Jackie Brenston

Jackie Brenston

Jackie Brenston

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Top Songs

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Rocket 88
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I Want To See My Baby
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Blues Got Me Again
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The Mistreater
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Much Later

Albums

  • The Music You Need

    Jan 2023 • 7 songs

  • Presenting Jackie Brenston

    May 1957 • 27 songs

  • The Mistreater

    Jan 1951 • 24 songs

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Jackie Brenston

Biography

Determining the first actual rock & roll record is a truly impossible task. But you can't go too far wrong citing Jackie Brenston's 1951 Chess waxing of "Rocket 88," a seminal piece of rock's fascinating history with all the prerequisite elements firmly in place: practically indecipherable lyrics about cars, booze, and women; Raymond Hill's booting tenor sax, and a churning, beat-heavy rhythmic bottom. Sam Phillips, then a fledgling in the record business, produced "Rocket 88," Brenston's debut waxing, in Memphis. The singer/saxist was backed by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm,...
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