Another collection of hard to find down home recordings compiled by Neil Slaven and focused on Lone Star gold.....This is the equal of the CHICAGO compilation in rarity & listenability......A great balance of sound quality & instrumentation makes this a thoroughly enjoyable set........
Disc 1: Lightnin' Boogie Lightnin' Hopkins 1- Lightnin' Boogie 2- Katie Mae Blues 3- Feel So Bad 4- Short Haired Woman 5- Let Me Play With Your Poodle 6- Picture On The Wall 7- Sugar Mama 8- Someday Baby 9- Abilene 10- Shotgun 11- Lonesome Home 12- Tim Moore's Farm 13- Lightnin's Boogie 14- Automobile 15- Jake Head Boogie 16- One Kind Favor 17- Gotta Move 18- Long Way From Texas 19- Dirty House 20- Freight Train Blues 21- Sad News From Korea 22- Gone With The Wind 23- Sittin' Down Thinkin' 34- Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty 25- Sick Feeling Blues 26- Had A Gal Called Sal Disc 2: Walking Talking Blues 1. West Texas Slim - Loudella 2. Thunder Smith - Big Stars Are Falling 3. Stick Horse Hammond - Alberta 4. Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues 5. Rattlesnake Cooper - Lost Woman Blues 6. Mercy Dee - Lonesome Cabin Blues 7. Lil' Son Jackson - Bad Whiskey, Bad Woman 8. Smokey Hogg` - Worried Blues 9. Willie Lane - Prowlin' Ground Hog 10. Manny Nichols - Walking Talking Blues 11. Sonny Boy Davis - Rhythm Blues 12. L.C. Williams - Strike Blues 13. Big Son Tillis - Rocks Is My Pillow 14. Clarence Garlow - Bon Ton Roula 15. Sunny James - Please Mam Forgive Me 16. Wright Holmes - Drove From Home Blues 17. Leroy Ervin - Blue, Black and Evil 18. Pete McKinley - Mean Black Snake 19. Manny Nichols - Tall Skinny Mama Blues 20. Ernest Lewis - No More Lovin' 21. Bill Simpson - Jelly Roll Man 22. Soldier Boy Houston - Dallas Be Bop Blues 23. Perry Cain - A|l The Way From Texas 24. John Hogg - Black Snake Blues 25. Buddy Chiles - Jet Black Woman Disc 3: Little Mae Belle 1. Frankie Lee Sims - Home Again Blues 2. Lil' Son Jackson - Roberta Blues 3. Texas Alexander - Crossroads 4. Thunder Smith - Cruel Hearted Woman 5. L.C. Williams - Boogie All The Time 6. Ernest Lewis - Rosa Lee 7. Stick Horse Hammond - Gamblin' Man 8. Johnny Beck - You Gotta Lay Down Mama 9. Manny Nichols - Worried Life 10. Monister Parker - You Gonna Need Me 11. Smokey Hogg - Misery Blues 12. Country Slim - What Wrong Have I Done 13. Mercy Dee - Ba-Ba-Du-Lay Blues (G.I. Fever) 14. James Tisdom - Throw This Poor Dog A Bone 15. Andy Thomas - My Baby Quit Me Blues 16. The Sugarman - Which Woman Do I Love 17. D.C. Washington - Happy Home Blues 18. Willie Lane - Howlin' Wolf 19. Miss Country Slim - In My Girlish Days 20. Thunder Smith - Low Down Dirty Ways 21. Andrew Thomas - Chicago Blues 22. Big Son Tillis - Zetela Blues 23. Sonny Boy Davis - I Don't Live Here No More 24. Clarence Garlow - I'm In A Boogie Mood 25. West Texas Slim - Little Mae Belle Disc 4: She's Gone with the Wind 1. Soldier Boy Houston - Hug Me Baby 2. Lil' Son Jackson - Cairo Blues 3. Leroy 'Country' Johnson - Log House On The Hill 4. Manny Nichols - No One To Love Me 5. Ernest Lewis - Shake 'Em On Down 6. Thunder Smith - Santa Fe Blues 7. Big Son & Lillian Tillis - Ten Long Years 8. Stick Horse Hammond - Highway 5 9. Lil' Son Jackson - Freedom Train Blues 10. Frankie Lee Sims - Single Man Blues 11. James Tisdom - Last Affair Blues 12. Wright Holmes - Good Road Blues 13. Manny Nichols - Forgive Me 14. Andrew Thomas - I Love My Baby 15. Sunny James - Excuse Me Baby 16. Luther Stoneham - January 11, 1949 Blues 17. David Pete McKinley - Shreveport Blues 18. John Hogg - Worrying Blues 19. Willie Lane - Black Cat Rag 20. Ernest Lewis - West Coast Blues 21. Mercy Dee - Evil And Hanky 22. L.C. Williams - Black Woman 23. Soldier Boy Houston - Lawyer Houston Blues 24. The Sugarman - She's Gone With The Wind 25. Stick Horse Hammond - Truck 'Em On Down