Rare and Unissued Masters: Volume One (1943-1945) [LP]

This long awaited release presents over a dozen previously unissued masters of surprisingly high quality from the premier artist on the American Music label, Bunk Johnson. Digital technology made it possible to remove the reasons - often not musical - that they were not issued at the time, seventy years ago. The venues for the recording sessions varied between the legendary 1944 sound of the San Jacinto Hall to the homes of Bertha Gonsoulin in San Francisco and George Lewis in New Orleans. The album receives its first ever vinyl pressing, spread across two LPs, for Record Store Day 2018. The recording were remastered for vinyl at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Pallas in Germany on color vinyl.

01. Ballin' The Jack  02. Carless Love  03. Panama  04. Good Morning Blues  05. Royal Garden Blues  06. (I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate  07. Ole Miss  08. Oh! Didn't He Ramble  09. Just A Closer Walk With Thee 10. St. Louis Blues  11. Basin Street Blues 12. Maple Leaf Rag 13. Bunk's Blues In F 14. Slow Drag's Boogie Woogie15. Don't Fence Me In  16. Milenberg Joys