After Hours (Pinetop Perkins album)

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After Hours
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Studio album by
Released1988
StudioChelsea Sound
Genre Blues
Length45:24
Label Blind Pig
Producer
  • Edward Chmelewski
  • Jerry Del Giudice
Pinetop Perkins chronology
After Hours
(1988)
Pinetop Perkins with the Blue Ice Band
(1992)
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After Hours is the debut solo album by the American musician Pinetop Perkins. [3] [4] He was backed by the New York-based blues band Little Mike and the Tornadoes, using the Chicago blues approach. [5] [6] Released in 1988 by Blind Pig Records, the album, produced by Edward Chmelewski and Jerry Del Giudice, includes blues standards and original material. The album was recorded by Natasha Turner at Chelsea Sound, in New York City.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Got My Mojo Working" – Preston Foster (3:45)
  2. "After Hours" – Avery Parrish (4:08)
  3. "The Hucklebuck" – Paul Williams (2:54)
  4. "Sit in the Easy Chair" – Pinetop Perkins (4:20)
  5. "Thinks Like a Million" – Pinetop Perkins (3:23)
  6. "Chicken Shack" – Jimmy Smith (3:43)
  7. "Hoochie Coochie Man" – Willie Dixon (4:47)
  8. "Yancey Special" – Jimmy Yancey (3:05)
  9. "Every Day I Have the Blues" – Peter Chapman [sic] [7] (3:26)
  10. "Anna Lee" – Robert Nighthawk (4:29)
  11. "You Don't Have to Go" – Jimmy Reed (4:09)
  12. "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" – Pinetop Smith (3:15)

Personnel

References

  1. "After Hours Pinetop Perkins". AllMusic . Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  2. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 515. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
  3. Hadley, Frank-John (1993). The Grove Press Guide to the Blues on CD. Grove Press. p. 176.
  4. LeBlanc, Eric S.; Eagle, Bob (2013). Blues: A Regional Experience. Praeger.
  5. Krampert, Peter (2016). The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica. Mel Bay Publications, Inc. p. 105.
  6. "Bio – Little Mike and the Tornadoes". Littlemikeandthetornadoes.com. Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
  7. Credit given on CD as "Peter Chapman", but should be "Peter Chatman"