Janis Martin - The Female Elvis: Complete Recordings 1956-60 (1987)

2014-10-12T15:51:26Z

Janis Martin - The Female Elvis: Complete Recordings 1956-60 (1987)


01. Drugstore Rock'N Roll (1956) (Janis Martin) - 2:05
02. Will You Willyum (1956) (Carl Stutz, Carl Barefoot) - 1:54
03. Love And Kisses (1957) (Marvin Moore, Bob Davie, Charles Grean) - 1:57
04. My Boy Elvis (1956) (Aaron Schroeder, Claude Demetruis) - 2:07
05. Cracker Jack (1958) (Mark Harris) - 2:04
06. Bang Bang (1958) (Clavelle Isnard) - 1:56
07. Ooby Dooby (1956) (Wade Moore, Dick Penner) - 1:57
08. Barefoot Baby (1956) (Carl Stutz, Carl Barefoot) - 2:11
09. Good Love (1958) (Jesse Stone) - 2:07
10. Little Bit (1956) (Carl Stutz, Carl Barefoot) - 2:09
11. Two Long Years (1957) (Hugh Ashley) - 2:24
12. All Right, Baby (1957) (Dick Glasser) - 1:34
13. Billy Boy, My Billy Boy (1957) (Bob Davie, Marvin Moore) - 2:08
14. Let's Elope Baby (1956) (Albert Clayton Griffin) - 2:02
15. Love Me Love (1979) (Boudleaux Bryant) - 2:04
16. Love Me To Pieces (1957) (Melvin Endsley) - 2:06
17. William (1979) (Winfield Scott) - 2:05
18. Here Today And Gone Tomorrow (1960) (Harold Carr, Matt Dubey) - 2:06
19. Teen Street (1960) (Barnes, Adams) - 1:51
20. Hard Times Ahead (1960) (Barry Mann, Noel Sherman) - 2:14
21. Cry Guitar (1960) (Fredrick Long, Susan Heather) - 2:26
22. Just Squeeze Me (1957) (Lee Gaines, Duke Ellington) - 1:46
23. One More Year To Go (1956) (Boudleaux Bryant) - 2:18
24. Blues Keep Calling (1979) (Janis Martin) - 2:20
25. Please Be My Love (1958) (Don Winters) - 2:10
26. I Don't Hurt Anymore (1957) (Jack Rollins, Don Robertson) - 2:03
27. Half Loved (1957) (Ray Stanley, Jaye Fitzsimmons) - 2:08
28. My Confession (1957) (Marvin Moore, Bob Davie, Charles Grean) - 2:02
29. I'll Never Be Free (1957) (Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss) - 2:00
30. Love Me Love (Cha Cha) (1979) (Boudleaux Bryant) - 2:01

Personnel:
- Janis Martin - female lead vocals, guitar (06,17,25,30)
- Chet Atkins - electric guitar (01,02,11,14-16,23,24)
- Al Chernet - guitar (03,04,07,08,10,22,26-29)
- George Barnes - guitar (03-05,07-10,12,13,22,26-29)
- Tony Mottola, Danny Peri - guitar (05,09,12,13)
- Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland - guitar (06,17-21,25,30)
- Jimmy Atkins - guitar (06,17,25,30)
- Thomas Grady Martin - rhythm guitar (01,02,14,18-21,23)
- Dave Rich - rhythm guitar (11,15,16,24)
- Boyce Hawkins - organ (06,17,25,30)
- Floyd Cramer - piano (01,02,11,14-16,23,24)
- Andy Ackers - piano (03,22,26-29)
- Shorty Long - piano (04,07,08,10)
- Joe Harnell - piano (05,09,12,13)
- George Berg - tenor saxophone (03,22,26-29)
- Bob Moore - bass (01,02,06,14,17,23,25,30)
- Sam Bruno - bass (03,22,26-29)
- Charles Grean - bass (04,07,08,10)
- Arnold Fishkin - bass (05,09,12,13)
- Thomas Grady Martin - bass (11,15,16,24)
- Murray M. "Buddy" Harman - drums (01,02,06,11,14,15-17,23-25,30)
- Bunny Shawker - drums (03-05,07-10,12,13,22,26-29)
- Bettye McCormick, Jala Divigard, Jim Farmer, Melvin Little Ryan - backing vocals (03,22,26-29)
- Bob Miller, Dol Evans, Jerry Duane, Lew Anderson, Marge Murphy - backing vocals (05,09,12,13)
- The Jordanaires - backing vocals (06,17,25,30)
- Chet Atkins, Jeff Kluger, Steve Sholes – producers

Thirty songs, and not a loser in the bunch. This little lady rocks -- hard -- and she doesn't start to slow down until 21 songs in. The best is sort of like Elvis' early RCA sides, only better, mixed with some wildness that makes one wonder if Sun Records wouldn't have been a better home for her. As it happens, Martin is a good enough singer that even the slow ballads like "Cry Guitar" and "One More Year to Go" come off well -- she had a rich, strong, slightly throaty voice that would have allowed her to make it in country music, or even pop (check out the Duke Ellington-authored "Squeeze Me") as easily as rock & roll, if that was what she wanted. What's more, she could write songs as well, and that was pretty rare for female performers of the time; her originals here compare pretty favorably with standards like "Ooby Dooby." "Blues Keep Calling" is a hot number in any discography. --- Bruce Eder, Rovi

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Janis Martin ‎– The Blanco Sessions (2012)

2018-05-12T14:17:20Z

Janis Martin ‎– The Blanco Sessions (2012)


1 	As Long As I'm Movin' 	3:17
2 	Wham Bam Jam 	2:27
3 	Long White Cadillac 	3:22
4 	Wild One (Real Wild Child) 	2:29
5 	It'll Be Me 	3:01
6 	Sweet Dreams 	3:44
7 	Find Out What's Happening 	2:43
8 	I Believe What You Say 	2:14
9 	Roll Around Rockin' 	3:48
10 	Oh Lonesome Me 	3:09
11 	Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine (Vocals [Duet] – Kelly Willis)

Janis Martin 	Vocals, Vocal Harmony
Dave Biller 	Guitar
T. Jarrod Bonta 	Piano (Electric)
Sarah Brown 	Bass (Electric) 
Walter Daniels 	Harmonica
Jonathan Doyle 	Sax (Tenor)
Rosie Flores 	Duet, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals, Vocals (Background) 
Darin Murphy 	Harmonica
Beau Sample 	Bass (Upright), Vocals (Background)
Bobby Trimble 	Drums, Vocals (Background)
Kelly Willis 	Duet, Vocals

Rosie Flores brought rockabilly legend Janis Martin in to sing on her 1995 album Rockabilly Filly, sparking a friendship that eventually led to Flores producing Martin in 2007. Janis passed away a few months after she cut 12 songs with Flores and co-producer Bobby Trimble, and those recordings remained shelved until Cow Island Music's 2012 release of The Blanco Sessions. The idea behind these sessions was to cut Martin the way she recorded back in the '50s, when she was one of a handful of pioneering female rockabilly singers. Flores and Trimble rounded up a bunch of Austin musicians, headed out to Blanco, and then recorded live with Martin, tearing through these songs in a mere two days. The Blanco Sessions does indeed feel alive: it jumps and swings, there's grit and dirt in the grooves, it has the spark and crackle of a live performance. Flores and Trimble evoke the spirit of Sun studios without desperately chasing a ghost; this has the ambience of a small room, so there's a bit of a noir-ish mystique to the sound of the album that's hard to resist. Conceptually, this is a throwback, but The Blanco Sessions is too lively to be categorized as nostalgia, and that's not just because the material is varied, with Dave Alvin's "Long White Cadillac" sitting alongside Jerry Lee Lewis' "It'll Be Me" and Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams." This is music that lives for the present, which means although Martin is singing in the style she did back in the '50s, it's from the perspective of a 67-year-old woman. And what a voice she had for a 67-year-old woman! She sounds full, strong, and rich, arguably more resonant than she did in the '50s, and she tears into these songs. There is a palpable joy to this music, coming from Martin and her band, and that's what makes The Blanco Sessions such a terrific coda to her career: this is not a self-conscious last testament, but rather a celebration of everything that made Janis Martin great. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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