Description
Alger 'Texas' Alexander, born around 1900, was a blues singer
Alger 'Texas' Alexander, born around 1900, was a blues singer, who played no musical instruments, but whose deep impressive voice and his highly personal way with blues songs encouraged many well-known names to accompany him across his career. His songs were simple, sometimes almost primitive, with basic melodies based on work songs and hollers that made them stark and effective. He performed around the Brazos River area in Texas during the 1920s, often Blind Lemon Jefferson, and made his first records in 1927. Beginning with his classic 'Levee Camp Moan Blues', this great-value 66-track 3-CD set comprises all the recordings he made at various sessions in New York, Fort Worth and San Antonio between 1927 and 1934 and which were released on the Okeh and Vocalion labels, plus two titles he made in 1951 after a career break and which were released on the Freedom label, not long before his death in 1954. He worked with a number of notable accompanists on these recordings, including Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Heywood, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Eddie Lang, Little Hat Jones, Carl Davis, Bo Carter, Sam Chatman, Walter Vinson, Willie Reed, Buster Pickens, Leon Benson. It's a comprehensive overview of his work under his own name, and a fine showcase for a distinctive artist, who has maybe not had the attention he deserves.
Track Listing
Disc 1:- Levee Camp Moan Blues
- Section Gang Blues
- Long Lonesome Day Blues
- Corn-Bread Blues
- Range In My Kitchen Blues
- Farm Hand BluesÂ
- Sabine River Blues
- Mama, I Heard You Brought It Right Back HomeÂ
- Bell Cow Blues
- Boe Hog Blues
- Death Bed Blues
- Mama's Bad Luck Child
- Bantam Rooster BluesÂ
- Deep Blue Sea Blues
- West Texas Blues
- Don't You Wish Your Baby Was Built Up Like Mine'
- Sitting On A Log
- No More Women BluesÂ
- Penitentiary Moan Blues
- Blue Devil Blues
- Work Ox Blues
- 'Frisco Train Blues
- The Risin' SunÂ
- Tell Me Woman Blues
- St. Louis Fair Blues
- Evil Woman Blues
- Ninety-Eight Degree Blues
- Gold Tooth Blues
- Awful Moaning Blues - Part 1
- Awful Moaning Blues - Part 2
- Double Crossing Blue
- Johnny Behren's Blues
- Rolling Mill Blues
- Peaceful BluesÂ
- Broken Yo Yo
- When You Get To Thinking
- Someday Baby Your Troubles Is Gonna Be Like Mine
- Texas SpecialÂ
- Water Bound Blues
- Thirty Day BluesÂ
- Yellow Girl Blues
- I Am Calling Blues
- She's So Far
- Rolling And Stumbling Blues
- Texas Troublesome Blues
- Last Stage Blues
- Days Is LonesomeÂ
- Stealing To Her Man
- Seen Better Days
- Frost Texas Tornado Blues
- Blues In My Mind
- Mistreatin' Woman
- Prairie Dog Hole BluesÂ
- Polo Blues
- Worried Blues
- Normangee Blues
- Justice Blues
- Easy Rider Blues
- Lonesome Valley Blues
- Good Feelin' Blues
- Katy Crossing Blues
- Lonesome Blues
- One Morning Blues
- Deceitful Blues
- Bottoms Blues
- Crossroads
Additional Details
Label: Acrobat
Genre: Blues
Language: English
Run Time: 210 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 08/09/19
UPC: 824046908423
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