Classic blues From Smithsonian Folkways recordings
Music - 2003
The blues is a sound forged in hard times but powerful enough to bring on the good times. This collection covers nearly half a century of blues with styles including Delta, St. Louis, and Chicago blues by some of the genre's biggest legends.
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
[2003]
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- English
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- Item Description
- "This compilation ... spans half a century and features Delta, St. Louis, Southwest, and Chicago styles"--Container.
Previously released recordings. - Physical Description
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- Old Jabo (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:11)
- Mule-ridin' blues (Big Bill Broonzy) (3:43)
- Joggie boogie (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:25)
- Black woman (Vera Hall) (1:24)
- Mercury blues (K.C. Douglas) (2:18)
- Ran the blues out of my window (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:54)
- Leaving blues (Lead Belly) (2:21)
- One dime blues (Etta Baker) (3:43)
- County farm blues (Son House) (2:08)
- Clog dance (stomping blues) (Champion Jack Dupree) (1:59)
- Boll weevil (Pink Anderson) (3:03)
- Nickel's worth of liver (Edith North Johnson & Henry Brown) (2:40)
- Don't leave me here (Big Joe Williams) (2:40)
- Jimmy Bell (Cat Iron) (2:17)
- Candy man (Reverend Gary Davis) (2:32)
- Beer drinking woman (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (2:30)
- Come go home with me (Lightnin' Hopkins) (3:51)
- Careless love (Josh White) (3:20)
- I asked her if she loved me (Henry Townsend) (2:52)
- Rising sun (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (2:40)
- Pony blues (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) (3:26)
- Vicksburg blues (Little Brother Montgomery) (3:59)
- Vastapol (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:09)
- Drifting along blues (Lonnie Johnson) (2:56)
- Oh baby, you don't have to go (the Chambers Brothers) (2:46)
- Don't lie buddy (Lead Belly and Josh White) (2:21).