Little Junior Parker

Rocks Little Junior Parker

Little Junior Parker was a star in the world of the Chitlin' Circuit, but largely unknown in the white blues/rock scene. This is the first-ever recollection of his greatest up-tempo and rocking sides and contains 31 tracks, recorded between 1953 and 1962 for the Sun and Duke record companies. The album is newly re-mastered and contains a 6-sided digipak, discographical details, plus extensive liner notes by roots music expert, Bill Dahl.

This compilation not only features the great early rocking numbers for the Memphis-based Sun Records company; his later recordings for Don Robey's Duke Records label in Houston also testify to what a great blues musician and cool rocker Little Junior Parker was. Parker died of a brain tumor in a Blue Island, Illinois hospital at age 39. He left behind a bountiful blues recording legacy that stretched across nearly two decades and saw him scoring a string of hits for two of the seminal independent labels of the postwar era.