Texas Songster
On a disc compressing most of two old Arhoolie records, the sexagenarian Lone Star State sharecropper is more sure of himself singing and fingerpicking his guitar for Chris Strachwitz's tape recorder in his home in 1960 than he is performing for Berkeley coffeehouse hangers-on four years later. Not surprisingly, emotion best governs those performances of blues, ballads, and popular songs in his parlor.-- © Frank John Hadley 1993--From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD