Bollin notably recorded "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night"
and "Headlight Blues" (1951), and variously worked alongside Duke
Robillard, Doug Sahm, Booker Ervin, Percy Mayfield and David "Fathead"
Newman.
Bollin was thought to be dead, until he was rediscovered in 1988 living
in Dallas, Texas, by the Dallas Blues Society Records founder, Chuck
Nevitt. Nevitt gathered together a band and produced Bollin's first full
length album Texas Bluesman in 1989, as the debut release on Dallas
Blues Society Records. This record was sold to Antone's Records a couple
of years later, and Antones released it on compact disc. This recording
augmented Bollin's only four sides (two 78rpm records) recorded in the
early 1950s on the Dallas-based Torch Records label. Bollin made
festival dates both in the United States and abroad.
Bollin died in Dallas, Texas in October 1990, aged 68.