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Although the term Texas Blues is rather more synonymous with electric guitar slingers like T-Bone Walker and Albert Collins, acoustic Country Blues performers like Lightning Hopkins and Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson were equally popular on their home patch.
Jackson emerged in the late 1940s and made the R&B Top 10 with his first release, 'Freedom Train Blues', for the Gold Star label, on which he was billed as "Little Son" Jackson, in 1948.
Although none showed up on the national R&B charts, his later Gold Star 78s were all massive regional "hits", selling in their tens of thousands to local jukebox operators.
He subsequently recorded extensively for Imperial, for whom his most notable release was 'Rockin' And Rollin' (1950), a disc which proved influential beyond all reasonable expectations, providing the template for Muddy Waters' 'Rock Me' (1956) and B.B. King's 'Rock Me Baby' (1964), and going on to become a major Blues standard.
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Tracklist
Gambling Blues
Homeless Blues
Cairo Blues
Evil Blues
Roberta Blues
Freedom Train Blues
Ground Hog Blues
Bad Whiskey - Bad Women
No Money No Love
Gone With The Wind (She's Gone)
Ticket Agent Blues
True Love Blues
Spending Money Blues
Tough Luck Blues
Peace Breaking People
Rockin' And Rollin'
Two Timin' Woman
New Year's Resolution
Mr. Blues
Time Changes Things
Stop For The Red Light
Upstairs Boogie
Big Gun Blues
Get High Everybody
My Younger Days
Can't Keep A Good Man Down
Sad Letter Blues
Rockin' And Rollin'
Pulp Wood Boogie
Thrill Me Baby