Monday, October 24, 2016

Keith Emerson - Honky Tonk Train Blues b/w Barrelhouse Shake-Down (1976)


Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English musician and composer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before he found his first commercial success with the Nice, formerly P. P. Arnold's backing band, in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era.
In 1976, while still in ELP, Emerson also released his first solo record, the single "Honky Tonk Train Blues" b/w "Barrelhouse Shake-Down". "Honky Tonk Train Blues", Emerson's cover of a 1927 boogie-woogie piano song by Meade Lux Lewis, reached #21 on the UK Singles Chart.

Tracklist

A - Honky Tonk Train Blues
      Written-By – Meade Lux Lewis 
 
B - Barrelhouse Shake-Down
      Written-By – K, Emerson 
 
Companies, etc. 

Distributed By – Dischi Ricordi S.p.A.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Manticore Records Ltd.
Published By – Peter Maurice
Published By – Manticore Music Ltd.
Made By – Dischi Ricordi S.p.A.

Credits 

Design – Michael Ross
Photography By – David Montgomery
Producer – Keith Emerson

Notes

Released:  1976  
Genre: Boogie Woogie
Style: Ragtime
Label: Manticore ‎Records 

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