The West Coast of America from San Francisco to Los Angeles was never considered a Blues centre until the war years when 100,000's of Southern Blacks migrated to the coast to work in munitions plants and other war-related industries. From the mid-forties until well into the fifties California was home to scores of record labels and artists equally important and influential as the Blues industries in Memphis or Chicago. This Collection represents the smaller and more obscure California labels that operated between 1948 and 1953 like Ray's, Murray's, Elko, Spire and Globe. Despite this these labels still managed to attract recording artists of the stature of Jimmy McCracklin and Smokey Hogg, two of the biggest west Coast down home blues stars.

Track Listing

• Sonny Boy Johnson - Come And Go With Me
• Mac Willis - Howling Woman
• Black Diamond - T.P. Railer
• R. Green & Turner - Central Avenue Blues
• John Hogg - Black Snake Blues
• Beverley Scott - Brown Skin Woman
• Jimmy McCracklin - Street Loafin' Woman
• Slim Green - Baby I Love You
• Ernest McClay - Big Time Woman
• Goldrush - All My Money
• Sonny Boy Johnson - Swimming Pool Blues
• Mercy Dee - Ba-Ba-Du-Lay Fever
• James Tisdom - Winehead Swing
• R. Green & Turner - Alla Blues
• Smokey Hogg - Penitentiary Blues Pt. 1
• Big Son Tillis - When I Come In This House
• Ernest McClay - Night Working Woman
• Mac Willis - Pretty Woman
• Black Diamond - Lonesome Blues
• Jimmy McCracklin - Highway 101
• James Tisdom - Throw This Dog A Bone
• Slim Green - Tricky Woman Blues
• Mercy Dee - Evil & Hanky
• Beverley Scott - Little Girl Blues
• Sonny Boy Johnson - Desert Blues

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Blues

Release Date: 11/08/11

UPC: 824046513320