A1 	Woman Why'd You Break My Heart 	
A2 	Short Haired Woman 	
A3 	My Home Ain't Here 	
A4 	Lucy Mae Blues 	
A5 	Jelly Roll Baker 	
A6 	Come Back Baby Take 1 	
A7 	Come Back Baby Take 2 	
B1 	Send My Soul To The Devil 	
B2 	As Long As I Live 	
B3 	Walkin' With Frankie Lee 	
B4 	Don't Be Mad At Me 	
B5 	Going Back To Dallas 	
B6 	Going To The River 	
B7 	Frankie Lee Boogie

Vocals, Guitar – Frankie Lee Sims 
Piano, Bass, Drums – Unknown Artist 

Walking with Frankie highlights bluesman Frankie Lee Sims' sessions for the New York-based Fire label in 1960. It would take 25 years before the U.K. label Krazy Kat had the good taste to finally release them. These rare 14 tracks find Sims in raw form, more so than his Specialty recordings of the '50s, with reworkings of "Lucy Mae Blues" and "Jelly Roll Baker." Collectors of gutbucket electric Texas blues should definitely seek this out. --Al Campbell, AllMusic Review

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01 – Lucy Mae Blues [00:02:30]
02 – Don’t Take It Out On Me [00:02:48]
03 – Married Woman [00:03:03]
04 – Wine & Gin Bounce [00:02:35]
05 – Boogie ‘cross The Country [00:02:32]
06 – Jelly Roll Blues [00:02:58]
07 – I’m So Glad [00:02:53]
08 – Long Gone [00:02:43]
09 – Raggedy And Dirty [00:02:35]
10 – Yeh, Baby [00:02:34]
11 – No Good Woman [00:02:57]
12 – Walking Boogie (Take 4) [00:02:38]
13 – Frankie’s Blues [00:02:37]
14 – Crying Won’t Help You [00:02:41]
15 – I Done Talked And I Done Talked [00:02:45]
16 – Lucy Mae Blues (Part 2) [00:02:56]
17 – Rhumba My Boogie [00:02:17]
18 – I’ll Get Along Somehow [00:02:43]
19 – Hawk Shuffle [00:02:31]
20 – Frankie Lee’s 2 O’clock Jump [00:02:58]

Frankie Lee Sims – guitar, vocals
Hubert Washington – drums

This collection of Sims' Specialty sides, primarily in a drums and electric guitar format, is pretty hard to beat. It combines all of the original singles, the extra tracks from his lone album plus unissued material and until further alternate takes come to light, the best overview of his tenure with the label. Some tracks are augmented with harmonica and/or string bass, but it's Frankie Lee's guitar and sly vocals that drive things along. Until his early Bluebonnet and later Ace material is cobbled together to complete the picture, this compilation is all you'll need. --- Cub Koda, Rovi

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01. Ill Get Along Somehow (2:45)
02. Frankies Blues (2:40)
03. She Likes To Boogie Real Low (2:08)
04. Frankie Lees 2 OClock Jump (3:00)
05. Hey Little Girl (2:39)
06. What Will Lucy Do (2:23)
07. Hawk Shuffle (2:33)
08. Lucy Mae Blues (2:33)		play
09. Lucy Mae Blues Part 2 (2:59)
10. Jelly Roll Baker (3:01)
11. Married Woman (3:05)
12. Misery Blues (2:40)
13. Dont Take It Out On Me (2:51)
14. Cryin Wont Help You (2:44)
15. Well Goodbye Baby (3:17)
16. My Talk Didnt Do No Good (2:14)
17. Rhumba My Boogie (2:20)
18. Walking Boogie (2:38)
19. Raggedy And Dirty (2:38)
20. Im So Glad (2:56)
21. Walking With Frankie (3:31)
22. Boogie Cross The Country (2:34)
23. I Warned You Baby (2:25)
24. I Done Talked And I Done Talked (2:48)
25. Yeh, Baby! 
26. How Long (2:04)			play		
27. No Good Woman (2:59) 
28. Wine And Gin Bounce (2:37)
29. Long Gone (2:46)

Frankie Lee Sims (vocals, guitar)

A traditionalist who was a staunch member of the Texas country blues movement of the late '40s and early '50s (along with the likes of his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, and Smokey Hogg), guitarist Frankie Lee Sims developed a twangy, ringing electric guitar style that was irresistible on fast numbers and stung hard on the downbeat stuff.

Sims picked up a guitar when he was 12 years old. By then, he had left his native New Orleans for Marshall, TX. After World War II ended, he played local dances and clubs around Dallas and crossed paths with T-Bone Walker. Sims cut his first 78s for Herb Rippa's Blue Bonnet Records in 1948 in Dallas, but didn't taste anything resembling regional success until 1953, when his bouncy "Lucy Mae Blues" did well down south.

The guitarist recorded fairly prolifically for Los Angeles-based Specialty into 1954, then switched to Johnny Vincent's Ace label (and its Vin subsidiary) in 1957 to cut the mighty rockers "Walking with Frankie" and "She Likes to Boogie Real Low," both of which pounded harder than a ballpeen hammer.

Sims claimed to play guitar on King Curtis's 1962 instrumental hit "Soul Twist" for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy label, but that seems unlikely. It is assumed that he recorded for Robinson in late 1960 (the battered contents of three long-lost acetates emerged in 1985 on the British Krazy Kat label).

Sims mostly missed out on the folk-blues revival of the early '60s that his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins cashed in on handily. When he died at age 53 in Dallas of pneumonia, Sims was reportedly in trouble with the law due to a shooting incident and had been dogged by drinking problems.

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