Description
Release Date: 2011
Label: JSP Records
Track List
Disc: 1
1. Broken Man Blues
2. New Jailhouse Blues
3. Levee Blues
4. Layin’ My Rules In Blues
5. Bad, Bad Baby Blues
6. Bad, Bad Baby Blues [Alt] [Alternate Take]
7. Saw Mill Man Blues
8. Post War Future Blues
9. Larceny Hearted Woman
10. Just Another Woman
11. My Love Comes Tumblin’ Down
12. Wedding Day Blues
13. Desperate GI Blues
14. You Got It Comin’ To You
15. Boogie Woogie Hannah
16. You Ain’t So Such-a-Much
17. Fly Hen Blues
18. Lonesome Man Blues
19. Little Eva
20. Baby, You Don’t Know It All
21. The Barefoot Boy
22. If I Just Keep Still
23. When Your Mother’s Gone
24. Make Me As Strong As Samson
25. When the Roll Be Called In Heaven
26. My Tight Woman
Disc: 2
1. Lightning Struck the Poorhouse
2. Just As Soon As I Go Home
3. Phoney Woman Blues
4. Little Woman Blues
5. It’s Dangerous To Be a Husband
6. Old Man Blues
7. Death House Blues
8. Too Tight To Walk Loose
9. Big Fat Mama
10. Come Down Baby
11. Bachelor’s Blues
12. Don’t Pay Me No Mind
13. Stoop To Conquer
14. Bad Luck Blues
15. Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue
16. Beggin’ Woman
17. Sadie Brown
18. Evolution Blues
19. Box Car Shorty’s Confession
20. Looking For My Baby
21. High-Powered Gal
22. Chicken a La Blues
23. Poor Man Blues
24. Living On Borrowed Time
25. Lovesick Soul
26. Second Hand Soul
27. Dinah
28. Won’t Settle Down
Disc: 3
1. Misery
2. A.B.C.’s, Pt. 1
3. A.B.C.’s, Pt. 2
4. How Long Must I Wait
5. Sleep Walking Woman
6. Easy Rockin’
7. Hole In the Ground
8. You’ll Never Get Nothing Without Trying
9. Ramblin’ Woman
10. Feel Like a Million
11. Old Man’s Sweetheart
12. I Saw Mommy Kissin’ Santa Claus
13. Back Trackin’ (Dr Daddy-O)
14. Confused
15. Fishtails
16. You Shouldn’t
17. Baby, What’s New
18. You Ought To Know
19. I’ll Never Be Free
20. My Last Good-Bye
21. Ooooh La La
22. Gold Ain’t Everything
23. Suzette
24. Bear Hug
25. Each Time
26. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Disc: 4
1. Have Mercy
2. Helping Hand [Take 6] [Take]
3. Pity Poor Me [Take 5] [Take]
4. Little Girl of Mine
5. I Know [Take 6] [Take]
6. I’ll Never Let You Go
7. It Hurts Me To My Heart [Take 3] [Take]
8. Don’t Take Your Love From Me
9. Chickee Wah Wah
10. I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You
11. You Can’t Stop Her
12. Loberta
13. Oh Me Oh My [Take 2] [Take]
14. Dearest Darling
15. Hush Your Mouth
16. Havin’ a Good Time
17. Well I’ll Be John Brown
18. High Blood Pressure
19. Rockin’ Behind the Iron Curtain [Take 2] [Take]
20. Don’t You Just Know It
21. For Cryin’ Out Loud
22. Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold)
23. I’ll Never Let You Go [Take 1] [Take]
24. I Know [Take 1] [Take]
25. It Hurts Me To My Heart [Take 1] [Take]
26. Chickee Wah Wah [Take 4] [Take]
27. Helping Hand [Take 5] [Take]
28. Pity Poor Me [Take 1] [Take]
Notes
Cousin Joe’s early life was violent and eventful, a bootlegging father who beat him and a mother who left home. Along the way he learned to play monte, cotch and coon can from his cousin. He bought a ukulele for $1.75, and used his prodigious musical skills to escape a world of workaday drudgery. He quit education before high school to work as a plasterer’s helper. Other jobs followed, including a position at Walsh Lundy’s Busy Bee Shoe Repair Shop. One day, while he was playing his ukulele, he was heard by John McElroy and John Green, two dancers. They were impressed enough to persuade him to join them. Joe formed part of their troupe, dancing and playing for tips. He moved on, working at the Sazerac Club, then The Plaza and the Grand Terrace. By now he’d graduated to a six-string guitar and had a band that included pianist Louis Givens. He was on his way. This collection chronicles his progress. Also featured are New Orleans personalities Paul Gayten and Bobby Marchan. Both had talent that deserved to be heard far beyond the Big Easy.
