Various - Texas Guitar: From Dallas To L.A.

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:43
Size: 93.2 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1972/2009
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Al King - Reconsider Baby
[3:05] 2. Lawyer Houston - Dallas Bebop Blues
[2:50] 3. Lawyer Houston - Western Rider Blues
[2:52] 4. Ray Agee - Tin Pan Alley
[2:34] 5. Lawyer Houston - Hug Me Baby
[2:32] 6. Lawyer Houston - Out In California Blues
[2:42] 7. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues Special
[1:52] 8. R.S. Rankin - You Don't Know What You're Doing
[3:06] 9. Lawyer Houston - In The Army Since 1941
[2:41] 10. Lawyer Houston - Lawyer Houston Blues
[2:34] 11. Guitar Slim - Along About Midnight
[2:43] 12. Lawyer Houston - Going To The West Coast
[2:50] 13. Lawyer Houston - Lawton, Oklahoma Blues
[5:17] 14. T-Bone Walker - How Long Blues

In 1972, for a very short time, Atlantic Records released this wonderful blues collection of super rare singles and unreleased tracks from T-Bone Walker featuring his How Long Blues and T-Bone Blues Special as well as a collaboration with his friends like R.S. Rankin on the smokin' You Don't Know What You're Doin, Al King, the phenomenal Lawyer Houston and the legendary Guitar Slim all get their due as well. Out of print for over four decades, this serious blues collection is back! Remastered from the original mono Atlantic vault tapes by Joe Reagoso.

Texas Guitar: From Dallas To L.A. mc
Texas Guitar: From Dallas To L.A. zippy

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Ray Agee - Black Night Is Gone

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:48
Size: 109.5 MB
Styles: R&B/Soul/Blues
Year: 1984/2012
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. Black Night Is Gone
[3:12] 2. I Brought It All On Myself
[3:10] 3. Loves Limit
[3:01] 4. It's Bed Time Baby
[2:32] 5. My Lonesome Days Are Gone
[3:15] 6. No More Blue Shadows Falling
[2:52] 7. I Can't Find My Way
[2:06] 8. The One I Love
[2:31] 9. Deep Trouble
[3:03] 10. Brought It Ll On Myself
[2:56] 11. Without A Friend
[2:36] 12. I Need You
[3:06] 13. Till Death Do Us Part
[2:44] 14. The Devil's Angels
[2:14] 15. Dream Queen
[2:37] 16. My Silent Prayer
[2:37] 17. One Too Many

Known primarily for his tough 1963 remake of the blues standard "Tin Pan Alley" (featuring the moaning lead guitar of Johnny Heartsman) for the tiny Sahara logo, vocalist Ray Agee recorded for a myriad of labels both large and small during the 1950s and '60s without much in the way of national recognition outside his Los Angeles home base. That's a pity -- he was a fine, versatile blues singer whose work deserves a wider audience (not to mention CD reissue).

The Alabama native was stricken with polio at age four, leaving Agee with a permanent handicap. After moving to L.A. with his family, he apprenticed with his brothers in a gospel quartet before striking out in the R&B field with a 1952 single for Eddie Mesner's Aladdin Records (backed by saxist Maxwell Davis' band). From there, his discography assumes daunting proportions; he appeared on far too many logos to list (Elko, Spark, Ebb, and Cash among them). Ray Agee slowly slipped away from the music business in the early '70s. Reportedly, he died around 1990. ~bio by Bill Dahl

Black Night Is Gone mc
Black Night Is Gone zippy

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