Takoma Eclectic Sampler (1997)

About this title: The Takoma label is most famed for its series of releases by John Fahey (the company's owner in its early days) in the '60s, but issued a fairly diverse catalog of roots-oriented music up through the '80s. That very diversity, however, ensures that a sampler such as this, which has 17 tracks recorded for Takoma between 1964 and 1987, is all over the map...There are selections by Maria Muldaur, Sir Douglas Quintet, Canned Heat, Rose Maddox, Michael Bloomfield, and Spencer Davis, all of them past their respective primes; blues from Bukka White (the 1964 single "World Boogie," the first Takoma ...

Tracks:

1. World Boogie [White]
2. She's Looking Good [Hite/DeLaParra/Morg]
3. I Keep Wishing for You [Hancock]
4. Just Like an Eagle [Brewster]
5. Cha Dooky-Doo [Vince]
6. Mama Blues [Ross]
7. Ferns [Hand]
8. Heart of a Country Song (Rose's Song) [Aka Rose's Song] [Samson]
9. I'm Shakin' [Toombs]
10. Wine, Women and Rock & Roll [Williams]
11. My Darlin' New Orleans [Cuccia/McLean/Nevil]
12. Tennessee Rock 'N' Roll [Gold/Glazer/Taiani]
13. Crossfire [Careaga/Holler]
14. Your Friends [Malone]
15. Indian-Pacific R.R. Blues [Fahey]
16. Last Days of the Suicide Kid
17. Washington Post March

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