Release April 21, 2017.
Recording Time: 299 minutes.
Recording Date: 1927 - 1951.
Release Info: Compilation (JSP77203).
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Texas Blues, Country Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Regional Blues.
(2017/JSP) 97 Tracks - Including Discography!
He was said to have a voice as big as the state in which he was born. Texas Alexander was born in Texas in 1900 and loved playing on stage or at the club while singing. Often he sang unaccompanied, but there were also many collaborations with musicians such as Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lano, King Oliver, Lightnin 'Hopkins, Johnny Beck and Lane Hardin. He died in 1954 and his music fell into oblivion. But his fame was revived by the great blues revival in the 60s. A man and his music - 97 songs! (Bear Family Records)
"When we went to a place..." said Lowell Fulson of Texas Alexander. ...We'd go in there, get a table, sit down and talk... Everybody'd say, "Hi, Tex, how're you doing?" We might hang around like three, four days. My first pay-day I got five dollars a day and I worked three nights. That was $15."
Credits: Texas Alexander - Primary Artist, Vocals; Johnny Beck - Guitar, Vocals; Leon Benton - Guitar; Bo Chatman - Violin; Sam Chatman - Guitar; Carl Davis - Guitar; Lane Hardin - Guitar, Vocals; Eddie Heywood - Piano; Lonnie Johnson - Guitar; Sam "Suitcase" Johnson - Guitar, Vocals; Bo Jones - Vocals; Coley Jones - Guitar, Vocals; Little Hat Jones - Guitar, Vocals; King Oliver - Cornet; Eddie Lang - Guitar; Buster Pickens - Piano; Willie Reed - Guitar, Vocals; Neil Slaven - Annotation; Clarence Williams - Piano.
Tracklist:
1-01. Range In My Kitchen Blues - Texas Alexander
1-02. Long Lonesome Day Blues - Texas Alexander
1-03. Corn-bread Blues - Texas Alexander
1-04. Section Gang Blues - Texas Alexander
1-05. Levee Camp Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
1-06. Mama, I Heard You Brought It Right Back Home - Texas Alexander
1-07. Farm Hand Blues - Texas Alexander
1-08. Evil Woman Blues - Texas Alexander
1-09. Sabine River Blues - Texas Alexander
1-10. Death Bed Blues - Texas Alexander
1-11. Yellow Girl Blues - Texas Alexander
1-12. West Texas Blues - Texas Alexander
1-13. Bantam Rooster Blues - Texas Alexander
1-14. Deep Blue Sea Blues - Texas Alexander
1-15. No More Woman Blues - Texas Alexander
1-16. Don’t You Wish Your Baby Was Built Up Like Mine - Texas Alexander
1-17. Bell Cow Blues - Texas Alexander
1-18. Bantam Rooster Blues - Take B - Texas Alexander
1-19. Sittin’ On A Log - Texas Alexander
1-20. Mama’s Bad Luck Child - Texas Alexander
1-21. Boe Hog Blues - Texas Alexander
1-22. Work Ox Blues - Texas Alexander
1-23. The Risin’ Sun - Texas Alexander
1-24. Penitentiary Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
2-01. Blue Devil Blues - Texas Alexander
2-02. Tell Me Woman Blues - Texas Alexander
2-03. 'Frisco Train Blues - Texas Alexander
2-04. St. Louis Fair Blues - Texas Alexander
2-05. I Am Calling Blues - Texas Alexander
2-06. Double Crossing Blues - Texas Alexander
2-07. Ninety-Eight Degree Blues - Take A - Texas Alexander
2-08. Someday, Baby, Your Troubles Is Gonna Be Like Mine - Texas Alexander
2-09. Water Bound Blues - Texas Alexander
2-10. Awful Moaning Blues Pt 1 - Texas Alexander
2-11. Awful Moaning Blues Pt 2 - Texas Alexander
2-12. Gold Tooth Blues - Texas Alexander
2-13. Johnny Behrens Blues - Texas Alexander
2-14. Ninety Eight Degrees - Take B - Texas Alexander
2-15. Rolling Mill Blues - Texas Alexander
2-16. Broken Yo Yo - Texas Alexander
2-17. Texas Special - Texas Alexander
2-18. When You Get To Thinking - Texas Alexander
2-19. Thirty Day Blues - Texas Alexander
2-20. Peaceful Blues - Texas Alexander
2-21. Days Is Lonesome - Texas Alexander
2-22. Seen Better Days - Texas Alexander
2-23. Last Stage Blues - Texas Alexander
2-24. Stealing To Her Man - Texas Alexander
3-01. She’s So Fair - Texas Alexander
3-02. Rolling And Stumbling Blues - Texas Alexander
3-03. Frost Texas Tornado Blues - Texas Alexander
3-04. Texas Troublesome Blues - Texas Alexander
3-05. Blues In My Mind - Texas Alexander
3-06. Mistreatin’ Woman - Texas Alexander
3-07. Polo Blues - Texas Alexander
3-08. Normangee Blues - Texas Alexander
3-09. Worried Blues - Texas Alexander
3-10. Prairie Dog Hole Blues - Texas Alexander
3-11. Justice Blues - Texas Alexander
3-12. Katy Crossing Blues - Texas Alexander
3-13. Lonesome Blues - Texas Alexander
3-14. Lonesome Valley Blues - Texas Alexander
3-15. One Morning Blues - Texas Alexander
3-16. Deceitful Blues - Texas Alexander
3-17. Easy Rider Blues - Texas Alexander
3-18. Good Feelin’ Blues - Texas Alexander
3-19. Bottoms Blues - Texas Alexander
3-20. Cross Roads - Texas Alexander
3-21. Back Door Blues - "Bo" Jones
3-22. Leavenworth Prison Blues - "Bo" Jones
3-23. Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
3-24. California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin
3-25. Cartey Blues - Lane Hardin
4-01. New Two Sixteen Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-02. Two String Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-03. Rolled From Side To Side Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-04. Hurry Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-05. Little Hat Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-06. Corpus Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-07. Kentucky Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-08. Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-09. Cross The Water Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-10. Cherry Street Blues - Little Hat Jones
4-11. Dreaming Blues - Willie Reed
4-12. Texas Blues - Willie Reed
4-13. Leavin’ Home - Willie Reed
4-14. Goin’ Back To My Baby - Willie Reed
4-15. Some Low Down Groundhog Blues - Willie Reed
4-16. All Worn Out And Dry Blues - Willie Reed
4-17. Army Mule In No Man’s Land - Coley Jones
4-18. Traveling Man - Coley Jones
4-19. Drunkard’s Special - Coley Jones
4-20. The Elder’s He’s My Man - Coley Jones
4-21. Locked In Jail Blues - Johnny Beck
4-22. You’ve Gotta Lay Down Mama - Johnny Beck
4-23. Sam’s Comin’ Home - Sam "Suitcase" Johnson
4-24. Sam’s Boogie - Sam "Suitcase" Johnson