Johnny Vincent founded Ace Records in 1955 after being laid off from his job as an A&R man at Specialty Records — he had also founded Champion Records earlier in the decade — and although he based his operations in Jackson, Mississippi, he was also very much in tune with the New Orleans R&B and blues scene, signing and releasing singles by several Crescent City artists, including Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns (“Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”), Frankie Ford (“Sea Cruise”), and Jimmy Clanton (“Venus in Blue Jeans”). But Vincent had several Mississippi blues artists on his roster, too, including Arthur Crudup, Sam Myers, King Edward, Pat Brown, and Willie Clayton, among others, and Ace became one of Mississippi’s most successful labels in the ’50s…
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…and ’60s. This two-disc, 36-track set collects some of these rare blues cuts, including ten sides that are making their first appearance on CD. — AMG
CD1:
1. Frankie Lee Sims – Walking with Frankie [03:30]
2. Sammy Myers – My Love Is Here to Stay [02:30]
3. Elton Anderson – Shed So Many Tears [02:20]
4. Lightnin’ Slim – Lightning Slim Bogie [02:35]
5. Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup – I Wonder [02:13]
6. Jesse Allen – Goodbye Blues [03:14]
7. Frankie Lee Sims – Well Goodbye Baby [03:15]
8. Earl King – My Love Is Strong [02:27]
9. Mercy Baby – Silly Dilly Woman [03:38]
10. Charles Brown – Love’s Like a River [02:23]
11. Eddie Bo – I’m So Tired [02:40]
12. Dave Dixon – I’m Not Satisfied [02:15]
13. Joe Dyson – Looped [02:20]
14. Al Collins – Shuckin Stuff [02:50]
15. Bobby Marchan – Don’t Take Your Love Away from Me [02:16]
16. Frankie Lee Sims – Hey Little Girl [02:37]
17. Mercy Baby – Mercy’s Blues [02:41]
18. Earl King – Mother Told Me Not to Go [02:22]
CD2:
1. Earl King – Those Lonely, Lonely Nights [02:24]
2. Frankie Lee Sims – My Talk Didn’t Do No Good [02:13]
3. Sammy Myers – Sleeping in the Ground [02:36]
4. Elton Anderson – Roll On Train [02:26]
5. Frankie Lee Sims – Misery Blues [02:39]
6. Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup – My Baby Boogies All the Time [03:03]
7. Lightnin’ Slim – Bad Feeling Blues [02:59]
8. Billy Tate – Lifetime in Prison, Pt. 1 Lifetime in Prison, Pt. 1 Billy Tate Lifetime in Prison, Pt. 1[03:03]
9. Frankie Lee Sims – What Will Lucy Do? [02:21]
10. Frankie Fair – Mean Mistreater [02:25]
11. Dave Dixon – Feeling So Low [02:23]
12. Jesse Allen – Baby Say You Will [02:22]
13. Mercy Baby – Marked Deck [02:22]
14. Frankie Lee Sims – Warned You Baby [02:23]
15. Al Collins – I Got the Blues for You [02:26]
16. Earl King – It Must Have Been Love [02:35]
17. Mercy Baby – Rock and Roll Baby [02:05]
18. Frankie Lee Sims – She Likes to Boogie Real Low [02:06]