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You may recall late last year I mentioned that I had lots of folders containing assorted tracks on my HDDs that were from unfinished compilations and various collections I had gathered over the years/decades and how I wanted to get them off my HDDs and out to you. And how I went carefully through all those folders deleting the duplicates and the poor quality tracks, then I compiled the remainder into two sets of compilations. They became : 90 volumes of "Assorted 'Best Of' Blues & R&B Tracks" and 15 volumes of R&B SOUL. 

Well, we are now reaching the end. Today is Volume 90 in Assorted 'Best Of' Blues & R&B Tracks, which is the final volume in this series. Here for your listening pleasure are 21 great blues/R&B tracks from Harold Burrage, Bo Diddley, Taj Mahal, Clifton Chenier, Lightnin' Slim, Lonnie Brooks, Johnny Sayles, and several other fine artists. 

There are still 3 more volumes (13,14,15) to come in the R&B SOUL series. Volume 13 will be in the next post and the other 2 volumes will be with you in the next couple of weeks. After Volume 15 is posted that series ends and we return to "Soul Party", which will soon resume with Volume 69.

As these two additional series finish, the posting schedule will return to just two compilations per post (which I now make every second or third day) these will be one compilation of "Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records" and one compilation of what I call the "other genres" ie: Jazz, Hillbilly/Country, Rockabilly/R&R, Soul, and the Country/Pre-War/Acoustic Blues.

Here today is Volume 27 in the ongoing "Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Records" series with 21 tracks from 1955 to 1990 by many fine artists including: Ike Turner, Sonny Thompson, Freddie King, Freddy Robinson, Jesse Fortune, Sonny Rhodes, and Luther Johnson. There were quite a few different Luther Johnsons. This one was Lucious Brinson Johnson, also known as "Georgia Boy" and "Snake". He played with Elmore James and Muddy Waters, and passed away from cancer in 1976 at the age of 41. His track here is a fine example of the man's tough blues singing and gutsy guitar playing, "Woman Don't Lie" recorded in 1972 with Dusty Brown on harmonica, Sonny Thompson on piano, Emmett Sutton on bass, and Bill Warren on drums. Unfortunately I never got to see this Luther Johnson perform live. The only Luther Johnson I did see was Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, when he toured Australia in 1974 with the Muddy Waters band. This was the one who appeared in The Blues Brothers movie, playing in Maxwell Street with John Lee Hooker & Big Walter Horton. I was fortunate to meet this Luther Johnson in Perth in September 1974. I didn't interview him but we chatted for a while and I remember him being a big friendly guy who told me about some of the different artists he had worked with. Here is a photo (unfortunately not a particularly clear one) that I took of drummer Willie Smith (who was also in The Blues Brothers movie) and Luther Johnson at Perth airport 50 years ago.

And the very popular "Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings" now up to Volume 112, continues with another collection of "Bars, Bottles & Drunks" with 20 great tracks all about the joys and miseries of booze by Willie Nelson, The Stanley Brothers, Porter Wagoner, Bob Williams, Tex Ritter, Merle Haggard, and one man who really knew a lot about this subject, old "No Show" himself George Jones. 

As always my friends dig in, help yourselves, enjoy the fine music, and don't forget to take a minute or two to post a comment every now and then to let me know how you're getting along, and what you're enjoying the most. Also don't forget to check out "The Buzzment" as there are lots of outstanding albums regularly being shared there by our generous and hard working team. You'll find plenty of blues and rock, along with reggae, ska and folk, and some other interesting things too. Everything is free and easy to download. "The Buzzment" is also an open sharing forum, so if you have something you'd like to share with others then feel free to do so.