Personnel: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals).Liner Note Author: Athan Maroulis.Ex-boxer Screamin' Jay Hawkins' live show, full of on-stage coffins, skulls, and toilets, prefigured the extravagant concert productions of later artists like...
Includes liner notes by Tony Burke.Liner Note Author: Tony Burke.Tiny Grimes gained some fame near the end of the swing era for being one of the first electric guitarists influenced by Charlie Christian, for leading a date that featur...
Personnel includes: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Keith Richards.Personnel: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano); Ginny Hawker (vocals).Portrait of a Man is a collection of rarities and obscurities from a man whose very career was filled wi...
Hawkins experienced one of his infrequent career upsurges after appearing in the Jim Jarmusch film Mystery Train. BLACK MUSIC FOR WHITE PEOPLE appeared a couple years thereafter. It's a spirited set that finds Hawkins leading a rollicking c...
Includes alternate takes, B-sides, and 1 previously unreleased song.For anyone seeking a great one-disc anthology on the music of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, this is the ticket. Nicely remastered, there are fine notes and photographs in the 1...
Personnel: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano); Frank Ash (guitar); T-Bone Tommy Burroughs (violin); Jim Spake (saxophone); East Memphis Slim (keyboards, percussion); Sam Shoop (bowed bass); David Hood (bass); Roger Hawkins (drums); Willi...
Personnel: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano); Michael Keneally (guitar, keyboards); Bo Diddley Jr. (guitar); Felix Flanagan (harmonica); Bara Southern, Dana Garrett, Robbie Helm (saxophone); Steve Ebner (trumpet); Mark Goldberg, Oscar B...
Personnel: Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano), Joel Foy (guitar), Bari Southern (tenor saxophone), Rodney Lee Schnitz (bass), Mark Clifton Sanchez (drums).Reissue producer: Jerry Gordon.Recorded live at Hotel Meridien Paris Etoile,...