
Rare & Unissued Masters: Volume One (1943-1945)
ORGM-2101
This long awaited release presents over a dozen previously unissued masters of surprisingly high quality from the premier artist on the American Music label, Bunk Johnson. Digital technology made it possible to remove the reasons - often not musical - that they were not issued at the time, seventy years ago. The venues for the recording sessions varied between the legendary 1944 sound of the San Jacinto Hall to the homes of Bertha Gonsoulin in San Francisco and George Lewis in New Orleans. The album received its first ever vinyl pressing, spread across two LPs, for Record Store Day 2018, and is now widely available. The recordings were remastered for vinyl at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Pallas in Germany on color vinyl.
A1 Ballin' The Jack
A2 Carless Love
A3 Panama
A4 Good Morning Blues
B1 Royal Garden Blues
B2 (I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate
B3 Ole Miss
B4 Oh! Didn't He Ramble
C1 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
C2 St. Louis Blues
C3 Basin Street Blues
C4 Maple Leaf Rag
D1 Bunk's Blues In F
D2 Slow Drag's Boogie Woogie
D3 Don't Fence Me In
D4 Milenberg Joys