Description
DESCRIPTION
Beale Street was the street. Black man's street. More slickers come off Beale Street than come out of New York. So many slick people came from down that way, learnt how to gamble, learnt how to con, how to cheat, from down in that part of the country. And Beale Street was the main line. Muddy Waters If ever there was a good time, so help me God, there was good times on Beale Street. People from everywhere was coming to find out about that place. People you see there you ain't ever seen before in your life. You know, Beale Street was a joint street, it was a drag street, it was a drawing street. Booker White In the old days on Beale, you could say it was never night-time. They just stayed open from dawn to dawn. Everything was lively. You go to playing at five o'clock, play until five-thirty in the morning. There was all kinds of different places on Beale. To tell the truth, some of them was just real scalawag joints. John 'Piano Red' WilliamsThat's the street. The music - in the hands of masters like Robert Wilkins, Buddy Doyle, Frank Stokes, Allen Shaw, Banjo Joe and Furry Lewis is just as exciting.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Everybody S Blues
2 Mr Furry S Blues
3 Sweet Papa Moan
4 Rock Island Blues
5 Jelly Roll
6 Billy Lyons and Stack O Lee
7 Good Looking Girl Blues
8 Why Don't You Come Home Blues
9 Falling Down Blues
10 Big Chief Blues
11 Mean Old Bedbug Blues
12 Furry S Blues
13 I Will Turn Your Money Green [Take 1]
14 I Will Turn Your Money Green [Take 2]
15 Mistreatin Mama
16 Dry Land Blues
17 Cannon Ball Blues
18 Kassie Jones, Pt. 1
19 Kassie Jones, Pt. 2
20 Judge Harsh Blues [Take 1]
21 Judge Harsh Blues [Take 2]
22 John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) [Take 1]
23 John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) [Take 2]
24 Black Gypsy Blues
25 Creeper S Blues
- Disc 2 -
1 You Shall
2 It S a Good Thing
3 Sweet to Mama
4 Half Cup of Tea
5 Beale Town Bound
6 Last Go Round
7 Jazzin the Blues
8 You Shall
9 It S a Good Thing
10 Mr Crump Don't Like It
11 Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon
12 Blues in D
13 Ain't Goin to Do Like I Used to Do
14 Hunting Blues
15 Rockin on the Hill Blues
16 Fillin in Blues, Pt. 1
17 Fillin in Blues, Pt. 1
18 Wasn't That Doggin Me
19 Jumpin on the Hill
20 Jonestown Blues
21 Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
22 Madison Street Rag
23 Jazz Gypsy Blues
24 Can You Blame the Colored Man
25 My Money Never Runs Out
- Disc 3 -
1 Downtown Blues [Take 1]
2 Downtown Blues [Take 2]
3 Bedtime Blues
4 What S the Matter Blues
5 Mistreatin Blues
6 It Won't Be Long [Take 1]
7 It Won't Be Long [Take 2]
8 Nehi Mamma Blues
9 I Got Mine
10 Stomp That Thing
11 Tain't Nobody S Business If I Do, Pt. 1
12 Tain't Nobody S Business If I Do, Pt. 2 [Take 1]
13 Tain't Nobody S Business If I Do, Pt. 2 [Take 2]
14 Take Me Back
15 How Long
16 South Memphis Blues
17 Bunker Hill Blues
18 Right Now Blues
19 Shiney Town Blues
20 I M Going Away Blues
21 Old Sometime Blues
22 Frank Stokes Dream
23 Memphis Rounders Blues
24 I Couldn't Help It
25 Moanin the Blues
- Disc 4 -
1 Rolling Stone, Pt. 1
2 Rolling Stone, Pt. 2
3 Jail House Blues
4 I Do Blues
5 That S No Way to Get Along
6 Alabama Blues
7 Long Train Blues
8 Falling Down Blues
9 Nashville Stonewall Blues
10 Police Sergeant Blues
11 Get Away Blues
12 I LL Go with Her Blues
13 Dirty Deal Blues
14 Black Rat Blues
15 New Stock Yard Blues
16 Old Jim Canaan S
17 Losin Out Blues
18 Hard Scufflin Blues
19 Grief Will Kill You
20 Slick Capers Blues
21 Renewed Love Blues
22 Bad in Mind Blues
23 Three-Sixty-Nine Blues
24 She S Got Good Dry Goods
25 Lost Baby Blues
26 Sweet Man Blues
