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Released 1993

This four-CD set, containing 122 songs (23 of them previously unreleased) cut between 1950 and 1966 for RCA, Groove, Okeh, and Columbia is, literally, the best of Piano Red, and may be the best box in the entire Bear Family catalog. This is about as good as piano blues and R&B got, and also some of the best piano-based rock & roll you'll ever hear -- rivaling anything that Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard ever cut -- with barely a second-rate track. Even the multiple versions of his signature tune, "Right String but the Wrong Yo-Yo," are welcomed, from its lean, mean piano-bass-drums original 1950 version, to the live 1955 rendition and the broader 1961 remake (at the "Mr. Moonlight" session), because they're each different enough to justify their presence. And, yet, the most amazing thing about the 16 years covered on these four discs is the consistency of the music and performances -- Red hardly changed at all until the early '60s, always giving his audience a good show whether he was making records or playing live. The second and third discs are arguably the best parts of the set, with Red at the peak of his prowess as a pianist and singer. He made the jump into rock & roll more easily than most bluesmen of his age, with the result that his music from this period is as solid as anything else he ever did. Still later, on the fourth disc, once he moves into a more produced, pop-oriented R&B sound, he holds up almost as well. The sound is excellent, the notes are thorough, and the $100 list price of this 122-song set makes it proportionately more attractive than any $15/15-song best-of on Red that might ever show up (and there isn't one). ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Jumpin' the Boogie
2. Rockin' With Red
3. Let's Have a Good Time Tonight
4. Red's Boogie
5. Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo
6. My Gal Jo
7. Baby, What's Wrong
8. Well, Well Baby
9. Just Right Bounce
10. Diggin' the Boogie
11. Layin' the Boogie
12. Bouncin' With Red
13. It Makes No Difference Now
14. Hey, Good Lookin'
15. Count the Days I'm Gone
16. My Boogie [#]
17. The Sales Tax Boogie
18. Voo Doopee Doo
19. Daybreak
20. She Walks Right In
21. I'm Gonna Tell Everybody
22. I'm Gonna Rock Some More
23. She's Dynamite
24. Everybody's Boogie
25. Your Mouth's Got a Hole in It
26. Right and Ready
27. Taxi, Taxi
28. Decatur Street Boogie
29. Sober [#]
30. She Knocks Me Out
31. Goin' Away Baby [#]
32. Chitlin' Hop

DISC 2

33. Decatur Street Blues
34. I Ain't Fattening Frogs for Snakes [#]
35. Big Rock Joe from Kokomo
36. Pay It No Mind
37. Jump Man Jump
38. Do She Love Me
39. She Knocks Me Out
40. Peachtree Parade
41. Red's Blues
42. Six O'Clock Bounce
43. Jumpin' With Daddy
44. Gordy's Rock
45. Real Good Thing
46. Goodbye
47. Please Tell Me Baby
48. You Were Mine for Awhile
49. Sweetest Little Something in the World (Ol' Man River) [#]
50. Since I Fell for You [#]
51. Woo-Ee
52. Rock Baby
53. Teach Me to Forget [#]
54. Wild Fire
55. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
56. South
57. Coo Cha
58. Dixie Roll [#]
59. Boston Scored [#]
60. One Glimpse of Heaven
61. Blues Blues [#]
62. Work With It [#]
63. Eighter from Decatur
64. Please Come Back Home [#]
65. Comin' On

DISC 3

66. Ain't Nobody's Fool
67. Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo
68. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
69. Umph-Umph-Umph
70. Got You on My Mind
71. It's Time to Boogie
72. That's My Desire
73. Teen-Age Bounce [#]
74. Pay It No Mind [#]
75. Hey, Good Lookin' [#]
76. I Ain't Fattening Frogs for Snakes
77. Rockin' With Red
78. Get Up Mare [With Dubbed Handclapps]
79. 1, 2, 3 [#]
80. My Baby [#]
81. Rock and Roll Boogie [#]
82. Nightime [#]
83. So Worried
84. Blues, Blues [#]
85. [Studio Chatter]
86. Boogie Re-Bop [#]
87. This Old World
88. I Feel Good
89. Talk to Me
90. Believe in Me
91. Guitar Walk
92. I've Been Rockin'
93. Rockin' With Red
94. So Shook Up

DISC 4

95. Doctor Feel-Good
96. Mister Moonlight
97. The Swabble
98. Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo
99. I'll Be Home One Day
100. Sea Breeze
101. I Ain't Gonna Be a Lowdown Dog No More
102. Don't Let Me Catch You Wrong
103. What's Up Doc
104. I'll Give Anything
105. Love Is Amazing
106. Bald-Headed Lena
107. I Feel Good
108. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
109. The Same Old Things Keep Happening
110. Let's Have a Good Time Tonight
111. My Gal Jo
112. Blang Dong
113. I Don't Mind [#]
114. I'm Gonna Rock Some More [#]
115. The Doctor's Boogie
116. Let the House Rock On
117. Doctor of Love
118. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
119. Good Guys
120. Goodbye (I Can't Forget)
121. Don't Tell Me No Dirty
122. Where Did You Go

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