‘s eternal place in the New Orleans blues and barrelhouse firmament. There’s some decidedly down-in-the-alley subject matter — “Can’t Kick the Habit,” “T.B. Blues,” a revival of “Junker’s Blues” — along with the stomping “Nasty Boogie” and treatments of the ancient themes “Stack-O-Lee” and “Frankie & Johnny.” AMG.