Texas Country Blues 1948-1951

Various Artists - Blues - Texas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 29, 1994)
• Original Release Date: June 23, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flyright Records
• ASIN: B0000017FP
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,925 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Feel So Good - James Tisdom

2. I Love My Baby - Andrew Thomas

3. I Treated You Wrong - Rattlesnake Cooper

4. No One To Love Me - Leroy Johnson

5. Black Cat Rag - Willie Lane

6. 51 Blues - James Tisdom

7. Black Snake Blues - Monister Parker

8. I Don't Live Here No More - Sonny Boy Davis

9. Crazy With The Blues - Cleo Harves

10. Cross Country Blues - Frankie Lee Sims

11. Excuse Me Baby - Sunny Jones

12. Last Affair Blues - James Tisdom

13. Rattlesnake Blues - Rattlesnake Cooper

14. Chicago Blues - Andrew Thomas

15. Who May Your Regular Be - Mr. Honey

16. Prowlin' Ground Hog - Willie Lane

17. Log House On The Hill - Leroy Johnson

18. Cadillac Blues - James Tisdon

19. You Gonna Need Me - Monister Parker

20. Lost Woman - Rattlesnake Cooper

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Super post-war blues from Texas, November 1, 2005

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Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texas Country Blues 1948-1951 (Audio CD)

This CD collects 23 rare post-war blues recordings from the Texas area. Most of the artists here made very few recordings - in some cases only one or two - and they are included here. That doesn't mean they were bad records; in fact, some of these sides are excellent.

Willie Lane's BLACK CAT RAG, done for Star Talent in 1949, is a dynamite recording; so are James Tisdom's LAST AFFAIR BLUES and CADILLAC BLUES, the last unissued until now. LAST AFFAIR is a blues ballad that is riveting, especially Tisdom's guitar. Monister Parker cut just two sides in 1951 for the very obscure Nucraft label in Houston, and his BLACK SNAKE BLUES is a medium-slow gem with a snappy guitar accompaniment.

Other artists included on this CD are Sunny James, Rattlesnake Cooper, Sonny Boy Davis, and Andrew Thomas, to name a few. Anyone interested in post-war blues, country style, will love this CD. A must-have disc in my book.