Jackson,Lil Son Freedom Train: The Texas Blues Of Lil Son Jackson CD

Although the term "Texas Blues" is rather more synonymous with electric guitar slingers like T-Bone Walker and Albert Collins, acoustic Country Blues performers like Lightning Hopkins and MELVIN "LIL' SON" JACKSON were equally popular on their home patch. Jackson emerged in the late 1940s and made the R&B Top 10 with his first release, 'Freedom Train Blues', for the Gold Star label, on which he was billed as "Little Son" Jackson, in 1948. Although none showed up on the national R&B charts, his later Gold Star 78s were all massive regional "hits", selling in their tens of thousands to local jukebox operators. He subsequently recorded extensively for Imperial, for whom his most notable release was 'Rockin' And Rollin' (1950), a disc which proved influential beyond all reasonable expectations, providing the template for Muddy Waters' 'Rock Me' (1956) and B. B. King's 'Rock Me Baby' (1964), and going on to become a major Blues standard.

1. Gambling Blues 2. Homeless Blues 3. Cairo Blues 4. Evil Blues 5. Roberta Blues 6. Freedom Train Blues 7. Ground Hog Blues 8. Bad Whiskey - Bad Women 9. No Money No Love 10. Gone with the Wind (She's Gone) 11. Ticket Agent Blues 12. True Love Blues 13. Spending Money Blues 14. Tough Luck Blues 15. Peace Breaking People 16. Rockin' and Rollin' 17. Two Timin' Woman 18. New Year's Resolution 19. Mr. Blues 20. Time Changes Things 21. Stop for the Red Light 22. Upstairs Boogie 23. Big Gun Blues 24. Get High Everybody 25. My Younger Days 26. Can't Keep a Good Man Down 27. Sad Letter Blues 28. Rockin' and Rollin' 29. Pulp Wood Boogie 30. Thrill Me Baby