In the early 1970s, Mr. McCormick became obsessed with an obscure artist from the 1920s, Henry Thomas, known as Ragtime Texas, whose music straddled the boundaries between the blues and older forms like reels, ragtime and gospel.
would this be the same artist who also recorded as rambling thomas, on an EP which also had two tracks by Blind Blake.
THE RECORDING IS KNOWN AS THE MALE BLUES VOL3 on jel4 jazz collectors, it says his real name was willard thomas it states that his biographical details are obscure but was born in dallas, although he was apparantly a contemporary of blind lemon jefferson