[MRL 308] Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Hometown Blues

Tracks

A1 Mean Old Frisco (2:13)
A2 Man Ain't Nothin' But A Fool (3:05)
A3 The Woman Is Killing Me (2:41)
A4 Crying The Blues (3:03)
A5 Meet You In The Morning (2:32)
A6 Stranger Blues (2:21)

B1 Feel So Good (2:30)
B2 Bad Blood (3:15)
B3 Lightnin's Blues (2:59)
B4 Forgive Me (2:15)
B5 Sittin' On Top Of The World (2:43)

All songs recorded by Bob Shad between 1948-1951. The CD reissue of Hometown Blues also includes as a bonus five songs from Goin' Down Slow plus another track called "Dissatisfied Woman."

CD Reissue tracklist:

01 Mean Old Frisco
02 Man Ain't Nothin' But A Fool
03 The Woman Is Killing Me
04 Meet You In The Morning
05 Stranger Blues
06 Feel So Good
07 Forgive Me
08 Sittin' On Top Of The World
09 Crying The Blues
10 Key To The Highway
11 Easy Me Worried Mind
12 Bulldog Blues
13 C. C. Rider/Where Did She Go
14 Bad Blood
15 Lightnin's Blues
16 Dissatisfied Woman
17 Pawn Shop Blues


"Dissatisfied Woman" was the A-side of a 7" single with "Goin' Down Slow" on the flip, released in 1964 by the UK's Oriole Records on their Oriole American imprint. Along with other stateside labels, Oriole licensed material from American Mercury Records, which may be how this wound up in their catalogue. Interestingly, the 7" label states the recording was made in 1946, two years prior to when Shad pegs his sessions with ST&BM. As usual with Shad's record-keeping practices, it's hard to confirm dates, places and names but his involvement was clear since the publishing was credited to Brent.