Whistlin’ Alex Moore – Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, 1929-1951 / Document CD-5178

Description

Document CD-5178.

Personnel: Whistlin’ Alex Moore (vocals, whistling, piano); Nick Nichols (vocals); Coley Jones, Andrew Hogg (guitar).

Complete Recorded Works (1929-1951) rounds up all of Whistlin’ Alex Moore’s early recordings for Columbia, Decca and RPM/Kent.

    1   They May Not Be My Toes
    2   West Texas Woman
    3   Heart Wrecked Blues
    4   Ice Pick Blues
    5   Rugger Blues (vocal)
    6   Riverside Blues (vocal)
    7   Frankie and Johnny , Pt. 1 (The Shooting Scene)
    8   Frankie and Johnny , Pt. 2 (The Courtroom Scene)
    9   It Wouldn’t Be So Hard
    10  Blue Bloomer Blues
    11  Back to Georgia Blues (vocal)
    12  Be Mean to Your Baby (vocal)
    13  Sundown Blues (vocal)
    14  The Katy Blues (vocal)
    15  Blue Bloomer Blues    
    16  Come Back Baby    
    17  Bull Cow Blues    
    18  Hard Hearted Woman    
    19  I Want My Mary    
    20  Miss No Good Weed    
    21  If I Lose You Woman    
    22  Neglected Woman    
    23  Lillie Mae Boogie

“These rowdy barrelhouse blues are powerful and entertaining — they’re worth the time of any serious piano blues fan.” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine