Other author/creator | Barrelhouse Buck, 1903-1962 performer. |
Other author/creator | Cat Iron performer. |
Other author/creator | Leadbelly, 1885-1949 performer. |
Other author/creator | Memphis Slim performer. |
Other author/creator | Anderson, Pink, 1900-1974 performer. |
Other author/creator | Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958, performer. |
Other author/creator | Brown, Henry, 1906-1981 performer. |
Other author/creator | Dane, Barbara performer. |
Other author/creator | Edwards, Honeyboy, performer. |
Other author/creator | Holcomb, Roscoe, performer. |
Other author/creator | Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982, performer. |
Other author/creator | House, Son, performer. |
Other author/creator | Johnson, Edith, performer. |
Other author/creator | King, Nora Lee performer. |
Other author/creator | Macon, John Wesley, 1933-1973, performer. |
Other author/creator | McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996, performer. |
Other author/creator | Montgomery, Little Brother, 1906-1985, performer. |
Other author/creator | Sykes, Roosevelt, performer. |
Other author/creator | Terry, Sonny performer. |
Other author/creator | White, Josh, performer. |
Other author/creator | Williams, Lucinda performer. |
Other author/creator | Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 performer. |
Other author/creator | Williams, Warner performer. |
Other author/creator | Chambers Brothers, performer. |
Contents |
Dark road (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (2:42) -- Step it up and go (Warner Williams) (2:35) -- It was early one morning (Lead Belly) (2:24) -- Blues, until my baby comes back home (Nora Lee King and Mary Lou Williams) (2:52) -- That's no way to do (Pink Anderson) (2:22) -- Farro Street jive (Little Brother Montgomery) (2:16) -- I ain't gonna cry no more (Depot blues) (Son House) (2:55) -- Graveyard blues (Roscoe Holcomb) (2:58) -- 44 blues (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:41) -- Big fat mama (Honeyboy Edwards) (2:55) -- Make me a pallet on your floor (Lucinda Williams) (3:50) -- Lieutenant blues (Barrelhouse Buck) (2:36) -- The woman is killing me (Sonny Terry and friends) (2:23) -- Little drops of water (Edith North Johnson and Henry Brown) (3:05) -- When things go wrong (it hurts me too) (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:58) -- Poor boy a long, long way from home (Cat-Iron) (2:43) -- My jack don't drink water no more (Shortstuff Macon) (3:40) -- 'Way behind the sun (Barbara Dane) (3:49) -- Tell me, baby (Lightnin' Hopkins) (2:32) -- Just a dream (Memphis Slim) (4:11) -- Jelly jelly (Josh White) (2:26) -- Down in the alley (Chambers Brothers) (3:08). |
General note | Originally issued as compact disc. |
General note | Previously released recordings. |
General note | Program, biographical, and historical notes by Barry Lee Pearson inserted in original container. |
Performer |
Various performers. |