Los Angeles Blues can to all intents and purpose also be called West Coast Blues or even California Blues. For the purpose of this compilation we have used the former, simply because every track was cut in the city of Los Angeles. Just about all of the genre's main practitioners came to prominence in the city even if they were not actual natives of the state. Due to the huge influx of immigrants to work in the munitions plants for the war effort during the early Forties the city became host to a great many Texans as well as mid westerners. The guitar style of Los Angeles blues was almost entirely formulated by Texans, led by T- Bone Walker. Other influential musicians included Oklahomans, Lowell Fulson and Jay McShann, although as an actual style it is perhaps more piano-based and jazz-influenced than other regional types. The vocalists who exemplify the genre were in the main smooth and urbane, influenced no doubt by the pop stylings of Nat King Cole and several other vocalists from the Big Band era - Cecil Gant, quickly followed by Charles Brown and Amos Milburn, were the leading lights. Los Angeles was also home to numerous small jump blues outfits and due to the city's huge nightclub opportunities many of these bands ended up taking permanent residence there.

Track Listing

• Cecil Gant - Midnight On Central Avenue
• Illinois Jacquet - Flying Homes Pts 1 & 2
• Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers - Drifting Blues
• Cecil Gant - Blues In Los Angeles
• Jay McShann W/ Jimmy Witherspoon - Voodoo Woman
• Jo Jo Adams - When I'm In My Tea
• Eddie Williams - Saturday Night Fish Fry
• Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Guitar In My Hand
• Jay McShann W/ Jimmy Witherspoon - Strange Woman Blues
• Floyd Dixon - Mississippi Blues
• Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
• Johnny Otis - Courtroom Blues
• Earl Jackson - Woman Don't Want A Good Man No More
• Vivian Greene - Bowlegged Boogie
• Vivian Greene - He's The Man (He's Tall & Cool)
• Charles Brown - B&O Blues
• Smiley Turner - When A Man Has The Blues
• Pete Johnson - Rocket Boogie 88 Pt 2
• Betty Hall Jones - This Joints Too Hip For Me
• Lowell Fulson - Everyday I Have The Blues
• Smiley Turner - Lonely Boy Blues
• Billy Valentine - Beer Drinking Baby
• Big Joe Turner - Wine-O-Baby Boogie
• Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
• Smokey Hogg - Great Big Mama

• Chuck Norris - What's Good For One Is Good For All
• Charles Brown - Black Night
• T Bone Walker - The Hustle Is On
• Lloyd Glenn - Chica-Boo
• Calvin Boze - Safronia B
• Chuck Norris - Kinda Sick Kinda Worried
• Peppermint Harris - I Got Loaded
• Pee Wee Crayton - When It Rains It Pours
• Ray Charles - Kissa Me baby
• Ernie Andrews - Pork Chops and Mustard Greens
• Frankie Ervin - High Scool baby
• Pee Wee Crayton - Daybreak
• Amos Milburn - Let Me Go Home Whiskey
• J.D.Edwards - West Coast Blues
• Johnny Otis - The Candles Burning Low
• Earl Brown - Lovin A Married Woman
• Johnny Otis - Brwonskin Butterball
• Mel Walker - Unlucky Man
• Amos Milburn - Good Good Whiskey
• Ike Carpenter - Pachuko Hop
• Mel Walker - Feelin' Mighty Lonesome
• Joe Liggins - They Were Doin The Mambo
• Joe Liggins - Yeah Yeah Yeah
• Jimmy Liggins - I Ain't Drunk
• Jimmy Liggins - No More Alcohol

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: R & B

Release Date: 11/08/11

UPC: 824046302221