Hal Paige & the Wailers have 3 tracks on the LP Old Town Blues, Vol. 1: Downtown Sides (image provided).

Styles: Electric Blues, Urban Blues, East Coast Blues
Released: 1993
Label: Ace

2. Rock the Joint This Morning - 2:45
3. My Angel Child - 2:57
4. Guitar Blues - 3:00

Notes: A grab bag of blues sides with a strong R&B influence, recorded for New York's Old Town label between the mid-'50s and mid-'60s. This is aimed squarely at the blues collector/completist: there's nothing especially inept about these sides, but nothing especially captivating either. Nor is there a strong stylistic or instrumental thread connecting the tracks. It's period stuff, by obscure artists like Hal Paige, Ursula Reed, Lester Young (not the jazz great!), Larry Dale, and Sam Baker; Wild Bill Moore and Buddy & Ella Johnson, represented by some of their least known work, are the most recognizable of the bunch. ~ AMG Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.