Title: The Downhome Blues Sessions, Vol. 5: Back In The Alley 1949-1954
Artist: Downhome Blues Sessions 5: Back in the Alley / Var
Label: Ace Records UK
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 029667033626
Genre: Blues

2008 release, the latest installment in the Modern Down Home series with a package that upholds and often surpasses the standards set by the first four volumes. This one concentrates on artists from the Bay Area of California and offers some of the most unvarnished and basic down home recordings of the whole series. None of these tracks or takes are currently available on Ace CDs (in fact, very few have been issued prior to this release). Jimmy McCracklin and Lowell Fulsom are the most familiar names but the other artists are very collectable with their original singles and 78s almost impossible to find and no less noteworthy musically. A high class offering in every respect, and one that that will spur fresh interest in the previous volumes. Ace Records. 2008.

Tracks:
1.1 Hard Times - Johnny Fuller
1.2 It's Your Life - Johnny Fuller
1.3 I've Done Everything I Can - Walter Robertson
1.4 Johnny's Low Down Blues Aka Train, Train Blues - Johnny Fuller
1.5 This Is the End Aka the End - James Reed
1.6 My Mama Told Me - James Reed
1.7 Dr Brown - - James Reed
1.8 I Think My Time Is Here (Take 1) - Jimmy McCracklin ; His Blues Blasters
1.9 Josephine (Take 6) - Jimmy McCracklin ; His Blues Blasters
1.10 Beer Drinkin' Woman (Take 4) - Jimmy McCracklin ; His Blues Blasters
1.11 I'm Prison Bound Aka Doing Time Blues - Lowell Fulson
1.12 My Baby Left Me Aka Some Old Lonesome Day - Lowell Fulson
1.13 You Had a Good Man (Take 2) - Roy Hawkins
1.14 Just a Poor Boy (Take 2) - Roy Hawkins
1.15 You Better Hold Me - James Reed
1.16 Oh People - James Reed
1.17 My Love Is Real - James Reed
1.18 I Walk All Night - Johnny Fuller
1.19 Back Home - Johnny Fuller
1.20 Sputtering Blues - Walter Robertson
1.21 Buddy - Johnny Fuller
1.22 Prowling Blues - Johnny Fuller
1.23 The End Aka This Is the End (Alternate Take) - James Reed
1.24 Dr Brown (Alternate Take) - James Reed
1.25 Couldn't Be a Dream (Take 1) - Jimmy McCracklin ; His Blues Blasters
1.26 I'll Get a Break Someday (Take 7) - Jimmy McCracklin ; His Blues Blasters