Beginning his promising rise to national fame in the late 1930s as a rival to that other trumpet-playing, gravel-voiced entertainer, Louis Armstrong, Hot Lips Page changed tack, jumping with both feet in the direction of the burgeoning R&B sound in the mid 1940s. It was a move that was sure to offend all the serious jazz music fans, but it would endear him to all the low-brow jump-blues lovers - both then and now! This CD celebrates those R&B years of the man who could have been King......................

1.Last Call For Alcohol
2.They Raided The Joint
3.There Ain't No Flies On Me
4.Texas And Pacific
5.Walkin' In A Daze
6.Miss Larceny Blues
7.Roll, Roll, Roll
8.Gimme Gimme Gimme
9.Jeety-Boat Joad
10.Florida Blues
11.Ashes On My Pillow
12.Open The Door Richard
13.Birmingham Boogie
14.I Want To Ride Like The Cowboys Do
15.Let Me In
16.Strike While The Iron's Hot
17.The Jungle King
18.The Cadillac Song
19.Blow Champ Blow
20.Chocolate Candy Blues
21.The Hucklebuck
22.Pacifying Blues
23.That's The One For Me
24.Sharp Little Sister
25.Main Street
26.I've Got The Upper Hand
27.Moanin' Dan.