Few records can match the raw exuberance of the Baby Face Leroy Trio’s two-part “Rollin’ and
Tumblin’” on
Parkway, a small and short-lived
Chicago
label.
Muddy Waters and Little Walter join singer-drummer
Leroy Foster on this rambunctious
1950
rendition of an old Hambone Willie Newbern tune.
Part 2 has no verses at all—just a
mélange of
the trio’s
moans,
hums and yelps.
When Leonard Chess heard the record, he had Muddy cut his own two-part version on Aristocrat, the label that preceded Chess Records. Muddy added more verses and delivered the goods but
his record
not did have the wild abandon of the original.
When Little Walter’s fame later rocketed as a solo artist, the Herald label reissued Part 2 of the Parkway single as a Little Walter record,
“Rollin’ Blues.”
Few records can match the raw exuberance of the Baby Face Leroy Trio’s two-part “Rollin’ and
Tumblin’” on
Parkway, a small and short-lived
Chicago
label.
Muddy Waters and Little Walter join singer-drummer
Leroy Foster on this rambunctious
1950
rendition of an old Hambone Willie Newbern tune.
Part 2 has no verses at all—just a
mélange of
the trio’s
moans,
hums and yelps.
When Leonard Chess heard the record, he had Muddy cut his own two-part version on Aristocrat, the label that preceded Chess Records. Muddy added more verses and delivered the goods but
his record
not did have the wild abandon of the original.
When Little Walter’s fame later rocketed as a solo artist, the Herald label reissued Part 2 of the Parkway single as a Little Walter record,
“Rollin’ Blues.”
