A1 	Baby Come On 	2:09
A2 	I Wish 	4:22
A3 	Came Home This Morning 	4:08
A4 	Texas Boogie Stew 	2:12
A5 	I Found A Love 	4:32
A6 	The Dock Of The Bay 	4:10
B1 	Rockin' The Subway 	1:57
B2 	Million Dollar Secret 	5:20
B3 	I Love You, Yes I Do 	2:11
B4 	Baby Please 	5:19
B5 	White Silver Sand 	2:05
B6 	Lord, Don't Move The Mountain 	4:39

Piano, Vocals – Katie Webster

A piano-pounding institution on the Southern Louisiana swamp blues scene during the late '50s and early '60s, Katie Webster later grabbed a long-deserved share of national recognition with a series of well-received Alligator albums.

Poor Kathryn Thorne had to deal with deeply religious parents who did everything in their power to stop their daughter from playing R&B. But the rocking sounds of Fats Domino and Little Richard were simply too persuasive. Local guitarist Ashton Savoy took her under his wing, sharing her 1958 debut 45 for the Kry logo ("Baby Baby").

Webster rapidly became an invaluable studio sessioneer for Louisiana producers J.D. Miller in Crowley and Eddie Shuler in Lake Charles. She played on sides by Guitar Junior (Lonnie Brooks), Clarence Garlow, Jimmy Wilson, Lazy Lester, and Phil Phillips (her gently rolling 88s powered his hit "Sea of Love").

The young pianist also waxed some terrific sides of her own for Miller from 1959 to 1961 for his Rocko, Action, and Spot labels (where she introduced a dance called "The Katie Lee"). Webster led her own band, the Uptighters, at the same time she was spending her days in the studio. In 1964, she guested with Otis Redding's band at the Bamboo Club in Lake Charles and so impressed the charismatic Redding that he absconded with her. For the next three years, Webster served as his opening act.

The 1970s were pretty much a lost decade for Katie Webster as she took care of her ailing parents in Oakland, California. But in 1982 a European tour beckoned, and she journeyed overseas for the first of many such jaunts. The Alligator connection commenced in 1988 with some high-profile help: Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, and Kim Wilson all made guest appearances on The Swamp Boogie Queen. The lovably extroverted boogie pianist encored with Two-Fisted Mama! and No Foolin' before suffering a stroke. She died on September 5, 1999 at the age of 63. ---Bill Dahl, allmusic.com

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1 	Katie's Blues 	8:34
2 	Little One 	2:57
3 	Let Me Be Your Friend 	2:15
4 	Never Too Old 	2:46
5 	Trouble Blues 	5:29
6 	Broken Hearted Rolling Tears 	3:50
7 	Worry My Life Anymore 	3:57

Katie Webster came by the nickname “Swamp Boogie Queen” honestly. Against her parents wishes, she made her mark as a pianist and singer in southern Louisiana’s boogiewoogie blues tradition. From her start as a studio musician when she was a teenager, and years spent touring with mentor Otis Redding, Webster’s piano-pounding wowed audiences. Known for her lively spirit, and for often being crude or sly on-stage, Webster was a blues powerhouse. Rolling Stone called her “one saucy pianist-vocalist who knows how to dish it out.”

Born Kathryn Jewel Thorne on January 11, 1936, in Houston, Texas, Webster first learned piano as a child. Although she would later become known for her electric New Orleans blues, her parents limited her repertoire to gospel and classical music. Deeply religious, Webster’s parents did everything they could to keep their daughter from playing what they called, according to Black Women in America, “the devil’s music.” They even went so far as to keep the piano locked so she could only play while being supervised by her mother. Late at night, Webster listened to the blues, rock and R&B she loved on an old Philco radio. Hidden under the covers of her bed, she listened to the sounds of Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles, and Sam Cooke. Every chance she got, she played the secular music that moved her. Webster’s parents and nine siblings relocated to Oakland, California, and left the young girl with relatives. The split was a good one for Webster—the more easygoing relatives she lived with allowed her to play whatever music she liked.

Out from under the strict watch of her parents, Webster didn’t waste time starting her professional career. Her ability to read music got her a job with a jazz group. With them she was playing in clubs and touring east Texas and southern Louisiana at age 13. It was about this time that Webster’s piano work first appeared on sound recordings. One of southern Louisiana’s most prominent rhythm and blues musicians, Ashton Savoy, heard the girl play and featured her on several of his cuts.

Webster’s popularity as a studio musician spread around southern Louisiana and, by the time she was 15, she was one of the most requested studio musicians in the region. She appeared on hundreds of recordings in the 1950s and 1960s produced by Jay Miller of Excello Records and Eddie Shuler of Goldband Records. Webster’s piano was heard on singles, also known as “sides,” with Guitar Junior (Lonnie Brooks). ---encyclopedia.com

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    A1 Shake, Rattle and Roll 2:12
    A2 Katie's Worried Blues 3:35
    A3 Oh Wee, Sweet Daddy 2:10
    A4 Night Time Is the Right Time 2:26
    A5 If You Could See Me Now 4:30
    A6 Ev'rybody Likes to Rock and Roll 2:02
    A7 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 2:57
    B1 You're So Fine 2:05
    B2 That's the Katie Lee 2:39
    B3 Boogie Texas Queen 2:13
    B4 You'll Lose a Good Thing 5:02
    B5 Mother-In-Law 3:03
    B6 Goin' Home Tomorrow 3:31
    B7 Reach Out and Touch 1:42

Piano, Vocals – Katie Webster

Webster was initially best known as a session musician behind Louisiana musicians on the Excello and Goldband record labels, such as Lightnin’ Slim and Lonesome Sundown.She also played piano with Otis Redding in the 1960s, but after his death went into semi-retirement.

In the 1980s she was repeatedly booked for European tours and recorded albums, including Texas Boogie Queen Live + Well for the German record label, Ornament Records. She cut You Know That’s Right with the band Hot Links, and the album that established her in the United States; The Swamp Boogie Queen with guest spots by Bonnie Raitt and Robert Cray.She performed at both the San Francisco Blues Festival and Long Beach Blues Festival.

Webster suffered a stroke in 1993 while touring Greece and returned to performing the following year.She died from heart failure in League City, Texas, in September 1999. --- routeforthemonk.blog.com

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1 A Little Meat On The Side 		
2 I'm Bad 		
3 No Deposit, No Return 		
4 Zydeco Shoes And California Blues 		
5 Too Much Sugar For A Dime 		
6 Hard Lovin' Mama 		
7 It's Mighty Hard 		
8 Tangled In Your Web 		
9 Those Lonely, Lonely Nights 		
10 Mama Cat Cuttin' No Slack

Katie Webster – vocals, piano, organ
Vasti Jackson – guitar
Raphael Semmes – bass
Morris Jennings – drums
Gene Barge, Henri Ford – tenor sax
Burgess Gardner – trumpet
Edwin Williams – trombone
Donell Rush, Kathirine Lee - vocals (background)
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Lonnie Brooks – guitars, vocals
C.J. Chenier - accordion

Katie Webster is a powerful singer who can really belt out the blues, but perhaps her greatest skill is her two-handed piano solos. On this CD she is featured on a fairly wide range of material within the idiom including a zydeco-flavored blues, a sincere blues ballad ("It's Mighty Hard"), a couple of Motownish soul numbers, a rock and rollish "Those Lonely Lonely Nights" (on which she shares vocals with Lonnie Brooks) and, best of all, a variety of basic blues. Although she also contributes some atmospheric chordal organ, it is Katie Webster's piano playing that gives her music its most distinctive personality. A fun set. ---Scott Yanow, allmusic.com

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1.Who's Making Love? 	3:56 	
2.Sea Of Love 	3:17 	
3.Black Satin 	3:45 	
4.After You Get Rid Of Me 	5:33 	
5.Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) 	2:38 	
6.No Bread, No Meat 	4:20 	
7.Whoo-Wee Sweet Daddy 	3:20 	
8.Try A Little Tenderness 	4:18 	
9.Hold On To What You Got 	4:32 	
10.Somebody's On Your Case 	3:10 	
11.On The Run 	6:33 	
12.Lord, I Wonder 	4:00 	

Katie Wilson – vocals, piano
Dave Gonzalez – guitar
Andrew Jones – guitar
Russel Jackson – bass
Thomas Yearsley – bass
Kim Wilson – harmonica, vocals
Robert Cray – guitar
Bonnie Raitt – guitar, vocals
The Memphis Horns

Lovable Katie Webster had some high-profile help for this impressive comeback album -- Bonnie Raitt shares the vocal on "Somebody's on Your Case" and plays guitar on "On the Run"; Kim Wilson duets with Webster for a cover of Johnnie Taylor's "Who's Making Love" (a track that Robert Cray contributes crisp guitar to). Throughout, Webster's vocals are throatier than they used to be (she soulfully covers one-time mentor Otis Redding's "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa [Sad Song]" and "Try a Little Tenderness"), while her driving left hand still lays down some powerhouse boogie rhythms. ---Bill Dahl, allmusic.com

American blues pianist and singer. She was a session musician for producers J.D. Miller and Eddie Shuler before going on to record her own work and lead The Uptighters. In the mid-60s she performed with and opened for Otis Redding. While she mostly dropped out of music in the '70s, she made a comeback in the '80s.

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1	Two-Fisted Mama
2	Stood up Again
3	Red Negligee
4	C.Q. Boogie 
5	Never Let Me Go 
6	Love Deluxe 
7	Pussycat Moan 
8	Money Honey or Honey Hush
9	I'm Still Leaving You 
10	Katie Lee 
11	So Far Away 

Katie Webster (vocals, piano, organ); 
Vasti Jackson (guitar, background vocals); 
Gus Thornton (bass); 
Gerald Warren (drums). 
The Memphis Horns: 
Andrew Love (tenor saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet, trombone).

Miss Katie always could talk some trash with the best of 'em, and she's sure not shy about showing it. On the talking/singing "Red Negligee," she spends more than nine minutes getting even with a husband lacking in the attentive-and-responsive department, and has plenty of fun doing it. Then, on the six-minutes-plus "Pussycat Moan," she works the same theme as deep, dark blues with menacing piano and vocals. Backed most of the time only by her crack trio (featuring the understated Vasti Jackson on guitar) but, occasionally, the Memphis Horns as well, Katie has lots more room than usual to stretch out on piano, using it especially impressively on the title song and the instrumental "C.Q. Boogie." Her vocals have grown more confident, and more powerful, by now, too; "Never Let Me Go" is the kind of lush, lovely ballad she might have had trouble pulling off just an album earlier. She's even got her own dance tune this time in "Katie Lee." This is her most diversified album, both ambitious and accomplished, and right up there with Swamp Boogie Queen as her best. --- John Morthland, emusic.com

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1. Two Fisted Mama	 3:21
2. Who's Making Love?
3. I'm Bad	4:34
4. C.Q. Boogie	2:39
5. It's Mighty Hard	6:30
6. Love Deluxe	3:22
7. Sea Of Love	3:18
8. A Little Meat On The Side	3:06
9. Try A Little Tenderness	4:18
10. Never Let Me Go	5:10
11. I'm Still Leaving You	3:36
12. WhooWee Sweet Daddy	3:18
13. On The Run	6:33
14. Hallelujah, I Just Love Him So (solo, previously unreleased)	2:53
15. The Love You Save May Be Your Own (previously unreleased) 4:54

Katie Webster (vocals, piano, organ); 
Vasti Jackson (vocals, guitar); 
Kim Wilson (vocals, harmonica); 
Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Anson Funderburgh (guitar); 
Gus Thornton, Raphael Semmes (bass).

Katie Webster plays barrelhouse boogie-woogie, New Orleans R&B, Gulf Coast swamp pop, deep bayou blues and Southern gospel-flavored soul like nobody's business; her 35 years of professional piano work has appeared on at least 500 singles, including the original version of "Sea of Love," and countless albums. Music critics and fans around the world acknowledge her as the premier female blues piano player anywhere. Alligator Records' Deluxe Edition collects 15 of her very best tracks from her three albums since 1988, and there isn't a filler track to be found. Webster never once failed to deliver on her sassy and sensuous blend of barrelhouse boogie-woogie. Some of the high points of Deluxe Edition include several duets -- "Love Deluxe" with Vasti Jackson and the classic "Who's Making Love," which finds Kim Wilson (the Fabulous Thunderbirds) and bluesman Robert Cray jamming with the Boogie Queen. Wilson also accompanies Bonnie Raitt and Webster to wail "On the Run." Other standout tracks include her remake of "Sea of Love" and the non-vegetarian "A Little Meat on the Side." "The Love You Save" and "Two Fisted Mama" are sure to go down in the music history books as prime examples of Webster's swamp boogie styles. But perhaps the best cuts of the 15 are the blues-rich vocals and sax of "Try a Little Tenderness," a sure winner, and "Never Let Me Go," a torch-bearing ballad. Alligator's Deluxe Editions are just that -- the best songs by the best artists in their catalog. And Katie Webster ranks right there at the top of that rich list. ---Michael B. Smith, allmusic.com

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