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Roosevelt Sykes: Live at Webster College, St. Louis, 1974 *

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2012-07-10

Tracks: On the Sunny Side of the Street; 44 Blues; Night Time Is the Right Time; Honeysuckle Rose; Drivin' Wheel; My Baby's Gone; Goin' Down Slow; Runnin' the Boogie; St. James Infirmary Blues; Pine Top's Bo...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano).

Liner Note Author: Gillian Atkinson .

Recording information: Webster College, St. Louis, MO (02/01/1974).

A barrelhouse piano player wh...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: The Honeydripper [Fabulous]

1 CD / Fabulous (USA) / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Boot That Thing; Roosevelt's Blues; Ten and Four Blues; Give Me Your Change; 32-20 Blues; She's in My Blood; '44' Blues; Sad and Lonely Day; DBA Blues (You Old Yas Yas); Honey Dripper, The; Ups and D...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt "Honey Dripper" Sykes (vocals, piano); Oscar Carter (vocals, guitar); Napoleon Fletcher, Edith Johnson, Carl Rafferty (vocals); Kokomo Arnold (guitar); Artie Mosby (violin); Sidne...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: The Honeydripper [Compilation]

1 CD / Storyville / 2011-04-05

Tracks: Big Ben; Boot That Thing; Springfield Blues; Henry Ford Blues; I'm a Dangerous Man; True Thing; You Understand; Whole Lot of Children; Last Laugh, The; Gold Mine; 44 Blues; Sugar Cup; You Deceived Me...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); King Curtis (tenor saxophone); Robert Banks (organ); Belton Evans (drums).

Liner Note Author: Nat Hentoff.

Photographer: Esmond Edwards.
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Roosevelt Sykes: The Honeydripper [Acrobat]

1 CD / Acrobat (USA) / 2008-12-09

Tracks: She's Got What It Takes; Yellow Yam Blues; Eight Ball Blues; Pistol Shootin' Blues; Right Now; Essie Mae Blues; Don't the Sally Long (Flames of Evaporation); 47th Street Jive; K.M.A. Blues; Prison Ga...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Recording information: 1940-1941.

Acrobat's The Honeydripper is one of at least nine Roosevelt Sykes albums that bear his famous moniker. It compiles 11 sides recorded for Decca in New York Cit...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Roosevelt Sykes Sings the Blues

1 CD / Ace (Label) / 2006-11-28

Tracks: Slave For Your Love; Gone With the Wind; Wild Side; Out on a Limb; Honey Child; Never Loved Like This Before; Last Chance; Casual Friend; Your Will Is Mine; Hupe Dupe Do
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

An immensely enjoyable set of low-key Chicago blues, recorded in 1962 and featuring 'The Honeydripper' in fine fettle. Re-mastered from the original stereo production masters...continue...
Originally released on the Diablo label in 1962, ROOSEVELT SYKES SINGS THE BLUES is a classic Sykes date. The set is full of romping boogies, slow-burn ballads, and straight-ahead blues stomps featuri...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Honeydripper's Duke's Mixture [Bonus Tracks]

1 CD / Universal Distribution / 2004-09-28

Tracks: Going Down Slow; Ice Cream Freezer; Lost My Boogie; Sweet Georgia Brown; St James Infirmary; Honeysuckle Rose; Basin Street Blues; Rock Me; Woman Is in Demand, A; Dirty Mother for You; Deceived; Nigh...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel includes: Roosevelt Sykes; Memphis Slim (piano)....continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Chicago Boogie

1 CD / Delmark / 2004-04-20

Tracks: Drivin' Wheel; West Helena Blues; Wonderin' Blues; Monkey Face Blues; Rock It; Chicago Boogie; Security Blues; Soon Forgotten; Green Onion Top; Mail Box Blues; 44 Blues; Complete This Order; Blues 'N...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel includes: Roosevelt Sykes (piano); J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); Jump Jackson (drums).

Personnel: St. Louis Jimmy (vocals); J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); Armand Jump Jackson (drums)....continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Honeydripper [Aim]

1 CD / Aim Records (Australia) / 2001-10-01

Tracks: Honeydripper, The; 32-20 Blues; Jivin' the Jive; Sykes Advice Blues; She's in My Blood; Honeysuckle Rose; Boot That Thing; 47th Street Jive; Give Me Your Change; Roosevelt's Blues; Ten and Four Blues...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Roosevelt Sykes: Raining in My Heart

1 CD / Delmark / 2000-10-17

Tracks: Fine and Brown - (alternate take); Lucky Blues; Raining in My Heart; Heavy Heart; 4:00 Blues; Too Hot to Handle (Hot Boogie); Tell Me True; Ruthie Lee; Something Like That; Security Blues; Boogie Syk...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel includes: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); J.T. Brown, Remo Bondi, Sax Mallard, Fred Below, Ransom Knowling, Jump Jackson.

Recorded between 1951 & 1953. Includes liner notes by Tad Jo...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5 (1937-1939)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: Little and Low; Night Time Is the Right Time; Monte Carlo Blues; She Squeezed My Lemon; Somebody's Been Ridin' My Black Gal; Bread Pan; Ice Cream Freezer; Druken Gambler; Hospital, Heaven or Hell; Lo...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Document's Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5 (1937-1939) offers an exhaustive overview of a two-year period from Roosevelt Sykes' career. During that era, Sykes first recorded a raft of classics: "Night...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 6 (1939-1941)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: Love Will Wear You Down; Get Your Row Out; Shoe Shiner's Moan; Under Eyed Woman; 44 Blues; Papa Low; New Mistake in Life; We Will Never Make the Grade; I've Made a Change; Concentration Blues; New St...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Pianist/singer Roosevelt Sykes is heard at his prime throughout these 25 selections, all of which are duets with drummer Big Sid Catlett. Sykes was always an expressive singer and a powerful pianist, ...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 8 (1945-1947)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: I Wonder; Tender Hearted Woman; This Tavern Boogie; Don't Push Me Around; Little Sam; Anytime Is the Right Time; Honeydripper, The; Date Bait; High Price Blues; Peeping Tom; That's My Gal; Tonight; L...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Sam Casimir, Leonard Caston (guitar); Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (clarinet); Leon Washington, J.T. Brown (tenor saxophone); Alfred Elkins (baritone saxophone...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 10 (1951-1957)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: Fine and Brown; Lucky Blues; Raining in My Heart; Heavy Heart; Walking the Boogie; Four O'Clock Blues; Hot Boogie; Something Like That; Security Blues; Toy Piano Blues; Listen to My Song; Come Back B...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Ernest McLean, Willie Wilkins, Justin Adams , Robert Nighthawk (guitar); Remo Biondi (violin); Lee Allen (tenor saxophone); Big Crawford, Ransom Knowling, F...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4 (1934-1936)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: D.B.A. Blues; Ethel Mae Blues; Radio Broadcasting Blues; Old Market Street Blues; Central Limited Blues; Heavy Stuff Blues; Steady Grinding Blues; D.B.A. Blues, No. 2; Dirty Mother for You; Dirty Mot...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Dorethea Trowbridge, Dorothy Baker, Arthur McKay, Johnnie Strauss (vocals, accordion); Ikey Robinson, Kokomo Arnold (guitar).

Liner Note Author: Chri...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1931-1933)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: Hard Luck Blues; Strange Man Blues; Sail on Black Sue; Barrel of Whiskey Blues; Prisoner's Blues; Mosby Stomp; Mr. Sykes Blues; Highway 61 Blues; Jelly Roll Mill; In Here With Your Heavy Stuff; Don't...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Document's Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1932-1933) continues its chronological overview of Roosevelt Sykes' early recordings. As on the previous volume, Sykes reworks his "44 Blues," hits a few hi...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 9 (1947-1951)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: Boogie Honky Tonk; Booze Blues; Time Wasted on You; Until the Cows Come Home; High as a Georgia Pine; I Know How You Feel; Candy Man Blues; Why Should I Cry; He's Just a Gravy Train; Southern Blues; ...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Document's ninth volume devoted to the complete chronologically reissued works of Roosevelt Sykes covers a four-year period beginning in November 1947 and combines 20 Victor, Bullet, and Regal recordi...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1930-1931)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: 32-20 Blues; Give Me Your Change; I Love You More and More; Kelly's 44 Blues; 3-6 and 9; We Can Sell That Thing; Conjur Man Blues; Cotton Seed Blues; No Good Woman Blues; Drinkin' Woman; Papa Sweetba...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); St. Louis Bessie (vocals, accordion); Willie Kelly, Dobby Bragg (vocals, piano); Henry Townsend (guitar).

Liner Note Author: Chris Smith .

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Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 7 (1941-1944)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: K.M.A. Blues; Trouble and Whiskey; My Supply Woman Blues; Prison Gate Blues; Sykes Advice Blues; Low as a Toad; Let the Black Have His Way; 15c a Day; Just Hanging Around; Keep Your Hands off Her; Ro...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Contains 23 tracks.

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Ted Summitt (guitar); Big Bill Broonzy (electric guitar); Armand Jump Jackson, Big Sid Catlett (drums).

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Roosevelt Sykes: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1929-1930)

1 CD / Document (USA) / 2000-09-08

Tracks: "44" Blues; All My Money Gone Blues; Way I Feel Blues, The; Henry Ford Blues; I'm Tired of Being Mistreated; Boot That Thing; Fire Detective Blues; Little Sow Blues; Single Tree Blues; Trouble Everyw...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

This volume, the first in a seven-part series collecting all of Roosevelt Sykes' recordings between 1929 and 1942, begins with the classic "44 Blues" and includes 22 more sides from late 1929 and earl...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: 1931-1941

1 CD / Wolf / 1999-06-15

Tracks: Groceries on the Shelf No. 2; Yellow Woman Blues; Piggly Wiggly Blues; People, People; She Left Me Cold in Hand; Little and Low; Night Time Is the Right Time; Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly); P...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel includes: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Charlie McFadden (vocals); Sidney Catlett (drums).

Personnel: Charlie McFadden (vocals); Big Sid Catlett (drums).

Recording informati...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: West Helena Blues: The Postwar Years, Vol. 2

1 CD / Wolf / 1998-05-27

Tracks: I Know How You Feel; Mailbox Blues; This Tavern Boogie; Tender Hearted Woman (I'll Wear the Pants); Her Little Machine; West Helena Blues; Come Back Baby; Hard Luck Boogie; Good Book Blues; I'm Tired...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Full title: The Postwar Years 1945 - 1957, Vol. 2: West Helena Blues.

This CD contains 16 tracks recorded in Chicago and 2 tracks recorded with Dave Bartholomew's band in New Orleans.

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Roosevelt Sykes: Feel Like Blowing My Horn [Bonus Tracks]

1 CD / Delmark / 1997-06-10

Tracks: Feel Like Blowing My Horn; My Hamstring's Poppin'; I'm a Nut; Blues Will Prank With Your Soul - (take, alternate take); Jubilee Time - (previously unreleased, take, alternate take); All Days Are Good...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Robert Jr. Lockwood (guitar); Oett "Sax" Mallard (tenor saxophone, clarinet); King Kolax (trumpet); Dave Myers (bass); Fred Below (drums).

Recorded f...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, Vol. 3

CD / Schoolkids / 1996-06-05

Tracks: Stage Introduction; Comments; Drivin' Wheel; Night Time Is the Right Time; Run This Boogie; St. James Infirmary; Dirty Mother for You; Looka Here (C'mon Let's Shake); Black Snake Blues; Detroit Moan;...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Victoria Spivey (vocals, piano); John Nuzzo (harmonica); Gary Churchill (clarinet, tenor saxophone); John Acerno (electric bass); Eric Nuyhaus (drums).
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Roosevelt Sykes: Hard Drivin' Blues

1 CD / Delmark / 1995-07-26

Tracks: Kickin' Motor Scooter; Red-Eyed Jesse Bell; I Like What You Do (When You Do What You Did Last Night); New Fire Detective Blues; North Gulfport Boogie; Watch Your Step (If You Just Can't Be Good); Ho!...
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

HARD DRIVIN' BLUES contains 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Personnel includes: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Homesick James (guitar).

Recorded in 1962-63.

Personnel: Roo...continue...

Roosevelt Sykes: Gold Mine: Live in Europe

1 CD / Delmark / 1992-05-07

Tracks: Big Ben; Boot That Thing; Springfield Blues; Henry Ford Blues; I'm a Dangerous Man; True Thing; You Understand; Whole Lot of Children; Last Laugh, The; Gold Mine; 44 Blues; Sugar Cup
Artists: Roosevelt Sykes

GOLD MINE: LIVE IN EUROPE was originally titled IN EUROPE and released in 1966.

Personnel: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); Robert Lockwood, Jr. (guitar); Oett "Sax" Mallard (clarinet, tenor sa...continue...