Great work from the Chicago blues underground – rare tracks pulled from a time before labels like Chess and Vee Jay handled most of the big artists, and talents were spread between a handful of much smaller indies! The music here marks that key Chicago transition from rural to urban – and especially showcases the rise of the electric guitar in the music – often mixed with some heavy lines on piano or harmonica, and recorded in a relatively spare, stripped-down mode – without some of the fuller arrangements that were being added to some of the LA blues recordings of the postwar years.

TRACKLISTING:

Side A
I Want My Baby - Little Walter / School Days - Floyd Jones / Hard Time - Floyd Jones / A Woman On Every Street - Forest City Joe / Just Keep Lovin' Her - Little Walter / Dark Clouds - John Brim / Lonesome Man Blues - John Brim / Sweet Angel - Earl Hooker

Side B
Ramblin' - Johnny Shines / Cool Driver - Johnny Shines / Lonesome Ole Train - Homesick James / Farmer's Blues - Homesick James / Train Time - Delta Joe (Sunnyland Slim) / About To Lose My Mind - Big Boy Spires / Early Morning - Floyd Jones / Maggie Campbell - Robert Nighthawk