Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight: White Lightnin'

by Sheb Wooley

Overview

Bear Family's 2012 set White Lightin' is part of their Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight line, a series that concentrates on the rocking & rolling and boogie-woogie sides of country and rockabilly singers. Wooley is rarely seen as a rockabilly cat and there's a reason for that. He was a cowboy, and a Hollywood one at that, so he never really tore loose the way a rowdy redneck would, but the 30 cuts on White Lightnin' -- the earliest dating from 1945, the latest from 1961, but most coming from the '50s -- have a serious swing to them, showcasing that Wooley could get wild and woolly when the occasion called for it. This disc contains almost all of those occasions, most leaning toward a hard-swinging country boogie that Wooley performed ably and amiably. He was capable of doing more -- something Todd Everett makes clear in his fine liner notes, and his sentiment is borne out by other Bear Family sets -- but it's easy to overlook how rowdy he could be, and White Lightnin' showcases this wild streak to an entertaining effect. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	04/24/2012
Label:	Bear Family Records
UPC:	4000127168948

Tracks

1. Hoot Owl Boogie
2. Oklahoma Honky Tonk Girl
3. Peepin' Through the Keyhole (Watching Jole Blon)
4. Your Papa Ain't Steppin' Anymore
5. Mule Boogie
6. I Can't Live Without You
7. Lazy Mazy
8. Texas Rose
9. Wha' Hoppen to Me, Baby
10. That Mean Feeling
11. You're the Cat's Meow
12. Freight Train Cinders in My Eyes
13. Country Kisses
14. Down in the Toolies
15. What'cha Gonna Do
16. White Lightnin'
17. I Flipped
18. Rover Scoot Over
19. Goodbye Texas, Hello Tennessee
20. Love Is Just Another Merry-Go-Round
21. Tom, The Boogie Woogie Tom Cat
22. I Go Outa My Mind
23. 38-24-35
24. You Never Can Tell
25. Backroom Boogie [Instrumental]
26. Don't Stop Kissing Me Goodnight
27. Hill Billy Mambo
28. Humdinger
29. Roughneck
30. That's My Pa

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sheb Wooley   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Sheb Wooley & His Calumet Indians   Primary Artist
Al Hudson   Guitar,Mandolin,Guitar (Electric),Fiddle
Tommy Gibbs   Guitar (Steel)
Roy Harte   Drums
George Bruns   Bass
Speedy West   Guitar (Steel)
Buddy Ray   Fiddle
Harold Hensley   Fiddle
Edward M. "Eddie" Kirk   Guitar
Clarence "Bud" Dooley   Bass
Joseph R. Gibbons   Guitar
Johnny New   Bass
Robert Wilson "Lefty" Perkins   Guitar (Electric)
Kenneth Pitts   Fiddle
James O. "Jimmy" Wyble   Guitar
Allen J. Reuss   Guitar
Irving Kluger   Drums
William Edward "Billy" Liebert   Piano
Margie Ann Warren   Fiddle
William Everett Strange   Guitar
Marion Z. "Pee Wee" Adams   Drums
William Edward "Zeb Turner" Grishaw   Guitar (Electric)
Hugh "Porky" Freeman   Guitar
Bobby Farris   Accordion
Lionel Lester Taylor   Piano
Allen J. "Al" Williams   Bass
Carroll Hubbard   Fiddle
Dale H. Warren   Bass
Bill Wright   Piano,Accordion
Charles W. Aldridge   Guitar
Charlie Bares   Guitar (Steel)
Fred "Freddy the Frog" Hudson   Bass
Johnny Manson   Fiddle
Pat O'Donnell   Tenor Banjo
Gloria Woods   Vocals (Background)
Ivy J. "Jimmy" Bryant   Guitar
Curly Kinsey   Guitar (Rhythm)
J.B. Brinkley   Guitar
Joe Carroll   Fiddle
Jack Williams   Guitar
Joe Maphis   Guitar
Cliffie Stone   Bass
Charles William Aldridge   Guitar
Red Callender   Bass

Technical Credits

Bill Boyd   Composer
Jimmy Wyble   Composer
Richard Weize   Discography,Tape Research
Jim Vienneau   Producer
Ray Ellis   Producer
Bill Millar   Reissue Producer
Edward M. "Eddie" Kirk   Leader
Norman Malkin   Composer
Andreas Merck   Photo Scanning
Marcus Heumann   Mastering
R.A. Andreas   Photography,Illustrations
William Edward "Billy" Liebert   Leader
Freddy Morgan   Composer
Gus Levene   Leader
Charles W. Aldridge   Leader
Leonard McRight   Composer
Sheb Wooley   Leader,Composer
Laurence Zwisohn   Discography
Jesse Kaye   Producer
Noel Boggs   Composer
Kevin Coffey   Discography