Big Joe Turner: Blues No. 5 - Big Joe Is Here (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - limited collectors edition

1-LP 10”, light blue vinyl, limited to 500 copies. 10 tracks. Total playing time 26:20 min. 

Limited edition of 500 copies in colored vinyl!

10inch LP (limited edition - light blue vinyl)

10 tracks. Unique 10inch in the 11000 LP collectors series.

Reissue of the rare French 10" LP Atlantic 332015 from 1962!

Reproduction of the original cover of the exclusive French edition.

Carefully remastered for this LP release and pressed on high quality vinyl!

In 1959, Big Joe Turner's album 'Big Joe Is Here' was released as a regular long-playing record, at first in the U.S. on Atlantic 8033. Three years later, the French Atlantic label took down two tracks - Don't You Cry and After My Laughter Came Tears - from the original LP and released 'Big Joe Is Here' as a 10inch LP under the new title 'Blues No. 5' with a different cover under catalog number 332015. 

The recordings for 'Big Joe Is Here' or 'Blues No. 5' were made in the late 1950s after Big Joe Turner had landed great rhythm and blues and R'n'R hits a few years earlier.

In those days Turner took his cue from Kansas City combo jazz, singing blues ballads and occasionally letting his rock side break through. An atmospherically dense and soulful work.