Name: Rock with Me Tonight
Brand: Bullseye Blues
SKU: 19868
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Rock with Me Tonight

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Album: Rock with Me Tonight
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Pretty Baby
2)	Why Do Things Happen to Me?
3)	New Hawk Walk
4)	Eighteen Year Old Girl
5)	Black's Ball
6)	Soul Lover
7)	Somebody Loan Me a Dime
8)	Jealous Hearted Woman
9)	Little Girl Dressed in Blue
10)	I'm Leaving You
11)	Floating Fruit Boogie - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
12)	Radar - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

Album: Rock with Me Tonight
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Pretty Baby
2)	Why Do Things Happen to Me?
3)	New Hawk Walk
4)	Eighteen Year Old Girl
5)	Black's Ball
6)	Soul Lover
7)	Somebody Loan Me a Dime
8)	Jealous Hearted Woman
9)	Little Girl Dressed in Blue
10)	I'm Leaving You
11)	Floating Fruit Boogie - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
12)	Radar - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

Performer Notes

Personnel: J.B. Hutto (vocals, guitar); Brian Bisesi (guitar); Rich Lataile (alto saxophone); Greg Piccolo (tenor saxophone); Doug James (baritone saxophone); Ron Levy (piano); Kenny Krumbholz (bass); Leroy Pina (drums).
Recorded at Blue Jay Studio, Carlisle, Massachussets in February & March 1983. Includes liner notes by Frank-John Hadley.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of Bullseye's Blues Basics series.
Personnel: J.B. Hutto (vocals, guitar); Brian Bisesi (guitar); Rich Lataille (alto saxophone); Greg Piccolo (tenor saxophone); Doug James (baritone saxophone); Ron Levy (piano); Leroy Pina (drums).
Audio Mixers: David Farrell ; Glenn Berger.
Liner Note Author: Frank John Hadley.
Recording information: Blue Jay Recording Studio, Carlisle, MA (02/1983-03/1983).
Photographer: David Herwaldt.
This 1999 reissue of Hutto's final album on Varrick captures him in rare form, even more surprising and courageous in light of the fact that he was to die of cancer only a few months after these sessions. It finds Hutto with the last edition of his regular road band (Brian Besesi on guitar, Kenny Krumbholz on bass and Leroy Pina on drums) with sit-ins from Ron Levy and the Roomful of Blues reed section on selected cuts, taking his brand of Chicago tavern blues once step further. Tunes like "Soul Lover" and "Black's Ball" show Hutto stretching out beyond the usual boogies and slow blues, while his takes of Junior Parker's "Pretty Baby," Fenton Robinson's "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" and Howlin' Wolf's "I'm Leaving You" are all stamped with the signature Hutto touch. This reissue also brings to light two previously unreleased tracks recorded at the same session, the whole package showing that Hutto was a bluesman to the end. ~ Cub Koda