"CALIFORNIA BLUES" 1940-1948

It's Wartime. Workers are needed in the shipyards of the Pacific Coast and the bluesmen of Texas pack their bags and move to California. Once there, they find themselves side by side with the crooners from "Black Hollywood". The resulting fusion of styles gave birth to the "California blues". Listen to this 2-CD set and travel back to the very sources of this highly original and still very influential style. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

trax CD1:
1. L.A. Blues - Thunder Smith 2. Alla Blues - Guitar Slim Green 3. T.P. Railer - Black Diamond 4. Eclipse Of The Sun - Sidney Maiden 5. Desert Blues - Sonny Boy Johnson 6. Another Friend Like Me - Jesse Thomas 7. Worryin' Mind - Smokey Hogg 8. G.I. Fever - Mercy Dee 9. Baby, Don't You Want To Go? - Jimmy McCracklin 10. Gone With The Draft - Nat King Cole 11. Bad Luck And Trouble - Jimmy McCracklin 12. Special Delivery - Cecil Gant 13. Reconversion Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter 14. I Ain't Gonna Be Like That - Charles Brown 15. Playboy Blues - Big Joe Turner 16. I'm In An Awful Mood - T-Bone Walker 17. Operation Blues - Amos Milburn 18. Blues In B-Flat - Hadda Brooks
trax CD2:
1. Plain Old Down Home Blues - T-Bone Walker 2. S.K. Groove - Saunders King 3. Television Blues - Lowell Fulson 4. Gatemouth Boogie - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 5. Central Avebue Blues - Pee Wee Crayton 6. Ramblin Woman - Gene Phillips 7. Soothe Me - Charles Brown 8. Please Stop Playing Those Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon 9. I'm Gonna Leave You - Amos Milburn 10. Prairie Dog Hole - Floyd Dixon 11. Little Willie's Boogie - Little Willie Littlefield 12. That Other Woman's Gotta Go - Lloyd Glenn 13. Leary Blues - Percy Mayfield 14. True Blues - Roy Milton 15. Troubles Goodbye - Jimmy Liggins 16. Jump It With A Shuffle - Jesse Price 17. No Name Boogie - Joe Lutcher 18. I Came To California (My Woman) - Joe Pullum
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