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VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI Plus 630221 Blues Connection, Vol. 1 - How Long, How Long Blues ● CD $25.98 $19.98
4 CDs, 72 tracks, 196 mins, highly recommended
Now deleted. First in a series of five inexpensive 4 CD sets from Holland featuring a broad spectrum of blues from the 30s, 40s and 50s. There's no real thematic continuity to the sets - just an entertaining mix of country blues, urban blues, down home blues, Chicago blues, West Coast blues and more. Some of the material is familiar and some of the artists are featured with great frequency but there's a fair amount of lesser known and downright obscure stuff. Except for volume 1 a good deal of the material comes from the Aladdin, Imperial and Capitol catalogs and is drawn from the series of albums issued on U.S. Capitol some years ago and deleted all too quickly. Sound quality is generally excellent and the CDs are presented in a handsome fold out digipack. There's a 16 page booklet with a brief introduction to blues in half a dozen different languages, but, unfortunately no discographical info. This first volume includes tracks by Leroy Carr,  Big Maceo,  Lil Green,  Jack Dupree, Memphis Slim, Paul Williams, John Lee Hooker, Frankie Lee Sims, Snooky & Moody,Muddy waters,Paul Gayten,Carl Davis,Joe Turner, Helen Humes and many more. Great listening, whether you're a new comer to the music or a serious collector. (FS)
ANNISTEEN ALLEN: Give it up/ PEARL BAILEY & J.MOMS MABLEY: Saturday night fish fry/ BIG MACEO: Worried life blues/ BROTHER BLUES & THE BACKROOM BOYS: Featherweight mama/ OTHUM BROWN & LITTLE WALTER: Ora nelle blues/ LEROY CARR: How long-how long blues/ BO CARTER: Some day/ DOCTOR CLAYTON: Angels in Harlem/ ARTHUR CRUDUP: Shout sister shout/ ARTHUR "BIG BOY" CRUDUP: Who's been fooling you/ CARL DAVIS: In the dozens/ THE DU-DROPPERS: I can't do sixty no more/ JACK DUPREE: Let's have a ball/ SLEEPY JOHN ESTES: Drop down baby/ LOWELL FULSOM: Stormin and rainin/ LOWELL FULSON: Fulson boogie/ CECIL GANT: Cecil's jamsession/ PAUL GAYTEN: Gayten's nightmare/ Hey little girl/ LIL GREEN: Why don't you do right/ VIOLET GREEN & LONNIE JOHNSON: You had too much/ WYNONIE HARRIS: Wynonie's boogie/ You get yourself a job/ BERHA "CHIPPY" HILL: Some cold rainy day/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Lowdown midnight boogie/ Stomp boogie/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Feel so bad/ Henny penny blues/ Jazz blues/ HELEN HUMES: Central avenue boogie/ IVORY JOE HUNTER: High cost low pay blues/ LIL JOHNSON: Keep on knocking/ ROBERT JOHNSON: They're red hot/ LITTLE JOHNNY JONES: Big town playboy/ LOUIS JORDAN: Saturday night fish fry/ KANSAS CITY KITTY & GEORGIA TOM: Tom, how can you have the blues?/ SAUNDERS KING: Swingin'/ MORRIS LANE BAND: Bobby's boogie/ MEADE LUX LEWIS: Whistling blues/ LITTLE WALTER: I just keep lovin' her/ BROWNIE MCGHEE: Hard bed blues/ My fault/ STICKS MCGHEE & HIS BUDDIES: Blues mixture (I'd rather drink muddy water)/ Drinkin' wine spo-dee-o-dee/ BIG JAY MCNEELY: Deacon's hop/ MEMPHIS MINNIE: Hustlin' woman blues/ MEMPHIS SLIM: Old taylor/ The comeback/ ROY MONTRELL: Mudd/ GATEMOUTH MOORE: I ain't mad at you/ FRANKIE LEE SIMS: Don't forget me/ SNOOKY AND MOODY: Keep what you got/ VICTORIA SPIVEY: Dope head blues/ SUNNYLAND SLIM: Fly right little girl/ TAMPA RED & JOHNNY JONES: It's a brand new boogie/ JESSE THOMAS: Same old stuff/ Texas blues/ JOE TURNER: Don't dig it/ Hollywood bed/ Low down dog/ Ooo-ouch-stop/ WASHBOARD SAM: Back door/ MUDDY WATERS: I can't be satisfied/ You got to take sick and die some of these days../ NOBLE WATTS & JUNE BATEMAN: Go away mr.blues/ DEE WILLIAMS: Bongo blues/ PAUL WILLIAMS: The hucklebuck/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: Better cut that out/ Shake the boogie/ Sloppy drunk blues/ RALPH WILLIS: Goin' to Virginia/ I'm gonna rock

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI Plus 630320 Blues Connection, Vol. 2 - County Jail Blues ● CD $25.98 $19.98
The second set is another fine and varied collection. Most of the material here is from the 40s and 50s (plus a few later ones. Among theartists are T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, King Cole Trio, Amos Milburn, Smokey Hogg, Charles Brown, Calvin Boze, Ella Mae Morse, Lalo Guerrero Chicas (?), Sonny Terry, Jay McShann's Kansas City Stompers, Johnny Moore's Three Blazes, Lowell Fulson, Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Joe Lutcher, Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, Joe Lutcher and others.
GENE AMMONS QUINTET: Blowin' Red's top/ CALVIN BOZE: Safronia B/ CHARLES BROWN: Again/ Black night/ Cryin' mercy/ Gee!/ My silent love/ Once there lived a fool/ Rising sun/ KING COLE TRIO: Bring another drink/ Don't blame me/ I'm through with love/ Loan me two till Tuesday/ Oh, but I do/ NAT "KING" COLE TRIO: The frim fram sauce/ LOWELL FULSON: Double trouble blues/ Night and day/ LALO GUERRERO: Chicas patas boogie(Oh babe!)/ SMOKEY HOGG: In this world alone/ Need my help/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Boom boom/ Decoration day blues/ Don't you remember me(can I say hello)/ Forgive me/ I had a dream/ I met the grindin' man/ John Lee's house rent boogie/ Johnny Lee's original boogie/ Nobody to talk to me/ Sally Mae(There's A Day Comin' Baby)/ She was in Chicago/ Whistlin' and moanin' blues/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Mojo hand/ HELEN HUMES: Be baba leba/ MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT: Frankie and Albert/ LONNIE JOHNSON: He's a jelly roll baker/ JOE LUTCHER: No name boogie/ NELLIE LUTCHER: Fine brown frame/ MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL: Got to move/ BROWNIE MCGHEE & SONNY TERRY: Walk on/ JAY MCSHANN'S KANSAS CITY STOMPERS: Bad tale boogie/ Hard workin' man blues/ Merry-go-round blues/ When I've been drinking/ AMOS MILBURN: Atomic baby/ Chicken shack boogie/ Down the road a'piece/ Two years of torture/ JOHNNY MOORE'S THREE BLAZERS: Baby don't you cry/ Blazers boogie/ ELLA MAE MORSE: Cow cow boogie/ The house of blue lights/ JESSE PRICE: Baby let's be friends/ Jump it with a shuffle/ JIMMY REED: Shame/ SONNY TERRY: Custard pie blues/ Dirty misstreater/ Worried man blues/ JOE TURNER: I'm in sharp when I hit the coast/ Ice man blues/ It's a lowdown dirty shame (Playboy blues)/ Jumpin' tonight/ Morning glory/ Sally zu zazz/ T-BONE WALKER: Baby broke my heart/ Come back to me baby/ Hypin' woman blues/ I can't stand being away from you/ Long skirt baby blues/ Stormy Monday/ COOTIE WILLIAMS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Stingy blues/ LESTER YOUNG: Jumpin;with symphony Sid

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI Plus 630429 Blues Connection, Vol. 3 - After Midnite ● CD $25.98 $20.98
Now deleted. Another 78 fine sides from Lowell Fulson, Juia Lee & her Boy Friends, Sonny Terry, Floyd Dixon, Walter Brown, Jimmy Reed, Betty Hall Jones, Sidney Bechet, Gene Ammons Quintet, Nellie Lutcher, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Tommy Douglas, King Cole Trio, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, King Porter Orchestra, Jay McShann & His Kansas City Stompers, Gene Ammons Quintet, Tommy Douglas, Sonny Boy Williamson and more.
GENE AMMONS QUINTET: Jack's town/ SIDNEY BECHET: Wabash blues/ WALTER BROWN: I'm gonna get married/ Nasty attitude/ Play the blues/ KING COLE TRIO: Easy listening blues/ Sweet Lorraine/ FLOYD DIXON: Bad neighborhood/ Empty stocking blues/ Let's dance/ Long distance telephone blues/ Real lovin' mama/ Sad journey/ She' s understanding/ Walkin' and talkin' blues/ We'll be together/ Wino blues/ You played me for a fool/ TOMMY DOUGLAS: Hot sauce/ I want you to be my guy/ If you don't, why don't ya/ LOWELL FULSON: Good woman blues/ Three o'clock blues/ SMOKEY HOGG: Key to my door/ Oo-oo-wee/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Crying all night/ Long long way from home/ Miss Eloise/ Moon is rising/ Never satisfied(just like a woman)/ BETTY HALL JONES: This joint' s too hip for me/ JULIA LEE & HER BOY FRIENDS: Don't come too soon/ Draggin' my heart around/ It comes in like a lion/ LIGHTNIN' SLIM: My babe/ NELLIE LUTCHER: He' s a real gone guy/ BROWNIE MCGHEE & SONNY TERRY: Blues for the lowlands/ BIG JAY MCNEELY: All that wine is gone/ JAY MCSHANN'S KANSAS CITY STOMPERS: Confessin' the blues/ On the sunny side of the street/ Trouble in mind/ Walkin' blues/ AMOS MILBURN: After midnite/ Amos' blues/ Blues at sundown/ My baby's boogying/ Sax shack boogie/ ELLA MAE MORSE: Solid patato salad/ BUS MOTEN & HIS MEN: Baby you messed up/ Best friend blues/ Gotta good reason for being bad/ ROBERT NIGHTHAWK: My sweet lovin' woman/ KING PORTER ORCHESTRA: Chittlin' ball/ JESSE PRICE: My baby done left me/ JIMMY REED: Baby what you want me to do/ JIMMY ROGERS: Luedella/ LAURA RUCKER: Cryin' the blues/ CLARENCE SAMUELS: Lollypop mama/ SUNNYLAND SLIM: Johnson machine gun/ SONNY TERRY: Early morning blues/ Leavin' blues/ Riff and harmonica jump/ ANDREW TIBBS: Bilbo is dead/ JOE TURNER: Mad blues/ The things I used to do/ T-BONE WALKER: My baby left me/ She' s going to ruin me/ The hustle is on/ MUDDY WATERS: Little Anna Mae/ COOTIE WILLIAMS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Juice headed baby/ Wrong neighborhood/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: New early in the morning

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI Plus 630528 Blues Connection, Vol. 4 - Guitar In My Hand ● CD $25.98 $20.98
Now deleted. 78 more goodies from Ella Mae Morse, Amos Milburn, T-Bone Walker, Walter Brown, Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bus Moten & His Men, Tommy Douglas, Lil' Son Jackson, Floyd Dixon, Jay McShann, St. Louis Jimmy, Robert Nighthawk, Forrest Sykes, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Floyd Dixon, and more.
CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN: After sunset/ Guitar in my hand/ WALTER BROWN: Let's love awhile/ Lou Cindy Lou/ Slow down baby/ Suppressin' the blues/ What evil have I done/ FLOYD DIXON: Evil lover blues/ Four years/ I want a little girl/ I'm so worried/ Married woman/ Pleasure days/ Rockin' at home/ Telephone blues/ You need me now/ TOMMY DOUGLAS: Douglas boogie/ Jackson's country romp/ Lights out/ Mizzou/ SMOKEY HOGG: Great big mama/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Let your daddy ride/ Lord what more can I do/ No mortgage on my soul/ She left me by myself/ The story of a married woman/ Turnin' gray blues/ Well I got to leave/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: All through my dreams/ LI'L SON JACKSON: Ticket agent blues/ TINY KENNEDY: The lady with the red dress on/ JULIA LEE & HER BOY FRIENDS: After hours waltz/ Decent woman blues/ Do you want it/ My man stands out/ Ugly papa/ JAY MCSHANN: Everything will be alright/ Pic's boogie/ Scotty's/ Come on over to my house/ McShann's boogie blues/ AMOS MILBURN: Amos' boogie/ Cinch blues/ Everything I do is wrong/ Let's rock awhile/ Mean woman/ Money hustlin' woman/ Operation blues/ Sad and blue/ Tears tears tears/ ELLA MAE MORSE: Jumpin' Jack/ BUS MOTEN & HIS MEN: Gone/ It ain't gonna give nobody none of my jelly roll/ It's hard to laugh or smile/ On the gravy train/ Sugar daddy blues/ That did it/ ROBERT NIGHTHAWK: Sweet black angel/ ST. LOUIS JIMMY: Florida hurricane/ SUNNYLAND SLIM: She ain't nowhere/ FORREST SYKES: Tonky boogie/ SONNY TERRY: All alone blues/ Beer garden blues/ Crow jane blues/ Hot headed woman/ Screamin' and cryin' blues/ JOE TURNER: New ooh wee baby blues/ Rock-O-Gibraltar/ That's what really hurts/ T-BONE WALKER: Evil hearted woman/ T-bone shuffle/ COOTIE WILLIAMS & HIS ORCHESTRA: It may be easy,but I'm not a fool

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI Plus 630627 Blues Connection, Vol. 5 - Hard Luck Blues ● CD $25.98 $20.98
Now deleted. The 5th and final volume includes Sonny Terry, Floyd Dixon, Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends, Bus Moten & His Men, Walter Brown, Lowell Fulson, Johnny Mercer & Cootie Williams, Tommy Douglas, Floyd Dixon, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, John Lee Hooker, Tiny Kennedy, Amos Milburn, Pee Wee Crayton, Amos Milburn, Smokey Hogg and others.
BABS, THREE BIPS & A BOP: Oo-Pa-Pa-De/ CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN: Gatemouth boogie/ Without me baby/ WALTER BROWN: Gonna play with your woman/ Hello and goodbye/ Inform me baby/ Lyin' woman blues/ New style baby/ Squabblin' woman/ Work don't bother me/ KING COLE TRIO: Bring another drink/ PEE WEE CRAYTON: Daybreak/ FLOYD DIXON: Blues for Cuba/ Broken hearted traveler/ Don't cry now baby/ Hamp's gumbo/ Mean papa blues/ Pretty baby/ Sad feeling/ Sonny's blues/ Time and place/ TOMMY DOUGLAS: Goosed/ Kickapoo/ Leavin town blues/ Tea for Tommy/ LOWELL FULSON: Chuck with the boys/ You gotta reap/ LALO GUERRERO: Marihuana boogie/ SMOKEY HOGG: I gotta ride/ Peace of mind/ Up today,down tomorrow/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: Baby please don't go (I was beggin' my baby)/ Come back baby/ I don't be welcome here/ I rule my den/ My baby she's long & tall/ No friend around/ Snap them fingers boogie/ Sometime/ Throw this old dog a bone/ Wellfare blues/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Mean and evil blues/ TINY KENNEDY: It ain't no use/ Jumpin' little woman/ Sister flat-top/ JULIA LEE & HER BOY FRIENDS: Don't save it too long(the money song)/ Oh chuck it (in a bucket)/ Tonight' the night/ When your lover has gone/ You ain't got it no more/ BIG JAY MCNEELY: Insect ball/ JAY MCSHANN: Cover up/ Moten swing/ JOHNNY MERCER & COOTIE WILLIAMS: He should flip'd when he flop'd/ AMOS MILBURN: Alladin boogie/ Bad bad whiskey/ Hard luck blues/ Nickel plated baby/ Rainy weather blues/ Real gone/ Train whistle blues/ BUS MOTEN & HIS MEN: Turn it over/ When you want Chili/ You'll wind up on top/ SONNY TERRY: Airplane blues/ Mad man blues/ Whoopin' the blues/ JOE TURNER: Milk and butter blues/ Miss Brown blues/ T-BONE WALKER: Look me in the eye/ No reason/ Too lazy

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Excello 3001 The Best Of Excello Records ● CD $14.98 $9.98
30 tracks, 75 mins, highly recommended
Out of print - limited stock. Excello got it's reissue program off to a strong start with this 30 track sampler. If you have the two Rhino albums issued some years ago then you have all but one track here - still that one track is the sensational Chicken Hearted Woman by Clarence Samuels with hot guitar pickin' & chicken pickin'. The set here is programmed approximately chronologically starting with Arthur Gunter's 1954 recording of Baby Let's Play House which was covered by some guy and ends with Shy Guy Douglas's Long Gone from 1966. Along the way we hear dark swampy blues that came from Jay Miller's studio in Crowley, Louisiana (Lonesome Sundown, Lazy Lester, Lightnin' Slim, Slim Harpo,etc.). On the R&B front Miller also provided Charles "Mad Dog" Sheffield and Joe Hudson & His Rockin' Dukes and hot rockabilly from Al Ferrier and Johnny Jano. Most of the other recordings were made in the labels home town of Nashville and is a very diverse mixture. It includes blues (Louis Brooks, Robert Garrett, Lillian Offitt, Chicago group The Blues Rockers with their bizarre Calling All Cows, Jerry McCain, etc), doo-wop (The Gladiolas with their original recording of Little Darlin', The King Crooners), rhythm & blues (Rudy Green) & swamp pop (Hooks Coleman). Excellent sound, good notes by James Marshall and some nice photos but no discographical information or even original issue numbers! (FS)
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Excello 3008 Dark Clouds Rolling ● CD $14.98 $10.98
29 tracks, 73 min., highly recommended
Out of print - limited stock. What a great idea. Take one of the most important blues albums - the 1963 EMI/ Stateside album "Authentic R&B" & reissue it on CD with 13 extra tracks. The "Blackwell Guide To The Blues Records" considers the original Stateside album essential in a basic blues collection & I couldn't agree more. It contains no unissued/alternate takes, just the master takes of classics like I'm King Bee (Slim Harpo), Wild Cherry (Leroy Washington), I'm A Lover Not A Fighter (Lasy Lester), You're Too Late Baby (Silas Hogan), Lonesome Lonely Blues (Lonesome Sundown) etc. If you're new to the "J. D. Miller/Excello Sound", I assure you this is one of the best guides, if not the best. Twelve of the tracks here are new to AVI/Excello CDs, and for the first time AVI has included tracks by harmonica players Jimmy Anderson and Moses "Whispering" Smith. They've also included Winter Time Blues, one of Lightnin' Slim's best sides featuring Lazy Lester on harmonica. Walk, don't run - don't even stop for the red light! A must CD. (EL)
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Flat Top 01 Shake 'Em On Down ● CD $17.98 $12.98
27 track collection of uptempo blues. Unlike most collections of this type which features city blues the majority of the tracks here are of the down home variety. Many of the tracks are fairly familiar but there are a scattering of obscurities and some of the familiar artists have unfamiliar songs or versions. Includes Slim Harpo, Papa Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker, Eddie Taylor, Rockin' Dopsie, Bunker Hill, Jim Dickerson (a very different version of the title song), Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, Dr. Ross, Washboard Sam and others.
JIM DICKERSON: Shake 'em On Down/ BO DIDDLEY: Give Me A Break (man)/ Who May Your Lover Be/ You Don't Love Me/ TINY FULLER: Cat Walk/ SLIM HARPO: It's Cool Baby/ That Ain't Your Business/ BUNKER HILL: Red Riding Hood & The Wolf/ JOHN LEE HOOKER: I Wanna Ramble/ Shake It Baby/ LIGHTNIN HOPKINS: Hear Me Talkin'/ HOWLING WOLF: Do The Do/ You Be Mine/ PEE WEE HUGHES: Country Boy Blues/ PAPA LIGHTFOOT: Mean Ol' Train/ ROCKIN' DOPSIE: Ma Negresse/ DR. ROSS: New York Breakdown/ ROUND ROBIN: I'm The Wolfman/ GEORGE SMITH: Yes Baby/ JAY SWAN: You Don't Love Me/ TARHEEL SLIM: Number 9 Train/ EDDIE TAYLER: I Wanna Love You/ SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE: Rockin' & Whoopin'/ SONNY TERRY AND BROWNIE MCGHEE: Ride And Roll/ Rock Island Line/ WASHBOARD SAM: Diggin' My Potatos/ MUDDY WATERS: I Need Love

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Flying Fish 70099 10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ● CD $15.98 $7.98
Split between blues artists (Roosevelt Sykes, Robert Pete Williams, Ironing Board Sam), Louisiana music (Clifton Chenier, Mamou Hour Cajun Band, New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra) and various jazz approaches (Charles Mingus, Eubie Blake, Henry Butler), this celebration of a decade of Jazz & Heritage Festivals has something for everyone among you roots music fans. 12 cuts. (MB)
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Fuel 2000 61345 The Modern Records Blues Story ● CD $15.98 $10.98
20 track introduction to some of the great blues recordings on the Modern and associated labels (RPM, Flair, Kent, Meteor) and includes John Lee Hooker, Smokey Hogg, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Jimmy McCracklin, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Etta James, Little Milton and others. Great music throughout though it's a pity that they couldn't have added a few more tracks.

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Hi (UK) 118 River Town Blues . Plus ● CD $16.98 $11.98
Compact disc reissue of the double album Hi UKLP 427 featuring all the blues recordings cut for Memphis's Hi label and its MOC subsidiary in the 60s and early 70s and are among the last commercial recordings of blues made in Memphis by a relatively good sized label. Many of the recordings were produced by the multi-talented Willie Mitchell. There are 6 tracks by the fine soul flavored Don Hines including an excellent version of Stormy Monday Blues and the intense Trouble Is My Name. Big Amos Patton and Big Lucky Carter are more down home flavored and have six tracks each. There are four tracks by the very fine Detroit singer Joe L. Carter including his topical Please Mr Foreman and a searing version of As the Years Go Passing By. The rest of the set features the more blues oriented recordings of R&B/ soul artists Don Bryant, Willie Mitchell, Gene Miller & George Jackson. 76 minutes of music on this 30 track CD. Excellent sound and informative, if microscopic, notes by Colin Escott. (FS)
DON BRYANT: Call of Distress/ Don't Turn Your Back on Me/ Is That Asking Too Much?/ There Is Something on Your Mind/ BIG LUCKY CARTER: Goofer Dust/ I've Been Hurt/ Miss Betty Green/ Please Don't Leave/ Stop Arguing over Me/ You'd Better Mind/ JOE LEE CARTER: As the Years Go Passing By/ I Caan't Stand It/ Let Me Know/ Please Mr. Foreman/ DONALD HINES: Baby, Tell It Like It Is/ I'm So Glad/ Please Accept My Love/ Stormy Monday/ Trouble Is My Name/ You Had to Pay/ GEORGE JACKSON: Aretha, Sing One for Me/ GENE MILLER: I Was Wrong/ What Do You Mean?/ WILLIE MITCHELL: Prayer Meeting/ BIG AMOS PATTON: Dog Man/ Going to Vietnam/ He Won't Bite Me Twice/ I'm Gone/ Move With Me Baby/ You're Too Young

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS High Water/HMG 6513 Deep South Blues ● CD $15.98 $10.98
Fine collection of tracks from the vaults of High Water records and produced by David Evans between 1979 and 1984. It features previously unissued alternate takes by R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Junior Kimbrough and other High Water artists, a previously unissued Kimbrough track and tracks previously only available on 45s by Raymond Hill, Lillie Hill, Ranie Burnette and Uncle Ben & His Nephews.

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Hip-O 103002 American Folk Blues Festival, 1962-1966 ● CD $16.98 $10.98
16 track CD collection of songs featured on the two incredible DVDs just issued on DVD. Includes songs by Howlin' Wolf, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim, Junior Wells, Lightnin' Hopkins, Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and others.
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS HMG 1008 From Mississippi To Chicago ● CD $14.98 $7.98
15 tracks, 49 mins, recommended
15 sides recorded in Mississippi and Chicago for researcher Matt Block. There are 5 cuts by the ubiquitous R.L. Burnside in fine form, accompanying himself on amplified guitar on songs like Poor Black Mattie/ Fireman, Ring The Bell/ Bad Luck and others. There are 5 cuts recorded in Chicago by Mississippian Robert Curtis Smith who previously recorded for Bluesville in 1961! His repertoire is now exclusively gospel and though his playing is a bit rusty the performances are powerful and moving on songs like The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow/ Thank You and the guitar accompanied narration Lye Water Conversion. There are also cuts by Pinetop Perkins (in good form), Eddie Cusic and a fine veteran piano player, new to recordings, Boogaloo Ames. (FS)
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Indigo 2129 Carnival Day - Essential New Orleans R&B ● CD $11.98 $8.98
24 tracks, essential
I got scared when I 1st saw this set - generic drawing of Fats Domino on the cover, no artist listing on the back (looks like one of those $3.99 Laserlight cheapies). Inside is a whole 'nother story, it's just what the title says. You get 24 slices of the real deal, all recorded between 1947-50. Recording dates & personnel are listed, just no release info. The best is the 8 tunes by Professor Longhair, his classics incl both She Ain't Got No Hair (solo) & Bald Head (with drums), Mardi Gras In New Orleans, & Her Mind Is Gone. Yes, The Fat Man is represented, with his 1st, Fat Man, & the seldom reissued Hey! La Bas Boogie & She's My Baby. Of course Dave Bartholomew & Roy Brown are here, as are a couple more obscurities, including Archibald with both Stack A Lee Pts 1 & 2 & Ballin' With Archie, Jewel King's 3 x 7 = 21, Smiley Lewis' Tee Nah Nah. Sounds like many of these were mastered off vinyl, but sound is quite fine! (GM)
ARCHIBALD: Ballin' With Archie/ Stack A Lee (part 1-2)/ JOSEPH AUGUST: Young Boy/ DAVE BARTHOLOMEW: Ain't Gonna Do It/ Carnival Day/ Country Boy/ ROY BROWN: Long 'bout Midnight/ ROY BYRD: Bald Head/ Hadacol Bounce/ Her Mind Is Gone/ Hey Now Baby/ Oh Well/ FATS DOMINO: Fat Man/ Hey La Bas Boogie/ She's My Baby/ PAUL GAYTEN: Hey Little Girl/ JEWEL KING: 3x7=21/ SMILEY LEWIS: Growing Old/ Tee Nah Nah/ PROFESSOR LONGHAIR: Bye Bye Baby/ Mardi Gras In New Orleans/ Professor Longhair's Boogie/ She Ain't Got No Hair/ CHUBBY NEWSOME: New Orleans Lover Man

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS MCA Special Products 21083 Creed Gospel Classics, Vol. 4 ● CD $7.98 $5.98
Has Madame Edna Gallmon Cooke, The Angelic Gospel Singers, Consolers, Gospel Keynotes, Rev. Cleophus Robinson, The Williams Brothers and The B.C. & M. Mass Choir.

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Nashboro 4520 Nashboro Nativity, Vol. 1 ● CD $13.98 $8.98
14 tracks, 46 min., recommended
A delightful cross section of Christmas numbers recorded throughout the 60's and performed by Nashboro gospel artists. Selections include Merry Christmas and No Room at the Inn by the Consolers, Glory to the New Born King by the Angelic Gospel Singers, Jesus Christ the Baby and New Born King by the Six Trumpets, Vision of the the Shepherd and King of Kings by Maggie Ingram and the Silver Stars, and A Child Is Born by the Swanee Quintet. Great music for the holiday season or any other time, offered here with several vintage group photos, plus liner notes by Opal Louis Nations. (DH)
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Paula 22 Chicago Blues - The 50s ● CD $13.98 $8.98
Out of print - very limited stock. Great music though not very good sound sound. Sides from Cobra & JOB by Guitar Shorty, Clarence Jolly, Sunnyland Slim, Lee Jackson, John Brim, etc
GRACE BRIM: Hospitality Blues/ Man Around My Door/ JOHN BRIM: Don't Leave Me/ Drinking Woman/ Hard Pill To Swallow/ Humming Blues/ I Love My Baby/ Moonlight Blues/ Trouble In The Morning/ Young And Wild/ GUITAR SHORTY: Irma Lee/ You Don't Treat Me Right/ LEE JACKSON: Fishin' In My Pond/ I'll Just Keep Walkin'/ CLARENCE JOLLY: Changing Love/ MOODY JONES: Why Should I Worry/ MAGIC SAM: Easy Baby (take 5)/ LILLIAN OFFITT: Will My Man Be Home Tonight/ MORRIS PEJOE: Maybe Blues/ Screaming And Crying/ SUNNYLAND SLIM: Highway 61

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Purple Pyramid CLP 834 Big Joe Williams & Friends ● CD $13.98 $9.98
15 tracks, 41 tracks, essential
Terrific collection of, mostly, country blues from the vaults of Trumpet Records recorded between 1951 and 1952. There are eight magnificent tracks (two originally unissued) by great Delta bluesman Big Joe Williams at his finest on songs like Mama Don't Allow Me/ Over Hauling Blues/ Friends And Pals/ She Left Me A Mule and others. There are four tracks by the very fine Luther Huff who is accompanied on second guitar by his brother Percy. The result is sometimes a bit chaotic but everything comes together on the wonderful 1951 Blues which is a true mastrpiece - wonderful singing, lyrics and the guitars play off each other magnificently. There are also two tracks by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup which were issued under the name of Elmer James! These are the most urban here with Crudup accompanied by Sonny Boy Williamson on harp and Joe Willie Wilkins on guitar. The set is rounded out by Bobo "Slim" Thomas's wonderful treatment of the Mississippi blues standard Catfish Blues which was originally issued on the flip side of Elmore James' Trumpet recording of Dust My Broom. (FS)

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS P-Vine PCD 3064 Barrelhouse & Rockin' Blues, The 1950s - Vol. 2 ● CD $22.98 $18.98
24 tracks, 68 mins, highly recommended
Excellent collection of West Coast urban blues recorded between 1949 and 1954 for Modern & RPM. There are 10 cuts by distinctive singer/ piano player Little Willie Littlefield accompanied by largish bands - 5 are listed as unissued but I believe they may have appeared on long out of print Ace LPs. Fine singing and dynamic boogie piano work from Willie. Floyd Dixon is another fine piano player though his performances are often in the Charles Brown ballad mould - he is featured with smaller groups featuring the fine guitar of Tiny Webb. And talking about guitar - did Pete Lewis's hot playing on the two instrumentals by Johnny Otis & His Orchestra. There are two sides from obscure but fine vocalist Earl Curry and a couple of hard driving instrumentals from the Jay Franks Orchestra. (FS)
EARL CURRY: I Want Your Lovin'/ One Whole Year Baby/ FLOYD DIXON: Baby Come Home/ Doin' The Town/ Drifting Blues/ It's Gettin' Foggy/ Mississippi Blues/ Roamin' Around/ Shuffle Boogie/ You Made A Fool Out Of Me/ JAY FRANKS ORCHESTRA: Fish Tail/ Stripped Gears/ LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD: Drinkin' Hadacol/ Hit The Road/ Long About Midnight/ Mean Mean Woman/ Money Hustling Woman/ Real Fine Mama/ Rockin' Chair Mama/ Tell Me Baby/ Til We Meet Again/ Train Whistle Blowing/ JOHNNY OTIS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Good Ole Blues/ Thursday Night Blues

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Rooster Blues 2641 And This Is Maxwell Street ● CD $25.98 $19.98
2 CDs - 30 tracks, 124 mins, highly recommended + bonus interview disc
Fabulous collection of recordings made live on Chicago's famed Maxwell Street in 1964 during the shooting of the documentary film "And This Is Free" (available on video as Shanachie 1403 - $18.98). This set features all the music featured in the movie plus a whole lot more taken from the original master tapes that only turned up a few years ago. The music is a panorama of some of the outstanding musicians who boosted their incomes by playing for patrons of this open air market every Sunday. Highlight of the set are ten songs by the magnificent Robert Nighthawk. Accompanied by guitar and drums he performs exciting versions of some of his most famous songs like Take It Easy Baby/ Anna Lee and Sweet Black Angel as well as covers of Dr. Clayton's Cheating & Lying Blues, Joe Turner's Honey Hush and a tantalizingly brief fragment of That's Alright. Many of these were reissued on Rounder from an unauthorized later generation tape and the sound here is superior. Nighthawk also features as an accompanist to Johnny Young, Big John Wrencher and Carey Bell who all turn in superb performances as does the obscure guitarist Little Arthur who does a bluesy blend of Gen Ammons' Red Top and Charlie Parker's Ornithology In an older style there's the fine singer and guitarist Arvella Gray doing Corrina Corrina and John Henry and an unknown singer and harmonica player does a fine Long Gone John. Finally we have some gospel from James Brewer and his group including his wife Fannie and Carrie Robinson - the group's version of I'll Fly Away is particularly exciting. From time to time we get to hear the sounds of the market, some of the ucksters selling their wares and interaction between the musicians and the audience. We have an advance copy so we haven't seen the booklet but it is apparantly 60 pages with extensive notes, photos, lyric transcripts and discographical data. There is also a bonus disc with 40 minutes worth of interviews with some of the musicians. A truly important release. (FS)

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS RST Records JPCD 1504 Clifford Hayes & The Louisville Jug Bands, Vol 4 ● CD $15.98 $11.98
24 tracks, 75 min., recommended
The last volume is this delightful retrospective covers the years 1929 through 1931 and features eight quite different aggregations, most of which, of course, feature the violin artistry of Clifford Hayes. Highlights here include the jazzy You're Ticklin' Me and You Gonna Need My Help (vocal by Sippie Wallace) by Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers, Old Folks Shake by the Kentucky Jazz Babies, Soldier Boy Blues by Phillips' Louisville Jug Band, the Jolson-esque Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More by Kid Coley, Hold That Tiger by Whistler and his Jug Band, My Good Gal's Gone Blues by Jimmie Rodgers, Please Don't Holler Mama by Ben Ferguson, and Glad and Sorry Blues by John Harris. Sound quality is again solid, as are Brenda Bogert's notes, whose information base we are told is drawn from Pen Bogert's forthcoming study Jug Band Blues: A History of the Louisville Jug Bands. (They may be related.) And, if you buy this four volume set of discs and then buy the book, not only will you show exemplary musical taste, but you will also stand a very good chance of being a well-informed reader sometime in the relatively near future. (DH)

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS RST Records JPCD 1515 Jazzin' The Blues ● CD $15.98 $11.98
Jazz flavored blues blues and blues flavored jazz from Monette Moore (1936), Tiny Mayberry (1938), Helen Proctor (1939), W.C. Handy (1939), Lee Brown (1940-46).
LEE BROWN: Big Leg Woman/ Bobbie Town Woogie/ Bobbie Town Woogie (alt. take)/ Brown's Boogie/ Lucille Blues/ Mississippi Water Blues/ My Little Girl/ My Little Girl Blues/ New Little Girl, Little Girl/ W. C. HANDY: 'Way Down South Where The Blues Begin/ Beale Street Blues/ Loveless Love/ St. Louis Blues/ TINY MAYBERRY: Evil Hearted Woman/ I Got A Feeling For You/ Mailman Blues/ Mayberry Blues/ Oh That Nasty Man (take C)/ Someday Someday/ MONETTE MOORE: Rhythm For Sale (Swing Shop Swing)/ Two Old Maids In A Folding Bed/ HELEN PROCTOR: Blues At Midnight/ Cheatin' On Me/ Let's Call It A Day/ Take Me Along With You

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS RST Records JPCD 1528 Female Blues, The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 ● CD $15.98 $11.98
Terrific collection of sides including 9 tracks by the wonderful Lil Green, 4 by the generally undistinguished Bea Foote but including the intriguing Weeds an unissued song about a very popular plant complete with sound effects, two by the obscure but very fine Pearl Ellison including the take-no-prisoners Razor Totin' Mama plus Ruby Smith, Wea Bea Booze, Monette Moore & Lillie Mae Kirkman.
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Specialty 7029 All Night Long They Play The Blues ● CD $15.98 $9.98
A terrific collection of West Coast urban blues recorded for Fantasy's Galaxy label between 1962 and 1971. Originally issued as a 16 track LP some years ago the disc has been expanded to a healthy 23 tracks. Most of the performances were arranged by brilliant saxophonist-pianist Ray Shanklin and the sound is crisp and punchy with fine horn work and frequently featured the biting guitar work of Arthur Wright. The disc opens with the label's one big blues hit Little Johnny Taylor's masterful Part Time Love. Taylor contributes 3 more sides to this collection which also includes songs from Part Time Love writer Clay Hammond, Saunders King, Charles Brown, Sonny Rhodes, J.J. Malone (a fine version of Percy Mayfield's Danger Zone), Big Mama Thornton, Rodger Collins and others including the only country blues performer on the label K.C. Douglas. Remastering is superb and there are informative notes by West Coast blues writer Lee Hildebrand. Excellent. (FS)
CHARLES BROWN: I'm Gonna Push On/ BILL CODAY: You're Gonna Want Me/ RODGER COLLINS: I'm Serving Time/ K.C. DOUGLAS: Little Green House/ The Things I Do For You/ CLAY HAMMOND: There's Gonna Be Some Changes/ SAUNDERS KING: S.k. Blues/ What's Your Story, Morning Glory?/ J.J. MALONE: Danger Zone/ SONNY RHODES: One Of These Days, Country Boy/ THE RIGHT KIND: You Oughta Slow Dance, Baby/ MERL SAUNDERS: Tighten Up/ CLARENCE SMITH: All Night Long They Play The Blues/ LITTLE JOHNNY TAYLOR: Driving Wheel/ Part Time Love/ Please Come Home For Christmas/ The Things That I Used To Do/ BIG MAMA THORNTON: Life Goes On, Because It's Love/ PHILLIP WALKER: Hey, Hey Baby's Gone/ Laughin' And Clownin'

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Specialty 7061 Bloodstains On The Wall - Country Blues From Specialty ● CD $15.98 $9.98
25 tracks, 67 mins, recommended
Although the subtitle "country blues from Specialty" is not completely accurate this is a terrific collection of down home blues from a label that is better known for jump blues, rock 'n' roll and gospel. There are three tracks by Honeyboy (Frank Patt) and four by Little Temple (Gus Jenkins) which I would consider urban blues - but what the hell. Honeyboy's Bloodstains is an all time classic even if it's not really clear what he's singing about. The Jenkins sides are exceptional - he was a brilliant piano player and a fine singer. 18 of the tracks come from a marathon session held in March, 1952 in Shreveport, Louisiana featuring mostly obscure local performers. Only a couple of these recordings were originally issued on 78, a number turned up on the LP "Dark Muddy Bottom" issued in 1970 and 9 have never been issued before. Big Joe Williams is the only known name among them with two fine, though poorly recorded tracks. Pine Bluff Pete is an enigma - his real name is not known but he is a outstanding singer who accompanies himself on piano on one track and guitar on the other. His voice is hauntingly familiar. Clarence London is a good singer/ guitarist strongly influenced by John Lee Hooker. Country Jim Bledsoe also recorded for Imperial and his recordings here are less polished. David Pete McKinley is entertaining performer with a varied selection of material. Decent notes by Billy Vera but no discographical information. (FS)
COUNTRY JIM BLEDSOE: Dial 110 Blues/ Hollywood Boogie/ One Thing My Baby Likes/ Stormin' And Rainin'/ HONEY BOY: Bloodstains On The Wall/ Have You A Match/ You Better Move On Away From Here/ LITTLE TEMPLE: Cold Love/ I Ate The Wrong Part/ Mean And Evil/ What A Mistake/ CLARANCE LONDON: Goin' Back To Mama/ Got A Letter This Morning/ Want To Boogie Woogie/ PETE MCKINLEY: Black Snake Blues/ Cryin' For My Baby/ David's Boogie/ Don't Want Me Blues/ Looka Here Boy/ Sail On, Little Girl/ Whistling Blues/ PINEBLUFF PETE: A Woman Acts Funny/ Uncle Sam Blues/ BIG JOE WILLIAMS: Rather Be Sloppy Drunk/ Ride My New Car With Me

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Story Of Blues 3523 Greatest In Country Blues, Vol. 3 ● CD $13.98 $8.98
Fine and diverse selection of pre and post-war country blues.
BABY FACE LEROY: Rollin' And Tumblin'/ KID BAILEY: Rowdy Blues/ BIG BILL BROONZY: How You Want It Done?/ LEROY CARR: Midnight Hour Blues/ SMITH CASEY: Shorty George/ LOWELL FULSON: River Blues (Pt. 2)/ THE GEORGIA COTTON PICKERS: She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day/ LANE HARDIN: California Desert Blues/ PETE HARRIS: Jack O'Diamonds/ SMOKEY HOGG: Penitentiary Blues (Pt. 1 & 2)/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Moanin' Blues/ HOWLIN' WOLF: Smokestack Lightnin'/ ELMORE JAMES: Dust My Broom/ JESSE JAMES: Lonesome Day Blues/ MUDDY WATERS: I Be's Troubled/ DAN PICKETT: Baby How Long/ ALLEN SHAW: Moanin' The Blues/ BOZIE STURDIVANT: Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down/ BUKKA WHITE: Sic 'Em Dogs On/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: Mighty Long Time

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Testament TCD 5008 Modern Chicago Blues ● CD $11.98 $8.98
Exciting selection recorded in early/mid 60s (Testament 2203) - Johnny Young, Maxwell St. Jimmy, Robert Nighthawk, John Lee Granderson, John Wrencher, Wilbert Jenkins, Walter Horton. Five previously unissued cuts.

 
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Vanguard VMD 79505 Early Soul Gospel ● CD $13.98 $9.98
Black gospel from the Vanguard archives - Clara Ward Singers, The Freedom Singers, Swan Silvertone Singers, Mississippi John Hurt, Staple Singers and others.

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Westside 530 Ace Blues Masters, Vol. 1 - Sing My Blues Tonight ● CD $13.98 $10.98
25 tracks from the Vaults of Ace Records of Mississippi recorded in New Orleans in 1959 and '60 - 20 of them previously unissued! Urban blues from Floyd Dixon, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn and H-Bomb Feguson. Some tracks are even in stereo!
CHARLES BROWN: Black Night/ Don't Cry/ Driftin' Blues/ Educated Fool/ I Wanna Go Home/ Let's Just Be Friends/ Lost In A Dream/ Love's Like A River/ Merry Christmas,baby/ Sing My Blues Tonight/ So Much To Remember You By/ Too Late To Cry Anymore/ Trouble Blues/ FLOYD DIXON: Baby Please Write Me/ Floyd's After Hours/ Me Quieres/ Never Know About A Woman/ That Moves Me (things I Don't Like)/ Wake Up And Live/ Way Down In Louisiana/ What Would You Be/ H-BOMB FERGUSON: Baby Don't Go/ Josephine/ Nobody Knows I'm In Love With You/ AMOS MILBURN: Darlin' How Long

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Westside 531 Blues Complete ● CD $13.98 $10.98
This interesting disc features all 10 sides recorded by North Carolina bluesman Ralph Willis for Jubilee in 1950 and '51 including two recently discovered unissued sides. It is worth mentioning that 8 of the 10 sides were issued by Sequel only a few years ago and are probably still available! The set also includes all 8 sides Lonnie Johnson recorded for Rama in 1956 - his last sessions for a commercial label. The disc winds up with 6 tracks from a previously unissued 1960 Chicago session for End featuring Jump Jackson's Combo featuring the fine vocals and piano or Johnny "Big Moose" Walker.
JUMP JACKSON'S COMBO: Blue Love/ Footrace To A Resting Place/ One Eyed Woman/ Wrong Doin' Woman/ LONNIE JOHNSON: Baby, Don't Make Me Cry/ Baby, Stick With It/ I Found A Dream/ It's Been So Long/ My Woman Is Gone/ This Love Of Mine/ Vaya Con Dios/ Will You Remember? [the Answer To Tommorow Night]/ RALPH WILLIS: Bed Tick/ Black And Tan/ Blues, Blues, Blues/ Cold Chills/ Every Day I Weep And Moan/ Hoodoo Man/ I Got A Letter/ Income Tax Blues/ Somebody's Got To Go/ Too Late To Scream And Shout

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Westside 554 4th & Beale And Further South - Blues Masters, Vol. 2 ● CD $13.98 $11.98
23 tracks, highly recommended
We've turned up a handful of copies of this deleted set. Great collection of 23 down home blues cuts from the Ace vaults including six previously unissued cuts from 1954 by the great Memphis bluesman Joe Hill Louis who abandons his usual one man band format and just sings and plays torrid guitar accompanied by guitar, piano and drums. There are four cuts from veteran Mississippi bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, nine from the wonderful Texas singer/ guitarist Frankie Lee Sims including an unedited version of his "hit" Walking With Frankie and the previously unissued How Long and four cuts from the obscure but excellent Mercy Baby with Sims on guitar. Usual informative notes from Neil Slaven and full discographical info. (FS)
ARTHUR "BIG BOY" CRUDUP: Baby I've Been Mistreated/ I Wonder/ Mean Ol' World/ My Baby Boogies All The Time/ JOE HILL LOUIS: 4th And Beale/ Get Up Off It/ Going Down To Louisiana/ Joe Hill Boogie/ Ruthie Mae/ Sweetest Woman I Ever Knew/ MERCY BABY: Don't Lie To Me/ Marked Deck/ Pleadin'/ Rock 'n' Roll Baby/ FRANKIE LEE SIMS: Hey Hey Little Girl/ How Long/ I Warned You Baby/ Misery Blues/ My Talk Didn't Do No Good/ She Likes To Boogie Real Low/ Walking With Frankie/ Well Goodbye Baby/ What Will Lucy Do

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Westside 570 Tuff Enuff - The Ace Blues Masters, Vol. 3 ● CD $13.98 $9.98
Another fine collection of blues drawn from the Archives of Ace and its affiliated labels - Champion, Vin and Rex. It includes two double sides down home blues classics - Sammy Myers Sleeping In The Ground/ My Love Is Here To Stay and Jerry McCain's Steady/ She's Tough. There's more down home blues from Schoolboy Cleve, Lightnin' Slim, Guitar Reed and Frankie Fair and more urban stylings, some New Orleans, from Joe Dyson, Al Collins, Kenzie Moore, Jesse Allen & Little Cameron. It also includes Buddy Guy first recordings that were not issued at the time but have now been reissued many times. Six previously unissued songs and two unissued alternate takes.
JESSE ALLEN: Baby Say You Will/ Goodbye Blues/ JUNIOR BLACKMON: Down South [take 1]/ I Can't Forget You Baby [take 1]/ AL COLLINS & HIS ORCH: I Got The Blues For You [take 4]/ Shuckin' Stuff [take 1]/ JOE DYSON & HIS ORCH: Looped/ FRANKIE FAIR: Mean Mistreater/ GUITAR REED: Don't You Say A Mumblin' Word/ Rockin' Blues/ LIGHTNIN' SLIM: Bad Feeling Blues/ Lightnin' Slim Boogie/ LITTLE CAMERON: Annie Mae [/ Sittin' Here Worryin'/ You Got The Wrong Kind Of Life/ JERRY MCCAIN: She's Tough/ Steady/ KENZIE MOORE: I Know I'll Die/ SAMMY MYERS: Baby Don't You Wanna Come Home/ My Love Is Here To Stay/ Sleeping In The Ground/ The Way You Been Treating Me/ SCHOOLBOY CLEVE: Beautiful Beautiful Love/ My Baby Done Gone

 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Westside 579 Johnny Vincent Presents Genuine Mississippi Blues Plus ● CD $13.98 $9.98
Reissue of 1981 album "Genuine Mississippi Blues" expanded to 20 tracks with songs originally issued on 45s, previously unreleased songs and an alternate take. Recorded by Johnny Vincent in the late 70s artists featured include Bad Smitty, Sam Myers, John Littlejohn, Elmore James Jr. and King Edward.
 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Westside 588 Heaven Belongs To You ● CD $13.98 $9.98
A collection of gospel sides cut between 1949 and 1969 for Jubilee - many never before issued - The Selah Singers, Della Reese & The