Sugarfoot Rag: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight

Sugarfoot Rag: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight

Bear Family's edition of Foley's <b>Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight</b> offers 30 songs representing the wild side of Red. From singing raw hillbilly on the WLS National Barn Dance he broadened into gospel, western swing, pop and gospel during his quarter century on Decca, years he rode high on the Grand Ole Opry before hosting TV's 'Ozark Jubilee'. Beyond his classic weeper <i>Old Shep</i> or even his definitive performance of <i>Peace In The Valley</i>, Foley was an energetic force whose recorded repertoire also encompassed straight-ahead country, boogies, blues, rockers and his biggest country (and pop) smash: 1950s <i>Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy</i>. Thhis collection includes the other boogie favorites <i>Tennessee Saturday Night</i>, <i>Sugarfoot Rag</i>, <i>Milk Bucket Boogie</i> and <i>Plantation Boogie</i>, <i>Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There (Gospel Boogie)</i> and, with Ernest Tubb, <i>Hillbilly Fever #2</i>. Includes duets with pop singers Evelyn Knight and Roberta Lee, as well as Red's spin on the R&B hits <i>Hearts Of Stone</i> and <i>Shake A Hand</i>. Recorded with Nashville's A-Team session musicians Zeb and Zeke Turner, Jerry Byrd, Owen Bradley, Tommy Jackson, Harold Bradley, Hank Garland, Grady Martin, Farris Coursey, Ernie Newton, Bob Moore and others. As an added bonus, there's a previously unissued 1950 Foley duet with legendary black R&B singer-pianist (and Decca artist) Cecil Gant.