Recommended Recordings

 

As one of Our Recommendations and Recommended Recordings, we recommend The Very Best of Tiny Bradshaw, by Tiny Bradshaw, featuring 25 tracks recorded for King Records.

CD cover, The Very Best of Tiny Bradshaw, King Records recordings.
CD cover, The Very Best of Tiny Bradshaw, King Records recordings.

Available through Amazon.com and these Amazon affiliates:

Unfortunately this album is not currently available as an mp download. Here’s a link to an Amazon.com mp3 download version of Tiny Bradshaw’s Greatest Hits

If you’re not familiar with Tiny Bradshaw, here are some examples from YouTube. Tiny Bradshaw’s best known recording is arguably his 1951 King Records release of The Train Kept A’ Rollin’ which has been covered by many artists, including the Johnny Burnette Trio (with Paul Burlison on lead guitar) and The Yardbirds (see the videos below):

Tiny Bradshaw covers

To get some idea of Tiny Bradshaw’s influence, here’s the Johnny Burnette Trio doing Tiny Bradshaw’s Train Kept A’Rolling. Paul Burlison is featured in the video on lead guitar. See our page on Paul Burlison’s grave.

Here’s a video of The Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck on guitar, performing Tiny Bradshaw’s Train Kept A ‘ Rollin’ in 1966.

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