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Various Artists: Topcat Records 20th Anniversary Extravaganza

CD / Topcat Records / 2013-07-02

Artists: Various Artists

Johnny Rawls: No Boundaries

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2011-09-20

Tracks: Show Me the Way; Train Keep Rolling; Keep the Faith; I Won't Give Up; Never Found a Smoking Gun; Fallen Bird; Long Black Car; Nothing Lasts Forever; Even Though You're in Heaven
Artists: Johnny Rawls

Personnel: Johnny Rawls (vocals); Steve Lott (guitar); Dan Ferguson (keyboards); Jackie Johnson (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: John Hampton.

Recording information: Ardent Studios, Mem...continue...

Various Artists: The Cliffhanger Project

CD / Topcat Records / 2010-07-20

Tracks: Texas Girl; Big Legs, Tight Skirt; Nazz Are Blue; What's It Gonna Be?; Score, The; Only Lonely; She's Got a Ring In His Nose and a Ring On Her; Oak Cliff Guitar Boogie; I'm Tired; Take Out Some Insur...
Artists: Various Artists

Liner Note Author: Gayla Brooks Kokel.

Recording information: Free Spirit Studio, Dallas, TX; Hurricane Studio, Garland, TX; Jimmy Wallace Studio, Garland, TX; Walter Hill Studio, Grand Prairie...continue...

Texas Slim: Driving Blues

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2009-08-18

Tracks: Welcome to the Game; Driving Blues; Three Bridges Blues; You're Hip; Funky Love; Deville; When It's Cold Outside; High Alert; Coffee Shop Girl; Cool with the Flow; Country Home; And It Is; Jacqui's H...
Artists: Texas Slim

Personnel: Texas Slim (vocals, guitar); Todd Horton (trumpet); Aaron Comess (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixer: Aaron Comess.

Texas Slim comes from a younger set of southern artists influe...continue...

Mike "Hollywood Fats" Mann: Hollywood Fats and the Paladins Live: 1985 *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2008-06-17

Tracks: Hideaway; She's Fine; I've Tried; Lawdy Lawdy Miss Mary; Whole Lotta Shakin'; Groove, The; Rooster Blues; Tear It Up; That Will Never Do; Let's Have a Party; Mystery Train; Sidetracked; Goin' to Get ...
Artists: Mike "Hollywood Fats" Mann

Personnel: Dave Gonzalez (vocals, guitar); Scott B. Campbell (drums).

Liner Note Author: Richard Chalk.

Recording information: The Greenville Avenue Bar & Grill, Dallas, TX (12/19/1985)....continue...

Big Walter Horton: Bocce Boogie: Live 1978 *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2008-06-17

Tracks: Every Day I Have the Blues; Walter's Boogie; Trouble in Mind; My Babe; Cold Chills; That's Why I'm Cryin'; Bocca Boogie; Cucaracha, La; Sweet Black Angel; Baby Please Don't Go; Hard Hearted Woman; Li...
Artists: Big Walter Horton

Big Walter Horton: Big Walter Horton (vocals, harp).

Personnel: John "Guitar Johnny" Nicholas (vocals, guitar); Sugar Ray Norcia (vocals); Ronnie Earl (guitar); Anthony Giarossi (piano); Mudcat...continue...

Bob Kirkpatrick: Drive Across Texas *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2008-01-01

Tracks: Remember - (Short Version); Different Strokes; She's in Love; Too Much Time; Born in Louisiana; Been Around Too Long; I Did Her Wrong; Dallas Woman; Drove All Night; Room by Yourself, A; We'll Be O.K...
Artists: Bob Kirkpatrick

Personnel: Bob Kirkpatrick (vocals, guitar); Steve Coleridge (guitar, harmonica, bass, percussion); Brendan perkins (guitar, percussion); Jose Hernandez, Kevin THorpe (guitar); Jon Dyke (keyboards, pe...continue...

Johnny Nicholas: Broke Again *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2007-05-22

Tracks: Broke Again; Curb Your Dog; Visitor in My Dreams; Too Many Bad Habits; Terminal Love; Ride Your Train; My Rice Ain't Got No Gravy; Prodigal Son's Waltz; Glad to Get to Hell; Thick and Thin; Lonesome ...
Artists: Johnny Nicholas

Personnel: Johnny Nicholas (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, National guitar, mandolin, harmonica, piano, background vocals); Stephen Bruton (guitar); Erik Hokkanen (fiddle).

Recording information...continue...

Alex Rossi: Let Me In

CD / Topcat Records / 2007-02-06

Tracks: Tell Me How You Like It; Sun Is Shining, The; Caravan; Rock Me; Crosseyed Cat; Good Lover; That's All Right; Hawaiian Eye; I Hate to See You Go; I Just Want to Make Love to You; Show Me Your Bombacha
Artists: Alex Rossi

Johnny Nicholas: Texas All-Star: Big Band Bash

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2006-06-20

Tracks: Broke Again; Baby I'm Gone; Ironic Twist, The; Down in the Alley; Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing; Mescal Road; This Old World Needs Love; All Blues; Good Morning Judge; Somewhere Over ...
Artists: Johnny Nicholas

Personnel: Johnny Nicholas (vocals, guitar); Joe "King" Carrasco, Stephen Bruton (vocals, guitar); Joel Jose Guzman (vocals, accordion); Greg Piccolo (vocals, tenor saxophone); Sarah Fox , Joe King , ...continue...

Johnny Nicholas: Livin' with the Blues

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2005-10-18

Tracks: Froggy Bottom; Hill Top; You Can't Be Lucky All the Time; I'll Be Around; Dirty People; Teardrops on My Windowpane; Livin' with the Blues; Need Your Love So Bad; Honeydrippin' Baby; Texas Drifter; I'...
Artists: Johnny Nicholas

Personnel: Johnny Nicholas (vocals, guitar, piano); Johnny Nicholas; Marcia Ball (vocals); Ray Benson (guitar); Cindy Cashdollar (lap steel guitar); Floyd Domino (piano); Red Young (organ); Barry "Fro...continue...

Edwin Holt: Second Time Around

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2005-08-23

Tracks: I Don't Think I'm Going to Make It; Second Time Around; Red Clay Back Road Mama; You're in for a Big Surprise; Back Line; Somebody's Gettin' It; Steal Away; Jack About Nothin'; I Want to Walk You Hom...
Artists: Edwin Holt

Personnel: Edwin Holt (vocals, harmonica); Edwin Holt; Butch Bonner (guitar, electric piano, bass guitar); David Brashier (electric guitar, dobro); Lee Charles Mitchell, Lee Charles Mitchell (saxophon...continue...

Calvin Owens: The House Is Burnin'

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2005-04-19

Tracks: Opus in Sawdust Alley; Don't Walk Away; Stop Lying in My Face; Coffee Man; Ladies Please Touch Me; Sweet Lovin' Man; House Is Burnin' Down, The; Please Love Me; Message to Man; Woman Hollering Creek;...
Artists: Calvin Owens

Personnel: Calvin Owens (vocals, trumpet); Gloria Edwards, Trudy Lynn, Leonard "Low Down" Brown (vocals); Charles Davis (guitar); Grady Gains (saxophone); Andra Haviland (baritone saxophone); Ron Cole...continue...

Johnny Nicholas: Thrill on the Hill

2 CD / Topcat Records / 2005-01-25

Tracks: Kind Hearted Woman; House Cleaning Blues; My Rice Ain't Got No Gravy; Prince Charming; Blue & Lonesome; Mandolin Boogie; John the Revelator; Sleeping With the Devil; Let's Go to Big Houston; Tomorrow...
Artists: Johnny Nicholas

Personnel: Johnny Nicholas (vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, piano), T.S. Bruton (electric & slide guitar, mandolin, background vocals), Floyd Domino, Erbie Bowser (piano, background vocals), Jack...continue...

Robin Sylar: Tricked Out *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2004-03-16

Tracks: You're Gonna Miss Me; Shaking All Over; Iko Iko; Hollywood Millionaire; Heart of Stone; Pretty Girls; Shot Time; Back to Luka; Surf Puppy; Can't Judge a Book; Miserlou; Sugar Bee; Hand Jive; Wine Spo...
Artists: Robin Sylar

Personnel includes: Robin Sylar; Doyle Bramhall (vocals, guitar, harmonica, lap steel, piano, organ, bass); Johnny Mack (vocals); James Hinkle (guitar); Homer Henderson, Eric Mathew (bass); Bobby Baro...continue...

Kay Kay & The Rays/Kay Kay Greenwade: Big Bad Girl

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2004-02-17

Tracks: No Mama's Boys; Baby Can You Hear Me?; Like Thunder; Stop the Killing; That's the Way It Goes; Junk Blues; Cold Rain Falling; Enron Field; Cheater; Big Bad Girl; Love of My Life; Southside of the Tra...
Artists: Kay Kay & The Rays/Kay Kay Greenwade

Kenny Traylor: Tribute

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2003-11-18

Tracks: Tall Drink; My Kinda Woman; Highway Angel; Same Old News; Love Don't Last; Travelin' Blues; Shake Your Moneymaker; You Took Me In; Weight on It; Steal Away; Once or Twice; T.V. Mama; Letter, The; She...
Artists: Kenny Traylor

Personnel: Kenny Traynor (vocals, guitar); Ron Jones (tenor & baritone saxophone); Barry Seelen (piano, Hammond B-3 organ) John Garza (bass); Doug Swancy (drums).

Recorded at Eagle Audio, Ft. W...continue...

Johnny Mack: Gave Myself the Blues

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2003-08-26

Tracks: House Party Y'all; Cross Town Girl; Looking for an Angel; Go on to School; Cant Take It With You; My Baby's Got It; Gave Myself the Blues; Wait an See; My Baby's Out There; Sugar Bee; Quit Hounding M...
Artists: Johnny Mack

Personnel includes: Johnny Mack (vocals, washboard); James Hinkle (guitar); Ted Roddy (harmonica); Danny Ross (piano); Stoney Bass (bass); Gunzy Trevino (drums).

Personnel: Johnny Mack (vocals,...continue...

Jim Suhler: Dirt Road

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2002-10-22

Tracks: Swamp Call; Holly Ridge; Country Girl; Walking on Water; Texas Easy Street; Church Bell Blues; Shake Hands With the Blues; Dallas; Spanish Flagdang; My Morning Prayer; Out on the Western Plains; High...
Artists: Jim Suhler

This album is an all-acoustic folk blues disc.

Personnel includes: Jim Suhler (vocals, 12-string guitar, guitar); Carlton Powell (acoustic guitar, piano, background vocals); Tom Morrell (steel ...continue...

Josh Alan: Josh Alan Band *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2002-06-25

Tracks: Josh's Breakdown; Strike a Match; When a Poor Man Gets Rich; Rollin' and Tumblin'; Highway 61 Revisited; Her City; Mean Town Blues; No One Owns the Blues; Honey Dripper, Pt. 2, The - (Part 2); Billio...
Artists: Josh Alan

Josh Alan Band: Josh Alan (guitar); Robby Garner (bass); Derek Rougeot (drums).

Additional personnel includes: Jeffrey Barnes (clarinet, harmonica); Bernard Wright (organ)....continue...

Robin Sylar: Bust Out

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2002-06-25

Tracks: Bust Out; Louisianna Lava Man; Dynomite Nitro; Bertha Lu; Scratchy; Wild Cherry; Delivery Boy; Dux; Taken for a Ride; Double Dip; Queen of the Hop; Steel Trap; Wild Angels; Made Up My Mind; Flashback
Artists: Robin Sylar

Personnel includes: Rob Sylar (vocals, guitars, bass, steel drum); Robin Sylar (vocals, guitar, bass, steel drum, sound effects); Phil Bennison (vocals, bass, bongos, steel drums, maracas); Rex Mauney...continue...

Johnny Nicholas & the Texas All Stars: Rockin' My Blues to Sleep

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2001-09-28

Tracks: Rockin' My Blues to Sleep; Rain Down Tears; Last Meal, The; I'm a Fool to Care; Where You At?; Reap What You Sow; Woke Up Screamin' - (featuring Marcia Ball); Mamma, Talk to Your Daughter; In the Doo...
Artists: Johnny Nicholas & the Texas All Stars

Full performer name: Johnny Nicholas & The Texas All-Stars.

Johnny Nicholas & The Texas All-Stars: Johnny Nicholas (vocals, guitar);

Mark Kazanoff, Rocky Morales (tenor saxophone); John ...continue...

Jim Suhler: Live at Blue Cat Blues

1 CD / Topcat Records / 2000-06-08

Tracks: Too Poor to Die; Knockin' at Your Door; I Wonder Why; Down and Out in Texas; Don't Do It; Oh My Baby's Gone; Say Your Prayers; Are You Experienced?
Artists: Jim Suhler

Personnel: Jim Suher, Alan Haynes (vocals, guitar); Carlton Powell (bass); Paul Hollis (drums).

Recorded live at the Blue Cat Blues Club, Dallas, Texas in 1998. Includes liner notes by Tim Schu...continue...

Kenny Taylor: Somethin's Gotta Change

1 CD / Topcat Records / 1999-09-14

Tracks: Sweet Little Mama; Third Time Wrong; Leavin' in the Morning; Short Shot; Sneakin' Around; Hear Me Callin'; Something's Gotta Change; Don't Give up on Me; Loud Mouth Lucy; Sometimes I Think Too Much; ...
Artists: Kenny Taylor

Personnel includes: Kenny Traylor, Jimmy Pendleton, Guthrie Kennard, Shawn Ferris.

Personnel: Kenny Traylor (vocals, guitar); Robert Gilmore (guitar); Matt Williams, Mike Kennedy (drums).
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Holland K. Smith: Walking Heart Attack *

1 CD / Topcat Records / 1999-07-13

Tracks: Walking Heart Attack; Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Deacon's Son; Little Boy Blues; Hypnotized; Queen of Sheba; This, That and the Other; Take Me Back to Memphis; Cindy Lee; For Cryin' out Loud; Beaut...
Artists: Holland K. Smith

Personnel includes: Holland K. Smith (vocals, guitar); Hash Brown (harmonica); Eric Mathew Przygocki (bass); Kevin Schermerhorn (drums).

The White Trash Horns: John Smith (saxophone); Steve How...continue...

Keller Thomas: Lay Low

1 CD / Topcat Records / 1997-12-15

Tracks: Leopard Skin Mini Skirt; Never Going Back; How About You; Lay Low; Poodles and Rockets; Shot From the Saddle; Homeless and Alone; Close to the Vest; Texas Legend; That's Cold
Artists: Keller Thomas

Holland K. Smith: Jungle Jane

1 CD / Topcat Records / 1997-02-17

Tracks: 2 Dollar Woman; Ain't That a Bitch; Jungle Jane; Telephone Boogie; Starvation; Blood on My Hands; Lay It on Me; It Ain't That I Don't Love You; Thirty Days of Torture; Two Timin' Woman; Bluebird
Artists: Holland K. Smith

Personnel: Holland K. Smith (guitar, vocals); Doug Rynack, Big Al Dupree (piano); Ron Mason (Hammond B-3 organ); John Garza (bass, background vocals); John Phillips (bass); Doug Swancy (drums)

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Chonita Turner, Lady Lotion & Jav-Lin: Texas Blueswomen

1 CD / Topcat Records / 1997-01-15

Tracks: Baby I Love You - (studio); Do Right Woman - (studio); Misty Blue - (studio); Neither One of Us - (studio); Just a Little Bit - (studio); Tonight Is the Night - (studio); Doctor Feel Good - (studio);...
Artists: Chonita Turner, Lady Lotion & Jav-Lin

Texas Blueswomen includes 11 live performances by Chonita Turner, Lady Lotion and Jav-Lyn. ~ John Bush...continue...