paul secor

Happy Birthday, Mr. Coleman. Hopes for many more healthy and productive ones.

Lucy Lucy Lucy

The Butt Sisters The Marlboro Man The Marlboro Man

Fatty Arbuckle Captain Hook Pops Staples

The Lotte Lenya Album (Columbia)

Fred Below Underdog Woman Mingus

Henry Morgan Bill Cullen Faye Emerson

Happy Birthday!

Never saw that cover before. Different from the old LP I used to have or the CD I have now. Evidently changed to cash in on his Columbia popularity.

Tennessee Ernie Ford: "Bless your pea pickin' hearts." Patti Page Snoop Dogg

Another Jungle Jim:

Hotsy Totsy Tiny Topsy Cozy Cole

Thanks most of all to Jim for keeping this going. And thanks to all here (and gone) for making this place what it is.

Ratso Rizzo Whitey Skoog Johnny Winter

Frank Lowe: The Flam (Black Saint) Played this after Delightfulee's post. More interesting and enjoyable than I had remembered.

Lightnin' Slim Jack Spratt Merle Haggard

Thanks for all you gave us and left us, Mr. Rhyne.

Vic Wertz (The man who made him famous) Willie Mays June Havoc

Moon Maiden Sunny Murray Ringo Starr

Sam I Am Former Residents of Siam Lady Day

The music on the Ace LP - Bay Area Blues Blasters - is now found on 3 CDs. The sides by Lafayette "Thing" Thomas, Baby "Pee Wee" Parham, Johnny Parker, and one Jimmy McCracklin side are on Jimmy McCracklin: Blues Blastin' Vol. 2 - Ace CHD 993. The Roy Hawkins sides are on Roy Hawkins: Bad Luck Is Falling - Ace CHG 1096. The James Reed sides are on The Downhome Blues Sessions 1949-1954 - Ace CHD 1194. All of these CDs contain much additional very fine music. The other CD entitled Bay Area Blues Blasters is on the El Cerrito label. It's a bootleg - or was when it was issued - the material is probably p.d. in the U.K. and Europe by now. It contains music by different group of musicians (Johnny Heartsman, Tiny Powell, Ray Agee, Jimmy Liggins, and others) and is taken from 45's issued in the 1950s and 60s. All of this is probably more than anyone other than a compulsive collector needs to know.

One more: Chicago Blues - The Vee Jay Era (Charly) - 2 CDs Out of print, but there are copies available on Amazon for about $20, including shipping, on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000009QBV/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new Vee Jay played second fiddle to Chess in the Chicago blues market, but they released a lot of very fine blues sides, and this provides a very good sampling. Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, and Memphis Slim were the biggest sellers on the label, but these CDs let you hear Snooky Pryor, Billy Boy Arnold, Floyd Jones, Billy Emerson, J.B. Lenoir, L.C. McKinley (an anomaly - a Chicago bluesman who played in T-Bone Walker's style), and Big Joe Williams (accompanied by Sam Fowler's wailing harp and almost free style drumming by Al Duncan), in addition to the big three names. One to get before it becomes even rarer. There's also Chicago Blues - The Chance Era, which is also great, but a bit more expensive http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00000367F/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

May never have shattered my earth, but I like that one a lot.

Good trade! Hope that both of you get what you want.

I believe it was reissued on Arista along with a duel album with Leo Smith.