SchoolKids Records

The following SchoolKids Records releases are available through Big Mo Records:
CD SK15012 $ 13.95, CS SK15014 $ 9.95
"Mr. B knows the complete legacy of blues piano. Not many pianists in this style play with more conviction." - Downbeat
"A boogie-woogie, jump and blues masterpiece."- Interview
"This is a fine record. Turn it up loud and watch your foot start to tap!" -Cadence

CD SK15022 $13.95
"We gushed over this album in a review years ago, and it's been a consistent favorite of our staff for longer than anyone can remember. Dick Siegel hails from Ann Arbor, and this brilliant recording not only rocks from beginning to end, featuring world class musicianship and production, but Siegel's songs manifest a freshness and intense creativity that would shame many a more industry-hyped artist. Trust us on this one." - Elderly Instruments

CD SK15032 $13.95, CS SK15034 $9.95
"Best Blues Disc Of 1993" - CD Review
"A brainy compote of blues phrasing and rockabilly bad-boy twang." - Guitar Player
"This, his long overdue debut, gets him into the national spotlight in a very big way. Bedard may not become the next trendy thing, but as far as this kind of music is concerned he's already the Next Cool Thing." - The Record Roundup
CD SK15042 $ 13.95, CS SK15044 $ 9.95
"Jack Salmon & Derby Sauce marks a stunning reemergence by NRBQ's original guitarist. The feisty Kentuckian's vision of a seamless synthesis of styles representing his native Louisville is brilliantly realized here." - Pulse Magazine
"Juke-joint blues, hoppin' rockabilly and crackling Bo Diddley shuffles all figure in the Q-style stew, liberally salted with fab Ferguson licks." - Rolling Stone
Co-founder of NRBQ, Steve Ferguson's Jack Salmon & Derby Sauce is an irresistible, tasteful stew of blues, R&B and New Orleans influences served up with a good heaping of sizzling guitar playing. Praised in Musician, Rolling Stone and Billboard Magazine. Steve was a key player on rock/blues legend Johnnie Johnson's Grammy nominated Johnny B. Bad, contributing songwriting, vocals and guitar.
CD SK15052 $ 13.95
Finally, both classic albums on one CD! Features the hits "My Mistake" and "Shake Bop". Jamie James and The Kingbees maintain a strong national following making this an essential catalog title.
CS SK15064 $ 9.95
''A harmonica virtuoso rapidly approaching legend status for his style." - Strictly Nothing But The Blues
"Ruth possess world class chops with a facility in a number of styles. Together with his musical partner, vocalist-guitarist Shari Kane, they form a folk/blues festival coffee house duo that harkens back to the days when albums like this were standard fare on labels like Elektra and Vanguard. Distinct breath of fresh air in these highly flamboyant, icon obsessed times." - CD Review

CD SK15082 $ 13.95
"Motor City Mayhem: Singer-guitarist Scott Morgan has been pounding the tiles there for three decades: with the Rationals in the '60s, with Sonic's Rendezvous Band in the '70s and lately with Scots Pirates, featuring ex-Stooge Scott Asheton, bassist Gary Rasmussen and co-vocalist Kathy Deschaine. The group's new album, Scots Pirates is, astonishingly, Morgan's first domestically issued LP since his Rationals days and it's a sizzler in the established local tradition, electric-guitar-driven soul that smokes like Motown-meets-the-MC5..." - Rolling Stone

CD SK15092 $ 13.95, CS SK15094 $ 9.95 "Their forays into jazz, swing, rock, blues and bluegrass, along with masterful playing of their own form of bluegrass gives them energy that few bands possess.'' - Bluegrass Unlimited
CD SK15102 $ 13.95
Kingbees founder Jamie James' new solo album. Featured musicians include Johnny "Bee" Badanjek (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. The Rockets,) Mark Gougeon (The Detroit Wheels) "Madcat" Ruth, Mark "Mr. B" Braun, The Chenille Sisters and George Bedard.
CD SK15112 $ 13.95, CS SK15114 $ 9.95
"A master guitarist and songwriter whose grasp of traditional American music is complete." -Thom Jurek, Detroit Metro Times
Best Blues Disc of 1993 - Detroit Music Awards
"For both blues and boogie lovers, Daddy Rollin' Stone is a left-field delight." - CD Review
CD SK15122 $ 13.95
"If you find the concept of Brian Wilson producing Howlin' Wolf covering Gary Lewis & The Playboys 'She's Just My Style' intriguing, here's your album of the year. Few people could even conceive such an idea; Cub Koda is one of the fewer still capable of pulling it off. This is the product of a one-man-band maniac who treasures the momentary novelty of pop music, while at the same time believing to his soul that rock 'n' roll will never die. Delicious fun." - Detroit News
CD SK15132 $ 13.95
"Combining elements of calypso, reggae and jazz, this crossover outing is high on energy, loaded with variable time signatures and obviously a labor of love for all those involved. Springer is the guitarist for the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band and there's a "steel" feel to the whole disc, a pleasant island sound that's easy on the ears and cheers the heart." - The Beat
CD SK15142 $13.95, CS SK15144 $9.95
"These guys drive and jump with the guitar/harp/organ groove and the interplay between the guitars and harp is outstanding...Big Dave Steele's vocals are cool, very expressive." - Blue Suede News
"If you like your blues with jet fuel injected into it, then this is the fix you need...Big Dave goes nonstop and burns the rubber up." - Strictly Nothing But The Blues
CD SK15152 $13.95
"Tough, fiery, propulsive stuff that could be a textbook for a generation of nouveau rockabilly wannabes." - Detroit Free Press
The U.S. release of the first new recording in over 20 years by rockabilly legend Johnny Powers (the only artist ever to be signed with Sun Records and Motown) features Powers' unique blend of rockabilly, R&B and country. Bonus tracks include two duets with George Clinton on the Hank Ballard classics "Work Me Annie" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go", with original Parliament members Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins and Calvin Simon for a unique sound Clinton has dubbed "Funk-A-Billy!" Also includes two bonus tracks, "Walkin' The Dog" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky", featuring George Bedard.
CD SK15162 $13.95, CS SK15164 $9.95 Boss Of The B-3 is the first recording by B-3 legend Winston Walls captured live with his good friend, fellow B-3 master, Jack McDuff.
We're in the midst of a well-deserved jazz organ renaissance and Schoolkids' Records is proud to present this exciting and historic release capturing two of the best Hammond B-3 players extant: Winston Walls and Jack McDuff.
CD SK15172 $13.95, CS SK15174 $9.95 The newest release by the world famous Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band. Hugh Borde, band leader since 1951, has been one of the key figures in the development of the modern steel drum orchestra and continues to be an adjudicator at Trinidad's Annual Panorama. hotlikefire will get you in the carnival mood with its mix of soca, calypso and reggae.
CD SK15182 $ 13.95
Encompassing jazz, rock, contemporary concert music and a myriad of ethnically influenced musics, the CAO traverses terrain only accessible through improvisational approaches.
Director Sarath's most recent CD, Last Day In May (Konnex) was described by Cadence magazine as 'A superb CD.. one of the best the genre has to offer "
CD SK15192 $13.95, CS SK15194 $9.95
Dick's unique songwriting style has won him numerous awards, including one at the Kerrville Music Festival. Angels Aweigh was recorded in Austin and produced by Paul Pearcy who has worked with both Jimmy Dale Gilmore and Tish Hinojosa.


CD SK15222 $13.95
"One of the ten things that made the 12th original Montreaux Detroit Jazz Festival so magical: ...the LUNAR OCTET's uncategorizable sound, blending latin, rock and avant-garde sensibilities." Larry Gabriel - Detroit Free Press
"Favorite performance" at the 1992 Montreaux-Detroit Jazz Festival... "the perfect melding of the elements of latin and jazz." Lillian Arganian - Jazz News
"...the band has grown and matured to the point where they are producing the most original instrumental music of any band in the area." Michael G. Nastos-Jazz & Blues critic - Ann Arbor News, writer for C & J News International
CD SK15262 $13.95
"The trio's impossible frenetic, twisting cover of Mike Stern's 'Chromazone' will blow the mind of the average listener, and the bass harmonics produced on Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy' are just gorgeous. A tight and enormously talented trio, Charged Particles may be the heir to Master Corea's ground breaking brand of jazz." - Jazz Times
CD SK21012 $13.95
This is the exciting first of five volumes documenting the grandfather of all blues festivals. Fittingly we start with the tribute concert for Detroit musicians with important and rare performances by Eddie Burns, Eddie Kirkland, Dr. Ross, Boogie Woogie Red and many others.



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