Ottilie Patterson - Easy, Easy Baby - More of the First Lady of British Blues

Cat. no: JASMCD2732
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988273229
Release Date: 29 Oct 2021
Genre: Blues

By far the outstanding female British Blues/R&B/Jazz singer of her era, former Belfast art teacher OTTILIE PATTERSON sang with Chris Barber’s band between 1955-73 and recorded prolifically as both a solo singer and an ensemble band member.

Although Ottilie may have looked like a demure shy Irish coleen, she sang like a white Bessie Smith, as Louis Armstrong once famously observed. The companion set to an earlier Jasmine release (JASMCD2657), this compilation is drawn once again from her repertoire between 1955 and 1962, comprising A and Bsides, EP and LP tracks, and a couple of live rarities, including a duet with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

Ottilie was an exceptional live performer, and six of these sides are either from official live albums or gigs which Barber recorded professionally, but were unreleased at the time. A half-dozen of these twenty-four sides are difficult to find elsewhere on CD.

Tracks: St Louis Blues (Live) / Reckless Blues (Live) / I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate / Poor Man’s Blues / Ugly Child / Jailhouse Blues / Shipwreck Blues / T’ain’t No Sin / Bearcat Crawl / How Long Blues (Live) (With Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee) / There’ll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight / T’ain’t Nobody’s Business / Squeeze Me / Easy, Easy, Baby (Live) /  Kansas City Blues / Trixie’s Blues / Too Many Drivers (Live) / Heavenly Sunshine (Live) / Blueberry Hill / I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby / Basin Street Blues / T’ain’t What You Do / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Come On Baby

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