"This compilation ... spans half a century and features Delta, St. Louis, Southwest, and Chicago styles"--Container.
Previously released recordings.
Compact disc.
Program, biographical, and historical notes by Barry Lee Pearson (22 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Various performers.
Contents:
Old Jabo (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:11) -- Mule-ridin' blues (Big Bill Broonzy) (3:43) -- Joggie boogie (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:25) -- Black woman (Vera Hall) (1:24) -- Mercury blues (K.C. Douglas) (2:18) -- Ran the blues out of my window (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:54) -- Leaving blues (Lead Belly) (2:21) -- One dime blues (Etta Baker) (3:43) -- County farm blues (Son House) (2:08) -- Clog dance : (Stomping blues) (Champion Jack Dupree) (1:59) -- Boll weevil (Pink Anderson) (3:03) -- Nickel's worth of liver (Edith North Johnson & Henry Brown) (2:40) -- Don't leave me here (Big Joe Williams) (2:40) -- Jimmy Bell (Cat Iron [i.e. William Carradine]) (2:17) -- Candy man (Reverend Gary Davis) (2:32) -- Come go home with me (Lightnin' Hopkins) (3:51) -- Careless love (Josh White) (3:20) -- I asked her if she loved me (Henry Townsend) (2:52) -- Rising sun (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (2:40) -- Pony blues (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) 3:26) -- Vicksburg blues (Little Brother Montgomery) (3:59) -- Vastapol (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:09) -- Drifting along blues (Lonnie Johnson) (2:56) -- Oh baby, you don't have to go (The Chambers Brothers) (2:46) -- Don't lie buddy (Lead Belly and Josh White) (2:21)