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Texas Alexander

Born: 1880

98

By Texas Alexander

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2001
Track listing: Boe Hog Blues/ Ninety Eight Degrees Blues/ Deceitful Blues/ Work Ox Blues/ Awful Moaning Blues- Part 1/ Easy Rider Blues/ Seen Better Blues/ Section Gang Blues/ St. Louis Fair Blues/ Mistreatin

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 ...