24 Hours A Day - Complete Recordings 1953-1962 CD
Earl Gaines and Shy Guy Douglas
24 Hours A Day - Complete Recordings 1953-1962 CD
This 30 track collection presents the work of Earl Gaines and Thomas ‘Shy Guy’ Douglas.
The smooth voice of Earl Gaines set the standard for Nashville Rhythm & Blues.
He hit the jackpot with his first release, the much-recorded (It’s Love Baby) 24 Hours A Day.
Although he never had another hit of similar magnitude, it gave him the foundation on which to build a career that sustained into the 21st century.
Earl’s recordings for the Excello label offer a small but perfectly formed body of work, fully representative of what made Nashville such an important centre for black American music in the 1950s.
Earl is paired here with his fellow Music City resident, the far less well known Thomas ‘Shy Guy’ Douglas, whose recording career was coming to its end about the same time that Earl’s was taking off.
Earl’s discoverer and long-time mentor Ted Jarrett also produced Shy Guy on many of the tracks featured here, but they are of a different, more down home-y nature in comparison with those of his CD companion here - albeit no less essential!
These two great artists have long been overdue an anthology like this, full of tough, uncompromising rhythm & blues that never goes out of style.
| Disc 1 | 1. IT’S LOVE BABY (24 Hours A Day) - Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers |
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