Thursday, February 6, 2020

Lucy Mae Blues


Frankie Lee Sims (1917-1970) 
 
American singer-songwriter and electric blues guitarist. He released nine singles during his career, one of which, "Lucy Mae Blues" (1953), was a regional hit.

Sims was the cousin of another Texas blues musician, Lightnin' Hopkins, and he worked with several other prominent blues musicians, including Texas Alexander, T-Bone Walker, King Curtis and Albert Collins. Sims is regarded as one of the important figures in postwar Texas country blues. [Wikipedia]

 
Collection of his complete Specialty recordings compiled and produced for reissue by Billy Vera and mastered in 1992 by Joe Tarantino at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley.

All tracks recorded in Dallas in 1953 and 1954. From these 20 sides, only 6 sides were originally  issued in the fifties by Specialty :

459 Lucy Mae Blues / Don't Take It Out On Me   
478 I'm Long, Long Gone / Yeh, Baby!
487 Rhumba My Boogie / I'll Get Along Somehow   




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