Paris Humilié, 1940 1941

The New Orleans barrelhouse boogie piano specialist's earliest sides for OKeh, dating from 1940-1941 and in a few cases sporting some fairly groundbreaking electric guitar runs by Jesse Ellery. Dupree rocks the house like it's a decade later on two takes of "Cabbage Greens" and "Dupree Shake Dance," while his drug-oriented "Junker Blues" was later cleaned up a bit by a chubby newcomer named Fats Domino for his debut hit 78 "The Fat Man."

Les années 1940 et 1941 ont été décisives dans l'histoire : en l'espace de dix-huit mois, non seulement la guerre devient mondiale, mais le XXe siècle tout entier bascule dans la violence et l'horreur. La cascade d'événements qui marque les débuts du conflit confronte les acteurs à des choix qui, pour fatidiques qu'ils aient été, n'étaient cependant pas inéluctables. À Londres, Tokyo, Rome, Moscou, Berlin et Washington, politiques et militaires, qu'ils cherchent une issue à la crise ou tentent de l'exploiter, décident de l'avenir d'un monde où tout semble possible. …

The New Orleans barrelhouse boogie piano specialist's earliest sides for OKeh, dating from 1940-1941 and in a few cases sporting some fairly groundbreaking electric guitar runs by Jesse Ellery. Dupree rocks the house like it's a decade later on two takes of "Cabbage Greens" and "Dupree Shake Dance," while his drug-oriented "Junker Blues" was later cleaned up a bit by a chubby newcomer named Fats Domino for his debut hit 78 "The Fat Man."