Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways

CD 0019

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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Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
4 3/4 in
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
mono
digital recording

Notes:

Previously released recordings
Program, biographical, and historical notes by Barry Lee Pearson (22 p. : ports.)--inserted in container
"This compilation-- spans half a century and features Delta, St. Louis, Southwest, and Chicago styles"--Container
Various performers
Compact disc

Contents:

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)

LCCN:

51936278

Control Number:

1000776

UPC:

093074013427

Other Authors:

Anderson, Pink, 1900-1974
Baker, Etta, 1913-2006
Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958
Brown, Henry, 1906-1981
Cat Iron
Chambers Brothers
Cotten, Elizabeth
Davis, Gary, 1896-1972
Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992
Douglas, K. C
Dupree, Champion Jack, -1992
Edwards, Honeyboy
Hall, Vera, 1902-1964
Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
House, Son
Johnson, Edith
Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970
Leadbelly, 1885-1949
McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996
Memphis Slim
Montgomery, Little Brother, 1906-1985
Sykes, Roosevelt
Terry, Sonny
Townsend, Henry
White, Josh
Williams, Big Joe, 1903-1982

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