Results for "Catfish Records (UK)"

Scrapper Blackwell: Bad Liquor Blues

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

Scrapper Blackwell was a pioneering blues guitar genius possessing a technique that made most of his peers green with envy. Sadly, as if living the lyrics of one of his song, his career took a mortal blow with the passing of his musical partner Leroy Carr. Carr and Blackwell were the earliest and most successful blues ...

Texas Alexander: 98

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

Texas Alexander was something of an unlikely blues celebrity in his prime. Cut from the coarse cloth of country blues his voice was raw as birch bark with a dire edge and volume that balked at notions of lyrical finesse. In addition unlike most of his contemporaries he didn’t play an instrument. Instead the Okeh label ...

Ramblin' Thomas: Hard Dallas

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

True to his ascribed moniker Ramblin’ Thomas was prone to riding the rails and wandering the back roads of rural America. At various points during his peregrinations he let the dust behind his feet settled long enough in urban areas to record the lasting sides gathered on this recent Catfish compilation. Unfortunately as fate would have ...

Maryann Price: Jazzland

by Stefano Nuzzo
February 1, 2001

Maryann Price has finally come out with a new album, and a very good one indeed. Despite a recording career which has developed with groups like Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, The Kinks and Asleep at the Wheel Maryann has always gravitated around jazz, and according to Dan Hicks himself “(she) is a jazzer, and ...

Classic Slide Guitar Blues, Volumes 1 & 2

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Volume 1: Never Drive a Stranger From Your Door- Willie Harris/ Mamma, Tain

Mississippi Blues

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Disc One: Mississippi Bottom Blues- Kid Bailey/ Little Girl In Rome- Otto Virgial/ Bad Notion Blues- Otto Virgial/ Hittin

Rare & Red Hot Gospel

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Woke Up This Morning (With Jesus On My Mind)- Roosevelt Graves & Brother/ I Belong to the Band Hallelujah- Blind Gary Davis/ I Got Heaven On My Mind- Heavenly Gospel Singers/ John Said He Saw the Number- Arizona Dranes/ Handwriting On the Wall- Blind Joe Taggart/ I Am Born To Preach the Gospel- Washington Phillips/ Drinking Shine- Elder Charles Beck/ I

Sloppy Drunk

By Leroy Carr

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Disc One: How Long, How Long Blues/ Tennessee Blues/ You Got to Reap What You Sow/ Low Down Dirty Blues/ Box Car Blues/ How Long, How Long Blues- Part 2/ Baby Don

Nasty But It's Clean

By Roosevelt Sykes

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Black Widow Spider Blues

By Lowell Fulson

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: 9:30 Shuffle/ Thinking Blues/ Wee Hours In the Morning/ My Baby/ Demon Woman/ Blues And Misery/ Ain