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I grew up in the Piney woods sawmill country of Louisiana during the Great Depression of the 1930's and have strong country music, piano blues-boogie woogie, ragtime and cajun music influences. This CD reflects some of that early influence. The Texas blues styles of the early Santa Fe pianists, which spilled over into the Louisiana lumber camps, affected me most and are among my favorites. The piano playing and singing of Hociel Thomas, a sister of Beulah "Sippie" Thomas Wallace, the Texas Nightingale, so impressed me that I composed Hociel Blues, title track of this CD, in her honor. I pay homage to several of the Thomas family on other CD's because of their great contribution to the blues music and traditions in the early 1900's.

Track List:
1. Hociel Blues
2. Beale Street Mama
3. Yellow Dog Blues
4. Cooney Vaughn's Tremblin' Blues
5. Melancholy Blues
6. Wabash Blues
7. Full Moon
8. Grace and Beauty
9. Phantom Rag
10. Naked Dance
11. Mama's Gone, goodbye
12. Blue Prelude
13. Loveless Love
14. Deep Elum Blues

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