Volume 2 of this four CD series concentrates on the Sue label's rock and blues releases.

Track Listing

1. Itchy Twitchy Feeling - Bobby Hendricks
2. Crossroads - Homesick James
3. Yes, I'm Loving You - Big Al Downing
4. The Shimmy Shimmy Walk (Part One) - The Megatons
5. I'm The Fixer - Willie Mabon
6. Rockin' Charlie - The Bobby Peterson Quintet
7. I Feel So Good - Jb Lenoir & His African Hunch Rhythm
8. Hattie Malatti - Lee Diamond
9. Driving Sideways - Freddy King
10. What Will Lucy Do (Lucy Mae Blues) - Frankie Lee Sims
11. Like Long Hair - Paul Revere And The Raiders
12. It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James
13. The Wallflower - Etta James And The Peaches
14. Why Does Everything Happen To Me - James Brown And The Famous Flames
15. Mojo Hand - Lightnin' Hopkins
16. Mercy - Gene And Al's Spacemen
17. Your Line Was Busy - Big Bob
18. Give Me Love - Rosie And The Originals
19. Forty Days - Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks
20. Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker
21. Shout Bamalama - Otis Redding
22. Little Latin Lupe Lu - The Righteous Brothers
23. Fannie Mae - Buster Brown
24. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Professor Longhair
25. You Never Know - B.B. King
26. Jack, That Cat Was Clean - Dr Horse

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46388 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
The second volume of Ace’s tribute to its "spiritual ancestor" concentrates its attentions on the vast amount of blues and rock‘n’roll that the UK Sue label put out in singles and albums during is six-year life span. The label’s late A&R head, Guy Stevens, was as much of a fan of those genres as he was of the soul music that made up the greater part of UK Sue’s output. Guy took as much pride and care in selecting only the best in blues and rock’n’roll for release on the beloved red-and-yellow imprint, as this CD shows. The label gave most of the artists featured here their first domestic releases. The names featured just on this volume will reinforce just how important that makes UK Sue to collectors then and now. Many of the tracks have also never been reissued domestically since their first appearance on UK Sue nearly 40 years ago. With an essay and track-by-track annotation by lifelong Sue fan and collector Mike Atherton, plus copious label shots and period ads/memorabilia, this maintains the high standard of the previous volume of "The UK Sue Story" and looks forward to the third and final instalment of the trilogy, "The Soul Of UK Sue".

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Customer Reviews

The UK Sue Label Story Vol.2: Sue's Rock 'n' Blues
Just goes to show how diverse the Sue label is / was . All these titles are available else where but this makes for a great collection , I will be searching out the others in this series .

sue story
great CD from the Sue catalogue, compiled by Guy Stevens, The Head of Island Records. This guy really knows his stuff, great choice of songs. Fantastic introduction to the American Rock, Soul and blues scene by various artists

Label sfor collectors
The American Sue & Symbol labels were licensed to Decca in the U K and many singles were issued like Ike & Tina Turner,the Duals and Tina Britt.
At the same time came a British label called Sue who were in the right place at the right time when the owner Guy Stevens and a distribution deal with Island began to issue stuff from other labels selected due to at least some sort of demand which the corporate labels were ignoring.
What few hit singles emerged were on the Island label such as Robert Parker's Barefootin' and Roy C's Shotgun Wedding.
This was the time of pirate radio and a lot of this stuff was being played
Now a record label set up mainly by collectors is being reissued by what is in essence a CD label-Ace- for collectors hence 4 volumes covering most of the Sue releases.