Behind the Magnolia curtain, lay a...well, frankly lavendar curtain, a world derived in part from the weirdness of the Medecine shows, in which a total one off like Harmonica Frank Floyd could seem quite normal, and a culture of sleazy burlesque, strippers, drag acts and open flamboyant homosexuality could flourish in the midst of the segregated South in this world strode Billy Wright like a colossus, a man whose R&B stylings were legend, who was an immensely influential and big selling artist and who dressed like Jimi Hendrix, Prince and Kid Creole in one in the late 1940s, in full makeup too! A huge influence on Little Richard, Elvis, James Brown, and the host of Southern Soulmen who came after, Billy Wright is one of THE blues stylists perhaps ignored slightly by the stuffy blues scholar establishment because of his flamboyance and sexuality (bluesmen are suposed to wear style-free rumpled suits after all!) 1 Thinkin' Blues 2:58 2 After Dark Blues 2:19 3 Fore Day Blues 2:33 4 You Satisfy 3:08 5 Billy's Boogie Blues 2:28 6 Blues for My Baby 3:14 7 I Keep Drinking 2:45 8 Back Biting Woman 2:36 9 Heavy Hearted Blues 2:23 10 Gotta Find My Baby 2:24 11 Married Woman's Boogie 2:36 12 Empty Hand 3:07 13 When the Wagon Comes 2:43 14 Keep Your Hands on My Heart 3:17 15 Mercy, Mercy 2:44 16 Stacked Deck 2:58 17 Mean Old Wine 2:26 18 Drinkin' and Thinkin' 2:57 19 New Way of Lovin' 2:45 20 Restless Blues 2:37 21 This Love of Mine Parker, Sanicola, Sinatra 2:55 22 Hey Little Girl Wright 2:50
