Texas Alexander

About the artist

Alger "Texas" Alexander (September 12, 1900 - April 16, 1954) was a Blues singer from Jewett, Texas. A short man with a big, deep voice, Alexander started his career performing on the streets and at local parties and picnics in the Brazos River bottomlands, where he sometimes worked with Blind Lemon Jefferson. In 1927 he began a recording career that continued into the 1930s, recording sides for the Okeh and Vocalion labels in New York City, San Antonio, and Fort Worth.

Top songs

  1. Blue Devil Blues
  2. Broken Yo-yo
  3. Work Ox Blues
  4. Tell Me Woman Blues
  5. Levee Camp Moan Blues
  6. Broken Yo Yo
  7. Range In My Kitchen Blues
  8. Penitentiary Moan Blues
  9. Bye Bye Baby Blues
  10. Section Gang Blues
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  1. The Risin' Sun
  2. No More Women Blues
  3. Long Lonesome Day Blues
  4. Easy Rider Blues
  5. Bell Cow Blues - Remastered
  6. Seen Better Days
  7. Double Crossing Blues
  8. St. Louis Fair Blues
  9. I Am Calling Blues
  10. Levee Camp Moan
  11. Bye Bye Baby Blues - Remastered
  12. Gold Tooth Blues
  13. 98 Degree Blues
  14. Frisco Train Blues
  15. No More Woman Blues
  16. Water Bound Blues
  17. Texas Special
  18. West Texas Blues
  19. Bell Cow Blues
  20. Frost Texas Tornado Blues
  21. Deep Blue Sea Blues
  22. When You Get To Thinking
  23. Work Ox Blues - 78 rpm Version
  24. Corn-Bread Blues
  25. Katy Crossing Blues
  26. Crossroads
  27. Sabine River Blues
  28. Someday, Baby, Your Troubles Is Gonna Be Like Mine
  29. Death Bed Blues
  30. Yellow Girl Blues
  31. Mama, I Heard You Brought It Right Back Home
  32. Days Is Lonesome
  33. Farm Hand Blues
  34. Peaceful Blues
  35. Thirty Day Blues
  36. Awful Moaning Blues - Part 1
  37. Rolling Mill Blues
  38. Mama's Bad Luck Child
  39. Johnny Behrens Blues
  40. Cross Roads
  41. Moan Blues
  42. Sittin' On A Log
  43. Ninety-Eight Degree Blues (Take A)
  44. Bantam Rooster Blues
  45. Awful Moaning Blues - Part 2
  46. Boe Hog Blues
  47. Levee Camp Moan Blues - Remastered
  48. Ninety-Eight Degree Blues (Take B)
  49. Don't You Wish Your Baby was Built Up Like Mine¿ (1928)
  50. Range in My Kitchen Blues - Remastered
  51. Don't You Wish Your Baby Was Built Up Like Mine?
  52. The Risin' Sun - Remastered
  53. 'Frisco Train Blues
  54. Penitentiary Moan
  55. Justice Blues
  56. Long Lonesome Day Blues - Remastered
  57. Work Ox Blues (78 rpm Version)
  58. Last Stage Blues
  59. Section Gang Blues - Remastered
  60. Evil Woman Blues
  61. Corn-Bread Blues - Remastered
  62. Texas Troublesome Blues
  63. The Risin' Sun (Texas Alexander)
  64. 'Frisco Train Blues (Texas Alexander)
  65. Deceitful Blues
  66. Tell Me Woman Blues (Texas Alexander)
  67. Work Ox Blues (Texas Alexander)
  68. I Am Calling Blues (Texas Alexander)
  69. Lonesome Blues
  70. St. Louis Fair Blues (Texas Alexander)
  71. Evil Women Blues
  72. One Morning Blues
  73. Deathbed Blues - Remastered
  74. Farm Hand Blues - Remastered
  75. The Risin’ Sun
  76. She's So Fair
  77. Normangee Blues
  78. Mistreatin' Woman
  79. Sabine River Blues - Remastered
  80. Mama, I Heard You Brought It Right Back Home - Remastered
  81. West Texas Blues - Remastered
  82. Ninety-Eight Degree Blues
  83. Don't You Wish Your Baby Was Built Up Like Mine
  84. Stealing To Her Man
  85. Evil Woman Blues - Remastered
  86. Penitentiary Blues
  87. No More Sweet Potatoes
  88. Bottoms Blues
  89. Bantam Rooster Blues Take A - Remastered
  90. Blues In My Mind

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