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THE COMPLETE METEOR BLUES & GOSPEL RECORDINGS
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Disc 1

   1. I Believe - ELMORE JAMES
   2. I Held My Baby Last Night - ELMORE JAMES
   3. Round House Boogie (aka Sax Symphonic Boogie) - BEP BROWN ORCHESTRA (SAX MAN BROWN WITH THE BROOMDUSTERS)
   4. Kickin\' The Blues Around (aka Flaming Blues) - BEP BROWN ORCHESTRA (SAX MAN BROWN WITH THE BROOMDUSTERS)
   5. My Best Friend - CARL (MR BROADWAY) GREEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
   6. Four Years Seven Days - CARL (MR BROADWAY) GREEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
   7. Baby, What\'s Wrong - ELMORE JAMES
   8. Sinful Women - ELMORE JAMES
   9. Western Union Man - CHICAGO SUNNY BOY
  10. Jack Pot (aka At The Woodchopper\'s Ball) - CHICAGO SUNNY BOY
  11. I Wronged A Woman - EARL (WHOOPIN\' & HOLLERIN\') FOREST
  12. I Can\'t Forgive You - EARL (WHOOPIN\' & HOLLERIN\') FOREST
  13. Gonna Let You Go - SUNNY BLAIR (actually BABY FACE TURNER)
  14. Please Send My Baby Back (aka Step Back Baby) - SUNNY BLAIR
  15. Love You Baby - CHICAGO SUNNY BOY
  16. On The Floor - CHICAGO SUNNY BOY
  17. Porkey Pine - JIMMY WRIGHT AND HIS ORCHESTRA featuring Porkey Harris, guitar
  18. Scotch Mist - JIMMY WRIGHT AND HIS ORCHESTRA featuring Boogie Daniels, tenor sax
  19. Horizon - CARL GREEN AND ORCHESTRA
  20. Boogie Freight - CARL GREEN AND ORCHESTRA
  21. Crying In The Chapel - BUSTER SMITH & ORCHESTRA featuring Buster Smith, tenor sax
  22. Leapin\' In Chicago - BUSTER SMITH & ORCHESTRA featuring Buster Smith, tenor sax
  23. I\'m In the Mood To Be Loved - JIMMY WRIGHT & ORCHESTRA (Vocal by Merry Dee)
  24. Slow Down Daddy - JIMMY WRIGHT & ORCHESTRA (Vocal by Merry Dee)
  25. Heartaches - LEO BAXTER & ORCHESTRA (Vocal by Donnie Grey)
  26. Can I Depend On You? - LEO BAXTER & ORCHESTRA (Vocal by Leo Baxter)
  27. Beale Street Stomp (aka Chop Chop Boogie) - AL SMITH\'S PROGRESSIVE JAZZ (with THE BROOMDUSTERS)
  28. Slidin\' Home (aka Hot Rod Special) - AL SMITH\'S PROGRESSIVE JAZZ (with THE BROOMDUSTERS)

 Disc 2

   1. Hawaiian Boogie - ELMORE JAMES & HIS BROOMDUSTERS
   2. Lost Woman Blues (aka Please Find My Baby) - ELMORE JAMES & HIS BROOMDUSTERS
   3. Sax - Ony Boogie - SAX MAN BROWN with ELMO JAMES BROOM DUSTERS
   4. Dumb Woman Blues - J.T. (BIG BOY) BROWN with ELMO JAMES BROOM DUSTERS
   5. Baby You Just Don\'t Know - WOODROW ADAMS with BOOGIE BLUES BLASTERS
   6. Wine Head Woman - WOODROW ADAMS with BOOGIE BLUES BLASTERS
   7. Tell The Angels - THE ANGEL VOICES featuring BURNER DENE JORDAN & CLIFFIE MAE SPIKE
   8. Walkin\' & Talkin\' With Jesus - THE ANGEL VOICES (Duet by BURNER DENE JORDAN & CLIFFIE MAE SPIKE)
   9. Let My Last Days Be My Best - JAMES ANDERSON with THE ANDERSON HARMONEERS
  10. Something Within Me - JAMES ANDERSON with THE ANDERSON HARMONEERS
  11. I Declare - SMOKEY HOGG
  12. Dark Clouds - SMOKEY HOGG
  13. What Can The Matter Be? - MINNIE THOMAS with SLIM WATERS\' LAGOONS
  14. I Know What You Need - MINNIE THOMAS with SLIM WATERS\' LAGOONS
  15. My Last Mile - WALTER MILLER with THE BARONS
  16. Standing On The Highway - WALTER MILLER with THE BARONS
  17. Alone On A Rainy Nite - THE DEL RIOS with THE BEARCATS (Lead vocal by      William Bell)
  18. Lizzie - THE DEL RIOS with THE BEARCATS (Lead vocal by William Bell)
  19. The Easy Livin\' Plan - RUFUS \"BEARCAT\" THOMAS with THE BEARCATS
  20. I\'m Steady Holdin\' On - RUFUS \"BEARCAT\" THOMAS with THE BEARCATS
  21. Love At First Sight - LITTLE MILTON with THE PLAYMATES OF RHYTHM
  22. Let\'s Boogie Baby - LITTLE MILTON with THE PLAYMATES OF RHYTHM
  23. Tennessee Woman - FENTION ROBINSON with THE DUKES
  24. Crying Out Loud - FENTION ROBINSON with THE DUKES
  25. Let My Baby Be - LITTLE MILTON with PLAYMATES OF RHYTHM


Meteor Records operated in Memphis, Tennessee between late 1952 and 1957, and so it was in the ideal place, alongside Sun, to bring us a real picture of what was being played and recorded in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta at that time. And Meteor did do just that. Here we have the country blues of Woodrow Adams, the renowned one-man-band Joe Hill Louis  (appearing here as Chicago Sunny Boy and not as just one man), the small group sounds of Sunny Blair and Baby Face Turner, alongside the more commercial R&B sounds of Earl Forest, Rufus Thomas, Little Milton, and Fenton Robinson.

Besides the music of Beale Street and the surrounding country towns, though, Meteor Records gives us much more. Meteor was not just a Memphis label – indeed at times it was hardly a Memphis label at all. It started off with Chicago recordings by the incomparable Mississippi exile, Elmore James, whose first record on the label, I Believe, was a big territorial hit and made the R&B charts in early 1953.

So how did Meteor get Elmore, when Sam Phillips or Chess or any of the other indies would have loved to record his powerful electrified update of the slide blues? Well, Meteor was part of a wider chain of labels based on the West Coast – Modern, RPM, Flair, Crown etc. – owned by the Bihari family; several brothers and sisters, all integrally involved bar one brother, Lester, who didn’t quite fit in. He was posted to Memphis to set up his own label, Meteor. It was Joe Bihari who made a number of wider connections for Lester, and it was Joe who recorded Elmore James along with the dextrous if bullfrog-toned saxophonist, J T Brown, in Chicago in late 1952. Initially it was Joe who helped Lester to issue an impressively eclectic array of talent on his Memphis label, many artists playing music far removed from the sounds of Beale Street.

First up is West Coaster Carl (Mr Broadway) Green, whose band had probably never been near Memphis. Next came Jimmy Wright’s Orchestra, based in Los Angeles, a white bandleader whose Scotch Mist was something of a hit. Leo Baxter was another bandleader whose sound was more at home in Texas than in the mid-South. Al Smith (later Jimmy Reed’s manager) was a bass player from Mississippi who appeared on a large number of northern recordings for Chance and other Chicago labels. His Beale Street Stomp is in the progressive jazz mode, as the name of his band explained. And then there was Leapin’ In Chicago by Buster Smith, a very rare tenor solo outing by one of the giants of jazz; he was the Texas alto saxophonist who had worked with the influential Blue Devils and with Count Basie and is credited with arranging a number of jazz classics including One O’Clock Jump.

When Lester Bihari’s out-of-town connections ran out, and after he started to have some success with local white hillbilly and rockabilly musicians, he returned to the Memphis black talent. He recorded a number of little-known local artists, including the Angel Voices, a fabulously together female gospel duo with the wonderful names of Burner Dene Jordan and Cliffie Mae Spike; and James Anderson & the Anderson Harmoneers. He also recorded Minnie Thomas, Walter Miller, and the Del Rios, a vocal group that included a young and assured William Bell on his very first recording. A top notch Smokey Hogg West Coast blues record suddenly appeared along the way.

So, Meteor was Elmore for sure (his still-born third single is also included here), but it really was a whole lot more than him. It’s fascinating to hear the sounds of Memphis evolve and also to see how they fitted into the context of other black music styles captured by the label.

Meteor closed down in 1957 and, apart from Elmore James, has been little-remembered since, either in Memphis or in the wider record industry, save for the small group of record collectors lucky enough, or clever enough, to acquire copies of the original discs. One of these was Dave Sax, whose incomparable knowledge of these discs has been unleashed in the marvellous 28-page booklet to be found within this double-CD package – and just drool at all those insanely rare labels, let alone the great photographs. The complex project has been expertly supervised by John Broven.

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