Track Listing

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
10. Cadillac Blues - James Tisdom
11. Cross Country Blues - Frankie Lee Sims
12. Last Affair Blues - James Tisdom
13. Rattlesnake Blues - Rattlesnake Cooper
14. Chicago Blues - Andrew Thomas
15. Who May Your Regular Be
16. Prowlin' Ground Hog - Willie Lane
17. Log House on the Hill - Leroy Johnson
18. Cadillac Blues - James Tisdom
19. You Gonna Need Me - Monister Parker
20. Lost Woman - Rattlesnake Cooper
21. Please Mam Forgive Me
22. Rhythm Blues - Sonny Boy Davis
23. Model T Boogie - James Tisdom

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420110 in Music
• Released on: 1994-07-29
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Super post-war blues from Texas
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.