Basically Kansas City blues features are a powerful rhythm stress together with a piano and the horn section prominence, together with the continuous use of riffs and tempo bounces Kansas City sound is a mixture of New Orleans jazz with Texas blues and boogie-woogie and undoubtedly the most popular name was Pete Johnson Kansas City singers also had a particular way of singing the blues, a mixture of groaning and shouting and that is why they were called shouters The cd has two different parts, one devoted to the forties with musicians like Big Joe Turner, Count Basie, Jimy Rushing, Jay McShann or Walter Brown and the fifties one with artists like KC ‘Mojo’ Watson, Harmonica Slim, Little Hatchett or Little Willie Littlefield among others