Pat Hare: I'm Gonna Murder My Baby: In Session 1952-1960

In a brief career, terminated by his imprisonment in 1963 for double-murder, Auburn "Pat" Hare was influential almost beyond measure, an incendiary guitarist, he had an instantly recognisable style, alternating heavy power chords with single-string, Bluesy runs, which perhaps anticipated the sounds that Jimi Hendrix would elicit from his Stratocaster, fifteen years hence.


His playing on James Cotton's memorable 'Cotton Crop Blues' famously featured one of the first-ever recorded solos which demonstrated the potential of an over-amplified electric guitar.


Built around Hare's infamous 'I'm Gonna Murder My Baby' (which, of course, he eventually did), this compilation features him playing on sessions for Walter Bradford, Rosco Gordon, Little Junior Parker, James Cotton, Billy "Red" Love, Bobby Bland, Muddy Waters, etc.


After murdering "his baby" (and the cop who came to arrest him), Hare spent the last sixteen years of his life in jail, dying just before he was due to be paroled.

1: Reward for My Baby - Walter Bradford & The Big City Four
2: Love for Me Baby - Walter Bradford & The Big City Four
3: Lucy Done Moved - LC. Hubert
4: Ain't No Use - Rosco Gordon
5: We're All Loaded (Whiskey Made Me Drunk) - Rosco Gordon
6: Baby No No! - Big Memphis Marainey
7: Blue and Lonesome - Houston Stokes
8: Can't Understand - Little Junior Parker and The Blues Flames
9: My Baby - James Cotton
10: Harmonica Jam - Hot Shot Love
11: Wolf Call Boogie (Alt) - Hot Shot Love
12: High - Kenneth Banks
13: Hart's Bread Boogie - Billy 'Red' Love
14: Cotton Drop Blues - James Cotton
15: Hold Me in Your Arms - James Cotton
16: I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
17: Bonus Pay - Pat Hare
18: I Wanna Ramble - Little Junior Parker and The Blues Flames
19: Forty Days and Forty Nights - Muddy Waters
20: Don't Go No Further - Muddy Waters
21: Pretty Baby - Little Junior Parker
22: Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
23: Further Up the Road - Bobby 'Blue' Bland
24: Evil - Muddy Waters
25: I Won't Go On - Muddy Waters
26: Close to You - Muddy Waters
27: Hey, Hey - Muddy Waters
28: I Got My Brand On You (Live) - Muddy Waters

Number of Discs: 1

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