1955
JUST PLAIN TIRED * JOE HILL LOUIS & HIS BOYS * MIMOSA 100 * USA
One man band Joe Hill Lewis, was born either Leslie or Lester Hill,
September 23, 1921 and died tragically young aged only 35 on August 5, 1957. He
first recorded for Columbia Records in 1949 and a variety of other labels
throughout the first half of the 1950s, under such names as Chicago Sunny Boy,
Leslie Louis, and Little Joe.
Just Plain Tired a rocking Blues vocal with some nice guitar
work from Lewis is taken from a radio broadcast and was originally released in
1955 on Drew Canale's Vandor label in a limited edition of 100 for his own juke
boxes and reissued with the same B side in 1977 on the Mimosa imprint.