Various Artists - The Rough Guide to Texas Blues

Cat. no: RGNET1416CD
Format: CD
Barcode: 605633141627
Release Date: 28 Jan 2022
Genre: Blues

This Rough Guide traces the development of the Texas blues during its 1920s/30s heyday and features many blues legends including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Blind Willie Johnson & T-Bone Walker - plus the slide guitar wizardry of blues pioneers Black Ace, Oscar Woods & Ramblin' Thomas and classic tracks by blues divas Victoria Spivey and Bessie Tucker

Texas is without doubt one of the quintessential musical melting pots of the US, and whilst Mississippi receives most of the credit for creating the blues, Texas is where many of the earliest blues pioneers lived and played. Although equally poignant and direct as the Delta style, the Texas blues was fundamentally less raw and rudimentary with guitarists typically incorporating more sophisticated and varied guitar accompaniments from verse to verse.

Tracks: Henry Thomas - Don't Ease Me In / Little Hat Jones - Bye Bye Baby Blues / Dallas String Band - Dallas Rag / Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues / T- Bone Walker - Trinity River Blues / Blind Willie Johnson - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning / Hattie Hudson & Willie Tyson - Black Hand Blues / Leadbelly - My Friend Blind Lemon / Black Ace - You Gonna Need My Help Some Day / Bessie Tucker - Got Cut All To Pieces / J.T. "Funny Papa" Smith - Howling Wolf Blues - No. 1 / Victoria Spivey - It's Evil Hearted Me / Frenchy's String Band - Texas And Pacific Blues / Texas Alexander - Bell Cow Blues / William McCoy - Mama Blues / Andrew Hogg - Kind- hearted Blues / Oscar Woods - Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away / Jesse "Babyface" Thomas - Down In Texas / Texas Bill Day & Billiken Johnson - Elm Street Blues / Willie Reed - Going Back To My Baby / Coley Jones - The Elder's He's My Man / Ramblin' Thomas - Ground Hog Blues / Carl Davis & The Dallas Jamboree Jug Band - Dusting The Frets / Otis Harris - Waking Blues / Gene Campbell - Western Plains Blues / Whistlin' Alex Moore - West Texas Woman

More From This Artist: Andrew Hogg Bessie Tucker Billiken Johnson Black Ace Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Willie Johnson Carl Davis Coley Jones Dallas String Band Frenchy's String Band Gene Campbell Hattie Hudson Henry Thomas J.T. "Funny Papa" Smith Jesse "Babyface" Thomas Leadbelly Little Hat Jones Oscar Woods Otis Harris Ramblin' Thomas T- Bone Walker Texas Alexander Texas Bill Day The Dallas Jamboree Jug Band Victoria Spivey Whistlin' Alex Moore William McCoy Willie Reed Willie Tyson