Description
DESCRIPTION
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup was a Mississippi Delta blues guitarist, singer and noted songwriter who was often known as "The Father of Rock 'n' Roll", because even in the early '40s he was playing in a style which unmistakeably provided many of the essential roots of the musical revolution that was still more than a decade distant. He wrote classic songs like "That's All Right Mama", which became Elvis Presley's first commercial recording, and other songs covered by Elvis like "My Baby Left Me". He was a vital bridge between acoustic country blues and the electrified urban sound he developed after he hoboed his way to Chicago, and was among the first blues artists to play with bass and drums accompaniment. This great value 94-track 4-CD collection comprises all the records he made which were commercially released during the period covered by the anthology, encompassing his recordings which came out on the Bluebird, RCA, Checker, Trumpet, Champion, Groove and Fire labels. It gives a thorough and entertaining overview of the two key decades of his primary recording career.
If I Get Lucky
Death Valley Blues
Kind Lover Blues
Black Pony Blues
Give Me a 3220
Raised to My Hand
Gonna Follow My Baby
Mean Old 'Frisco Blues
My Mama Don't Allow Me
Standing at My Window
Rock Me Mama [Or Mamma]
Who's Been Foolin' You
Cool Disposition
Keep Your Arms Around Me
I'm in the Mood
She's Gone
That's Your Red Wagon
Dirt Road Blues
So Glad You're Mine
Ethel Mae
No More Lovers
Katie May
Boy Friend Blues
I Want My Lovin'
You Got to Reap
Crudup's After Hours
That's All Right
I Don't Know It
Chicago Blues
Train Fare Blues
Cry Your Blues Away
Gonna Be Some Changes Made
Crudup's Vicksburg Blues
That's Why I'm Lonesome
Just Like a Spider
Hey Mama"Everything's All Right
Someday
Hoodoo Lady Blues
Lonesome World to Me
Roberta Blues
Shout, Sister, Shout
Tired of Worry
Dust My Broom
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Come Back Baby
Mercy Blues
You Know That I Love You
She's Just Like Caldonia
Oo Wee Darling (Love Me with a Thrill)
Mean Old Santa Fe
She Ain't Nothin' But Trouble
Behind Closed Doors
Anytime Is the Right Time
My Baby Left Me
Nobody Wants Me
Star Bootlegger
Too Much Competition
I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole
Where Did You Stay Last Night'
Love Me Mama
Second Man Blues
Pearly Lee
Do It If You Want to
Lookin' for My Baby
Goin' Back to Georgia
Mr. So and So
Keep on Drinkin'
Nelvina
Worried About You Baby
Late in the Evening
Open Your Book (Daddy Wants to Read with You)
Tears in My Eyes
Gotta Find My Baby
Make a Little Love
I Wonder
My Baby Boogies All the Time
My Wife and Woman
The War Is Over
I Love My Baby
Fall on Your Knees and Pray
If You Ever Been to Georgia
She's Got No Hair
Mean Ole Frisco
Look on Yonder Wall
That's Alright
Ethel Mae
Too Much Competition
Standing at My Window
Rock Me, Mama
Greyhound Bus
Coal Black Mare
Katie Mae
Dig Myself a Hole
So Glad You're Mine
