TEXAS OIL SONGS

Modern Hamonic expands its arsenal of eclectica with drillin' & drivin' rig ringers from Roughneck Slim Willet! An archival treasure soaked in black gold, the LP about working in the Texas oil fields draws so many pumping oil rig analogies you'll lose count.

Country singer and disc jockey Slim Willet's ode to tool-pushin', Texas Oil Patch Songs was issued in 1959 by the artist on his own Winston label, and is now an impossibly-rare LP to dig up. This Modern Harmonic edition is faithful to the original, including all twelve tracks, liner notes, restored artwork, and primed & pumped onto petro-blue vinyl!

This magnificent lost treasure from the great Texas oil fields was once something of lore. only rumored to exist. Slim Willet's mighty collection of blue collar, well-digging classics stood little chance to begin with as only a few hundred were pressed, and oil songs never really caught on in the way the similar trucking-songs would several years later. Had Slim put this out during the great Gas Station/Truck Stop 8-Track Market of the 70's this could have been a hit album, but with his passing in 1966, it was never to be.