Hop Wilson & His Buddies
Steel Guitar Flash! Plus (1994)
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Length:  1:14:13
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone    2:28
      2.  
      		 I Feel So Glad    2:54
      3.  
      		 I'm A Stranger    3:49
      4.  
      		 Be Careful With The Blues    2:38
      5.  
      		 I Ain't Got No Woman    3:08
      6.  
      		 My Woman Done Quit Me    2:15
      7.  
      		 Merry Christmas Darling    3:09
      8.  
      		 Dance To It    2:40
      9.  
      		 Rockin' In The Coconut Top    2:02
      10.  
      		 Fuss Too Much    2:29
      11.  
      		 Why Do You Twist    2:42
      12.  
      		 A Good Woman Is Hard To Find    2:26
      13.  
      		 Rockin' In The Coconut Top    2:37
      14.  
      		 Need Your Love To Keep Me Warm    3:20
      15.  
      		 You Don't Move Me Anymore    2:04
      16.  
      		 I Done Got Over    2:46
      17.  
      		 You Don't Love Me No More    2:27
      18.  
      		 Toot Toot Tootsie Goo'bye    2:39
      19.  
      		 Your Daddy Wants To Rock    2:02
      20.  
      		 Broke And Hungry    2:42
      21.  
      		 Always Be In Love With You    2:26
      22.  
      		 My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone    2:24
      23.  
      		 I Met A Strange Woman    2:44
      24.  
      		 Need Your Love To Keep Me Warm    2:38
      25.  
      		 Love's Got Me All Fenced In    2:25
      26.  
      		 Chicken Stuff (alt take)    1:35
      27.  
      		 Rockin' With Hop    2:19
      28.  
      		 That Wouldn't Satisfy    2:11
      29.  
      		 Chicken Stuff    2:00
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      Hop Wilson & His Buddies - Steel Guitar Flash! Plus
      Release Date:June 27, 1994
      Label: Ace Records

      Although the majority of the recordings collected here already show up on Bullseye Blues' 1993 reissue Houston Ghetto Blues, this is the one to get. The main reason for this is the inclusion of all the known extant tracks cut in the '50s for the Lake Charles, LA, Goldband label, where Wilson's versions of "Chicken Stuff" and "Rockin' in the Coconut Top" became tri-state biggies, giving him his 15 seconds of fame and influencing the likes of a young Johnny Winter and other young Texan slide-slingers in the process. With his drummer/sometimes-vocalist King Ivory Lee Semien banging the daylights out of a set that sounds like Salvation Army rejects (check out the floor-tom intro on the Goldband version of "Rockin' in the Coconut Top"), a string bass played by the ubiquitous "Ice Water" Jones, and a crackling, wires sticking out of it steel guitar going to places Elmore James could only think of after watching a bad sci-fi movie, Hop Wilson's dour singing delivery combined with his wild-ass playing becomes a whole genre of blues in and of itself and one well worth investigating. With a full generous 29 tracks aboard (including Wilson and the boys backing up Fenton Robinson and Larry Davis on newly discovered cuts) covering all the Goldband, Trey, and Ivory takes known to exist, this is now the definitive Hop Wilson collection and reason enough to start haunting the blues import bins to track it down. Programming tip: For full frontal assault, program up tracks 13 and 25-29 first and prepare yourself for something really special. There was only one Hop Wilson and here's where you check in to get his message. --Cub Koda, All Music Guide

      Track Listing:
      01. My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone
      02. I Feel So Glad
      03. I'm A Stranger
      04. Be Careful With The Blues
      05. I Ain't Got No Woman
      06. My Woman Done Quit Me
      07. Merry Christmas Darling
      08. Dance To It
      09. Rockin' In The Coconut Top
      10. Fuss Too Much
      11. Why Do You Twist
      12. A Good Woman Is Hard To Find
      13. Rockin' In The Coconut Top
      14. Need Your Love To Keep Me Warm
      15. You Don't Move Me Anymore
      16. I Done Got Over
      17. You Don't Love Me No More
      18. Toot Toot Tootsie Goo'bye
      19. Your Daddy Wants To Rock
      20. Broke And Hungry
      21. Always Be In Love With You
      22. My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone
      23. I Met A Strange Woman
      24. Need Your Love To Keep Me Warm
      25. Love's Got Me All Fenced In
      26. Chicken Stuff (alt take)
      27. Rockin' With Hop
      28. That Wouldn't Satisfy
      29. Chicken Stuff
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