California Blues 1940-1948

Wartime. Workers are needed in the shipyards of the Pacific Coast and the bluesmen of Texas pack their bags and move to California. Once there, they find themselves side by side with the crooners from "Black Hollywood". The resulting fusion of styles gave birth to the "California blues". Listen to this 2-CD set and travel back to the very sources of this highly original and still very influential style. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

Disc 1
1: L.A. Blues - Thunder Smith
2: Alla Blues - Guitar Slim Green
3: T.P. Railer - Black Diamond
4: Eclipse of the Sun - Sidney Maiden
5: Desert Blues - Sonny Boy Johnson
6: Another Friend Like Me - Jesse Thomas
7: Worryin' Mind - Smokey Hogg
8: G.I. Fever - Mercy Dee
9: Baby, Don't You Want to Go - Jimmy McCracklin
10: Gone With the Draft - Nat King Cole
11: Bad Luck and Trouble - Jimmy McCracklin
12: Special Delivery - Cecil Gant
13: Reconversion Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter
14: It Ain't Gonna Be Like That - Charles Brown
15: Playboy Blues - Big Joe Turner
16: I'm in an Awful Mood - T-Bone Walker
17: Operation Blues - Amos Milburn
18: Blues in B-flat - Hadda Brooks

Disc 2
1: Plain Old Down Home Blues - T-Bone Walker
2: S.K. Groove - Saunders King
3: Television Blues - Lowell Fulson
4: Gatemouth Boogie - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
5: Central Avenue Blues - Pee Wee Crayton
6: Ramblin' Woman - Gene Phillips
7: Soothe Me - Charles Brown
8: Please Stop Playing Those Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon
9: I'm Gonna Leave You - Amos Milburn
10: Prairie Dog Hole - Floyd Dixon
11: Little Willie's Boogie - Little Willie Littlefield
12: That Other Woman's Gotta Go - Lloyd Glenn
13: Leary Blues - Percy Mayfield
14: True Blues - Roy Milton
15: Troubles Goodbye - Jimmy Liggins
16: Jump It With A Shuffle - Jesse Price
17: No Name Boogie - Joe Lutcher
18: I Came To California - Joe Pullum

Number of Discs: 2

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