West Coast Down Home Blues [CD]

From the mid-forties until well into the fifties California was home to scores of record labels and artists equally important and influential as the blues industries in Memphis or Chicago. This CD collection represents the smaller and more obscure California labels that operated between 1948 and 1953 like Ray's, Murray's, Elko, Spire and Globe. Despite this these labels still managed to attract recording artists of the stature of Jimmy McCracklin and Smokey Hogg, two of the biggest west coast down home blues stars.