Texas Blues - Volume 5

01. Rushing
02. There goes the girl
03. Monkey see, monkey do

Banny Price - vocals, guitar
Elgie Brown - tenor saxophone
+ band. 
Shreveport, La. July 1964

04. You love me pretty baby n°1
05. You love me pretty baby n°2
06. You know I love you

Banny Price - vocals, guitar
+ band
Tyler, Tx. 1965

07. All around the water tank
08. Little Hat rag
09. New Dallas blues
10. Saint Louis blues
11. You don't mean me no good

Little Hat Jones - vocals, guitar
Naples, Tx. 1964

12. Ugly Mae
13. Shout it out

Conrad Johnson - vocals, alto saxophone
Jimmy Vincent - trumpet
Sam Williams - tenor saxophone
Ed Harris - baritone saxophone, vocals
+ band. 
Houston, Tx. 1948

14. Fisherman blues
15. Howling on Dowling

Conrad Johnson - vocals, alto saxophone
Jimmy Vincent - trumpet
Sam Williams - tenor saxophone
Ed Harris - baritone saxophone, vocals
+ band
Houston, Tx. 1972

16. Between midnight and dawn
17. Ooh Wee baby

Carl Campbell - vocals
+ band
Houston, Tx. March 1949

18. Gettin' high
19. Going down to Nashville

Carl Campbell - vocals
Goree Carter - guitar
Joe Houston - tenor saxophone
+ band
Houston, Tx. May 1949

20. You've been fiddling around

Carl Campbell (as King Tut) - vocals
Henry Hayes - alto saxophone
Ed Wiley - tenor saxophone
Willie Johnson - piano
Don Cooks - bass
Ben Turner - drums
Houston, Tx. 12 January 1950

21. Cotton picker's blues
22. My heart is going down slow

Carl Campbell - vocals
Henry Hayes - alto saxophone
Ed Wiley - tenor saxophone
Willie Johnson - piano
Goree Carter - guitar
Don Cooks - bass
Ben Turner - drums
Houston, Tx. March 1950

23. Traveling on
24. Early morning blues

Carl Campbell - vocals
Henry Hayes - alto saxophone
Elmore Nixon - piano
+ band
Houston, Tx. September 1950

Singer and guitar player Banny Price is quite ill documented. He was playing for sure during the 1960's around Shreveport and East Texas. He recorded two excellent sessions, once for Ram Records at Shreveport and another at Tyler's Texas Robin Hood Brian Studios, produced by Ken Demary with the masterpiece OtisRushesque You love me pretty baby. Unfortunately, we don't know what happened after that to this very interesting bluesman.

Little Hat Jones, on the contrary, is a legendary bluesman, having recorded classic tracks for Okeh in 1929-30 and also backing Texas Alexander. Born Dennis (or George) Jones on 5 October 1899 at Bowie Cy (Tx), he seemed to have disappeared after 1930. But blues researcher Robert Tilling's tenacity finally unearthed (during the late 1990's) an article, an interview (with live recordings!) and photos from Little Hat Jones that were done in 1962-64 by a local journalist Morris Craig for The Monitor, a newspaper from Naples (Tx). This is the last testimony of one of the true Texas blues pioneer. At that time, Jones was a retired man from the Red River Army Depot at Texarkana. Little Hat Jones died at Linden on 7th March 1981.

Singer and sax-player Conrad Johnson (1915-2008) has had a long career as a musician and bandleader who recorded a handful of tracks under his name but many more behind other Texas artists. Johnson was also (and maybe foremost) a well known music teacher at Houston.

Singer and pianist Carl Campbell (1933-93) started a musical career in Houston at an early age (1948!), recording several sessions for Freedom, Sittin' In With, Peacock... He was also running for a long time his own Carl's Club in Houston in which he was regularly playing.

Thanks to Robert Tilling for his article on Little Hat Jones in Blues & Rhythm 135/171 and Sir Shambling for infos about Banny Price. ---Gérard Herzhaft, jukegh.blogspot.com

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