The Complete Trix Recordings (2003)

About this title: The Savoy Jazz issue of Robert Lockwood Jr.'s legendary Trix recordings is a gift for anyone interested in the immediacy of raw, wide-open blues with no regard for convention or trend. Lockwood's music could have been recorded anytime between 1950 and the present. His production techniques are plaintive and serve to equalize everything at the same level, giving the music a live feel usually left behind in a studio. His idiosyncratic tunings and distorted amplification offer the listener the kind of in-your-face presence usually found only in a club. But it's the material, the volume and range ... read more

Tracks:

1. Little Boy Blue [Lockwood]
2. Come Day, Go Day [Lockwood]
3. Annie's Boogie [Lockwood]
4. Driving Wheel [Sykes]
5. Funny, But True [Lockwood]
6. Mr. Down Child [Johnson/Lockwood]
7. Lonely Man [Lockwood]
8. Hold Everything [Lockwood]
9. Dust My Broom [Johnson/Lockwood]
10. Majors, Minors & Ninths [Lockwood]
11. Forever on My Mind [Lockwood]
12. I Am to Blame [Lockwood]
13. Howdy Dowdy [Lockwood]
14. Empty Life [Lockwood]
15. Just a Little Bit [Gordon]
16. This Is the Blues [Lockwood]
17. Down Home Cooking [Lockwood]
18. Walkin' Blues [Johnson]
19. Angel Child [Lockwood]
20. Terraplane Blues [Johnson]
21. Red Top [Ammons]
22. Selfish Ways [Lockwood]
23. Half Steppin' [Lockwood]
24. Little Queen of Spades [Johnson]
25. King Biscuit Time [Lockwood]

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