If you love the solid blues recordings of T-Bone Walker, or early Gatemouth Brown, then this CD is essential to your collection. Twenty five tracks of post war, West Coast box banging by the well known to the long forgotten. Every cut is killer. This cd features most of Guitar Shortys' 50's sides as well as hard core entries by Lafayette Thomas, Pete ''Guitar'' Lewis and Johnny Fuller.....................................

1. Let`s Go Smitty - Floyd Dixon w/Johnny "Guitar" Watson

2. Mean Old World - Johnny Fuller

3. Hard Life - Guitar Shorty

4. Ways Of A Man - Guitar Shorty

5. Tom Cat - Big Mama Thornton w/Lafayette Thomas

6. Midnight Blues - Baby Calloway

7. Scarred Knees - Little Miss Janice

8. Behind The Sun - The Rockin' Bros.

9. Weekly Blues - Lafayette Thomas

10. The Thing - Lafayette Thomas

11. Claim On You - Lafayette "Thing" Thomas

12. Old Memories - Lafayette "Thing" Thomas

13. One Nighter Blues - Johnny Otis Orch. w/Pete "Guitar" Lewis

14. Goomp Blues - Johnny Otis Orch. w/Pete "Guitar" Lewis

15. I`m Leaving You - Ivory Lucky (Ted Taylor) w/Bob Reed's Band

16. In The Wee Wee Hours - Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers

17. Baby Please Don`t Go - Troyce Key w/Eddie Cochran

18. Watch Your Mouth - Troyce Key w/Eddie Cochran

19. How Long Will It Last - Guitar Shorty w/Bob Tate's Band

20. Love Loves - Guitar Shorty w/Bob Tate's Band

21. Brick - Johnny Morrisette

22. Lafayette`s A-Coming - Lafayette Thomas

23. Too Late To Change - Jimmy McCracklin w/Lafayette Thomas

24. I Never Thought - Guitar Shorty w/Bob Tate's Orch.

25. High Sailing - Claude & The Nightones