Eddie Bo - Baby Im Wise: The Complete Ric Singles 1959-1962 '2015

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 All nine of Eddie’s Ric 45s plus several originally unissued masters
making their CD debut.

We’ve already brought you two multi-artist overviews of New
Orleans’ R&B from Joe Ruffino’s Ric and Ron labels and a
collection of Johnny Adams’ complete recordings for the company. Now
it’s the turn of his label mate Eddie Bo to be anthologised.

The years 1959 to 1962 were a musically fertile period in Eddie’s career,
yet his Ric recordings are often overlooked in favour of his later funk
classics. The tracks here show just what a great singer and songwriter Eddie was
in his youthful prime, and how unlucky he was not to have made it as big as,
say, his Crescent City compatriot Lee Dorsey.

“Baby I’m Wise” contains the A and B-sides of all nine of
Eddie’s great Ric 45s, plus four tracks that somehow didn’t come
out at the time but are as good as anything that did. The uniformly high quality
of them makes the fact that not one of them breached the charts something of a
surprise, but all were hits in Eddie’s New Orleans hometown and each one
sounds much better than a lot of records that charted nationally.

Many of these classics would make it into any definitive list of New
Orleans’ all-time great R&B records. This is the first time
they’ve been collected in the same CD, with all tracks coming to you from
fresh transfers of the original mastertapes.
:: TRACKLIST ::

 1. Hey There Baby
 2. I Need Someone
 3. Tell It Like It Is
 4. Every Dogs Got His Day
 5. Everybody Knows
 6. You Got Your Mojo Working Now
 7. Warm Daddy
 8. It Must Be Love
 9. Aint It The Truth Now
 10. What A Fool Ive Been
 11. Dinky Doo
 12. Everybody, Everything Needs Love
 13. I Got To Know
 14. Bless You Darling
 15. Roamin-Titis
 16. Nothing Without You
 17. Satisfied With Your Love
 18. Ill Do Anything For You
 19. Aint You Ashamed
 20. Check Mr. Popeye
 21. Now Lets Popeye
 22. Baby Im Wise

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