Tiny Bradshaw this week on The Juke In The Back!

The "Juke In The Back" focuses on the " soul that came before rock n' roll," the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
Tiny Bradshaw put in his time, spending 16 years of making music with various big bands, including his own, without ever scoring a national hit. But when things turned around for the drummer, pianist, composer and bandleader, his star began to rise. He scored a #2 R&B smash with "Well Of Well" in 1950, just as he was beginning his 9 year association with Cincinnati's King Records. This would be his biggest hit and best seller, but not his best remembered. That distinction would go to his composition, "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" from '51. Though his version didn't make the national lists, it did inspire covers from Johnny Burnette's Rock n' Roll Trio, The Yardbirds and Aerosmith, making it a rock n' roll classic. In all, Bradshaw scored 5 charting singles, but as Rock n' Roll came into fashion in the mid-'50s, Tiny Bradshaw suffered a stroke that sidelined him from crossing over. Then a second stroke ended his life in 1958 at the age of 53. Though he's not remembered much today beyond his jumpin' composition, "The Train Kept A-Rollin'," the "Juke In The Back" fills up the ol' Rockola with a stack of Tiny's prime shellac. Give a listen and cut a rug to a true originator.
Join Matt the Cat for "Juke in the Back", tomorrow morning at 4 AM Eastern with an encore presentation Sunday afternoon at 3 PM Eastern, after "The All 80s Show" with Gary G and before "The Song Remembers When" with Caroline Toews, on Mushroom FM, the home of the fun guys, making four decades of magic mushroom memories!
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