Texas blues is a subgenre of blues. It has had various style variations but typically has been played with more swing than other blues styles.

Texas blues differs from styles such as Chicago blues in its use of instruments and sounds, especially the heavy use of the guitar. Musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan contributed by using various types of guitar sounds such as southern slide guitar and different melodies of blues and jazz. Texas blues also relies on guitar solos or “licks” as bridges in songs. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I love the Life and Excitement of the Texas Blues Artist and their music.. They are not afraid to wake up a room with their style….

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Lou Ann Barton – You Can Have My Husband But Please Don’t Mess with my Man
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Lou Ann Barton – My Baby’s Gone
3. Jimmie Vaughan and Lou Ann Barton – No Use Knocking
4. Jimmie Vaughan – Six Strings Down
5. Lou Ann Barton – I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
6. Juke Box Bonner – Rock With Me Baby
7. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Goin’ Down Slow
8. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Blackjack
9. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Ventilator Blues
10. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Ain’t that Just Like a Woman
11. Omar & The Howlers – I’m Wise To You Baby
12. Johnny Winter – Be Careful With A Fool
13. Johnny Winter – Black Cat Bone
14. Johnny Winter – Good Time Woman
15. Johnny Winter Killing Floor (with Paul Nelson)
16. Gary Clark Jr – Don’t Owe You A Thang
17. Gary Clark Jr – When My Train Pulls In
18. Gary Clark Jr – Things Are Changin’
19. Albert Collins – Blue Monday Hangover
20. Albert Collins – Don’t Go Reaching Across My Plate
21. Albert Collins – Give Me My Blues
22. Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And Joy
23. Johnny Copeland – I’m My Own Tears
24. Pee Wee Crayton – Come On Baby
25. Chris Duarte – .32 Blues
26. Lowell Fulson – Prison Bound
27. Big Mama Thornton – Ball And Chain
28. Billy Gibbons – Baby Please Don’t Go
29. Lightnin Hopkins – Big Black Cadillac Blues
30. Jim Suhler & Alan Haynes – Down and Out in Texas
31. Eric Johnson – Texas
32. Freddie King – Big Legged Woman
33. Smokin Joe Kubek Band- Have Blues, will Travel
34. Fenton Robinson – Checkin on My Woman
35. Mance Lipscomb – You Got To Reap What You Sow
36. T-Bone Walker – Feeling The Blues
37. Angela Strehli – It Hurts Me Too
38. Carolyn Wonderland – Judgement Day Blues

From Memphis to Maxwell Street
the intro to DelGrosso’s book by Hal Leonard Pub.

“They were led by a long-legged chocolate boy and their band consisted of just three pieces, a battered guitar, a mandolin and a worn-out bass . . . thump. thump, thump went their feet on the floor. Their eyes rolled. Their shoulders swayed . . . it was not really annoying or unpleasant. Perhaps ‘haunting’ is a better word . . .”

I love the richness of the Mandolin Blues music, gives a fullness to blues songs that is hard to rival..

1. Yank Rachell – Cigarette Blues
2. Yank Rachell – She Changed the Locks
3. Yank Rachell – Moonshine Wiskey
4. Yank Rachell – Black Snake
5. Yank Rachell – DesMoines, Iowa
6. Yank Rachell – Wadie Green
7. Yank Rachell – My Baby’s Gone
8. Yank Rachell – Dream Eyed Woman
9. Billy Flynn – Blues In My Heart
10. Billy Flynn – Jackson Street
11. Billy Flynn  – Stealin’ My Jelly
12. Billy Flynn – Hi-Way Blues
13. Billy Flynn – Ain’t Gonna Worry
14. Billy Flynn – Billy’s Blues Pt 2
15. Billy Flynn – We’re Movin
16. Billy Flynn – Mandolin Special
17. Otis Taylor – My Souls in Louisiana
18. Otis Taylor – Boy Play’s Mandolin
19. Otis Taylor – Black Mandolin Boogie
20. Otis Taylor – Resurrection Blues
21. Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor – Working For The Pullman Company
22. Lino Muoio Feat Mario Donatone – Last Chance Blues
23. Lino Muoio Feat Mario Donatone – Day Job
24. Lino Muoio Feat Mario Donatone – Help Yourself
25. Lino Muoio Feat Mario Donatone – Put You On The Self
26. Lino Muoio Feat Clive Riche – Whistling Blues
27. Rich Delgrosso – Can’t Be Satisfied
28. Rich Delgrosso – I Smell Trouble
29. Rich Delgrosso – Divin Duck Blues
30. Johnny Young – Moaning and Groaning
31. Johnny Young – Keep your Nose Out Of My Business
32. Johnny Young – Ring Around My Heart
33. Johnny Young – Don’t You Lie To Me
34. Johnny Young – Stealin’
35. Sleepy John Estes – Brownsville Blues
36. Sleepy John Estes – The Girl I Love, She Got Long