Texas Country Blues 1948-1951 (1994)

About this title: Another entry in Flyright's ongoing quest to present the rare and the wonderful, this collects up some impossibly hard to find Texas 78s originally released on short lived, dime-sized labels like Talent, Freedom, Nucraft, ARC, Bluebonnet and the colorfully named Oklahoma Tornado! Honeyboy Edwards and Frankie Lee Sims are the only "big names" aboard, but the remainder of the tracks featuring Rattlesnake Cooper, James Tisdom, Andrew Thomas, Willie Lane, Monister Parker, Leroy "Country" Johnson and others clearly illustrate how big the looming presence (both commercially and artistically) of ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Feel So Good
2. I Love My Baby
3. I Treated You Wrong
4. No One to Love Me
5. Black Cat Rag
6. 51 Blues
7. Black Snake Blues
8. I Don't Live Here No More
9. Crazy With the Blues
10. Cadillac Blues
11. Cross Country Blues
12. Last Affair Blues
13. Rattlesnake Blues
14. Chicago Blues
15. Who May Your Regular Be
16. Prowlin' Ground Hog
17. Log House on the Hill
18. Cadillac Blues
19. You Gonna Need Me
20. Lost Woman [Cooper/Davis]
21. Please Mam Forgive Me
22. Rhythm Blues
23. Model T Boogie

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.