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Let Me Tell You About the Blues Texas: The Evolution of Texas Blues
Let Me Tell You About the Blues Texas: The Evolution of Texas Blues
UPC: 5055311000473
Format: CD (3 disc)
Release Date: Mar 08, 2010
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Liner Note Author: Neil Slaven.
Recording information: 05/1926-??/1957.
This is the fourth title in Fantastic Voyage's Let Me Tell You About the Blues series, a series of three-CD sets compiled and annotated by Neil Slaven that trace the evolution of the blues in key American cities and regions. This time out the focus is on Texas (previous volumes in the series have covered Memphis, New York, and Chicago). "The blues came to Texas loping like a mule," Blind Lemon Jefferson sang on his first recording in 1926, and there's no denying that Texas put its own spin on the genre. This set is a marvelous history of Texas blues, starting with Jefferson and proceeding through artists as distinctive as T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Smokey Hogg, and Frankie Lee Sims, among many others. ~ Steve Leggett
Recording information: 05/1926-??/1957.
This is the fourth title in Fantastic Voyage's Let Me Tell You About the Blues series, a series of three-CD sets compiled and annotated by Neil Slaven that trace the evolution of the blues in key American cities and regions. This time out the focus is on Texas (previous volumes in the series have covered Memphis, New York, and Chicago). "The blues came to Texas loping like a mule," Blind Lemon Jefferson sang on his first recording in 1926, and there's no denying that Texas put its own spin on the genre. This set is a marvelous history of Texas blues, starting with Jefferson and proceeding through artists as distinctive as T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Smokey Hogg, and Frankie Lee Sims, among many others. ~ Steve Leggett
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Jack O'Diamond Blues
2 - John Henry
3 - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
4 - Traveling Man
5 - Denomination Blues, Pt. 1
6 - Penitentiary
7 - Texas and Pacific Blues
8 - Trinity River Bottom Blues
9 - Jim Nappy
10 - Hard Dallas Blues
11 - Texas Blues
12 - Carbolic Acid Blues
13 - You'll Like My Loving
14 - Cryin' for You Blues
15 - Central Tracks Blues
16 - No More Women Blues
17 - Broken Levee Blues
18 - Blue Goose Blues
19 - Burn the Trestle Down
20 - Blue Bloomer Blues
21 - Wichita Falls Blues
22 - Kentucky Blues
23 - Doggone Mean Blues
24 - Nok-Em-All
25 - Blue Ghost Blues
Disc 2:
1 - Sales Tax
2 - Backache Blues
3 - CWA Blues
4 - Butcher Shop Blues
5 - Elm Street Woman Blues
6 - Ice Pick and Pistol Woman Blues
7 - Black Ace
8 - Flying Crow
9 - Kind-Hearted Blues
10 - Evil Blues
11 - Traveling Riverside Blues
12 - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away)
13 - East Texas Rag
14 - Short Haired Woman
15 - Deep Sea Diver
16 - Wee Wee Hours
17 - Little Willie's Boogie
18 - My Time Is Expensive
19 - Winter Time Blues
20 - Throw a Little Boogie
21 - No Letter Blues
22 - You Gotta Lay Down Mama
23 - Love's a Gamble
24 - Down in the Groovy
25 - Bon Ton Roula
Disc 3:
1 - Adam Bit the Apple
2 - Rosa Lee
3 - You Gotta Go
4 - Who May Your Regular Be
5 - Crossroads
6 - Bull Corn Blues
7 - Dallas Be Bop Blues
8 - Raining in My Heart
9 - Why Oh Why (Did You Let Me Go)
10 - I've Played This Town
11 - Got the Boogie Woogie Blues
12 - Your Little Girl Is Gone
13 - Rockin' and Rollin'
14 - I Don't Want No Woman
15 - If I Lose You Woman
16 - She's Gone with the Wind
17 - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
18 - Sittin' and Thinkin'
19 - She's Gone
20 - Reconsider Baby
21 - Wrong Doing Woman
22 - Chicken Hearted Woman
23 - Walkin' the Streets
24 - What Will Lucy Do
25 - Mercy's Blues
26 - Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
1 - Jack O'Diamond Blues
2 - John Henry
3 - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
4 - Traveling Man
5 - Denomination Blues, Pt. 1
6 - Penitentiary
7 - Texas and Pacific Blues
8 - Trinity River Bottom Blues
9 - Jim Nappy
10 - Hard Dallas Blues
11 - Texas Blues
12 - Carbolic Acid Blues
13 - You'll Like My Loving
14 - Cryin' for You Blues
15 - Central Tracks Blues
16 - No More Women Blues
17 - Broken Levee Blues
18 - Blue Goose Blues
19 - Burn the Trestle Down
20 - Blue Bloomer Blues
21 - Wichita Falls Blues
22 - Kentucky Blues
23 - Doggone Mean Blues
24 - Nok-Em-All
25 - Blue Ghost Blues
Disc 2:
1 - Sales Tax
2 - Backache Blues
3 - CWA Blues
4 - Butcher Shop Blues
5 - Elm Street Woman Blues
6 - Ice Pick and Pistol Woman Blues
7 - Black Ace
8 - Flying Crow
9 - Kind-Hearted Blues
10 - Evil Blues
11 - Traveling Riverside Blues
12 - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away)
13 - East Texas Rag
14 - Short Haired Woman
15 - Deep Sea Diver
16 - Wee Wee Hours
17 - Little Willie's Boogie
18 - My Time Is Expensive
19 - Winter Time Blues
20 - Throw a Little Boogie
21 - No Letter Blues
22 - You Gotta Lay Down Mama
23 - Love's a Gamble
24 - Down in the Groovy
25 - Bon Ton Roula
Disc 3:
1 - Adam Bit the Apple
2 - Rosa Lee
3 - You Gotta Go
4 - Who May Your Regular Be
5 - Crossroads
6 - Bull Corn Blues
7 - Dallas Be Bop Blues
8 - Raining in My Heart
9 - Why Oh Why (Did You Let Me Go)
10 - I've Played This Town
11 - Got the Boogie Woogie Blues
12 - Your Little Girl Is Gone
13 - Rockin' and Rollin'
14 - I Don't Want No Woman
15 - If I Lose You Woman
16 - She's Gone with the Wind
17 - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
18 - Sittin' and Thinkin'
19 - She's Gone
20 - Reconsider Baby
21 - Wrong Doing Woman
22 - Chicken Hearted Woman
23 - Walkin' the Streets
24 - What Will Lucy Do
25 - Mercy's Blues
26 - Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)