Wrapped in My Baby

by Morris Pejoe, Arthur "Big Boy" Spires

Overview

These are the famous basement rehearsal tapes that producer Al Smith conducted for United Records in 1954. The Pejoe sides feature a dead-on rocking "Let's Get High" (heard here in two takes) with a droning sax section and his own distorted guitar work fueling originals like "May Bea," "You Messed Up," "Baby, You Know That's Wrong," "Move It on Out and Go" and "Treat Me the Same." A later, two-song session for Atomic H from late 1959-1960 is also included. The Spires sides find him working in the same gutbucket territory as his two singles for Chess and Chance in the early '50s with "Moody This Morning," "Dark and Stormy Night," "You Can't Tell" and the title track (the latter two featuring vocals by pianist Willie "Long Time" Smith) all being well worthy of reissuance. Excellent updated liner notes by Bill Dahl make this a Chicago blues rarity that's well worth tracking down. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/1998
Label:	Delmark
UPC:	0038153071622
Rank:	131958

Tracks

1. Let's Get High
2. You Messed Up
3. I Wish My Baby
4. Move It on Out and Go
5. May Bea
6. Treat Me the Same
7. Baby, You Know That's Wrong
8. Let's Get High
9. You Gone Away
10. She Walked Right In
11. Dark and Stormy Night
12. Moody This Morning
13. You Can't Tell
14. Wrapped in My Baby

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Arthur "Big Boy" Spires   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Morris Pejoe   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith   Harmonica
Henry Gray   Piano
Willie "Long Time" Smith   Piano,Vocals
Edward El   Guitar
Milton Rector   Bass
Earl Phillips   Drums
Ted Porter   Drums
Andrew McMahon   Bass

Technical Credits

Al Smith   Producer,Supervisor
Robert G. Koester   Producer
Jimmy Dawkins   Photography
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith   Performer
Morris Pejoe   Performer
Grant "Mr. Blues" Jones   Composer
Kate Hoddinott   Artwork
Bill Dahl   Liner Notes