1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins CD "I shake my stick at you"
AU: AIM 1031
| A 01 (05:01) | Live love or die (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 02 (02:41) | Because of you (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 03 (05:28) | Don't fool with me (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 04 (08:07) | Furburger (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 05 (03:55) | Cookie time (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 06 (04:20) | The rose (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 07 (03:54) | Tear drops (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 08 (04:57) | Bushman Tucker (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 09 (05:14) | In my heart (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 10 (04:32) | Rockin' away (Jalacy Hawkins) |
| A 11 (03:45) | Rock Australia rock (Jalacy Hawkins) |
- Matrix: MADE BY DISCTRONICS B ** AIM1031 ** #1
- Production: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Peter Noble.
- Recording: 1991 Sydney, Emerald City Recording Studio ; Sydney, Trafalgar Recording Studio. - Sound engineer: Allan Thorne [or Steve Batte?].
- Musicians: Bo Diddley jr. (guitar), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vocals, piano), Gene Pello (drums), Rodney Schnitz (bass), Barry Southern (sax)
- Mixing: John Zullaikha
- Mastering: Sydney, Rich North Studios. - Stephen Smart
- Liner notes: Peter Noble
- Note: The CD cover says: "WARNING This recording contains material that may be offensive to some people". Besides, track 9 ("In my heart") is not listed on the CD cover but is actually contained on the CD.
Liner notes
There is no-one else in the music business quite like Screamin' Jay Hawkins. No... that's not true.
There is no-one in the music business anything like Screamin' Jay Hawkins. After all, who else wears a bone in his nose, jumps out of coffins to scare the hell out of audiences, and has a skull on a stick (called Henry) which he shakes at the audience while casting magic spells...
Definitely, no-one else alive is anything like Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
What's all this got to do with the Blues? - many may ask. For above all the show business, the flashpowder, and the snake around his neck, Jay Hawkins is a Bluesman of the finest order. He is a throwback in time to the great days of the Blues when the music and the show was everything.
All those stories we are told of musicians playing whilst laying on their backs, or turning back flips, or with their guitars behind their heads, thumpin' on the piano keys with their feet, walkin' the bar honkin' the sax - that's what the Blues is all about - havin' a good time people, amen! And Jay Hawkins knows how to have one helluva good time.
Hear me again, Screamin' Jay Hawkins is a Bluesman. And so I'll say it once more - there's no-one else in show business anything like Screamin' Jay Hawkins. And if you ever have the opportunity of seeing and hearing Jay play live, don't you dare miss it, for Jay is one of the last of the greats and his show is hot as ever.
It's Jay's music that I'm really here to talk about though because you have in your hands a recording that Screamin' Jay Hawkins always wanted to make. Jay wrote the songs and produced it himself, and he is very proud of it.
I deeply hope it will lay to rest (no pun intended) once and for all, the musical monkey that has been on Jay's back ever since he recorded "I put a spell on you" in 1956... the curse of the novelty record and the typically uncreative record executive. Sure Jay wrote and recorded "Spell", "Little demon", "Hong Kong", "Feast of the Mau Mau", "Constipation blues" and many other monsters... but damn it... all record labels have been interested in doing, year in and year out, is paying Jay to re-record, ad infinitum, these classic tracks and then finding some crazy novelty songs to release along with them - stifling one of the great Blues talents of our time.
You can't blame Jay, he's had to make a living. And all Jay's performances on these recordings have been great.
I just want to hear Screamin' Jay Hawkins play his music... his way - 'cause like I said, there's no-one else anything like Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
And here it is. Jay's only other release in over a decade was Screaming Jay Hawkins and the Fuzztones LIVE on Midnight Records [MIR LP 114] in 1985, a spirited record but again still re-recording the great old hits.
But here we are in 1991 and what do we have? Not one, but two brand new Screamin' Jay Hawkins albums - the fine, but unfortunately titled BLACK MUSIC FOR WHITE PEOPLE on Bizarre / Demon Records, and this, Jay's very own self-produced I SHAKE MY STICK AT YOU on AIM.
In I SHAKE MY STICK AT YOU, you've got a shot of real rockin' Rhythm and Blues here - recorded rough and raunchy just like it should be. Jay has a real good time and gets down and dirty with the lyrics. And that's the Blues too.
So open your mind. Get ready for a Screamin' Jay party. And above all, pay this man his just dues... because here is one of the greats, doin' what he knows to do best - bein' like no-one else in the music business...
Thank god (and maybe the devil too...) for Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Peter Noble, August 1991
All issues
| 1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins | CD I SHAKE MY STICK AT YOU | AU: AIM 1031
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| 1997 Screamin' Jay Hawkins | CD DON'T FOOL WITH ME |  GB: Prestige Raw Blues Series CDSGP 0358
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different title ; UPC: 5032427035827 |
| 2001 Screamin' Jay Hawkins | CD HAVE I GOT BLUES FOR YOU | GB: Dressed to Kill ONEBLU 872
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1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins CD I SHAKE MY STICK AT YOU (AU: AIM 1031)
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Front cover of 1997 Screamin' Jay Hawkins CD DON'T FOOL WITH ME (GB: Prestige Raw Blues Series CDSGP 0358)
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Back cover of 1997 Screamin' Jay Hawkins CD DON'T FOOL WITH ME (GB: Prestige Raw Blues Series CDSGP 0358)
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2001 Screamin' Jay Hawkins CD HAVE I GOT BLUES FOR YOU (GB: Dressed to Kill ONEBLU 872)
