A1 	Heartache Baby 	2:55
A2 	I Feel Like A Million 	2:23
A3 	Cold Chills 	2:30
A4 	Boogie In The Park 	2:40
A5 	Eyesight To The Blind 	2:30
A6 	Walkin' Talkin' Blues 	2:32
A7 	Street Walkin' Woman 	2:35
A8 	Gotta Go Baby 	2:22
B1 	Big Legged Woman 	2:27
B2 	Railroad Blues 	2:44
B3 	A-Jumpin' And A-Shufflin' 	2:33
B4 	She May Be Yours 	2:55
B5 	Going Down Slow 	2:32
B6 	Joe's Jump 	2:46
B7 	Don't Trust Your Best Friend 	2:41
B8 	We All Gotta Go Sometime 	2:32

Joe Hill Louis – vocals, harmonica, guitar, drums, accordion
Unknown – bass, piano, drums

Rec. 1949 - 1953

On 09-23-1921, Joe Hill Louis was born. He was an African American musician who played many instruments.

Lester (or Leslie) Hill, as he was named, was from Tennessee. He ran away from home at age 14, living instead with a wealthy Memphis family. A fight with another youth that young Hill won earned him the "Joe Louis" nickname.

Hill was a multi-instrumentalist for whom the harp came first. By the late 1940s, his one-man musical performance was a popular attraction in Handy Park and on WDIA, the groundbreaking Memphis radio station, where he hosted a 15-minute program billed as "The Pepticon Boy." Also known as "the Be-Bop Boy," Louis made his recording debut in 1949 for Columbia, but the remainder of his recordings were issued on R&B independent labels large and small. It was on the Phillips label that he cut the blistering Hydramatic Woman and House of Sound in 1953 with Walter Horton on harp, but Phillips never released it.

During the 1950s, he created quite a commotion as a popular one-man blues band around Memphis. If not for his tragic premature demise due to poor health, his name would surely be more widely revered. Louis was only 35 when he died in Memphis in 1957 of tetanus, contracted when a deep gash on his thumb became infected. --- aaregistry.org

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A1 	Big Legged Woman 	
A2 	She's Taking All My Money 	
A3 	Don't Trust Your Best Friend 	
A4 	A Jumpin' And A Shufflin' 	
A5 	Going Down Slow 	
A6 	Hydramatic Woman 	
A7 	When I Am Gone 	
A8 	We All Gotta Go Sometime 	
B1 	Gotta Go Baby 	
B2 	Heartache Baby 	
B3 	Railroad Blues 	
B4 	She May Be Yours 	
B5 	Cold Chills 	
B6 	Keep Your Arms Round Me 	
B7 	Chocolate Blonde 	
B8 	Dorothy Mae

Recorded between 1949 and 1956.

Joe Hill Louis created quite a racket as a popular one-man blues band around Memphis during the 1950s. If not for his tragic premature demise, his name would surely be more widely revered. Lester (or Leslie) Hill ran away from home at age 14, living instead with a well-heeled Memphis family. A fight with another youth that was won by young Hill earned him the "Joe Louis" appellation. Harp came first for the multi-instrumentalist; by the late '40s, his one-man musical attack was a popular attraction in Handy Park and on WDIA, the groundbreaking Memphis radio station where he hosted a 15-minute program billed as The Pepticon Boy.

Also known as the Be-Bop Boy, Louis made his recording debut in 1949 for Columbia, but the remainder of his output was issued on R&B indies large and small -- Phillips (Sam Phillips's first extremely short-lived logo), Modern, Sun, Checker, Meteor, Big Town (where he cut the blistering "Hydramatic Woman," a tune he'd cut previously for Sun in 1953 with Walter Horton on harp, but Phillips never released it), and House of Sound. Louis was only 35 when he died of tetanus, contracted when a deep gash on his thumb became infected. ---Bill Dahl, allmusic.com

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