Another entry in Flyright's ongoing quest to present the rare and the wonderful, this collects up some impossibly hard to find Texas 78s originally released on short lived, dime-sized labels like Talent, Freedom, Nucraft, ARC, Bluebonnet and the colorfully named Oklahoma Tornado! Honeyboy Edwards and
Frankie Lee Sims are the only "big names" aboard, but the remainder of the tracks featuring
Rattlesnake Cooper,
James Tisdom,
Andrew Thomas,
Willie Lane,
Monister Parker,
Leroy "Country" Johnson and others clearly illustrate how big the looming presence (both commercially and artistically) of
Lightnin' Hopkins already was at this early stage of the game. ~ Cub Koda