Boobie-woogie is a piano style developed around 1900, probably in New Orleans. Just up-tempo twelve-bar blues over a driving, repetitious bass figure, boogie-woogie moved with Southern blacks to the North, where it was often called barrelhouse music after its natural habitat. Developed and popularized by musicians like Cow Cow Davenport and Pine Top Smith, both from Alabama, boogie-woogie became a popular music craze in the 1930s, often in big-band arrangements. Later it returned to the South and the original blues instrument as guitar boogie, a species of country music. Amos Milburn captures the essential, boisterous spirit of Boogie-Woogie in our selection, "Chicken Shack Boogie," recorded in Los Angeles in 1947 and available on Official Records' Boogie-Woogie Masterpieces. (AU Format) (Real Audio Format) SC Music Home | Black Gospel | Black Spiritual | Bluegrass | Boogie-Woogie | Cajun | Country and Western | Delta Blues | Dixieland Jazz | Folk | Piedmont Blues | Ragtime | Rhythm & Blues | Rockabilly | Shape Note | Southern Rock | Soul | Swamp Blues | Texas Blues | White Spiritual | Zydeco