Houston Boines

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Houston Boines (Hazlehurst, Mississippi, December 30, 1918 - November 8, 1970?) was an American harmonica player and singer. He recorded with Charley Booker and Ike Turner. Houston (or it may have been Huston) remains an obscure, shadowy figure despite having broadcast on KFFS' King Biscuit Time during one of Sonny Boy's regular prolonged absence. He was still living there when he was enlisted in the army in January 1941, almost one year before the United States entered World War II. It's unclear how long he was in the service. Charley Booker and Houston Stackhouse played with him after the War when he was still in Hazlehurst, but had only fleeting memories of him. Boines played harmonica in Eddie Cusic's combo; The Rhythm Aces. In 1952 he cut a couple of sessions in Greenville, Mississippi, which let to the releases ''Monkey Motion'' / ''Superintendant'' and ''Going Home'' / ''Relation Blues'', both recorded for RPM in January 1952, (plus a belated mid-1960s release on Blues & Rhythm/Blue Horizon) - but his December 1953 session at Sun would appear to have been his (rather glorious) swansong. Little Milton roomed with him around this time, recalling a stockily built man in his late forties, whom he took to Sun. He was vaguely remembered by Charlie Booker and Houston Stackhouse, both of whom played with him, but Little Milton, who'd actually brought him along to 706 Union remembered him best, recalling an "old man". Stackhouse recalled that Boines was still playing

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Memphis Blues - Important Postwar Blues

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Roots of the Black Keys

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Swamp Blues: Down and Dirty

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Sun Records - The Blues Years, 1950 - 1958 CD6

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Best of Delta Blues

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Sun Records-25 Rare Blues Classics

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Memphis Blues - 100 Vintage Tracks

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Sun Records - Memphis Blues

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Memphis Blues (Important Postwar Recordings) - Disc 2

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The Darkest Blues

Mississippi Blues

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Memphis Blues: Important Postwar Blues, CD B

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