Year: 2001
Time: 45:45
Size: 106,2 MB
Label: Fedora(FCD 5018)
Styles: Blues/Louisiana Blues
Art: Full
Tracks Listing:
1. Wish Me Well - 2:53
2. Buddah-Ba - 3:06
3. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - 3:22
4. Listen to My Heart Sing - 3:35
5. Mystery Train - 4:37
6. Fancy - 4:13
7. Drown in My Own Tears - 8:25
8. Shook Up - 4:13
9. I'm Tore Up - 3:48
10. Okie Dokie Stomp - 3:46
11. I'm Wondering - 3:42
St. Louis bluesman Bennie Smith sings with old-school authority while displaying raw six-string appeal on Shook Up. The 68-year-old Smith displays uninhibited gusto on the hard-driving shuffle “I’m Tore Up” and on raucous, off-kilter covers of “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl,” Junior Parker’s “Mystery Train” and Memphis Slim’s “Wish Me Well.” He also rips it up on the album’s two instrumentals, “Buddah-ba” and Gatemouth Brown’s “Okie Dokie Stomp.” Smith’s highly eccentric but heartfelt version of “Drown in My Own Tears” opens with a fanfare from “The Star Spangled Banner,” and his unaccompanied balladic closer, “I’m Wondering,” is as bizarre as it is beautiful. Wholly unpretentious and unpredictable stuff.
Shook Up
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