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Chuck Higgins
Blows His Wig!
Ace (U.K.)
Year: 2006.
Chuck Higgins was, by his own admission, never much of a sax player. A competent trumpeter who only switched to tenor a couple of years before making his first recordings, he never really developed the skill or technique. Higgins’ saxblasting was, at best, rudimentary. His often off-key honking was never likely to bring sleepless nights to the likes of his Central Avenue contemporaries such as Plas Johnson, or Joe Houston. But it was popular enough among L.A.’s R&B-loving youngsters to give our man a career that spanned several decades, and even more record labels. CHUCK BLOWS HIS WIG focuses exclusively on the sides that he and his band, the Mellotones, cut for just one of those labels – Jake Porter’s Combo Records – during the 1950s.
Track listing:
1. Iron Pipe
2. Blues 'N' Mambo
3. Long, Long Time - Franklyn Dunn, Chuck Higgins
4. Boyle Heights
5. Blue Sax
6. Papa Charlie
7. Duck Walk
8. Tortas
9. Stormy - Chuck Higgins,
10. Higgins Bounce [#][Take]
11. Higgins Blues [#][Take]
12. Cotton Picker - Chuck Higgins,
13. Motor Head Baby - Chuck Higgins,
14. Rooster
15. West Side [#][Take]
16. Ain't Gonna Leave, Baby
17. I'm in Love with You [#][Take]
18. Higgins Bounce [#][Take]
19. Higgins Blues [#][Take]
20. Love Me, Baby [#][Take]
21. Just Won't Treat Me Right - Chuck Higgins,
22. Chuck's Wig [#]
23. Real Gone Hound Dog
24. Big Fat Mama
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