Model "T" Slim - "T" Model Ford & Burnt Out

If you want any info on Elmon Mickle a.k.a Model "T" Slim, Driftin' Slim who brought us Flatfoot Sam, who if I remember was in a jam. Well, it seems my memory has been ruined by to much monkey business as it was T.V. Slim who recorded Flat Foot Sam.
Read the liner notes to the LP that I posted years ago and is still available for downloading.

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Tabby Thomas - 25 Years With The Blues

A solid Louisiana vocalist who plays both guitar and piano, "Rockin'" Tabby Thomas has been cutting stirring recordings since the mid-'50s. He's teamed often with harmonica players Whispering Smith and Lazy Lester, and has done several sessions for Maison De Soul and various labels owned by Jay Miller.
Thomas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but he began his musical career in San Francisco, which is where he was stationed while he was in the army. After he completed his time in the service, Thomas stayed in San Francisco, playing shows and talent contests. He happened to win a talent contest, which led to a record contract with Hollywood Records. Hollywood issued "Midnight Is Calling," which gained no attention, and the label dropped Thomas.
After the failure of "Midnight Is Calling," Tabby Thomas returned to Baton Rouge. He began playing local clubs with his supporting band the Mellow, Mellow Men. In 1953, the group recorded two songs -- "Thinking Blues" and "Church Members Ball" -- for the Delta label. After those songs didn't gain much attention, Thomas went through a number of record labels -- including Feature, Rocko, and Zynn -- before having a hit on Excello Records in 1962 with "Voodoo Party."
Thomas wasn't able to record a hit follow-up to "Voodoo Party" and by the end of the '60s, he retired from performing music. His retirement was short-lived -- in 1970, he founded his own record label, Blue Beat. In addition to releasing Thomas' own recordings, Blue Beat spotlighted emerging Baton Rouge talent. Within a few years, the label was very successful and Thomas began his own blues club, Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall. By the mid-'80s, the club was the most popular blues joint in Baton Rouge.
Although he had become a successful businessman in the late '70s, Thomas continued to perform and record. All of his efforts -- from his recordings and concerts, to his label and nightclub -- made Tabby Thomas the leading figure of Baton Rouge's blues scene for nearly three decades. Thomas was still active into the new millennium, although he wasn't performing as frequently as he had in the past. He was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Baton Rouge in October 2002.

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Sunset Blues Band (Pee Wee Crayton) - Funky Blues

Sunset budget label recording for the United Artists/Liberty group from 1969 featuring Pee Wee with session group. Pee Wee's name is not credited on the LP liner but a fine outing nevertheless. Pee Wee admitted he did not know what happened to this material after he recorded it.
Has been re-released years ago on Charly records.

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John Lee Hooker - With John Mayall & The Groundhogs

John Lee Hooker would make several more trips to Europe throughout the 1960s. On one tour he was placed with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers as a backing band, but this did not seem to fit John's style too well. He met a guitarist named Tony McPhee, whose band The Groundhogs had been named for a Hooker composition, "Groundhog Blues". The band proved to fit well with Hooker and they worked behind him on several of his British visits. An album was also released entitled, "The Groundhogs With John Lee Hooker And John Mayall" (1972, Cleve Records).
Also released on Verve, Voque, Wand and Xtra on vinyl.

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Various - Home Of The Blues Vol. & 2

Two classic early LP's of New Orleans sounds that were released in the 60's but brought together on 1 CD with remastered sound. Don't really think that's positive but here it is taken from a promo copy.

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Various - Eeny Meeny Moe!

The cover says it all ... 20 hot Rhythm & Blues & furious Rock 'n' Roll tracks with only  3 artists that I've ever heard of. Great for the car.

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Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Same a.k.a. With Orchestra And Strings

Johnny "Guitar" Watson's first lp in glorious mono. Some nice tracks but bit of a disappointment if you're expecting something wild like I was.
It was amongst a handful of King LP's ( Freddie and Albert) that I bought recently and it's just been sold thru eBay and paid for the other LP's that I'm keeping so that's o.k.

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Cleo Page - Leaving Mississippi

In these times of so much stuff being available at the click of a mouse, it’s refreshing to listen to someone properly mysterious. Like Cleo Page - absent from blues encyclopaedias, let alone the internet, he was apparently active in Los Angeles in the ’70s, and probably wouldn’t have liked strangers nosing into his business anyway. A gruff, to-the-point presence who likes his liquor and women, he sings as if recording these songs was an inconvenience to be got through quickly. It’s admirably idiosyncratic stuff, with the drummer keeping an eye on him to see what to do as Cleo plays a guitar homemade out of fence wire and shouts rough and boozy as someone else plays one of the less expensive organs in the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. An expressive singer prone to misery and anger – see Red Nigger’s mournful tale of drunkenness, marital pain and planning to gun down the new boyfriend his woman hasn’t even got yet - he also does mellow and benign, as on the possibly-carnal Roll Your Belly Slow, or Drinkin’ Wine, which sees him wino’ing across America before suddenly upping sticks for Moscow and North Korea. Page also did the super-tough 45 Black Man Too Tough To Die and a rude record we haven’t heard called Hamburger, I Love To Eat It.
Review Mojo

Thanks go to Gerard from "Blue Eye" for making this LP available to us. 

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Sonny Guitar - Betty Lou & Strange Feeling

The rollicking "Betty Lou" and the steady-rolling "Strange Feeling" on the 1961 release on Yucca find Long John Hunter backing Sonny Guitar, the aforementioned axeman known for falling asleep on stage during gigs at the Lobby.

Long John Hunter

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Hot Rod All-Stars - Moonhop in London & Skinhead Moondust

In 1970, Eddy Grant, of incorrectly filed in the reggae bins at the record store and "Electric Avenue" fame, along with UK producer and sound system operator Lambert Briscoe, founded Torpedo Records in an effort to highlight and showcase British-made reggae.
The Hot Rod All-Stars were one of those bands.
Though I couldn't uncover who was actually in the band I was definitely able to ascertain that the Hot Rod All-Stars were prolific in the early months of Torpedo... appearing in some capacity on all six of the labels first releases. To be honest, the band went kinda nuts in 1970 releasing 17 singles on 4 different labels; Torpedo, Duke Records, Trojan and their own Hot Rod imprint.
Eddy Grant eventually sold Torpedo Records in 1971 and shortly revived it again in 1974/75 but by that point their sound had moved away from reggae and Eddy Grant had moved on to other projects.

Thanks to "Distinctly Jamaican Sounds Blog"for the text. 

Some friendly skinheads from the 70's who just might have bought this at the time. 

Having nothing better do one evening I  was flipping thru boxes of old singles and came across it. My first thought was to remove the middle and use it as a filler in the jukebox  but for some reason I Googled it. When I saw the prices that it was selling for I almost fell over backwards, ripped it and auctioned it on eBay. Outcome is one happy wive who likes to see packages leaving the house instead of arriving.... little does she know that 1 out means at least 10 in.

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