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Complete Aladdin & Imperial Recordings,Pee Wee Crayton

- Complete Aladdin & Imperial Recordings
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Pee Wee Crayton
Released 1996

Baby Don't You Cry
02:07
9 plays

Do Unto Others
02:21
74 plays

Runnin' Wild
02:27
6 plays

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songs

- 1
- When It Rains It Pours
- 03:00
- 23 plays

- 2
- Daybreak
- 02:40
- 10 plays

- 3
- Win-O
- 02:16
- 2 plays

- 4
- Do Unto Others
- 02:21
- 74 plays

- 5
- Every Dog Has His Day
- 02:19
- 3 plays

- 6
- Hurry, Hurry
- 02:04
- 1 plays

- 7
- Eyes Full of Tears
- 02:06
- 1 plays

- 8
- I Need Your Love
- 02:09
- 4 plays

- 9
- You Know Yeah
- 02:32
- 4 plays

- 10
- Runnin' Wild
- 02:27
- 6 plays

- 11
- My Idea About You
- 02:33
- 0 plays

- 12
- I Got News for You
- 02:37
- 2 plays

- 13
- Baby Don't You Cry
- 02:07
- 9 plays

- 14
- Don't Break My Heart
- 02:49
- 3 plays

- 15
- Wondering Why
- 01:55
- 4 plays

- 16
- Yours Truly
- 02:08
- 3 plays

- 17
- I Must Go On
- 02:35
- 2 plays

- 18
- Be Faithful
- 02:01
- 1 plays

- 19
- Blues Before Dawn
- 01:57
- 5 plays

- 20
- Don't Go
- 02:36
- 44 plays

album review

Crayton was fading fast commercially by the time he cut these sides in the 1950s, though his vocal and instrumental skills, particularly his stinging guitar, were undimmed. Aside from two 1951 tracks cut for Aladdin in 1951, this 20-song compilation is devoted to his mid-'50s hitch with Imperial. The label had him record in New Orleans with Dave Bartholomew and other local musicians, giving many of these sides a hybrid jump blues/New Orleans R&B feel (Imperial would use the same approach with Roy Brown around this time). It's not his very best work, but even at its slightest this is pleasant. It's most effective, however, when the Crescent City touches are muted in favor of slicing straight-ahead blues riffing, as on the instrumental "Blues Before Dawn." Another obscure cut, "Do Unto Others," is nothing less than a revelation, boasting a light-years-ahead-of-its-time opening riff that sounds almost identical to the blast of notes that opens the Beatles' "Revolution," cut nearly 15 years later. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide