Black Ace Blues

A little something for your Wednesday. Hughes Spring, Texas native Black Ace and his album I’m The Boss Card In Your Hand released by Arhoolie Records in 1992.

Get ya some goosebumps…

Check out this video of S.G. Goodman teaming up with Spooner Oldham on the haunting “Space and Time.” Watch the video here

Six Feet Under

If you’re a fan of that circle of music that overlaps country, hillbilly and rock n roll, this is an album you should dig into. 11 tracks packed into this release that is available again as a reissue via Mississippi Records. The names aren’t mainstream and the tunes get a bit messy at times but…

Stavin’ Chain Blues

Mississippi Blues By J.D. Short and Big Joe WilliamsDelmark RecordsDL-6091965 J.D. Short was born in Port Gibson, MS, a small delta town about “90 miles below Vicksburg going south*” in December of 1902. Almost a year later, across the state two hundred miles to the northeast in Crawford, MS, J.D. Short’s cousin, Big Joe Williams,…

Me and Charley

I was on my very first trek to Tunica, MS to get eyes on this “Las Vegas of the South” and to throw my budgeted $100 out the window. Oh yes, I had that little bird screaming that I COULD turn it into thousands but I knew that the reality was I’d donate it to…