CHAMPION JACK DUPREE SCOOBY DOOBY DOO
Label: Blue Horizon
Recorded:  3rd/4th  Feb. 3/4, 1969 London UK
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Champion Jack Dupree was the embodiment of the New Orleans blues and boogie woogie pianist, a true barrelhouse "professor". His father was from the Belgian Congo and his mother was part African American and Cherokee. He was orphaned at the age of 2 and sent to the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs (also the alma mater of Louis Armstrong).
He taught himself piano there and later apprenticed with Tuts Washington and Willie Hall, whom he called his 'father' and from whom he learned "Junker's Blues". He was also "spy boy" for the Yellow Pochahantas tribe of Mardi Gras Indians and soon began playing in barrelhouses and other drinking establishments.
As a young man he began his life of travelling, living in Chicago, where he worked with Georgia Tom, and in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he met Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr. Whilst he was always playing piano, he also worked as a cook, and in Detroit he met Joe Louis, who encouraged him to become a boxer. He ultimately fought in 107 bouts, winning Golden Gloves and other championships and picking up the nickname 'Champion Jack', which he used the rest of his life.[/color][/quote]



Tracklist
1   I Want to Be a Hippy 
2   Grandma 
3   Puff Puff 
4   Blues Before Sunrise 
5   I'l Try 
6   Going Back to Louisiana 
7   Ain't That a Shame 
8   Stumbling Block 
9   Old and Grey 
10  Who Threw the Whiskey in Well 
11  Postman Blues 
12  Lawdy, Lawdy

Personel:
Champion Jack Dupree, voc, piano
 Mick Taylor, guitar; 
Richard Studt, Reg Cole, Barry Wilde, Peter Oxer, violins; 
Terry Noonan, Bud Parks, trumpet, flugelhorn, 
Alan Skidmore, Les Wigfiels, tenor sax
Jim Chester, bass, 
Wallace Tring [= Gary Thain], b; 
Eduardo Givezano [= Alex Dmochowski], b;
 Mike Vernon, perc; 
Harris Dundee [= Aynsley Dunbar], drums
 Big Chief Drumstick [= Keef Hartley], drums, perc