Lonnie Donegan Showcase
Lonnie Donegan - LP
- Artist: Lonnie Donegan
- Format: LP
- Year: 2009
- UPC: 8013252886119
- Item Number: DOXY886119
- Release date: 03/10/2009
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Lonnie Donegan Showcase by Lonnie Donegan on LP
The first great blues album to come out of England. Donegan's debut album is absolutely first-rate acoustic folk-blues, featuring some of the songs he'd been playing for close to 10 years, including "Frankie And Johnny," and stuff he learned off of Leadbelly records like "I'm Alabammy Bound," among other folk and blues standards. The sound is raw and crisp, featuring Denny Wright's crisp lead guitar licks behind Donegan's emphatic strumming and superb vocals. He didn't have Elvis' rich baritone, but he could wail the blues better than anyone in England at the time (including Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies), and he knew how to make the tension in a song rise across five minutes like no one else around. Leroy Carr's "How Long How Long Blues" gets a good workout, but the highlight of this forgotten jewel of an album is Donegan's moody rendition of "I'm A Ramblin' Man," a dark blues standard that shows off the guitar interplay between Donegan and Wright to great effect and features what may be Donegan's best blues vocal ever. Leadbelly's "I'm Alabammy Bound" gives Donegan and Wright a chance to share vocals, to great effect (Wright had this coarse bass/baritone that went well with Donegan's blues tenor). Note: The contents of Showcase are available on Bear Family's 8-CD set More Than "Pye In The Sky." ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
- Artist: Lonnie Donegan
- Format: LP
- Year: 2009
- UPC: 8013252886119
- Item Number: DOXY886119
- Release date: 03/10/2009
- Label: Doxy
- Genre: Folk, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock
- Style: British Folk, Rockabilly, Skiffle
- Album Time: 26:32
- An Introduction to Lonnie Donegan
- Just About as Good as It Gets
- King of Skiffle [Castle 2000]
- King of Skiffle [Castle 2002]
- Lonnie Donegan : Rock Island Line: The Singles Anthology
- Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann
- Lonnie Donegan Showcase
- More Than "Pye in the Sky"
- On Stage (Expanded)
- Original Hits of the Skiffle Explosion
- Puttin on the Style [Sanctuary]
- Puttin' on the Style
- Puttin' on the Style [Delta]
- Puttin' on the Style: Greatest Hits
- Rock Island Line: The Singles Anthology 1955-1967
- Rock Island Line: The Singles Anthology 1955-1967
- Skiffle King: 50th Anniversary Edition
- Sundown (Import)
- Sundown [Bonus Tracks]
- Talking Guitar Blues: The Very Best of Lonnie Donegan [Sequel]
- Talking Guitar Blues: The Very Best of Lonnie Donegan [Sequel]
- The Skiffle King Collection [Box Set]
- The Hit Collection
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