Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Baby Ain't That Love - Texas & Tennessee Sessions 1964-1974 (2015) Ace Limited edition + Booklet - Rare R&B/Blues/ (FLAC 321MB)

Composer, Blues pianist, and singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry was born Clarence Henry II in  1937, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Clarence Henry, an L&N railroad porter, and Ernestine Henry. They had six children and reared them in the Algiers neighborhood on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. As a child, Frogman began piano lessons with the legendary Blues pianists Antoine “Fats Domino” Dominique Domino Jr. and Henry Roeland “Professor Longhair” Byrd. Young Clarence Henry earned “Frogman” because of his interpreted frog-like falsetto sound.....This album contains some Great mid 1960s to early 1970s sides from a genuine New Orleans R&B icon. Featuring nine previously unissued titles. Limited edition of 1500. Every lover of New Orleans R&B knows Clarence “Frogman” Henry, the guy who “can sing like a girl and sing like a frog”. Clarence has been a favourite all over the world since the 1950s when he burst on the scene with ‘Ain’t Got No Home’. He was a regular visitor to the UK charts in the early 60s and supported the Beatles on their first US tour in 1964. Clarence made his hits for Chess Records, and they have seldom been out of print since the advent of the CD. The recordings he made subsequently have been less well anthologised something this Ace collection strives to rectify.  This album brings together almost all the recordings Clarence made with Texas based producer Huey Meaux over a period of almost 10 years, with the bonus of four tracks cut for Buddy Killen’s Dial label in Memphis in 1967. Those who like Clarence’s Chess recordings will find plenty to enjoy, as many of the early tracks have the sound that made hits such as ‘But I Do’ and ‘You Always Hurt The One You Love’ so popular in their day. Huey Meaux mostly recorded Clarence inTexas but used New Orleans musicians to capture his sound and style in the way his Chess classics did. The results were invariably successful, as you will hear. By the 70s Huey had expanded Clarence’s repertoire to embrace soul, blues, country, funk and even reggae in an attempt to keep him sounding current. The results of the later sessions are never less than interesting and usually much more than that. In typical Ace fashion, this is the most complete collection of Clarence’s post Chess recordings to date, 28 titles in total, including nine issued here for the first time. All tracks are mastered from fresh tape transfers made in Houston’s Sugar Hill Studios in 2013. Clarence is still entertaining audiences and bringing the house down with a show that includes all his hits and some of the songs featured here...He recorded only 4 studio albums that i know of and 40+ 45,s...Read The Booklet its all in there.

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