lots of great suff on this CD. This is pre-Atlantic Records Big Joe Turner, the ORIGINAL rock and roll (even tho' it's called jump blues at this point). The four songs by Big Maceo, however, sound more to me like straight blues stuff and doesn't really fit in here. I never heard of Smilin' Smokey Lynn before, but the tunes here are pretty good, although one of the songs kinds of drags along, and another one is a straight out ripoff of Wynonie Harris. H Bomb Ferguson sounds like him, too. But good stuff nonetheless. All the songs here are circa 1949-53.