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Black Pearls Vol.7 “Oh! What A Wonderful Time” (Koko Mojo) Gathering pace is the album series Black Pearls. Now on its seventh album, Koko Mojo continues to provide coverage for more blues and rhythm and blues compiled by Ronni Boysen, a multi-award winning blues guitarist from Denmark and, for those in the know, the founding member of The Kokomo Kings (See Rhythm Bomb Records for the band’s albums because they are worth checking out!), in addition to performing with Mud Morganfield Band (son of Muddy Waters) for the past thirteen years. With such talent and knowledge given by the accompanying information regarding Ronni Boysen’s record buying habits and therefore ever-expanding collection, the giveaway are the many delightful records found in this album series so far. Volume Seven, “Oh! What A Wonderful Time”, features another twenty-eight tracks for your listening and/or dancing pleasures, and mixes some well-known artists with a considerable amount of lesserknown names as well. Such combinations often make for an interesting listen, and it’s safe to say that Black Pearls “Oh! What A Wonderful Time” continues the, by now, winning formula. Evidence for such an announcement can be heard throughout the latest album whether it’s opening song ‘Done Done The Slop’ by Ervin Rucker, or later on Percy Mayfield offering up ‘Loose Lips’, to Jimmy Witherspoon bringing up ‘Big Daddy’, Dolores Ware and ‘Is It True’, or classic from Johnny Guitar Watson with ‘The Bear’. There’s doo-wop track ‘Rumblin’ Tumblin’ Baby’ presented by Emeralds, to popcorn-rhythm and blues number ‘Listen Baby’ with a commanding performance by Angel Face With The Swing Masters. Ending Volume 7, “Oh! What A Wonderful Time” with two belters; the first from Big Sam & The House Wreckers’ with ‘At The Party’, and then following this with the instrumental ‘The Swinging Thing’ by Jimmy McCracklin, will leave the listener craving more but, rest assured, any such desires will soon be satisfied once the next instalment of this album series is released. Nathan Olsen-Haines (Koko Mojo)

4 track dancefloor killer 7inch EP

Koko-Mojo Original - Knockdown (Koko-Mojo Original series)

Koko-Mojo Original - Wolf Pack (Koko-Mojo Original series)

3rd volume of the ultimative collection of car songs seen thru the eyes of black folks - sang by Rhythm & Blues artists

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THE "MOJO" MAN SEZ: Friends I'm proud to present to you a new Boss series focused on black artists doing "Country & Western" music, before Civil Rights and before artists like Charlie Pride and Linda Martell made it acceptable to the vast majority of white folks for an African American to do this type of music in the late 1960s. Before that it was not really in the book and to this day black artists in C&W are still considered pretty much a "novelty" or an exception. The term "Country Music" was coined in the 1940s because the earlier term "Hillbilly Music" was deemed to be degrading. Around the same time the term "Rhythm and Blues" replaced the term "Race Music" or "Sepia" for the same reason. The funny thing is... Black artists actually pioneered this genre but when record companies in the 1920s created musical "Genres" to better market the records they were releasing, African Americans had to more or less leave it alone. The same thing happened to white artists doing Blues. The ones that continued to record it like Jimmy Rodgers (nowadays regarded as the "Father of Country Music"), Gene Autry, Sam McGee (and many others) suddenly started to get labelled otherwise. The term "Blues" suddenly was used only for black performers. On "Rhythm & Western" I tried to cover African Americans doing C&W and its early incarnations at 360 degrees. Many tracks here are "classic" C&W songs, a lot are numbers that were released as "R&B" only because they were not sung by a white artist and others are "novelty" songs with a strong Country flavour or just a C&W twist to it. DIG IT! -Little Victor (a.k.a. DJ "Mojo" Man)

Rhythm & Western Vol.5 - Cold Cold Heart

Rhythm & Western Vol.6 - I´m Moving On The great Mickey & Sylvia open the ball with "I'm So Glad" and right after that Big Al Downing delivers a great version of the C&W classic "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" a song recorded by Merle Haggard, Elvis, Hank Thompson, Bill Monroe, Jim Reeves and many more. King Curtis follows with a fantastic version of "Steel Guitar Rag" (I already gave extended info about this song in a previous volume). Little Willie John delivers a heartfelt version of "She Thinks I Still Care" a number that was recorded by George Jones and many other Country artists. "Haunted House" has been regarded as a classic C&W song since the early 1960s when Gene Simmons had a big hit with it and many other C&W singers covered it. I included the original 1950s version by Johnny Fuller which sounds just as "country" as the white counterparts and even features a banjo!

Rhythm & Western Vol.8 - Oh Lonesome Me

28 Rockin Rhythm and Blues Rockers! The fifths Southern Bred exploration into the music from Louisiana and the Crescent City, New Orleans

The seven albums in the series showcase Southern-Bred artists from Tennessee and Arkansas which is referred to as West Memphis. Rhythm & Blues music is a feeling, a groove, and a duel part of the music culture of the state of Tennessee from both sides of the Mississippi River.

Dippin' Is My Business, Southern Bred Tennessee and Arkansas Koko Mojo (KM-CD-90) is the fourth look at the birth heritage of Tennessee and Arkansas which is consolidated into the anthology due to it being referred to as West Memphis.

Visitation seven takes the final look at the states of Tennessee and Arkansas then departs with a chorus of “Toodle Loo Tennessee.” The anthology ends as it began packed full of hot recordings from artists who changed the music world. The album includes dance-floor fillers from known and obscure artists, who were pivotal in the development of popular music. The series showcases up-tempo rockers and sources some of the best post-war African-American performances set into vinyl. The album features; Blues Rockers, riveting piano and guitar R&B, Rock 'n' Roll, and Doo-Wop music all of which have irresistible rhythms. Koko Mojo doesn't make an album of average music our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every albumits's "killer and no filler" ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers.

the 30 track Southern Bred Showcase

Good news! New Black Patti Album!

Adding to its collection of blues, and rhythm and blues songs is album number eight in the compelling series Black Pearls. Issued via Koko Mojo, the person responsible for the Black Pearls album series is Ronni Boysen, a multi-award winning blues guitarist from Denmark and, for those in the know, the founding member of The Kokomo Kings (See Rhythm Bomb Records for the band’s albums because they are worth checking out!), in addition to performing with Mud Morganfield Band (son of Muddy Waters) for the past thirteen years. With such talent and knowledge given the accompanying information regarding Ronni Boysen’s record buying habits and therefore ever-expanding collection, the giveaway are the many delightful records found in this album series so far. Volume Eight, “Down In The Basement”, features another twenty-eight tracks for your listening and/or dancing pleasures, and mixes some well-known artists with a considerable amount of lesserknown names as well. Such combinations often make for an interesting listen, and it’s safe to say that Black Pearls Vol.8 “Down In The Basement” continues the winning combination. Evidence for such a statement can be heard through artists and tracks including The Shondells ‘My Love’, The Contours ‘Whole Lotta Woman’, Earl Connelly ‘This Girl’, Little Jimmy Ray ‘You Need To Fall In Love’, and Johnny Torrence ‘Your Lover Man’. It’s Bunker Hill with excellent ‘You Can’t Make Me Doubt My Baby’ who gets the latest addition to the Black Pearls album series underway, and the soulful, reflective ‘Feelin In Mah Bones’ by Jimmy Lewis is the perfect conclusion to another fine collection in Black Pearls Vol.8 “Down In The Basement”. Nathan Olsen-Haines (Koko Mojo)

28 killer tracks of black Rock and Roll songs from the late 1950 and ealy 1960s! Volume 2.

more BOSS BLACK ROCKERS - another 28 black Rock and Roll songs !