Champion Jack Dupree - Blues From The Gutter / Pure Pleasure

This is the 1958 masterwork album of Champion Jack Dupree's long and prolific career. Cut in New York  with a blasting band that included saxist Pete Brown and guitarist Larry Dale,

the Jerry Wexler-produced Atlantic collection provides eloquent testimony to Dupree's eternal place in the New Orleans blues and barrelhouse firmament. There's some decidedly

down-in-the-alley subject matter -- "Can't Kick the Habit", "T.B. Blues", a revival of "Junker's Blues" -- along with the stomping "Nasty Boogie" and treatments of the ancient themes

"Stack-O-Lee" and "Frankie & Johnny".   

Champion Jack Dupree (p, voc); Pete Brown (as); Ennis Lowery (g); Wendell Marshall (b); Willie Jones (dr)

Title

Side A

1. Strollin'

2. T. B. Blues

3. Can't Kick The Habit

4. Evil Woman

5. Nasty Boogie

Side B

1. Junker's Blues

2. Bad Blood

3. Goin' Down Slow

4. Frankie & Johnny

5. Stack-O-Lee