Johnny Powers and Friends: Michigan Rockers
Various Artists
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Release Date: 14/08/2015
On paper, Michigan seems an unlikely candidate for a rockabilly hotbed, yet because of its plentiful jobs in the steel and automobile industries centred around Detroit, the state became a magnet for Southerners in the 1930s and 1940s and, consequently, a healthy market for country and blues music developed into one for rockabilly amongst the children of the migrants. Boasting the longest freshwater coastline of any of the US states, there is nothing wet about the searing rock 'n' roll laid down by the likes of Johnny Powers nor the wealth of recordings made at the tiny Fortune Studio in Detroit and others dotted around the state long before Motown held sway
1: Honey Let's Go (To a Rock and Roll Show) - Johnny Powers and His Rockets
2: Your Love - Johnny Powers and His Rockets
3: Long Blond Hair, Red Rose Lips - Johnny Powers with Stan Getz and His Tom Cats
4: Rock Rock - Johnny Powers with Stan Getz and His Tom Cats
5: Indeed I Do - Johnny 'Scat' Brown
6: Mama Rock - Johnny 'Scat' Brown
7: With Your Love, With Your Kiss - Johnny Powers
8: Be Mine, All Mine - Johnny Powers
9: Your Kind of Love - Bob & The Rockbillies
10: Three Years - Harold L and The Offbeats
11: You Shake Me - Jimmy Wayne and The Galaxies
12: Long Tall Lou (From Louisville) - Jimmy Franklin with Pete De Bree & The Wanderers
13: Dig, Everybody, Dig That Boogie - Roy Hall & His Alley Cats
14: Livin' Doll - Lafayette Yarborough
15: I'm Gone - Vic Gallon
16: Honey Won't You Love Me - Jimmy Gartin & His Bad Cats
17: Come On Baby - Jimmy Kirkland with Stan Getz & His Tom Cats
18: Rock the Universe - Dell Vaughn and the Fortune Aires
19: Bevy Mae - Bobby Smith
20: Three Alley Cats - Roy Hall & His Jumping Cats
21: Connie - Harold L and The Offbeats
22: Connie Lou - Ray Taylor and The Alabama Pals
23: Rock and Roll Rock - Roy Kelly
24: Thinkin' About You - Leon James & The Rhythm Rockers
25: Sweetie Pie - Ellis Kirk and the Town and Country Boys
26: I Wonder If You Wonder - Jimmy Kirkland with Stan Getz & His Tom Cats
27: Cool, Cool Baby - Lafayette Yarborough
28: Baby, Let's Rock - Leon James with Walter Atkins & His Homotones
29: She's Gone from Me - Bobby Smith
30: It's All Your Fault - Farris Wilder
31: Baby, Why Did You Have to Go - Bob & The Rockbillies
32: My Hamtramck Baby - Ray Taylor and The Alabama Pals
33: Big Green Car - Jimmy Carroll
34: Hey, Mr Presley - Jimmy Franklin with Pete De Bree & The Wanderers