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Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns / Huey "Piano" Smith

Having a Good Time with Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns

1959

Early R&B

While this album feels like a greatest hits album, incredibly Having a Good Time is Huey "Piano" Smith's debut. His songs "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" and "Don't You Just Know It" became rock & roll standards but the entire record is chock full of rollicking New Orleans R&B, perfect for rolling up the rug and throwing your furniture out on the lawn.

- Zac Johnson

Jeff Beck

Official Bootleg USA '06

May 23, 2007

Album Rock

A release originally only sold at shows and on his website, 2007's Official Bootleg USA '06, documents most of a performance at the Greek Theater. Joining were keyboardist Jason Rebello, bassist Pino Palladino, and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, plus a string section on the chilling “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” This set features much looser, but no less incendiary playing from the guitarist -- check "Blue Wind" and "Led Boots," ‘Scatterbrain,” and the cover of Billy Cobham's "Stratus.”

- Greg Prato