Big Jay McNeely - Honkin' & Jivin' at the Palomino (Live) (2017)

Tracklist

01. Palomino Hop (Live)
02. I Can't Stop Loving You (Live)
03. All That Wine Is Gone (Live)
04. There's Something on Your Mind (Live)
05. Pretty Girls Everywhere (Live)
06. Honky Tonk (Live)
07. Young Girl Blues (Live)
08. Big Jay Shuffle (Live)

A vintage concert recording from the king of honkin’ sax, Big Jay McNeely, performing a raucous live show at the legendary Palomino club in North Hollywood, August 15, 1989!

Honkin’ & Jivin’ At The Palomino features a killer concert performance put together as part of Ronnie Mack’s well-loved Barn Dance, a musical showcase that drew everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.

Big Jay McNeely’s incredible career began in the ‘40s and saw him play with several major R&B and blues legends of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s such as Little Richard, B.B. King, Etta James and Junior Wells. He scored his first major hit with the 1949 smash hit instrumental “Deacon’s Hop” and scored again with a R&B vocal ballad “There Is Something On Your Mind” featuring Little Sonny Warner. He pioneered the flamboyant playing style called “honking” and is widely acknowledged as one of the first musical entertainers to make showmanship an important element of the live concert experience.

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