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Texas compilation T9

Catalogue reference: POAAAM/3/1/4/9

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POAAAM/3/1/4/9
Title
Texas compilation T9
Date
c1960s
Description

Duration: 1:03:15

Compilation of Texas and other blues music compiled by Robert M. W. Dixon, originally titled ‘Blues from Bob - Tape Two’.

Side 1 - ‘Got the Blues from East Texas, U.S.A.’:

[0:00:02] 01. Little Hat Jones - Rolled from Side to Side Blues
[0:03:03] 02. Little Hat Jones - Little Hat Blues
[0:06:14] 03. Whistlin’ Alex Moore - Heart Wrecked Blues
[0:09:15] 04. Whistlin’ Alex Moore - Ice Pick Blues
[0:11:56] 05. Blind Norris - Sundown Blues
[0:14:49] 06. Blind Norris - The Katy Blues
[0:17:30] 07. Andy Boy - Church Street Blues
[0:20:15] 08. Andy Boy - House Raid Blues
[0:23:15] 09. Alex Moore - Bull Con Blues [preceded by brief fragment of another song?]
[0:25:53] 10. Alex Moore - Hard Hearted Woman
[0:28:35] 11. Big Richard (Frank James) - Snake Hip Blues
[0:31:12] 12. Bobbie Cadillac & Coley Jones - Easin’ In [cuts out]

Side 2 - ‘Phenomenally rare blues from the Bluebird stable. Best collection of rare Bluebird Blues anywhere’:

[0:32:16] 13. The Florida Kid [Ernest Blunt] - Hitler Blues
[0:35:05] 14. The Florida Kid [Ernest Blunt] - Teena Girl Blues
[0:38:04] 15. Frank Tannehill - Door Bell Blues
[0:41:03] 16. Frank Tannehill - Parted Down Blues
[0:43:52] 17. Virgil Childers - Dago Blues
[0:46:14] 18. Virgil Childers - Red River Blues
[0:49:13] 19. Ben Abney (Peg Leg) - I’m Rattlesnakin’ Daddy
[0:51:28] 20. The Cedar Creek Sheik - I Believe Somebody's Been Ridin’ My Mule
[0:54:21] 21. The Cedar Creek Sheik - She’s Totin’ Something Good
[0:57:16] 22. St. Louis Red Mike - Red Mike Blues
[1:00:16] 23. Big Richard (actually Tommie Bradley on Gennett) - Nobody’s Business If I Do

Original file name: POAAAM - T09 - Texas Blues - Bob Dixon

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Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections
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POAAAM/3

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Texas compilation T9