Time: 54:28
File: Flac
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
1. My Telephone Keeps Ringing (2:39)
2. Maggie Campbell Blues (2:52)
3. Hometown Skiffle (1:48)
4. Lead Pencil Blues (2:25)
5. Stormy Blue Monday (4:14)
6. I Don’t See No Train (2:49)
7. She Put Me Outdoors (2:51)
8. Corrina (1:36)
9. Prison Bound Blues (2:37)
10. Blues at Midnight (4:47)
11. Bogalusa Stomp (2:18)
12. Honky Tonk (1:56)
13. Match Box Blues (2:56)
14. Highway 49 (4:10)
15. Stop and Listen (2:27)
16. Going Up the Country (3:15)
17. Big Road Blues (3:06)
18. Coal Black Mare (2:46)
19. I’m Going to Build Right on That Shore (2:47)
Roosevelt Holts was a country bluesman of considerable skill who in a small way was caught up in the blues boom of the 1960’s, finally getting the opportunity to record scattered sides and a couple of LP’s in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Holts, who was born in 1905, likely would have achieved greater recognition if he had gotten the chance to make records in the 1920’s and 1930’s as David Evans emphasizes in his liner notes: “If he had been able to get to a record studio in the 1930’s, his records would now be highly prized collector’s items, reissued on albums and talked about by blues fans everywhere. He might have even been “rediscovered” and brought north to the cities for concerts and coffee house engagements before an audience of young whites who were not even born when he recorded his famous numbers.” None of this happened of course and Holts toiled in relative obscurity while those who did make records in the early days were rediscovered and achieved adulation among those “young whites.” These were men like Son House, Bukka White, Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt to name the bigger stars. There were several artists from the same era who, like Holts, never got that early break but were swept up in the blues revival net and went on to achieve a measure of success such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Pete Williams.
Sun Gonna Shine FLAC