Rock the Night is the first live album

Live album

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 by American

United States

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 blues rock guitar

Guitar

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ist Robert Walker

Robert Walker (musician)

Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr. is a blues musician. who is known in the blues music world due to his "rock 'n' roll showmanship" and "flamboyant Chuck Berry imitations."- History :Walker was born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Walker Sr...

. It was recorded on February 4, 2000 and released on October 23, 2001 by Rooster Blues

Rooster Blues

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Track listing

1. "Cut You A Loose" (London) — 4:33
2. "Found Love" (Reed
   Jimmy Reed
   Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries...
   
   ) — 3:45
3. "Rooster Blues" (West) — 3:43
4. "Linda Lu" (Sharpe
   Ray Sharpe
   Ray Sharpe is an American R&B and rockabilly singer, guitarist and songwriter.He grew up influenced by country as well as blues music, and many of his recordings are classed as rockabilly – he was described by one record producer as "the greatest white-sounding black dude ever"...
   
   ) — 2:51
5. "Standing at My Window/Don't Answer the Door" (Crudup
   Arthur Crudup
   Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs such as "That's All Right" , "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later covered by Elvis Presley and dozens of other artists.-Career:Arthur Crudup...
   
   , Johnson
   Jimmy Johnson (musician)
   Jimmy Johnson is an American a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for a period in the 1960s and 1970s, and later was the a founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio located at first on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama and at...
   
   ) — 5:38
6. "Truck Driving Man" (Fell) — 2:02
7. "Why I Sing the Blues" (Clark, King
   B. B. King
   Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...
   
   ) — 3:58
8. "Memphis" (Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) — 2:54
9. "Stagger Lee" (traditional) — 3:50
10. "Robert B. Goode/Little Queenie" (Berry) — 3:57
11. "Hide Away" (King
    Freddie King
    Freddie King , thought to have been born as Frederick Christian, originally recording as Freddy King, and nicknamed "the Texas Cannonball", was an influential African-American blues guitarist and singer. He is often mentioned as one of "the Three Kings" of electric blues guitar, along with Albert...
    
    , Thompson) — 3:32

Personnel

Performers:

• David "Pecan" Porter — bass
  Bass guitar
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• Sam Carr
  Sam Carr
  Sam Carr was an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada and, its successor, the Labour-Progressive Party in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born Schmil Kogan in Tomachpol, Ukraine in 1906 and immigrated to Canada in 1924, living in Winnipeg and Regina before settling in Montreal in 1925...
  
   — drum
  Drum
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• Robert Walker — guitar, vocals

Production:

• Jim O'Neal — producer, mixing
• Tomas Ford — engineer
• Jack LeTourneau — engineer, mixing
• Bill Steber — photography
• Jannell Turner — art direction, design, photography

Reception

After the blandness of Rompin' & Stompin'

Rompin' & Stompin'

Rompin' and Stompin is the second studio album by American blues rock guitarist Robert Walker. It was recorded on October 22, 1997 and released on April 14, 1998 by Fedora Records, a sub-label of Jazz Depot...

, Rock the Night fared considerably better. This was due in part to having fellow veteran musicians such as Carr and Porter, who are "as wild as Walker, but less wayward." The "tethering" of Walker by the others leads to some fun moments. That doesn't mean that they performed flawlessly, though, since reviewer Chris Smith comments how "Hide Way" "has so many wrong notes that it's almost a new composition" and that other songs also get "a thorough maul

Maul

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