Texas compilation T5

Duration: 1:54:36

Compilation of Texas blues music and interviews compiled by Mack McCormick, incorporating some of his own field recordings. The typed tracklist only covers side two.

Side 1:

[0:00:05] 01. Mance Lipscomb - Take Me Back, Babe
[0:02:59] 02. Mance Lipscomb - Take Me Back, Babe [different take]
[0:04:46] 03. Mance Lipscomb - Take Me Back, Babe [another different take]
[0:06:20] 04. Lightnin’ Hopkins - One Dime Blues [live]
[0:08:05] 05. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Honey Babe
[0:11:01] 06. Mance Lipscomb - One Dime Blues
[0:14:41] 07. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Jack o’ Diamonds
[0:19:40] 08. Mance Lipscomb - Blues in the Bottle
[0:22:57] 09. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Blues in the Bottle
[0:26:58] 10. Mance Lipscomb - Which-a-Way Do Red River Run?
[0:29:52] 11. Mance Lipscomb - Old Uncle Bud
[0:33:30] 12. Mance Lipscomb - The Hucklebuck
[0:37:01] 13. Mance Lipscomb - I’m Gonna Slow Drag Up Again
[0:41:02] 14. Mance Lipscomb - Hattie Green
[0:43:54] 15. Mance Lipscomb - Spanish Flang Dang
[0:46:26] 16. Mance Lipscomb - Have You Seen Charlie James?
[0:49:39] 17. Mance Lipscomb - Hey Lawdy Mama
[0:54:26] 18. [unidentified performer - not Lipscomb] - Song beginning ‘I got the blues so bad it hurts my feet to walk’ [apparently a hybrid of several Blind Lemon Jefferson verses]
[0:57:01] 19. Mance Lipscomb - Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road

Side 2:

[1:01:20] 20. Texas Alexander - Boe Hog [? - listed as ‘Texas Alexander’s Mystery Record’]
[1:03:32] 21. Mance Lipscomb - Bumble Bee Blues
[1:07:12] 22. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Buddy Brown’s Blues

‘A group of fragments demonstrating the incidence of the ‘Walk from Dallas, walk to Wichita Falls’ verse’:
[1:11:38] 23. Mance Lipscomb - Long Lonesome Blues [opening]
[1:12:07] 24. Joel Hopkins - Match Box [cuts out]
[1:13:01] 25. Dennis Gainus - Long Lonesome Blues [cuts out]
[1:15:57] 26. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Match Box [live in Houston - opening]
[1:16:51] 27. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Match Box [live in Santa Monica]

[1:18:39] 28. Interview with James “Buster” Cartwright, 3 August 1961 (‘done during piano party recording at Willie Mae Brown’s house’):
Cartwright gives a brief account of his life and background (born in Center, Texas, 1909). How he started playing piano by ear, learning from Hersal Thomas. [1:20:30] Playing with Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. [1:21:10] Lists piano players he rated highly. Where he heard Clarence Williams. Why he never made records. [1:23:54] Discusses Andy Boy, Hociel Thomas, Sippie Wallace, George W. Thomas. [1:26:30] Experiences travelling around the United States playing piano. [1:28:35] Biographical details about Pine Top Smith. [1:30:20] Cartwright’s claim to being the ‘first coloured man’ to broadcast on Houston radio station KXYZ in 1928. [1:31:38] Discusses Hattie Sims, alleged originator of the song ‘Hattie Green’.

[1:33:13] 29. Interview with Sidney J. O’Bryant, 3 August 1961:
O’Bryant gives a brief account of his life and background (born Louisiana, 1910). How he learnt piano in Lafayette and went to New Orleans. [1:35:18] Meeting Earl Hines in Galveston, Texas. Encounters with ‘Lazy Daddy’, Andy Boy, and other musicians. [1:37:00] Discusses jobs he has held and army service. [1:38:24] Experience of playing in groups with saxophonists. Mentions venues he played at. [1:40:57] Discusses speaking French and his grandmother’s Indian heritage. The meaning of ‘Zydeco’, ‘Lala music’, ‘baza’ dances. [1:44:20] Playing with Russell Lewis’s band in Galveston.

[1:45:23] 30. The Harlemonicas & Dick Barrow - Rent Party Blues
[1:48:24] 31. Arbee Stidham & His Orchestra - Mr Commissioner
[1:51:41] 32. Shorty Smith & His Rhythm - Southwest Pacific Blues

Original file name: POAAAM - T05 - Texas Blues Dub for Paul - #5

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