Impacto Raining

Garage Rock Band from San Antonio, TX, USA, one of the best groups to emerge from the 60's Texas Garage Band scene were The Outcasts. This prolific group released a number of singles on the Askell label of San Angelo 1966-67. This compilation collects all their singles plus many unreleased songs. As an added bonus tracks previously released in 1984 have been newly remixed from the original masters. Furthermore, the groups later recordings in Houston have been unearthed and are released for the first time.

Unlike Mississippi Fred McDowell, who hailed from Rossville, TN, Memphis Slim was actually from Memphis, although his real name was Peter Chatman. By any name, Slim was a masterful blues pianist with a distinctive style. This satisfying drummerless two-fer was originally issued as 1960s albums Just Blues and No Strain, all songs written by the prolific pianist, recorded in the same session and re-released the year after he died in Paris in 1988. The 23-tune collection opens with "Beer Drinking Woman" (with sly Funeral March quotes), followed by one of his patented, totally believable spoken intros. Fully nine of these tracks feature just piano and voice, illustrating beyond a doubt that this bluesman was the real deal who needed no help to get his point across.