Disk Two
1.   New Orleans Stop Time
2.   I'm a Bad Luck Woman
3.   Caught Me Wrong Again
4.   Black Cat Blues
5.   If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)
6.   Blues Everywhere
7.   Please Don't Stop Him
8.   Stop Lying to Me
9.   Has Anyone Seen My Man
10. I'd Rather See Him Dead
11. Poor and Wandering Woman Blues
12. Bad Outside Friends
13. Call the Fire Wagon
14. Lonesome Shack Blues
15. Nothing in Rambling
16. Boy Friend Blues
17. It's Hard to Please My Man
18. Ma Rainey
19. In My Girlish Days
20. Me and My Chauffeur Blues
21. Down By the Riverside
22. Pig Meat on the Line
23. I Am Sailing
24. Black Rat Swing
25. Love Come and Go

(The image is from the CD insert)

We offer the 2003 Proper Records issue of Memphis Minnie—Me and My Chauffeur for $15.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Skip James
The Complete Early Recordings
1994 Shanachie/Yazoo Records release on CD
(No named producer)

 (Cover image is from the CD)

If some of us were held down and forced to give up our 10 most favorite blues artists, Nehemiah "Skip" James would be on the list. It might just be a weakness for the Bentonia sound, but James stood out even there.

This is a reissue of the available sides he cut in Grafton, Wisconsin in 1931. There were reportedly 31 of them, cut in two days. At least 18 survive, the story goes. They're all here.

We'll have a whole lot more to say about Skip James presently.

The songs: 

1.   Devil Got My Woman
2.   Cypress Grove Blues
3.   Little Cow and Calf is Gonna Die Blues
4.   Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
5.   Drunken Spree
6.   Cherry Ball Blues
7.   Jesus is a Mighty Good Leader
8.   Illinois Blues
9.   How Long "Buck"
10. 4 O'Clock Blues
11. 22-20 Blue
12. Hard Luck Child
13. If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down the Road
14. Be Ready When He Comes
15. Yola My Blues Away
16. I'm So Glad
17. What Am I To Do Blues
12. Special Rider Blues

(The image is from the insert to the Biograph reissue of the 1964 recordings below.)

We offer the 1994 Yazoo/Shanachie issue of Skip James—The Complete Early Recordings for $18.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Memphis Minnie
Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937)
1991 Sony Music Entertainment release on CD
Roots and Blues Series Producer—Lawrence Cohn

 (Cover image is from the CD)

These are the later recordings by Memphis Minnie. Those marked ("*") also appear on the previous collection (As said, we ARE going to find a way to stock that one as well). So why should you also have this one on your shelves? Two easy answers...12 of the 20 tracks AREN'T on that one...and "Good Biscuits" (among others).

And you can't beat the price. (OK, that's three easy answers)

The songs: 

1.   Down in the Alley (1937)
2.   Has Anyone Seen My Man?* (1938)
3.   I Hate to See the Sun Go Down (1938)
4.   Ice Man (Come on Up)* (1936)
5.   Hoodoo Lady (1936)
6.  I'm a Bad Luck Woman* (1936)
7.   Caught Me Wrong Again* (1936)
8.   Black Cat Blues* (1936)
9.   Good Morning (1936)
10. Man, You Won't Give Me No Money (1936)
11. Keep On Eatin' (1938)
12. I've Been Treated Wrong (1938)
13. Good Biscuits (1938)
14. Ain't No Use Tryin' to Tell On Me (I Know Something On You)* (1933)
15. My Butcher Man* (1933)
16. My Strange Man (1936)
17. If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)* (1936)
18. My Baby Don't Want Me No More (1937)
19. Please Don't Stop Him (1937)
20. I'm Going Don't You Know (1937)

(The image is from the CD insert)

We offer the 1991 Columbia Legacy issue of Memphis Minnie—Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937) for $12.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Anthology of American Folk Music
(A compilation of 78 RPM recordings from 1926-1932)
1997 Smithsonian Folkways release (6 CDs)
Compiled by Harry Smith—Originally published in 1952

 (Image is from the cover of the boxed-set reissue of the 1952 release)
  

If there is a "canon" of American Basics...especially Blues and Folk Music, this is it.

If you are building a library of basic American music, it must be included.

You won't like everything on these 84 tracks. Neither did Harry Smith. You still need to have them if you want the soundtrack to American hidden history.

VOLUME ONE: THE BALLADS
The songs: 
Disk One
1.   Henry Lee
        Dick Justice
2.   Fatal Flower Garden
        Nelstone's Hawaiians
3.   The House Carpenter
        Clarence Ashley
4.   Drunkard's Special
        Coley Jones
5.   The Old Lady and the Devil
        Bill and Belle Reed
6.   The Butcher's Boy
        Buell Kazee
7.   The Wagoner's Lad
        Buell Kazee
8.   King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
        Chubby Parker
9.   Old Shoes and Leggins
        Uncle Eck Dunford
10. Willie Moore
        Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford
11. A Lazy Farmer Boy
        Buster Carter and Preston Young
12. Peg and Awl
        The Carolina Tar Heels
13. Ommie Wise
        G. B. Grayson
14. My Name is John Johanna
        Kelly Harrell

Disk Two
1.   Bandit Cole Younger
        Edward L. Crain
2.   Charles Giteau
        Kelly Harrell
3.   John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
        The Carter Family
4.   Gonna Die with My Hammer in My Hand
        The Williamson Brothers and Curry
5.   Stackalee
        Frank Hutchison
6.   White House Blues
        Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
7.   Frankie
        Mississippi John Hurt
8.   When That Great Ship Went Down
        William and Versey Smith
9.   Engine 143
        The Carter Family
10. Kassie Jones
        Furry Lewis
11. Down on Penney's Farm
        The Bently Boys
12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
        The Masked Marvel [Charley Patton]
13. Got the Farm Land Blues
        The Carolina Tar Heels

VOLUME TWO: SOCIAL MUSIC
The songs: 
Disk One
1.   Sail Away Lady
        Uncle Bunt Stephens
2.   The Wild Wagoner
        Jilson Setters
3.   Wake Up Jacob
        Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4.   La Danseuse
        Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard
5.   Georgia Stomp
        Andrew and Jim Baxter
6.   Brilliancy Medley
        Eck Robertson
7.   Indian War Whoop
        Hoyt Ming and his Pep-Steppers
8.   Old Country Stomp
        Henry Thomas
9.   Old Dog Blue
        Jim Jackson
10. Saut Crapaud
        Columbus Fruge
11. Acadian One-Step
        Joseph Falcon
12. Home Sweet Home
        The Breaux Freres
13. Newport Blues
        The Cincinnati Jug Band
14. Moonshiner's Dance Part One
        Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra

Disk Two
1.   You Must Be Born Again
        Rev. J. M. Gates
2.   Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting
        Rev. J. M. Gates
3.   Rocky Road
        Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
4.   Present Joys
        Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
5.   This Song of Love
        Middle Georgia Singing Conv. No. 1
6.   Judgement
        Sister Mary Nelson
7.   He Got Better Things for You
        Memphis Sanctified Singers
8.   Since I Laid My Burden Down
        The Elders McIntosh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers
9.   John the Baptist
        Rev. Moses Mason
10. Dry Bones
        Bascom Lamar Lunsford
11. John the Revelator
        Blind Willie Johnson
12. Little Moses
        The Carter Family
13. Shine on Me
        Ernest Phipps and Holiness Singers
14. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
        Rev. F. W. McGee
15. In the Battlefield for My Lord
        Rev. D. C. Rice and Congregation

VOLUME THREE: SONGS
The songs: 
Disk One
1.   The Coo Coo Bird
        Clarence Ashley
2.   East Virginia
        Buell Kazee
3.   Minglewood Blues
        Cannon's Jug Stompers
4.   I Woke Up One Morning in May
        Didier Hébert
5.   James Alley Blues
        Richard "Rabbit" Brown
6.   Sugar Baby
        Dock Boggs
7.   I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
        Bascom Lamar Lunsford
8.   Mountaineer's Courtship
        Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
9.   The Spanish Merchant's Daughter
        The Stoneman Family
10. Bob Lee Junior Blues
        The Memphis Jug Band
11. Single Girl, Married Girl
        The Carter Family
12. Le Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme
        Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon
13. Rabbit Foot Blues
        Blind Lemon Jefferson
14. Expressman Blues
        Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell

Disk Two
1.   Poor Boy Blues
        Ramblin' Thomas
2.   Feather Bed
        Cannon's Jug Stompers
3.   Country Blues
        Dock Boggs
4.   99 Year Blues
        Julius Daniels
5.   Prison Cell Blues
        Blind Lemon Jefferson
6.   See That My Grave is Kept Clean
        Blind Lemon Jefferson
7.   C'est Si Triste Sans Lui
        Cleoma and Ophy Breaux and Joseph Falcon
8.   Way Down the Old Plank Road
        Uncle Dave Macon
9.   Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
        Uncle Dave Macon
10. Spike Driver Blues
        Mississippi John Hurt
11. K. C. Moan
        The Memphis Jug Band
12. Train on the Island
        J. P. Nestor
13. The Lone Star Trail
        Ken Maynard
14. Fishing Blues
        Henry Thomas

(The image is from the back cover of the third double CD)
(Harry Smith in 1955)

We offer the 1997 6-CD Smithsonian Folkways issue of the Anthology of American Folk Music for $85.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Volume Four
2000 Revenant/Harry Smith Archives release on CD
Producer for the Harry Smith Archives, Rani Singh

 (Cover image is from the CD)

 

The songs: 
Disk One
1.   Memphis Shakedown
        Memphis Jug Band
2.   Dog and Gun (An Old English Ballad)
        Bradley Kincaid
3.   Black Jack David
        The Carter Family
4.   Down on the Banks of the Ohio
        Blue Sky Boys
5.   Adieu False Heart
        Arthur Smith Trio
6.   John Henry Was a Little Boy
        J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers
7.   Nine Pound Hammer is Too Heavy
        Monroe Brothers
8.   Southern Casey Jones
        Jesse James
9.   Cold Iron Bed
        Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band
10. Packin' Trunk
        Leadbelly [Huddie Ledbetter]
11. Baby Please Don't Go
        Joe Williams Washboard Blues Singers
12. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
        Robert Johnson
13. Parchman Farm Blues
        Bukka White
14. Mean Old World
        Heavenly Gospel Singers

Disk Two
1.   Hello Stranger
        The Carter Family
2.   Stand By Me
        Sister Clara Hudmon [??Bessie Smith??]
3.   West Virginia Gals
        Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters
4.   How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
        Blind Alfred Reed
5.   Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
        Uncle Dave Macon
6.   Governor Al Smith
        Uncle Dave Macon
7.   Milk Cow Blues
        John Estes
8.   No Depression in Heaven
        The Carter Family
9.   I'll Be Rested (When the Roll is Called)
        Roosevelt Graves and Brother
10. He's in the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing)
        Memphis Minnie
11. The Cockeyed World
        Minnie Wallace
12. Barbecue Bust
        Mississippi Juke Band
13. Dans Le Grand Bois (In the Forest)
        Hackberry Ramblers
14. Aces Breakdown
        The Four Aces

(The image is from the 96-page Hardbound CD Case)
[Annotation: Harry Smith, painter, archivist, anthropologist, film-maker & hermetic alchemist...January 12, 1985, transforming milk into milk. Allen Ginsberg]

We offer the 2000 2-CD Revenant/Harry Smith Archives issue of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four for $32.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Deep River of Song: Alabama
From Lullabies to Blues
2001 Rounder Records release on CD
Collection Producers Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Jeffrey Greenberg

 (Cover image of Harriet McClintock is from the CD)
 
 

The songs: 

1.   Another Man Done Gone
        Vera Ward Hall
2.   Railroad Bill
        Vera Ward Hall
3.   Poor Lazarus
        Vera Ward Hall
4.   Been in the Jailhouse (Sun Gonna Shine In My Door Some Day)
        Blind Jessie Harris
5.   I Been Drinking
        Vera Ward Hall
6.   Honey, Take a Whiff on Me
        Blind Jessie Harris
7.   Train on a Hill (Train Imitation)
        Richard Amerson
8.   Alabama Bound
        Rich Brown
9.   Moaning (I'll Soon Be Gone)
        Vera Ward Hall, Dock Reed and Henry Reed
10. Job, Job
        Dock Reed and Vera Ward Hall
11. Didn't That Hammer Ring? (I Can't Hold Out No Longer)
        Dock Reed and Vera Ward Hall
12. What is the Soul of Man
        Dock Reed, Henry Reed and Vera Ward Hall
13. Knock John Booker (To the Low Ground)
        Mary McDonald
14. Wake, Sally Baker
        Joe and Mary McDonald
15. Go to Sleep (Little Baby)
        Harriet McClintock
16. Hush, Little Baby
        Annie Brewer
17. Come Up Horsey
        Vera Ward Hall
18. Little Bitty Man
        Mary McDonald
19. Titty, Give Me Some Titty
        Mary McDonald
20. Hopali
        Eight unidentified girls
21. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
        Eight unidentified girls
22. Jack, Can I Ride
        Unidentified children
23. Billy Goat Latin
        Joe F. Williams and Booker T. Williams
24. Hog Hunt
        Richard Amerson
25. I'm Chopping Cotton
        Sim Tartt Group
26. Gin the Cotton
        Harriet McClintock
27. Boll Weevil Blues
        Vera Ward Hall
28. Worried Blues
        Tom Bell
29. Steamboat Blues
        Richard Amerson
30. Carrie, Carrie
        Thomas Langston, Judge Broadus, Albert Niclolson & Joe Millhouse
31. Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-One (Ain't Working Song)
        Charley Campbell
32. Captain, I'm Getting Tired
        Willie Carter, Albert Nicholson, Allen Gordon and David Alexander

(The image of John A. Lomax is from the National Archives)

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Deep River of Song: Georgia
I'm Gonna Make You Happy 
1997 Sony Music Entertainment release on CD
Collection Producers Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Jeffrey Greenberg

 (Cover image of Blind Willie and Kate McTell is from the CD)

 

The songs: 

1.   Boll Weavil
        Blind Willy McTell
2.   Dying Crapshooter's Blues
        Blind Willy McTell
3.   Captain Haney Blues
        Camp Morris and group
4.   Po' Laz'us
        Male convict group
5.   Longest Train I Ever Saw
        Jessie Wadley, with John Wadley, Will Jones and Felix Davenport
6.   Oh Lawdy Me, Oh Lawdy My
        Male Convict Group
7.   Hammer Ring
        Paul Sylvester and group
8.   Judgment
        Camp Morris and group of six men
9.   Just as Well Get Ready, You Got To Die
        Blind Willy McTell
10. All Night Long
        Sophie Wing and mixed group
11. I Got to Cross the River Jordan
        Blind Willie McTell
12. I'm Gonna Make You Happy
        Buster Brown
13. Sally Walker
        Sidney Stripling
14. Coon Ci'nt (Coonjine)
        Sidney Stripling
15. Breakaway
        Sidney Stripling
16. Sevassafool (Sebastopol)
        Gus Gibson and Sidney Stripling
17. John Henry
        Reese Crenshaw
18. Fast Train
        John Lee Thomas
19. Poor Joe Breakdown
        Robert Davis
20. War Song
        Buster Brown
21. Southern Rag
        James Sneed, J. F. Duffey and Alvin Sanders
22. Smithy Rag
        The Smith Band

(The image is from the 40-page insert to the CD)
(Blind Willie McTell)

We offer the 2001 Rounder Records issue of Deep River of Song: Georgia for $18.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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The Complete Early Recording of
        Rev. (Blind) Gary Davis
1994 Yazoo release on CD
(No producer noted)

 (Cover image is from the CD)

 

The songs: 

[Recorded in New York in July, 1935]
1.   I Belong to the Band—Hallelujah!
2.   The Great Change in Me
3.   The Angel's Message to Me
4.   I Saw the Light
5.   Lord, Stand by Me
6.   I Am the Light
7.   O Lord, Search My Heart
8.   Have More Faith in Jesus
9.   You Got to Go Down
10. I Am the True Vine
11. Twelve Gates to the City
12. You Can Go Home
13. I'm Throwin' Up My Hand
14. Cross and Evil Woman Blues

[Recorded in Harlem, New York in 1949]
15. I Can't Bear My Burden By Myself
16. Meet Me at the Station 

(With Pete Seeger in 1962--Joe Alper photo from insert to set below.)

We offer the 1994 Yazoo issue of The Complete Early Recordings of Rev. Gary Davis for $18.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Deep River of Song
Mississippi: The Blues Lineage
Musical Geniuses of the Fields, Levees and Jukes
1999 Rounder Records release on CD
Collection Producers Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Jeffrey Greenberg

 (1943 image of Muddy Water[s] is from the CD cover)

 

The songs: 

1.   Ragged and Dirty
        William Brown
2.   Mississippi Blues
        William Brown
3.   County Farm Blues
        Eddie "Son" House
4.   High-Rolling Sergeant
        Sam Carter, Jim Mickles, Eddie Miles, Jack Rogers
5.   Early in the Morning
        Hollis "Fat Head" Washington
6.   The Jinx Blues (No. 2)
        Eddie "Son" House
7.   I Be Bound to Write to You
        McKinley Morganfield ("Muddy Waters")
8.   You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
        McKinley Morganfield ("Muddy Waters")
9.   Wind Howlin' Blues
        David "Honeyboy" Edwards
10. High Lonesome Hill
        Lucious Curtis, Willie Ford
11. Payday
        Willie Ford, Lucious Curtis
12. Train Blues
        Lucious Curtis
13. Santa Field Blues
        Willie Ford
14. Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
        Eddie "Son" House
15. Red River Blues
        Frank Evans
16. Walking Blues
        Eddie "Son" House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown, Leroy Williams

(The photo of Son House by Jeff Titon is from the 32-page booklet insert to the CD)

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Deep River of Song
Mississippi: Saints and Sinners
From Before the Blues and Gospel
1999 Rounder Records release on CD
Collection Producers Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Jeffrey Greenberg

 (Image of Sid Hemphill is from the cover of the CD)

 

The songs: 

1.   It's Better to Be Born Lucky
        Big Charlie Butler
2.   Stagolee
        Lucious Curtis and Willie Ford
3.   Walking Billy
        Thomas "Jaybird" Jones
4.   Mississippi Sounding Call
        Joe Shores
5.   Come Here Dog, and Get Your Bone
        Jim Henry
6.   Emmaline, Take Your Time
        Sid Hemphill
7.   Hog Hunt
        Sid Hemphill, Alec Askew, Lucious Smith and Will Head
8.   The Fox Hunter's Song
        Will Starks
9.   Times is Getting Hard
        Lucious Curtis and Willie Ford
10. Diamond Joe
        Big Charlie Butler
11. One Morning at the Break of Day (Wake Up Song)
        Crap Eye
12. Workin' on the Levee, Sleepin' on De Ground
        Jim Henry and Jeff Webster
13. Lord, I'm in Trouble
        Joe Miller and Jim Henry
14. Stewball
        Dobie Red and Group
15. Rosie
        Dobie Red and Group
16. French Blues
        Frank Evans
17. Rock Daniel
        Rev. C. H. Savage and Group
18. Interview
        Rev. C. H. Savage
19. Hallelu, Hallelu
        Henry Joiner, Annie Anderson and Group
20. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
        Rev. C. H. Savage and Group
21. Conversion Experience
        Henry Joiner
22. Let Me Ride
        Rev. C. H. Savage and Group
23. If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down
        Deacon Tom Jones, Rev. C. H. Savage and Group
24. Little David
        Deacon Tom Jones, Rev. C. H. Savage and Group
25. Calvary
        Rev. C. H. Savage and Group

(The image of Allen Lomax is from the National Archives)

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Tampa Red
The Bluebird Recordings 1936-1938
1997 RCA Records release on CD
Compiled and Produced by Vince Caro

 (Cover image is from the CD)

 

The songs: 
Disk One
1.   Stormy Sea Blues
2.   Nutty and Buggy Blues
3.   You Stole My Heart
4.   You Got Me Worryin'
5.   All Night Long
6.   That's the Way I Do
7.   I Hate Myself
8.   I Need You by My Side
9.   Blue and Evil Blues
10. If It Weren't For You
11. Right or Wrong
12. Stop Truckin' and Suzi-Q
13. Cheatin' On Me
14. Your One and Only
15. My Za Zu Girl
16. Someday I'm Bound to Die
17. Taking It & Making My Getaway
18. She Said It
19. It's Hard to Believe It's True
20. When Love Comes In
21. You Got to Learn to Do It
22. I Give My Love to You
23. I See You Can't Take It

Disk Two
1.   My Gal is Gone
2.   When the One You Love is Gone
3.   You're More Than a Palace to Me
4.   Harlem Swing
5.   Oh Babe Oh Baby
6.   I'm Gonna Get High
7.   Delta Woman Blues
8.   Deceitful Friend Blues
9.   Wrong Idea
10. Whoopee Mama
11. Travel On
12. Seminole Blues
13. The Most of Us Do
14. We Gonna Get High Together
15. Happily Married
16. A Lie In My Heart
17. Heck of a How-Do-You-Do
18. That May Get It Now
19. That Don't Matter Now
20. Grouchy Hearted Woman
21. Why Should Care?
22. Got to Leave My Woman

(The image  of Tampa Red and Leroy Carr is from the back cover insert of the double CD issue)

We offer the 1997 2-CD RCA Records issue of Tampa Red—The Bluebird Recordings 1936-1938 for $24.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings
1990 Columbia Records CD release

(Cover image is from the CD)
 
Robert Johnson occupies the crossroads of the blues, to this very day. He would have liked that, probably... He's another of those jeweled pivot-points in the music.

If you start back at the recorded beginnings of the the sound, you'll wind up at Robert Johnson, because he's the first of the artists on these shelves to, very clearly, have been listening to the records of others as he evolved his own sound. If you start with the history of the musicians, you'll wind up at Robert Johnson, because he was a young contemporary and student of the masters, like Charley Patton and Son House and Willie Brown. If you start with present-day blues and work backward, you'll wind up at Robert Johnson, because he is a predominating influence.

And if you explore the legends... Well, we'll have a lot more to say here about that, shortly.

The songs: 
Disk One
1.   Kindhearted Woman Blues
2.   Kindhearted Woman Blues
3.   I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
4.   Sweet Home Chicago
5.   Rambling On My Mind
6.   Rambling On My Mind
7.   When You Got a Good Friend
8.   When You Got a Good Friend
9.   Come On In My Kitchen
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. Terraplane Blues
12. Phonograph Blues
13. Phonograph Blues
14. 32-20 Blues
15. They're Red Hot
16. Dead Shrimp Blues
17. Cross Road Blues
18. Cross Road Blues
19. Walking Blues
20. Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Disk Two
1.   Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
2.   If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
3.   Stones In My Passway
4.   I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
5.   From Four Till Late
6.   Hellhound On My Trail
7.   Little Queen of Spades
8.   Little Queen of Spades
9.   Malted Milk
10. Drunken Hearted Man
11. Drunken Hearted Man
12. Me and the Devil Blues
13. Me and the Devil Blues
14. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
15. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
16. Traveling Riverside Blues
17. Honeymoon Blues
18. Love in Vain
19. Love in Vain
20. Milkcow's Calf Blues
21. Milkcow's Calf Blues

(The image is from the CD Cover)

We offer the 1990 Columbia Records issue of Robert Johnson—The Complete Recordings for $25.00 US, plus shipping and handling.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Gospel of the Blues (1938-1948)
2003 MCA Records release on CD
Produced by Andy McKaie