Ronnie Hawkins - Ronnie Rocks (1958-63/2008) [FLAC] torrent

Ronnie Hawkins - Ronnie Rocks (1958-63/2008)

Genre: US, Rockabilly

Tracklist:

01. Ronnie Hawkins Quartet / Thirty Days
02. Ronnie Hawkins Quartet / Hey Bo Diddley
03. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Ruby Baby
04. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Forty Days
05. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Horace
06. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / One of These Days
07. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Wild Little Willy
08. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Whatcha Gonna Do (When the Creek Runs Dry)
09. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Mary Lou
10. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Oh Sugar
11. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Odessa
12. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / My Gal Is Red Hot
13. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Need Your Lovin' (Oh So Bad)
14. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Dizzy Miss Lizzy
15. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Hay Ride
16. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Baby Jean
17. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Southern Love
18. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Hey Boba Lou
19. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Clara
20. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Honey Don't
21. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks / Sick & Tired
22. Ronnie Hawkins / You Know I Love You
23. Ronnie Hawkins / Sexy Ways
24. Ronnie Hawkins / Come Love
25. Ronnie Hawkins / I Feel Good
26. Ronnie Hawkins / Suzie Q
27. Ronnie Hawkins / Matchbox
28. Ronnie Hawkins / High Blood Pressure
29. Ronnie Hawkins / Mojo Man
30. Ronnie Hawkins / Bo Diddley
31. Ronnie Hawkins / Who Do You Love
32. Ronnie Hawkins / Horace

Running a generous 32 tracks, Bear Family's Ronnie Rocks is an excellent collection of Ronnie Hawkins' rockabilly for Roulette Records. There are many other compilations that cover the same ground but no others cover it quite so extensively -- which might not quite be the same thing as thoroughly, as the title is a tipoff that the music here is all high-octane rock & roll. Often, this comes in the guise of covers -- Hawkins runs through the Chuck Berry ("Thirty Days," "Forty Days") and Bo Diddley ("Hey Bo Diddley," "Bo Diddley," "Who Do You Love") songbooks, and picks up some Sun records ("Matchbox," "Honey Don't," "My Gal Is Red Hot"), a bunch of R&B sides (Hank Ballard's "Sexy Ways," Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"), and some Dixie-fried rockabilly ("Suzie Q"). All this is confirmation that Hawkins was perhaps the epitome of a working roadhouse rock & roller during the late '50s and early '60s: not someone who innovated but one who gave the people what they wanted, bashing out crowd-pleasers one after another. He had an excellent ear for material that extended into being an excellent bandleader, both traits in evidence here and both of which make these covers rousing. But when Hawkins had his own song -- as he did on the slinky minor-key rocker "Mary Lou" -- he was truly outstanding. And this has the most of his outstanding material in one big package.