also on the session, playing not only "Rollin and Tumblin," and the results T-Bone Walker sax but also some piano and organ are then released as the LP Good Feelin' as well, making this virtually a world Southside Reunion. These guys are a Sunnyside CD music recording well before anyone long way from the Checkerboard thought in those terms. Lounge at 43rd and King Drive on Clifton Chenier The late Clarence "Gatemouth" Chicago's south side, but the sound is Frenchin' the Boogie Brown, master of the electric violin, just right, the rhythm section is Sunnyside CD released Gate's On The Heat in churning and stamping with that 1973. Bridging country, blues and unmistakable south side shuffle, and Clarence Gatemouth New Orleans styles, Brown delivers a you know there were some good Brown tour-de-force on these twelve tracks, vibes in the studio that night- That's Gate's on the Heat with backing by the Memphis Horns basically the feeling that each of Sunnyside CD and Canned Heat_ One curiosity these seminal Barclay reissues Memphis Slim about this album is Mickey Baker's exudes-hard edged, swinging and r rockin' blues, alive arid kickin' in Southside Reunion ar angement for an eighteen-piece this alf-shore location- While Sunnyside CD string section that can be heard on the instrumental title track-and it America was succumbing to disco Eddie Barclay was many things- works! sludge and pompous hair bands, pianist, film score composer, night- Clifton Chenier's 1976 LP Frenchin' Paris was obviously the place to club owner, lavish party host, pur- The Boogie, recorded in Bogalusa, boogie. Alan Waters veyor of French song. But above all Louisiana, was a big hit in France for else, as Patrick O'Connor said in his the Zydeco king, with Buckwheat 2005 obituary for Barclay in the Zydeco (Stanley Dural Jr.) playing Nation, he was "the doyen of French Hammond B3, Paul Senegal on guitar record producers". He started and Robert Peter on drums. Chenier Disques Barclay in Paris in 1954, and his band tear through Cajun and the company's catalogue would versions of some rockin blues come to include everyone from standards, including 'Caldonia,"Let Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour the Good Times Roll,"Everyday I to Duke Ellington and Fela Kuti. And Have the Blues,' 'Chop Chow Ch' along the way, he launched the Boogie' and 'Going Down Slow'. subsidiary imprint Maison de Blues Listening to these recordings between 1969 and 1976, which was serves as yet one more reminder of devoted to recordings of American how important and impressive the blues and roots artists made mostly European reception of black American in France, using interesting music has been. I mean, just picture combinations of European and this By 1970 Memphis Slim, who'd American support musicians. These been dubbed the "Blues four releases on the Sunnyside label Embassadeur," had been living in are the latest reissues from this Paris for eight years, was married to series_ his French wife, could be seen driving The T-Bone Walker album Good round the city in his Rolls Royce, and Feelin' was recorded in 1969 and producer Philippe Rault puts together won a Grammy the following year for an all-star Chicago blues session at Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording. the legendary Chateau D'Herouville There are a number of noteworthy Studio There's Slim pounding the points, including the fact that on piano, Buddy Guy with his scream- several tracks Walker plays piano -ing guitar, Junior Wells wailing on rather than guitar. Jazz pianist Michel his harp, with A. C Reed on tenor Sardaby, drummer Lucien Dobat and and Roosevelt Shaw on drums, laying bassist Jeannot Karl can be heard down tracks like "When Buddy throughout, and Mane Dibango is Comes to Town" and Muddy Waters'