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The Acrobat catalogue contains a wealth of blues collections by artists from across the spectrum of the genre, and this fantastic-value 100-track 4-CD set comprises recordings selected from just about every artist represented in the catalogue, and offering a rich cross-section of the finest blues of the 20th century. Inevitably it draws on every strand of the blues and just about every regional variation, from country blues from the Delta, to electric blues from Chicago, post-war California blues, New Orleans blues, Piedmont blues, New York Blues and more. The genre's most influential luminaries and it's biggest stars are all here - B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Bill Bill Broonzy, Charley Patton, Howlin' Wolf, Bessie Smith, Lightnin' Hopkins, Ma Rainey, and dozens more. Presented more or less in chronological order, it offers an extraordinary feast of music which provides not only a window on the development of the music of the African-American population of the USA, who provide the vast majority of the recordings here, but an anecdotal social commentary on their lives and observations which are the subject of many of the songs. It's a collection which anyone with the remotest interest in the blues will undoubtedly enjoy.
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- Disc 1 -
1 Alberta Hunter - Stingaree Blues
2 Ma Rainey with Her Georgia Jazz Band - See See Rider Blues
3 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shake That Thing
4 Willie Jackson - Old New Orleans Blues
5 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Gone Dead on You Blues
6 The Memphis Jug Band - Kansas City Blues
7 Victoria Spivey - Dope Head Blues
8 "Texas" Alexander - Levee Camp Moan Blues
9 Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones - Part 1
10 Charley Patton - a Spoonful Blues
11 Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn - Guitar Blues
12 Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues
13 Blind Blake - Diddie Wa Diddie
14 Alfred Lewis - Mississippi Swamp Moan
15 Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
16 Scrapper Blackwell - Hard Time Blues
17 Memphis Minnie - Crazy Crying Blues
18 Pinetop & Lindberg - East Chicago Blues
19 Bumble Bee Slim - M & O Blues Pt. 1
20 Tampa Red - Black Angel
21 Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues
22 Buddy Moss - Dough Rolling Papa
23 Walter Davis - Sweet Sixteen
24 Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues
- Disc 2 -
1 Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
2 Roosevelt Sykes - the Honey Dripper
3 Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago
4 Robert McCoy - Prowling Night Hawk
5 Washboard Sam - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
6 Trixie Smith - My Daddy Rocks Me
7 Tommy McLennan - Bottle It Up and Go
8 Bukka White - Fixin' to Die
9 Sonny Terry - Blowin' the Blues
10 Lil Green - Romance in the Dark
11 Jazz Gillum - It's All Over Now
12 Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good
13 Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues
14 Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
15 Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues
16 Cecil Gant - I Wonder
17 Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) - Downhearted Blues
18 Josh White - Motherless Children
19 Leadbelly - Ella Speed
20 Big Joe Turner - SK Blues Pt. 1
21 Wynonie Harris - Wynonie's Blues
22 Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five - Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door
23 Jay McShann - Garfield Avenue Blues
24 Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's All Right
25 Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Old Maid Boogie
- Disc 3 -
1 Helen Humes - Be-Baba-Leba
2 T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad
3 Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston - Midnight Special
4 Annie Laurie with Paul Gayten & His Trio - Since I Fell for You
5 Jimmy McCracklin - Jimmy's Blues
6 Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours
7 Hadda Brooks Trio - Out of the Blue
8 Blind Willie McTell - Don't Forget It
9 Sunnyland Slim - Every Time I Get to Drinkin'
10 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - My Time Is Expensive
11 Goree Carter & His Hep Cats - Rock Awhile
12 Edgar Blanchard & the Gondoliers - Creole Gal Blues
13 Smokey Hogg - Little School Girl
14 Ivory Joe Hunter - I Almost Lost My Mind
15 Lowell Fulson - Blue Shadows
16 Elmore James - Dust My Broom
17 Mac Willis - Howling Woman
18 Griffin Brothers - Weepin' and Cryin'
19 Sonny Boy Williamson - Eyesight to the Blind
20 Floyd Dixon with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Telephone Blues
21 Peppermint Harris with Maxwell Davis and His All-Stars - I Got Loaded
22 Little Bobby Harris - Love Love Love
23 Eddie Boyd Sings and Plays - Five Long Years
24 Guitar Slim - the Things That I Used to Do
25 Little Junior's Blue Flames - Feelin' Good
- Disc 4 -
1 B.B. King - Every Day I Have the Blues
2 Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
3 Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
4 Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'
5 Big Maybelle - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' on
6 Earl King - Those Lonely, Lonely Nights
7 Nappy Brown - Don't Be Angry
8 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
9 Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing
10 Jimmy Reed - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
11 Bobby Bland - Farther Up the Road
12 Huey Smith and the Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Part 1
13 Snooks Eaglin - This Mean Old World
14 Lightnin' Slim - Rooster Blues
15 Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Talking Blues
16 Little Walter - My Babe
17 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
18 James Cotton - So Glad I'm Living
19 John Hammond - You Got Me Walkin' and Talkin'
20 Son House - Judgement Day
21 Canned Heat - Rollin' and Tumblin'
22 Memphis Slim - Born with the Blues
23 Lightnin' Hopkins - Easy on Your Heels
24 Mike Bloomfield - Prescription for the Blues
25 Jimmy Witherspoon & Richard Holmes - California Blues
26 Magic Sam Aka Ron Thompson - Just Pickin'
