Tuesday, November 7, 2017

TRASH NIGHT SUPER BONUS

I was just taking out the trash, which is, as all menial tasks are, usually accompanied by humming whatever the hell song pops in to my head. "Tiger Man" was up this time, Rufus Thomas's version. It was first recorded by Joe Hill Louis at Sun, but remained unreleased at the time. Sam Phillips had Rufus Thomas record it and that was the version that got released.

Joe Hill Louis's act was as a one man band and he was the only artist who had a record out on Phillips's pre-Sun label, Phillips Records, when Sun, the label, was born. "Boogie in the Park", recorded in 1950, is about as raw as it gets. Dig the link below and keep in mind that there were only 300 pressed. The fact that you even get the opportunity to hear it will mean something different depending on your age. If you're relatively young, you'll think "Cool. I'll check this later". You older people will think "Fuck, I guess the internet didn't ruin everything" and hop to it straight away.

Louis, or Hill Louis, was a semi-fixture at Sun, recording with other on-again off-again label-mates as well as solo. He played guitar on Rufus Thomas's "Bear Cat" (a ripoff of "Hound Dog"), I guess showing there were no sour "Tiger Man" grapes.

Dan Sartain, a totally unrelated artist, covered "Tiger Man" a few years back, so that's down there too, Just because it was laying around.

~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~
Listen:
Joe Hill Lewis - Tiger Man mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban 1953, unreleased until the eighties
Joe Hill Lewis - Boogie In the park
(streaming) at YouTube 1950
Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man mp3
at Internet Archive 1953
Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat mp3
at Internet Archive 1953
Dan Sartain - Tiger Man mp3
at Xtrmntr 1990s
Visit:
Joe Hill Louis - Long bio
at The Hound Blog

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