Bluebird: 09026-64006-2 (09026-63986-2, 09026-63987-2, 09026-63988-2, 09026-63989-2). Title from container. Various performers. Recorded 1926-1955. Compact discs; 4 containers, in box. Program notes by David Evans and Colin Escott included.
Contents:
(3:56) -- St. Louis blues / Catfish blues / Hall Johnson Choir (2:51) -- Baby, please don't go / Big Joe Williams (3:21) -- Ham an' eggs / Leadbelly (2:58) -- Mississippi River blues / Big Bill Broonzy (2:39) -- Just a good woman through with the blues / Trixie Butler (2:40) -- Garbage man blues / Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies (2:42) -- Panama limited / Bukka "Washington" White (3:11) -- Cool drink of water blues / Tommy Johnson (3:32) -- Midnight special / Leadbelly (3:06) -- Worried man blues / Carter Family (2:43) -- Blues de voyage / Amede Ardoin, Denus McGee (2:53) -- K.C. railroad blues / Andrew & Jim Baxter (3:28) -- Somebody's been stealin' / Rev. J.M. Gates (2:46) -- Beale Street blues / Alberta Hunter (3:14) -- Devil in the wood pile / Noah Lewis (2:54) -- Walk right in / Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers (2:55) -- Ninety-nine year blues / Julius Daniels (3:02) -- Got cut all to pieces / Bessie Tucker (3:26) -- Feather bed / Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers (3:16) -- Can't put a bridle on that mule this morning / Julius Daniels (3:23) -- Davidson County blues / Deford Bailey (3:20) -- Frankie and Johnny / Frank Crumit (3:18) -- Dixie Bo-Bo / Taskiana Four (3:01) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / Paul Robeson (3:00) -- St. Louis blues / Hall Johnson Choir (3:56) -- (3:06) -- Sales tax / Telephoning the blues / Mississippi Sheiks with Bo Carter (3:08) -- Viola Lee blues / Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers (3:08) -- Haven't got a dollar to pay your house rent man / Genevieve Davis (3:29) -- Saturday blues / Ishman Bracey (3:28) -- When I woke up this morning she was gone / Jim Jackson (3:13) -- Canned heat blues / Tommy Johnson (3:36) -- Statesboro blues / Blind Willie McTell (2:32) -- Stealin', stealin' / Memphis Jug Band (2:56) -- Judge harsh blues / (Furry Lewis (3:03) -- Rent man blues / Edna Winston (3:03) -- I don't care what you say / Harris & Harris (2:46) -- I hate a man like you / Lizzie Miles (3:26) -- 'Tain't nobody's business if I do pt. 1 / Frank Stokes (3:17) -- I'm a mighty tight woman / Sippie Wallace (2:50) -- Blue yodel #9 / Jimmie Rodgers (2:38) -- Girl I love, she got long, curly hair / Sleepy John Estes (2:56) -- Don't want no woman / McCoy & Johnson (3:12) -- Cocaine habit blues / Memphis Jug Band (2:48) -- Married woman blues / Blind Willie Reynolds (3:16) -- Red nightgown blues / Jimmie Davis (2:58) -- Hardworking woman / Mississippi Matilda (2:52) -- Doubled up in a knot / Bo Carter (2:50) -- If you want me, baby / Daddy Stovepipe, Mississippi Sarah (2:42) -- First time I met the blues / Little Brother Montgomery (2:47) -- Sales tax / Mississippi Sheiks with Bo Carter (3:06) -- (3:15) -- He's a jelly roll baker / That's Chicago's South Side / Lonnie Johnson (2:52) -- Peetie Wheatstraw / Pete Wheatstraw (3:19) -- Devil's Island gin blues / Roosevelt Sykes (3:04) -- Sail on, little girl, sail on / Amos Easton (3:20) -- Black gal, what makes your head so hard? / Joe Pullum (3:31) -- I lost my baby / Lil Johnson (2:54) -- Keep your hands off her / Big Bill Broonzy (2:55) -- When the sun goes down / Leroy Carr (2:59) -- Selling my pork chops / Minnie McCoy (2:56) -- Every day I have the blues / Pine Top (3:10) -- Sweet sixteen / Walter Davis (2:52) -- Honky tonk train blues / Meade Lux Lewis (3:02) -- Trouble in mind / Richard M. Jones (2:44) -- He roars like a lion / Merline Johnson (3:26) -- Prowling night hawk / Robert Lee McCoy (3:06) -- Good morning school girl / Sonny Boy Williamson (3:03) -- You got to fix it / Speckled Red (3:16) -- Bucket's got a hole in it / Washboard Sam (2:46) -- Bottle it up and go / Tommy McClennan (2:50) -- Key to the highway / Jazz Gillum (2:42) -- Don't you lie to me / Tampa Red (3:00) -- What is that she got / Johnny Temple (2:58) -- Going down slow / St. Louis Jimmy (3:14) -- Hobo blues / Yank Rachel (3:22) -- He's a jelly roll baker / Lonnie Johnson (3:15) -- (2:15). Get rich quick / Pearl Harbor blues / Little Richard (3:01) -- My buddy blues / Five Breezes (2:47) -- Worried life blues/; Big Maceo (2:54) -- I'd rather drink muddy water / Cats & a Fiddle (2:46) -- Grinder man blues / Memphis Slim (3:05) -- Walkin' the boogie / Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons (2:48) -- Why don't you do right / Lil Green (2:56) -- Little boy blue / Robert Lockwood (3:03) -- Angels in Harlem / Doctor Clayton (3:03) -- Illinois blues / Sunnyland Slim (3:12) -- Chicago is just that way / Eddie Boyd (2:50) -- That's all right / Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (2:53) -- Get the mop / Henry "Red" Allen (2:42) -- Look on yonder wall / Jazz Gillum (3:06) -- Anytime is the right time / Roosevelt Sykes Trio (3:13) -- When things go wrong with you / Tampa Red (2:59) -- Dust my broom / Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (2:36) Soap and water blues / Washboard Sam (3:05) -- Rockin' with Red / Piano Red (2:31) -- Sweet little angel / Tampa Red (2:56) -- My baby left me / Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (2:20) -- How blue can you get ; Downhearted) / Johnny Moore's Three Blazers with Oscar Moore (3:36) -- Right string, but the wrong yo-yo / Piano Red (2:40) -- Ride and roll / Sonny Terry (2:17) -- Get rich quick / Little Richard (2:15). v.4 That's all right. v.2 First time I met the blues -- v.3 That's Chicago's South Side -- v.4 That's all right.
Summary:
"Features 100 gritty, gut bucket blues songs that launched the rock & roll revolution. From the Delta crossroads to Chicago's toughest corners, each CD includes original versions of raw roots classics that paved the way for the kings of rock & roll"--Container.
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