Postwar Texas blues had a sparse sound all its own in the late 1940s and early '50s, as this two-disc, 36-track collection demonstrates. Featuring guitar (both acoustic and electric) and piano pieces recorded between 1948 and 1952, most of them for small local labels, Texas Down Home Blues includes some familiar names like Texas Alexander, Lowell Fulson, Lil' Son Jackson and Lightnin' Hopkins, but the balance of the performers are much more obscure, which is the real strength of this set. Among the standout tracks are Texas Alexander's "Crossroads Blues" (no relation to Robert Johnson's famous composition of the same name), Wright Holmes' sprightly "Good Road Blues," Lil' Son Jackson's reconfiguration of "Deep Blue Sea" as "Milford Blues," Frankie Lee Sims' acoustic/electric hybrid "Don't Forget Me Baby," and Luther "Rocky" Stoneham's extremely specific "January 11, 1949 Blues." Some of these tracks were actually recorded in California, which became somewhat of a haven for several Texas blues musicians after the war, but they retain a distinct Texas sound. (STEVE LEGGETT, ALLMUSIC)trax cd1:
1. Crossroad blues - Texas Alexander 2. Locked in jail blues - Johnny Beck 3. Boogie like you wanna - Charlie Bradix 4. Mistreated blues - Buddy Chiles 5. Lost woman - Rattlesnake Cooper 6. Dark old world - Big Bill Dotson 7. Hattie Green - Lavada Durst 8. Rock Island blues - Leroy Ervin 9. Double trouble blues - Lowell Fulson 10. Central Avenue blues - Guitar Slim Green 11. West Texas blues - John Hogg 12. Penitentiary blues - Smokey Hogg 13. Good road blues - Wright Holmes 14. T-Model blues - Lightnin' Hopkins 15. Western rider blues - Lawyer Houston 16. Back to Santa Fe - Lee Hunter 17. Milford blues - Lil' Son Jackson 18. Please Ma'am, forgive me - Jesse James
trax cd2:
1. Sam's Coming Home - Sam "Suitcase" Johnson 2. Howling Wolf Blues - Willie Lane 3. Lou Della - Ernest Lewis 4. Neglected Woman - Alex Moore 5. Forgive Me - Manny Nichols 6. Don't Forget Me Baby - Frankie Lee Simms 7. Low Down Dirty Ways - Thunder Smith 8. TNT Woman - Sonny Boy Holmes 9. January 11, 1949 Blues - Luther Stoneham 10. Which Woman Do I Love? - Sugar Man 11. Take It Easy - Nat Terry 12. I Love My Baby - Andy Thomas 13. Mountain Key Blues - Jesse Thomas 14. Winehead Swing - James Tisdom 15. One Room Country Shack - Mercy Dee Walton 16. Morning Train Blues - Peter Warfield 17. The Lazy J - L.C. Williams 18. Skin And Bones - Little Son Willis
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"TEXAS DOWN HOME BLUES"
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CD1
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Thanks Gyro! Cette excellente compilation, sur l'excellent label français Frémeaux & Associés. Jillem
yeah! what jillem said!
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Thanks! This is one Fremeaux I am missing :)
Leur compilation en 2cds par année sur le rythm and blues est à tomber par terre. Même si le parti pris de mêler musique "blanche" (hillbilly et tous ces beurk) et "noire" n'est pas ma tasse de curaçao. C'est bon de rappeler comme eux qu'il fut un temps où les groupes était constitués de pauvres des deux couleurs, et puis la ségrégation s'est accentuée...
I like the mixing of the white and black music - it's how I listen at home. I think blues, R&B, and country/hillbilly/honky-tonk all sound great together. This label has mixed these genres very well in their fine comps.
Thanks
And thanks again!
I made this compilation around 10 yeras ago. Despite what it is written here and there, this Texas Down Home blues double-CD is entirely composed of "black" performers/ bluesmen. When I put black and white persformers together on the same boxed-set it was for comparison and, believe me, it opened a lot of ears.
thanx!!!
Gerard - I have really appreciated the work you've done for this label. Their releases have been some of the most listenable and well thought-out collections around. The Rock 'n' Roll series with the mixing of the genres really flows together well, you did a superb job of compiling them.
Thanks Gyro! It has been quite a hard work to gather the records and moreover to convince someone to issue the anthologies that I proposed. To my ears, the music of those people and those times when the show wasn't really only a business stand the test of time.
Gerard Herzhaft for President! Jillem
with jillem, gyro & RYP all tied for vice-president! :)
Well, thanks folks to vow me for President! But really the job is too difficult nowadays and I'd rather stay at home listening my old records and trying to share the great music and the remembrances of all the wonderful people who recorded it with all those who love their music dry and unalderated
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