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Resentment and despair leavened with wit and humor... isn't that the blues? It is here as you encounter 103 tracks that vent even as they entertain with dazzling musicianship: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" Robert Johnson, "Jailbird Love Song" Mississippi Sheiks, "Trouble and Whiskey" Roosevelt Sykes, "I'm Goin' Home" Charley Patton, "Highway 51 Blues" Curtis Jones, "I'm All Out and Down" Lead Belly, "Jim Crow Blues" Cow Cow Davenport, "Am I Right or Wrong" Son House, "No Place to Go" Walter Davis, "Broken Levee Blues" Lonnie Johnson, "Workhouse Blues" Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, "Washwoman Blues" Bessie Smith, "Sud Bustin' Blues" Sippie Wallace, "Sarah Jane" Jazz Gillum, "Dynamite Blues" Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Life Is Just a Book" Washboard Sam and more! JSP.
Jail Bird Love Song: Mississippi Sheiks
No Job Blues: Ramblin Thomas
Down in the Bottom Where I Stay: Ozie McPherson
Gut Struggle: Wilmer Davis
Trouble and Whiskey: Roosevelt Sykes
Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight: Norfolk Jubilee Singers
Raise a R-U-K-U-S Tonight: Birmingham Jubilee Singers
Landladys Footsteps: Madlyn Davis
Get on Board: Clara Smith
Im Goin Home: Charley Patton
Old Rattler: Mose Clear Rock Platt & James Iron Head Baker
Aint No More Cane on This Brazos: Ernest Williams, James Iron Head Baker & Convict Group
The Prisoners Blues: Sara Martin
Penitentiary Bound Blues: Rosa Henderson
Wash and Iron Woman Blues: Gene Campbell
Ive Got the Blues But Im Just Too Mean to Cry: Dorothy Dodd
Rising River Blues: George Carter
Song from a Cotton Field: Bessie Brown
They Aint Walking No More: Lucille Bogan
Long John: Washington (Lightnin)
Another Man Done Gone: Vera Hall
Black Evil Blues: Alice Moore
Richmond Blues - TK 1: Julius Daniels
Bessies Moan: Bessie Tucker
Rock Pile Blues: Sylvester Weaver
Highway 51 Blues: Curtis Jones
Down the Dirt Road Blues: Charley Patton
Po Moaners Got a Home at Last: Fisk Jubilee Singers
That White Mule of Sin: John Byrd
Youve Got to Recognise Me: Charles Tyus
Im All Out and Down: Leadbelly
Prison Cell Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Moaning Blues: Moanin Bernice Edwards
On Our Turpentine Farm: Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie
Good Old Turnip Greens: Bo Carter
Two White Horses Standing in Line: Smith Casey
Jim Crow Blues: Cow Cow Davenport
Am I Right or Wrong: Son House
It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad: Kelly Pace
Waitin for the Evenin Mail: Clara Smith
I Shall Not Be Moved: Rev. Edward Clayborn
Toad Frog Blues: Ma Rainey
Squinch Owl Moan: Too Tight Henry
Daddy-Calling Mama: Alice Moore
Mean Old World: Heavenly Gospel Singers
Cow Cow Blues: Dora Carr with Cow Cow Davenport
Last Fair Deal Gone Down: Robert Johnoson
Chain Gang Bound: Bumble Bee Slim
These Hard Times Are Tight Like That: Rev. J.M. Gates
The Panic Is on: Hezekiah Jenkins
Preachin the Blues PT 1: Son House
Starvation Farm Blues: Bob Campbell
No Place to Go: Walter Davis
One Dime Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blue Harvest Blues: Mississippii John Hurt
Fools Blues: Funny Paper Smith
Boll Weevil Blues: Vera Hall
Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues: Charley Patton
Hopali: 8 Unknown Girls
Experience Blues: Alberta Hunter
Broken Levee Blues: Lonnie Johnson
Eighteen Hundred and Ninety One: Charley Campbell
Bank Failure Blues: Martha Copeland
Hammer Ring: Jess Bradley
The Escaped Convict - TK 2: George Bullet Williams
Im Having So Much Trouble: Bumble Bee Slim
Worried Blues: Tom Bell
Workhouse Blues: Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
The Sure Route Excursion to Hell - PT 1: Rev. F.W. McGee
Black Hearse Blues: Sara Martin
Washwoman Blues: Bessie Smith
Sud Bustin Blues: Sippie Wallace
Hitler and Hell: Rev. J.M. Gates
Dont Mess with Me: Mamie Smith
My Daddys Calling Me: Irene Scruggs
I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop - TK 1: Jim Jackson
G. Burns Gonna Rise Again: Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
The Bourgeois Blues: Leadbelly
Hobo Bill: Martha Copeland
Dyin Crapshooters Blues: Martha Copeland
Dying Crapshooters Blues: Blind Willie McTell
Sarah Jane: Jazz Gillum
North Bound Blues: Maggie Jones
Go Down Old Hannah: James Iron Head Baker
Been Drinking: Vera Hall
Poor Lazarus: Vera Hall
Cotton Seed Blues: Tampa Red
I CouldnT Hear Nobody Pray - TK 2: Paramount Jubilee Singers
Hes in the Jailhouse Now: Memphis Jug Band
Railroad Bill: Will Bennett
Mad Mamas Blues: Josie Miles
Dynamite Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Key to the Bushes Blues: Bessie Tucker
Red Ripe Tomatoes: Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
Justice Blues: Texas Alexander
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin: Clara Smith
Pail in My Hand: Edna Winston
The Basement Blues: Clara Smith
Workin Womans Blues: Helen Gross
Broke Man Blues: Sylvester Palmer
Sadies Servant Room Blues: Hattie Burleson
Red Cross Man: Lucille Bogan
Life Is Just a Book: Washboard Sam
