Subtitle on container: There's a train leavin' Houston.
Program notes by Paul Oliver with a foreword by Francis Smith on container ; includes discography.
Recorded in San Antonio, Chicago, Fort Worth and Dallas between Oct. 1934 and Oct. 1937 ; previously issued.
Midnight trouble blues (Son Becky) -- Dog house blues (Black Boy Shine) -- Working for the PWA (Black Ivory King) -- Fannie Mae blues (Pinetop Burks) -- Absent freight train blues (Alfoncy Harris) -- Aggravatin' Mama blues Sweet woman blues Hot mattress stomp (Bernice Edwards, Black Boy Shine, Howling Smith) -- Mountain jack blues Brown house blues Butcher shop blues (Bernice Edwards) -- Jack of all trades blues Gingham dress Cryin' shame blues Sail on little girl no. 3 Sun down blues (Pinetop Burks)