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Blues'll Make You Happy, Too album by Roomful Of Blues was released Oct 31, 2000 on the Rounder Select label. Recorded between 1980 and 1998. Blues'll Make You Happy, Too songs Includes liner notes by Bob Bell. Blues'll Make You Happy, Too album Digitally remastered by Laurie B. Flannery (Northeastern Digital Recording). This is one of the first volumes in Rounder Records' Rounder Heritage series, which will celebrate the company's 30-year history with a line of 30 releases that dip into the label's deep catalog of blues, folk, and bluegrass recordings. The Blues'll Make You Happy, Too! compiles 14 tracks from various Roomful of Blues albums released over the past 20 years; the collection focuses on the 1990s but includes tracks from as long ago as 1980, just after the departure of guitarist/leader Duke Robillard and his replacement by Ronnie Earl. At this point, the band took on more horns, and its style was subtly redefined. Although production values have changed since that period, the band's overall sound hasn't -- the Roomful's winning combination of blues, soul, R&B and swing remains pretty much the same throughout the program. Singer Sugar Ray Norcia's original jump blues composition from 1996 (the excellent "If You Know It") could have been written 30 years ago, and when the band covers Memphis Slim (with "The Comeback," featuring Mac Odom on vocal) or Duke Ellington (a fine, slinky interpretation of "Jeep's Blues," recorded in 1980), it's with the immediacy and energy of a band delivering its latest composition.

1 Poverty 
2 Come Back 
3 Just Like Dynamite  
4 I'm Just Your Fool  
5 Standing Here at the Crossroads  
6 If You Know It 
7 Baby, Baby, Baby 
8 She'll Be So Fine 
9 Back on Front Street 
10 He Konws the Rules 
11 Loan A Helping Hand 
12 Jeep's Blues 
13 That's My Life 
14 Shake, Rattle & Roll

Label Rounder Select
Orig Year 2000
Discs 2
Release Date Oct 31, 2000
Studio/Live Mixed
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Recording Time 61 minutes
Personnel Doug James - baritone saxophone
Greg Piccolo - vocals, tenor saxophone
Al Copley
John Wolf - tenor trombone
Matt McCabe - piano
Sugar Ray Norcia - vocals, harmonica
Bob Enos - trumpet
Preston Hubbard
Carl Querfurth - trombone
Curtis Salgado

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