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30 tracks. Blues. Jasmine.
Our Overview.
Smokey Hogg was one of the most prolific and best-selling Blues artists of his era. This collection gathers together 30 of this post-war Texas blues and country blues musicians’ greatest recordings including the hits that made him so famous.
‘Smokey’ Hogg was an old-school Texas Blues guitarist and pianist who moved to the West Coast after WWII and had a couple of good R&B chart hits with a smooth piano Blues sound, alongside his dozens of country-style, guitar based records. His down-home delivery and eccentric sense of timing sounded old-fashioned in an era of frenetic Jump-Blues party music and the polished Blues-ballads of Percy Mayfield and Charles Brown but Smokey had ten prolific years as a recording artist, with his songs appearing on more than 20 different labels.
“Good Morning Little School Girl” and “Long Tall Mama” were the Top 10 hits that established him and both are featured here. Hogg was one of the stars of Jukeboxes and made a phenomenal number of recordings until his death in 1960. His records do stand up and still sound, in the main, fantastic up to 70 years after they were recorded. Includes fully detailed liner notes.
Tracklisting: Too Many Drivers / Unemployment Blues / Hard Times / My Christmas Baby / High Priced Meat / Golden Diamond Blues / (I Wonder) Where Did My Boogie Go? / Little School Girl / Long Tall Mama / Suitcase Blues (Lowdown Blues) / Nobody Treats Me Right / What’s On Your Mind? / Restless Bedroom Blues / Who’s Heah / Misery Blues / You Gotta Go / Going Back To Texas / Worryin’ My Life Away / You Won’t Stay Home / I’m So Lonely / Up Today - Down Tomorrow / Dirty Mistreater / Angels In Harlem / Size 4 Shoe / Highway 51 / Keep A-Walkin’ (Take 1) / Baby Don’t Leave / Up And Down / Train Whistle / Dark Clouds