Jerry McCain - Love Desperado 1991

1.  Blues Tribute

2.  Burn the Crackhouse Down

3.  I Want To Do Something

4.  Love Desperado

5.  The World On Fire

6.  Lovin' School

7.  I Used to Have It

8.  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

9.  Non-Stop Lovin'

Living Chicago Blues Volume 6 - 1980

It's been a rough month at the compound. First I had to lay off the quality control department then the fact-checkers all quit en masse. As a result all future posts will happen with 25% less facts and 50% less quality. This LP is one of six that were later packaged as four CD's.

1. If I Hadn't Got High - Detroit Junior
2. Some Nerve - Detroit Junior
3. Somebody to Shack - Detroit Junior
4. I Got Money - Detroit Junior
5. Somebody Have Mercy - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
6. Got to Have Money - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
7. Just Like Mama Said - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
8. Look What You Done - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
9. Going Upstairs- Queen Sylvia Embry
10. Blues This Morning - Queen Sylvia Embry
11. Tired of Being Pushed Around - Queen Sylvia Embry
12. Please Let Me Stay - Queen Sylvia Embry

Super Soul Blues Volume II 1991

1. Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
2. Cookie & The Cupcakes - Matilda
3. Little Johnny Taylor - Everybody Knows About My Good Thing
4. B.B. King - Recession Blues
5. Peppermint Harris - Bad Bad Whiskey
6. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City
7. John Fred & His Playboys - Boogie Children
8. Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place Of You
9. Clarence Carter - Can We Slip Away Again
10. Montclairs - Dreaming Out Of Season
11. Ernie Johnson - Party All Night
12. Na Allen - Bring It On Home
13. Tommy Young - That's How Strong My Love Is
14. Bobby Patterson - How Do You Spell Love
15. Louis Villery - Making Nassau Fruit Drink
16. Little Johnny Taylor - Open House At My House (Pt. 1)

Johnny Otis Presents: the Best of Rhythm and Blues, Volume 4 1993

Baseball can be great at 100 F or 38 C but you always need some tunes.

1. Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry
2. Johnny Otis - Harlem Nocturne
3. Big Joe Turner - Honey, Hush
4. Gatemouth Moore - I Ain't Mad At You, Pretty Baby
5. Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers - The Honeydripper (Part 2)
6. Charles Brown - Merry Christmas, Baby
7. Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Kidney Stew Blues
8. Pee Wee Crayton - Blues In The Ghetto
9. Richard Berry - Doin' It
10. Amos Milburn - One Hour Past Midnight

Bill Riley - Harmonica and the Blues - 1962

1. South Bound Train
2. Saints
3. Busters Theme
4. Rollin' River
5. Red River
6. Long Gone
7. Memphis Blues
8. Arkansas Traveller
9. Willie's Tune
10. Honey Girl

New Orleans Home of the Blues Vol. 2 1963

Don't forget the third annual Record Store Day is this Saturday!!

1. Irma Thomas - Ruler of My Heart
2. Irma Thomas - I Done Got Over It
3. Irma Thomas - Cry On
4. Irma Thomas - It's Raining
5. Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)
6. Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
7. Ernie K-Doe - Mother-in-Law
8. Ernie K-Doe - Wanted, $10,000 Reward
9. The Showmen - It Will Stand
10. The Showmen - Country Fool
11. Irma Thomas - Gone
12. Irma Thomas - I Did My Part

Muddy Waters - His Best 1956-1964

1. All Aboard
2. Forty Days and Forty Nights
3. Just to Be with You
4. Don't Go No Farther
5. Diamonds at Your Feet
6. I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love
7. Rock Me
8. Got My Mojo Working
9. She's Nineteen Years Old
10. Close to You
11. Walkin' Thru the Park
12. She's Into Something
13. I Feel So Good
14. You Shook Me
15. You Need Love
16. My Love Strikes Like Lightning
17. My Home Is in the Delta
18. Good Morning, Little School Girl
19. The Same Thing
20. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - What the Hell Is This? 1979

U.S. Energy prices climb 6.6% in June - thousands seek solace in the words of prophet Johnny "Guitar" Watson
1. What the Hell Is This?
2. In the World
3. Proud of You
4. Cop & Blow
5. I Don't Want to Be President
6. Mother in Law
7. Strung Out
8. The Funk If I Know - bonus track
9. Watsonian Institute - bonus track

Little Milton - Friend of Mine 1976

"Any category they want to put me in is fine with me as long as they accept what I do." - Little Milton



1. Friend of Mine
2. You're Gonna Make Me Cry
3. Baby It Ain't No Way
4. Mis-Using My Love
5. Don't Turn Away
6. It's All Bad News
7. Bring It on Back
8. Sundown /Sundown [Monologue]
9. I'm in Love with My Best Friend's Wife

Bessie Smith - Beale Street Mama 1996

The same advances that make life better usually make the heartache worse. I've been enjoying these remastered tracks from the 1920's and wondering who had it worse - Bessie or Lauryn Hill. 21 Adjectives to describe Bessie Smith's style - Distraught, Gutsy, Dramatic, Weary, Reflective, Intense, Passionate, Organic, Intimate, Earnest, Melancholy, Cathartic, Angst-Ridden, Carefree, Earthy, Confident, Rousing, Boisterous, Raucous, Sexy, Irreverent

1. Downhearted Blues
2. Gulf Coast Blues
3. Beale Street Mama
4. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
5. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
6. Bleeding Hearted Blues
7. Midnight Blues
8. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
9. St. Louis Gal
10. Graveyard Dream Blues
11. I'm Going Back to My Used to Be
12. My Sweetie Went Away
13. Any Woman's Blues
14. Frosty Morning Blues
15. Haunted House Blues
16. Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
17. Rocking Chair Blues
18. Sorrowful Blues
19. Bo Weavil Blues
20. Hateful Blues

Sun Records - The Ultimate Blues Collection 3 2003

1. Joe Hill Louis - Keep Your Arms Around Me
2. Rufus Thomas - Married Woman
3. Elvin Parr's In The Groove Boys - I'm a Good Man
4. Sleepy John Estes - Policy Man Blues
5. Woodrow Wilson Adams - The Last Time
6. Willie Nix - Prison Bound Blues
7. Raymond Hill - I'm Back Pretty Baby
8. Walter Horton - In the Mood
9. Jimmy And Walter - Before Long
10. Houston Stokes - We're All Gonna Do Some Wrong
11. Earl Hooker - Blue Guitar
12. Albert Williams - Rhumba Chillen
13. Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago
14. Little Junior One Hand - Sittin' Drinkin' and Thinkin'
15. Earl Hooker - Move on Down the Line
16. Mose Vinson - 44 Blues
17. Houston Boines - Carry My Business On
18. Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Bad
19. Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Wolf Call Boogie
20. Little Milton - Lookin' for My Baby
21. Billy Love - Hart's Bread Boogie
22. Pat Hare - Bonus Pay
23. Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Little Fine Healthy Thing
24. Roscoe Gordon - Hey Hey Girl
25. Frank Frost - Just Come on Home

Larry McCray - Ambition 1991

This debut LP from McCray was originally released in 1991.

1. Nobody Never Hurt Nobody With the Blues
2. Count on Me for Love
3. One More Lonely Night
4. Sally's Got a Friend in New York City
5. Country Girl
6. Ambition
7. I Don't Mind
8. Frustrated Baby
9. Keep on Walking
10. Me and My Baby
11. Secret Lover
12. The Sun Rises in the East