Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues

Size: 187 MB
Time: 54:26
File: Flac
Released: 1953
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Lucy Mae Blues (2:30)
2. Don't Take It Out On Me (2:48)
3. Married Woman (3:03)
4. Wine & Gin Bounce (2:35)
5. Boogie 'Cross the Country (2:34)
6. Jelly Roll Blues (2:58)
7. I'm So Glad (2:53)
8. Long Gone (2:43)
9. Raggedy And Dirty (2:35)
10. Yeh, Baby (2:34)
11. No Good Woman (2:57)
12. Walking Boogie (Take 4) (2:38)
13. Frankie's Blues (2:37)
14. Crying Won't Help You (2:41)
15. I Done Talked And I Done Talked (2:45)
16. Lucy Mae Blues (Part 2) (2:56)
17. Rhumba My Boogie (2:17)
18. I'll Get Along Somehow (2:43)
19. Hawk Shuffle (2:31)
20. Frankie Lee's 2 O'Clock Jump (2:58)

His finger picking style will blow you away! Everyone needs to add this to their collection or playlist. Frankie Lee rocks! Frankie lee didn't get the recognition. He deserves he is one of the texas' greatest, his sound a little bit harsh and distorted,but sound down home is what the blues it's all about. Take a good listen and you can find the roots of rock and roll. Don't miss it,absolutly worthed!!

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Frankie Lee Sims - Essential Blues

Size: 178,4 MB - 218 MB
Time: 77:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s - Flac
Released: 2009
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. I'll Get Along Somehow (2:43)
2. Frankie's Blues (2:38)
3. She Likes To Boogie Real Low (2:06)
4. Frankie Lee's 2 O'Clock Jump (2:58)
5. Hey Little Girl (2:37)
6. What Will Lucy Do (2:21)
7. Hawk Shuffle (2:32)
8. Lucy Mae Blues (2:31)
9. Lucy Mae Blues Part 2 (2:57)
10. Jelly Roll Baker (2:59)
11. Married Woman (3:03)
12. Misery Blues (2:38)
13. Don't Take It Out On Me (2:48)
14. Cryin' Won't Help You (2:42)
15. Well Goodbye Baby (3:15)
16. My Talk Didn't Do No Good (2:12)
17. Rhumba My Boogie (2:18)
18. Walking Boogie (2:36)
19. Raggedy And Dirty (2:36)
20. I'm So Glad (2:53)
21. Walking With Frankie (3:29)
22. Boogie 'Cross The Country (2:32)
23. I Warned You Baby (2:23)
24. I Done Talked And I Done Talked (2:46)
25. Yeh, Baby! (2:35)
26. How Long (2:02)
27. No Good Woman (2:57)
28. Wine And Gin Bounce (2:35)
29. Long Gone (2:43)

Frankie Lee Sims was a Texas Blues guitarist with a rocking, roughed-up style that gave him some early regional popularity and one national hit record in the 50s. He lived a rough life too, and got into the kind of trouble that scared record companies away, so he didn’t figure in the Folk/Blues revival ten years later that made his cousin Lightnin’ Hopkins a world star. Born in 1917, Frankie left his native New Orleans at the age of 12 and took his guitar to Marshall in East Texas where his cousin Sam Hopkins was making a name for himself. The kid played his guitar for tips, but when WWII came along, he was drafted. On his return from duty with the Marines, Frankie settled in Dallas and began playing the local club scene, often in the company of Smokey Hogg. Frankie’s solo recordings on the Blue Bonnet label had some regional success, but when he signed for the Specialty label in 1953, his ‘Lucy Mae’ was a national chart hit. Texas Blues was enjoying success on the West Coast, but Frankie’s follow-ups did not repeat that initial impact when he moved there, and neither did his recordings on the Ace and Fire labels in the late 50s. Hard rocking tunes like ‘Walking with Frankie’ and ‘ She Likes to Boogie Real Low’ were great songs, but failed to find a market and he returned to Dallas around 1960.

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VA - Shuckin' Stuff: Rare Blues From Ace Records

Size: 380 MB
Time: 150:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Jesse Allen - Goodbye Blues (3:18)
02. Dave Dixon - I'm Not Satisfied (Alternate Take) (2:17)
03. Earl King - Those Lonely Lonely Nights (Alternate Take) (2:26)
04. Mercy Baby - Mercy's Blues (2:42)
05. Al Collins - I Got The Blues For You (2:28)
06. Bobby Marchan - Give A Helping Hand (Alternate Take) (2:53)
07. Frankie Lee Sims - What Will Lucy Do (2:23)
08. Joe Hill Louis - 4Th And Beale (2:08)
09. Al Collins - Shuckin' Stuff (2:52)
10. Earl King - Baby You Can Get Your Gun (2:06)
11. Edgar Blanchard - Let's Get It (2:30)
12. Lightnin' Slim - Bad Feeling Blues (Alternate Take) (2:55)
13. Fred McDowell - Don't Say A Mumblin' Word (3:13)
14. Schoolboy Cleve - My Baby Done Gone (2:17)
15. John Littlejohn - I Got My Nose Open (4:04)
16. Albert Scott - I Feel So Good (2:20)
17. Big Boy Crudup - Mean Old World (2:58)
18. Dave Dixon - Feeling So Low (Alternate Take) (2:25)
19. Earl King - My Love Is Strong (2:25)
20. Lightnin' Slim - Lightnin' Slim Boogie (Alternate Take) (2:44)
21. John Littlejohn - She's 19 Years Old (4:42)
22. Bad Smitty - Smokestack Lightning (4:40)
23. Joe Hill Louis - Sweetest Woman I Ever Know (2:31)
24. Boby Marchan - Pity Poor Me (Alternate Take) (3:59)
25. Mercy Baby - Silly Dilly Woman (3:39)
26. Albert Scott - I'm So Glad You're Mine (2:02)
27. Frankie Lee Sims - Hey Little Girl (2:38)

CD 2:
01. Sammy Myers - My Love Is Here To Stay (Alternate Take) (2:35)
02. Sammy Myers - Sleeping In The Ground (Alternate Take) (2:57)
03. Alabama Red - Every Day I Have The Blues (2:44)
04. Unknown Male Singer #1 - I've Been Searchin' (2:38)
05. Edgar Blanchard - Honeycomb (2:17)
06. Unknown Male Singer #1 - I'll Never Leave Anymore (2:47)
07. Little Cameron - Annie Mae (Alternate Take) (2:46)
08. Albert Scott - I'm Leaving You Baby (2:39)
09. Unknown Male Singer #1 - Every Night About This Time (3:01)
10. Unknown Male Singer #3 - Standing At The Station (3:00)
11. H-Bomb Ferguson - Baby Please (2:25)
12. Johnny Littlejohn - Hideaway (2:22)
13. Unknown Female Singer - Take Me Back Baby (3:14)
14. Unknown Male Singer #1 - Three Long Years (3:15)
15. Sammy Myers - My Love Is Here To Stay (2:05)
16. Sammy Myers - Sleeping In The Ground (3:02)
17. Alabama Red - Driving Wheel (+ Message) (4:01)
18. Bad Smitty - Standing At The Crossroads (Alternate Take) (4:01)
19. Edgar Blanchard - Lonesome Guitar (Alternative Take) (2:32)
20. Billy Tate - Lifetime In Prison Pt. 1 (3:02)
21. Billy Tate - Lifetime In Prison Pt. 2 (3:05)
22. Little Cameron - Sittin' Here Worryin' (Alternate Take) (2:16)
23. Unknown Male Singer #2 - Little Boy Blue (2:40)
24. Unknown Male Singer #4 - Pathway Of Love (3:04)
25. Albert Scott - Right At Home (2:31)
26. Unknown Male Singer #1 - Whiskey And Woman (2:08)

Subtitled - Rare Blues From Ace Records. An attractively packaged mid-price 53 track double set, compiled and mastered from the extensive tape vaults of the legendary Ace Records. Featuring top names like Earl King, Lightnin' Slim, Big Boy Crudup, Fred Mc Dowell, Sammy Myers and H-Bomb Ferguson to name a few. These two CDs combine a host of rare tracks as well as alternate takes of some of their best known songs. 2002.

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Frankie Lee Sims - Walking With Frankie

Size: 183,4 MB
Time: 77:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Cadillac Blues (2:48)
02. Home Again Blues (2:45)
03. Don't Forget Me Baby (2:49)
04. Single Man Blues (2:50)
05. Lucy Mae Blues (2:29)
06. Don't Take It Out On Me (2:47)
07. Long Gone (2:42)
08. Yeh, Baby! (2:33)
09. Rhumba My Boogie (2:16)
10. I'll Get Along Somehow (2:42)
11. Misery Blues (2:37)
12. What Will Lucy Do (2:19)
13. Hey Little Girl (2:36)
14. Walkin' With Frankie (3:28)
15. My Talk Didn't Do No Good (2:14)
16. I Warned You Baby (2:22)
17. She Like To Boogie Real Low (Blue Light Boogie) (2:04)
18. Well Goodbye Baby (3:13)
19. Married Woman (3:02)
20. Wine And Gin Bounce (2:34)
21. Boogie 'cross The Country (2:31)
22. Jelly Roll Baker (2:57)
23. I'm So Glad (2:52)
24. Raggedy And Dirty (2:34)
25. No Good Woman (2:56)
26. Walking Boogie (Take 4) (2:35)
27. Cryin' Won't Help You (2:41)
28. Hawk Shuffle (2:30)
29. How Long (2:01)

Frankie Lee Sims is certainly not amongst the greatest innovators of rhythm and blues and certainly not very famous. He did however have a very original sound which did help to sell enough records, particularly in America's south to ensure he was signed to four record labels during his brief career. This collection of his very limited recorded legacy is the most complete attempted and the first to gather together all 18 of his original released recordings in one place along with a further 11 tracks which were not issued at the time. Standout tracks include "Lucy Mae Blues", "Walking With Frankie" and "She Likes To Boogie Real Low". Frankie's music was powered by an undisputed approach to the blues. His vocals are similar in delivery to Brownie McGhee and his guitar technique certainly brings Lightening Hopkins and Smokey Hogg to mind.

MC
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Frankie Lee Sims - Frankie's Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:31
Size: 81.3 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:12] 1. As Long As I Live
[2:41] 2. Come Back Baby Pt 1
[2:56] 3. Come Back Baby Pt 2
[2:42] 4. Don't Be Mad With Me
[3:18] 5. Going Back To Dallas
[2:27] 6. Going To The River
[2:46] 7. Jelly Roll Baker
[2:38] 8. Lucy Mae Blues
[3:19] 9. My Home Ain't Here
[1:46] 10. Send My Soul To The Devil
[2:53] 11. Short Haired Woman
[2:13] 12. Walking With Frankie Lee
[2:34] 13. Woman Why'd You Break My Heart

A traditionalist who was a staunch member of the Texas country blues movement of the late '40s and early '50s (along with the likes of his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, and Smokey Hogg), guitarist Frankie Lee Sims developed a twangy, ringing electric guitar style that was irresistible on fast numbers and stung hard on the downbeat stuff.

Sims picked up a guitar when he was 12 years old. By then, he had left his native New Orleans for Marshall, TX. After World War II ended, he played local dances and clubs around Dallas and crossed paths with T-Bone Walker. Sims cut his first 78s for Herb Rippa's Blue Bonnet Records in 1948 in Dallas, but didn't taste anything resembling regional success until 1953, when his bouncy "Lucy Mae Blues" did well down south. The guitarist recorded fairly prolifically for Los Angeles-based Specialty into 1954, then switched to Johnny Vincent's Ace label (and its Vin subsidiary) in 1957 to cut the mighty rockers "Walking with Frankie" and "She Likes to Boogie Real Low," both of which pounded harder than a ballpeen hammer. Sims claimed to play guitar on King Curtis's 1962 instrumental hit "Soul Twist" for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy label, but that seems unlikely. It is assumed that he recorded for Robinson in late 1960 (the battered contents of three long-lost acetates emerged in 1985 on the British Krazy Kat label).

Sims mostly missed out on the folk-blues revival of the early '60s that his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins cashed in on handily. When he died at age 53 in Dallas of pneumonia, Sims was reportedly in trouble with the law due to a shooting incident and had been dogged by drinking problems. ~bio by Bill Dahl

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Various - An Introduction To Texas Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 45:53
Size: 105.1 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[2:40] 1. Goree Carter - Rock Awhile
[2:46] 2. Frankie Lee Sims - Home Again Blues
[2:53] 3. Little Willie Littlefield - Little Willie's Boogie
[2:36] 4. Lester Williams - Wintertime Blues
[3:13] 5. Clarence Garlow - Bon Ton Roula
[2:42] 6. Smokey Hogg - Worried Blues
[3:00] 7. Clarence Green - Walking The Baby
[3:01] 8. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand
[2:47] 9. Roy Head & The Traits - Got My Mojo Working
[2:29] 10. Johnny Copeland - Down On Bended Knee
[2:59] 11. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - It's Alright
[1:17] 12. T-Bone Walker - Baby Please Don't Go (Don't Go Back To New Orleans)
[2:51] 13. Juke Boy Bonner - Carried To The Cleaners And Hung Out To Dry
[4:15] 14. Freddie King - Going Down
[3:13] 15. Johnny Winter - Low Down Gal Of Mine
[3:04] 16. Albert Collins - Iceman

If one thinks of this set as truly an introduction to Texas blues, then it isn't really a very good one, but if one thinks of this as a collection of interesting mid-period modern blues sides from Texas, then it fares a good deal better, because there are several little gems preserved here. The leadoff track, Goree Carter's "Rock Awhile," originally released in 1949 by Freedom Records, is vibrant and fun, while Little Willie Littlefield's "Little Willie's Boogie" blisters along like a rampaging rocket (pianist Littlefield was only 17 years old when he tracked this scorcher for Eddie Henry's Eddie's Records in 1948). Clarence Green's gently funky instrumental "Walking the Baby," released originally on Bright Star Records, is another lost treasure, although it comes closer to being a soulful R&B strut than it does to being an actual blues. No Texas blues collection would be complete without a track from T-Bone Walker, and the one used here, a crisp and elegant minor-key version of Big Joe Williams' "Baby Please Don't Go" from 1970 is a re-imagined masterpiece. Does this little anthology tell the whole story of Texas blues? Without even a single cut from Blind Lemon Jefferson or Henry Thomas, no it doesn't. Does it feature an interesting set of rarely heard tracks from several different Texas blues players in several different styles and approaches? Yes, it does, and that's why it works more than it doesn't. ~Steve Leggett

An Introduction To Texas Blues

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Frankie Lee Sims - Walking With Frankie

Size: 94,4 MB
Time: 40:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Walking With Frankie (2:15)
02. Don't Be Mad With Me (2:45)
03. Lucy Mae Blues (2:40)
04. My Home Ain't There (3:19)
05. Send My Soul To The Devil (1:51)
06. Short Haired Woman (2:55)
07. Going Back To The River (2:29)
08. As Long As I Live (3:15)
09. Come Back Baby (2:45)
10. Frankie Lee Boogie (4:51)
11. Going Back To Dallas (3:20)
12. Jelly Roll Baker (2:47)
13. Woman Why'd You Break My Heart (2:37)
14. Come Back Baby (2:57)

Walking with Frankie highlights bluesman Frankie Lee Sims' sessions for the New York-based Fire label in 1960. It would take 25 years before the U.K. label Krazy Kat had the good taste to finally release them. These rare 14 tracks find Sims in raw form, more so than his Specialty recordings of the '50s, with reworkings of "Lucy Mae Blues" and "Jelly Roll Baker." Collectors of gutbucket electric Texas blues should definitely seek this out. ~Review by Al Campbell

Thanks to Marc.
Walking With Frankie

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