Chuck Higgins – “Blacksmith Blues”

It can be found on the album “Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues” and, as you can hear, is an absolute stonewall classic.

Charles Williams Higgins was an American tenor saxophonist best known for his first recording, the self-penned “Pachuko Hop”. He mixed elements of Latin Jazz with Blues and recorded in Los Angeles during the mid-fifties. I have the album “Pachuko Hop”, but, sadly, nothing on it can compete with this gem.

Rosco Gordon – “Just A Little Bit”

If “Vee Jay Records: Chicago Hit Factory” is still out of stock it can also be found on the more expansive (and, consequently, more expensive) “Chicago Hit Factory The Vee Jay Story 1958-1966”

Rosco is best known for his 1952 No. 1 R&B hit single, “Booted” and two No. 2 singles “No More Doggin'” and the classic mentioned above, ”Just a Little Bit”.

He was born in Memphis, Tennessee and was a pioneer of the Memphis Blues style.