Dragnet For Jesus

 

Dragnet For Jesus

26 tracks from Sister Wynona Carr, one of my favorite singers, recorded for Specialty Records between 1949 and 1954 (mostly unissued).

Detaills can be found here : https://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/cdchd411 (incl. booklet)
or here : https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/3120305-Sister-Wynona-Carr-Dragnet-For-Jesus
(for sessions info).

Useful info on Wynona Carr at Buckeye Beat:

Wynona Carr seems to be almost completely forgotten in the discussions of Cleveland music history. There's not even any mentions of her in the Plain Dealer or the Call and Post after the late 1960s, not even an obituary. The biographical info online is often wrong and repetitive.

We'll try and give a brief bio and maybe someone will be inspired to dig deeper and give her the respect she deserves.  [...]

Be sure to read my comment below.

 

 

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]

Lucy Mae Blues

 

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