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Blues minuet until the real thing comes along baby wont you please come home writtenby charles warfield, clarence williams, james booker. James booker the lost paramount tapes vinyl lp louisiana. James booker junco partner lp uk pink island 1976 rare. He was a oneeyed, drugaddicted piano genius who wore a wig stuffed with marijuana and once held a gun to his head on stage now a new film tells james bookers extraordinary story. Find similar albums to junco partner james booker on allmusic allmusic. The lost paramount tapes, an album by james booker. He was one of the greatest blues musicians, who died too early. Check out junco partner by james booker on amazon music. John described booker as the best black, gay, oneeyed junkie piano genius new orleans has ever. His solo album junco partner was recorded in new orleans during february, 1976 and is generally acknowledged to be his finest recording. In the edit page, go to the metadata tab and add your juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release releases. James booker montreux jazz festival, july 1978 zipped folder pretty baby winin boy blues pixie medley.
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The flamboyant and talented new orleansborn pianistsinger james booker19391983, known as the black liberace, had a career marred by drug dependency, mental illness and imprisonment. Rykorhino james booker s ability to tangle up everything from barrelhouse boogie to highspeed. Features song lyrics for james bookers junco partner album. Instead of singing the song about a friend booker transfers the lyrics to talk. Junco partner vinyl 1976 blues james booker download.
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The jarring cum delightful transition from chopin to the rollicking left hand and demented cackle you dig. James booker performing his very nontraditional version of junco partner at the montreux jazz festival in 1978. Junco partner down the road come a junco partner he was loaded, loaded as could be he was knocked out, knocked out loaded right now and he wabble and wabble, all over the. John, professor longhair, james booker, hugh laurie, and the clash.
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