Release Date: 2005.
Recording Date: 1946 - 1954.
Series: Down Home Blues Classics - Volume 2.
Release Info: BVDCD1031, 4 x CD, Compilation, Box Set.
This is the second volume of "Down Home Blues", where bring together the 'well-known' to the 'scarcely remembered' finest exponents of this from post-war 1950's, Texas. The first 100 tracks = 4 CD volume of "Down Home Blues" contains 25 tracks from Texas, of which none are duplicated here. Acknowledged blues historian, Neil Slaven, describes within his introductory chapter to that set, the atmosphere, and the feel of the jook and the bars that made home to this no frills, hard driven blues scene - The Juke Joint. Neil continues here in his 3,000 plus essay accompanying this set exploring the world of Down Home Blues in Texas, where we know everything is bigger and better! But for down home blues, it really was the richest source. This is the loam from which this compilation has sprung.
Credits: Neil Slaven - Compilation Producer, Liner Notes; Peter Moody - Coordinator; Phil Rogers - Design; Denis Blackham - Mastering.
Tracklist:
- Disc 1: Lightnin's Boogie/Lightnin' Hopkins.
- 01. Katie Mae Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 02. Feel So Bad - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 03. Short Haired Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 04. Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 05. Picture On The Wall - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 06. Sugar Mama - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 07. Someday Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 08. Abilene - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 09. Shotgun - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 10. Lonesome Road - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 11. Tim Moore's Farm - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 12. Lightnin's Boogie - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 13. Automobile - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 14. Jake Head Boogie - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 15. One Kind Favor - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 16. Gotta Move - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 17. Long Way From Texas - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 18. Dirty House - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 19. Freight Train Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 20. Sad News From Korea - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 21. Gone With The Wind - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 22. Sittin' Down Thinkin' - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 23. Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 24. Sick Feeling Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
- 25. Had A Gal Named Sal - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Disc 2: Walking Talking Blues.
- 01. Loudella - West Texas Slim
- 02. Big Stars Are Falling - Thunder Smith
- 03. Alberta - Stick Horse Hammond
- 04. Lucy Mae Blues - Frankie Lee Sims
- 05. Lost Woman Blues - Rattlesnake Cooper
- 06. Lonesome Cabin Blues - Mercy Dee Walton
- 07. Bad Whiskey, Bad Women - Lil' Son Jackson
- 08. Worried Blues - Smokey Hogg
- 09. Prowlin' Ground Hog - Willie Lane
- 10. Walking Talking Blues - Manny Nichols
- 11. Rhythm Blues - Sonny Boy Davis
- 12. Strike Blues - L.C. Williams
- 13. Rocks Is My Pillow - Big Son Tillis
- 14. Bon Ton Roula - Clarence Garlow
- 15. Please Mam Forgive Me - Sunny James
- 16. Drove From Home Blues - Wright Holmes
- 17. Blue, Black And Evil - Leroy Ervin
- 18. Mean Black Snake - Pete McKinley
- 19. Tall Skinny Mama Blues - Manny Nichols
- 20. Mo More Lovin’ - Ernest Lewis
- 21. Jelly Roll Man - Bill Simpson
- 22. Dallas Be Bop Blues - Soldier Boy Houston
- 23. All The Way From Texas - Perry Cain
- 24. Black Snake Blues - John Hogg
- 25. Jet Black Woman - Buddy Chiles
- Disc 3: Little Mae Belle.
- 01. Home Again Blues - Frankie Lee Sims
- 02. Roberta Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- 03. Crossroads - Texas Alexander
- 04. Cruel Hearted Woman - Thunder Smith
- 05. Boogie All The Time - L.C. Williams
- 06. Rosa Lee - Ernest Lewis
- 07. Gamblin' Man - Stick Horse Hammond
- 08. You Gotta Lay Down Mama - Johnny Beck
- 09. Worried Life - Manny Nichols
- 10. You Gonna Need Me - Monister Parker
- 11. Misery Blues - Smokey Hogg
- 12. What Wrong Have I Done - Country Slim
- 13. G. I. Fever - Mercy Dee Walton
- 14. Throw This Poor Dog A Bone - James Tisdom
- 15. Baby Quit Me Blues - Andy Thomas
- 16. Which Woman Do I Love - The Sugarman
- 17. Happy Home Blues - D.C. Washington
- 18. Howlin' Wolf - Willie Lane
- 19. In My Girlish Days - Miss Country Slim
- 20. Low Down Dirty Ways - Thunder Smith
- 21. Chicago Blues - Andrew Thomas
- 22. Zetela Blues - Big Son Tillis
- 23. I Don't Live Here No More - Sonny Boy Davis
- 24. Boogie Mood - Clarence Garlow
- 25. Little Mae Belle - West Texas Slim
- Disc 4: She's Gone With The Wind.
- 01. Hug Me Baby - Soldier Boy Houston
- 02. Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- 03. Log House On The Hill - Leroy 'Country' Johnson
- 04. No One To Love Me - Manny Nichols
- 05. Shake 'Em On Down - Ernest Lewis
- 06. Santa Fe Blues - Thunder Smith
- 07. Ten Long Years - Big Son* & Lillian Tillis
- 08. Highway 51 - Stick Horse Hammond
- 09. Freedom Train Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- 10. Single Man Blues - Frankie Lee Sims
- 11. Last Affair Blues - James Tisdom
- 12. Good Road Blues - Wright Holmes
- 13. Forgive Me - Manny Nichols
- 14. I Love My Baby - Andrew Thomas
- 15. Excuse Me Baby - Sunny James
- 16. January 11, 1949 Blues - Luther Stoneham
- 17. Shreveport Blues - Pete McKinley
- 18. Worrying Blues - John Hogg
- 19. Black Cat Rag - Willie Lane
- 20. West Coast Blues - Ernest Lewis
- 21. Evil And Hanky - Mercy Dee Walton
- 22. Black Woman - L.C. Williams
- 23. Lawyer Houston Blues - Soldier Boy Houston
- 24. She's Gone With The Wind - The Sugarman
- 25. Truck 'Em On Down - Stick Horse Hammond