SOUNDTRACK FOR ALL THE BANK ROBBERS AND CATTLE RUSTLERS WHO WERE EVER HOLED UP IN A COUNTY JAIL

https://youtu.be/W4tHXFoOR3Y?si=tZDEuw4Rddw_lDsV

A few blogs ago I wrote something on Albert King, one of the old masters of Texas blues, and going back further I wrote an article on the other Albert of Texas, Albert Collins, who died from smoking related throat cancer in the early 1990`s after a brief dazzling career for the blues label ALLIGATOR. 

Albert Collins took his time getting commercial and critical recognition of his slasher style electric blues.

He started out around 1970 recording what would have to be regarded as lackluster albums which were totally lacking any of the innovation which become evident on his ALLIGATOR albums from around `80 onwards. 

His tool of art was a Fender Telecaster, and unlike the majority of artists in the blues genre, Albert Collins never used any pick. 

This gave his guitar dynamics a raw and rich edge which blues pickers simply could not copy. 

When Albert started out, he was more renowned as an instrumentalist than a singer and one song that I love of his from his earlier mediocre days, which is an instrumental is a 2 minute tune by the name of HARRIS COUNTY LINE-UP. 

The melody which Albert plays to the song is
totally symbolic of what you imagine hangs out in a county jail somewhere deep in the American mid-west. 

This song was released on a double album
consisting of his first two recordings, HARRIS COUNTY LINE-UP comes off the second one I believe. 

If you are a blues fan, do hunt it down, there might even be a few other listenable songs if you listen closely.