- Format: CD
- Label: Ace
- Genre: 60s Garage / Surf / RnB
The second volume of this 1950s west coast blues great's recordings completes the Roy Hawkins' original Modern, RPM and Kent sides on CD.
Features tracks from his first recording session in 1948 and continues right up to final session in 1961.
As well as many previously unissued and unreissued master takes, this set also contains never before heard, alternate takes of some of Hawkins' best-known Modern classics, including his original version of 'The Thrill Is Gone'.
A phenomenally important and influential blues figure in his day - albeit one who remains remarkably obscure from a biographical viewpoint - Hawkins is a perennial favourite of connoisseurs of cool California blues.
Track listing:1. IT'S HARD
2. THE THRILL IS GONE
3. HIGHWAY 59
4. BAD LUCK IS FALLING
5. WINE DRINKIN' WOMAN
6. DOIN' ALL RIGHT
7. SLEEPLESS NIGHT
8. THE THRILL HUNT
9. ROYAL HAWK
10. SEPTEMBER SONG
11. THE CONDITION I'M IN
12. WOULD YOU
13. MEAN LITTLE GIRL
14. ON MY WAY
15. IF I HAD LISTENED
16. IS IT TOO LATE
17. STRANGE LAND
18. WHAT A FOOL I WAS
19. WELCOME HOME
20. TROUBLE IN MIND
21. WEST EXPRESS
22. IT'S TOO LATE TO CHANGE
23. QUARTER TO ONE
24. STRANGE LAND
