Title from disc label. Compact discs. Program notes by Corey Harris, Dom Flemons and Ted Olson ([48] pages : illustrations) inserted in container. Various performers.
Contents:
Disc 1. Best of all (Dirty Dozen Brass Band) -- Station blues (Corey Harris and Shard? Thomas) -- 61 Highway (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Georgie Buck (Carolina Chocolate Drops ; feat. Joe Thompson) -- Ranky Tanky (Ranky Tanky) -- One dime blues (Etta Baker) -- Eunice two step (Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot) -- Automobile blues (Lightnin' Hopkins) -- Grizzly bear (Bennie Richardson) -- Motherless children (The Staple Singers) -- Blues before sunrise (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) -- Fox chase (Dink Roberts) -- Sweet Georgia Brown (Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong) -- Little Liza Jane (Golden Eagles) -- Ay-tete fee (Clifton Chenier and His Band) -- Hard time killing floor blues (Skip James) -- Weary blues (George Lewis New Orleans Jazz Band) -- Yonder come day (Bessie James) -- We will understand it better by and by (Joseph Spence) -- Best of all (Dirty Dozen Brass Band) -- Disc 2. Study war no more (Sweet Honey In the Rock). Pretty Polly (Amythyst Kiah) -- St. Louis blues (Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden) -- Money is king (Leyla McCalla) -- Polly put the kettle on (Dom Flemons) -- Diving duck blues (Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo') -- Crying blues (Boozoo Chavis) -- Morning train (Campbell Brothers) When I lay my burden down (John Lee Hooker) -- Titanic (Lesley Riddle) -- Go to the Mardi Gras (Professor Longhair) -- Candy man (Mississippi John Hurt) -- San Francisco Bay blues (Jesse Fuller) -- Special delivery blues (Odetta) -- Step it up and go (John Jackson) -- Arkansas blues (Tuts Washington) -- Lo, I will be with you always (Rev. Gary Davis) -- Ups on the farm (Inmate Named Peter) -- John Henry (Cephas & Wiggins) -- Study war no more (Sweet Honey In the Rock).
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