CONTAINS
Joe Hill Louis
''GOTTA LET YOU GO"
Composer: - Joe Hill Louis-Sam Phillips
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Copyright Control
Matrix
number: - 100-2 - Master (2:44)
Recorded: - July 27, 1950
Memphis Recording Service
706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee
Released: - August 1950
First
appearance: - The Phillips (S) 78rpm standard single It's The Phillips 9001-A mono
GOTTA LET YOU GO / BOOGIE IN THE PARK
The
single had different numbers on A and B sides.
Reissued: - 1996 Charly Records (CD) 500/200rpm CDSUNBOX 7-1-4 mono digital
SUN
RECORDS - THE BLUES YEARS 1950 - 1958
Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Joe
Hill Louis - Vocal, Guitar
Ford Nelson – Piano
Unknown - Drums
More Details Unknown
This side of Louis' first disc is wildly percussive, too, but the slower tempo allows the words to shine. It's a splenetic blues: our man has lavished money and gifts upon his woman, and is getting nothing in return. Joe Hill rants in one chord through the verses. It's a common enough theme, but he's riled up, and the harsh guitar accentuates his malice. Many extremely rare records are often found to be extremely rare for a reason; this one, almost certainly unheard by all but a few hundred people in and around Memphis at the time of release, is a jewel of high octane juke joint blues. 300 copies pressed by Plastic Products on August 30, 1950. (CE)