Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 Various artists box set . It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues sub-genres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.
Disc one
- Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - "Shortnin' / Henduck"
- Lightning & Group - "Long John"
- Mamie Smith – "Crazy Blues"
- W.C. Handy – "St. Louis Blues"
- Bessie Smith – "Muddy Water"
- Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Match Box Blues"
- Furry Lewis – "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"
- Ma Rainey – ""Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom"
- Blind Willie Johnson – "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"
- Louis Armstrong – "Savoy Blues"
- Frank Stokes – "Downtown Blues"
- Mississippi John Hurt – "Frankie"
- Henry Thomas – "Fishing Blues"
- Leroy Carr – "How Long, How Long Blues"
- Tommy Johnson – "Canned Heat Blues"
- Blind Willie McTell – "Southern Can Is Mine"
- Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – "It's Tight Like That"
- Pine Top Smith – "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
- Lonnie Johnson – "Guitar Blues"
- Charley Patton – "Pony Blues"
- Blind Blake – "Diddie Wah Diddie"
- Memphis Jug Band – "K.C. Moan"
- Jimmie Rodgers – "Standin' On The Corner (Blue Yodel # 9)"
- Mississippi Sheiks – "Sittin' on Top of the World"
- Son House – "Preachin' The Blues"
- Skip James – "Devil Got My Woman"
- Lead Belly – "C.C. Rider"
- Big Joe Williams – "Baby, Please Don't Go"
- Roosevelt Sykes – "Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)"
- Billie Holiday - "Billie's Blues"
- Robert Johnson – "Cross Roads Blues"
- Sonny Boy Williamson I - "Good Mornin' Little School Girl"
- Bukka White – "Shake 'em on Down"
- Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – "Roll 'Em Pete"
- Robert Petway – "Catfish Blues"
- Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing – "Going To Chicago Blues"
- Big Bill Broonzy – "Key To The Highway"
- Memphis Minnie – "Me And My Chauffeur Blues"
- Big Maceo Merriweather – "Worried Life Blues"
- Tommy McClennon – "Cross Cut Saw Blues"
- Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington – "Evil Gal Blues"
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe – "Strange Things Happening Everyday"
- Joe Liggins – "Honeydripper"
- Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown – "Drifting Blues"
- Louis Jordan – "Let the Good Times Roll"
- Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup – "That's All Right Mama"
- T-Bone Walker – "Call It Stormy Monday"
- Wynonie Harris – "Good Rockin' Tonight"
- Jimmy Witherspoon – "Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"
- The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & The Robins – "Double Crossing Blues"
- Memphis Slim – "Mother Earth"
- Percy Mayfield – "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
- Jackie Brenston – "Rocket 88"
- Elmore James – "Dust My Broom"
- Rosco Gordon – "No More Doggin'"
- Little Walter – "Juke"
- Big Mama Thornton – "Hound Dog"
- Lowell Fulson – "Reconsider Baby"
- Guitar Slim – "The Things That I Used to Do"
- Professor Longhair – "In The Night"
- Muddy Waters – "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
- J. B. Lenoir – "Eisenhower Blues"
- Fats Domino – "Blue Monday"
- Ray Charles – "Hard Times"
- Smiley Lewis – "I Hear You Knockin'"
- Elvis Presley – "Mystery Train"
- Sonny Boy Williamson II – "Don't Start Me To Talkin'"
- Howlin' Wolf – "Smokestack Lightnin'"
- Bo Diddley – "Who Do You Love"
- Slim Harpo – "I'm a King Bee"
- Chuck Berry – "Johnny B. Goode"
- Bobby "Blue" Bland – "Farther Up The Road"
- Otis Rush – "So Many Roads, So Many Trains"
- Buddy Guy – "First Time I Met The Blues"
- Jimmy Reed – "Big Boss Man"
- Freddie King – "Hide Away"
- Junior Parker – "Drivin' Wheel"
- John Lee Hooker – "Boom Boom"
- Albert Collins – "Frosty"
- Muddy Waters – "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"
- Howlin' Wolf – "Killing Floor"
- Son House – "Death Letter Blues"
- Mississippi Fred McDowell – "You Gotta Move"
- Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited"
- Junior Wells – "Hoodoo Man Blues"
- Koko Taylor – "Wang Dang Doodle"
- John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - "All Your Love"
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin'"
- Jimi Hendrix – "Red House"
- Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign"
- Magic Sam – "Mama Talk To Your Daughter"
- Etta James – "Tell Mama"
- The Jeff Beck Group – "I Ain't Superstitious"
- Taj Mahal – "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)"
- Fleetwood Mac – "Albatross"
- Janis Joplin – "One Good Man"
- B. B. King – "The Thrill Is Gone"
- Johnny Winter – "Dallas"
- Derek and the Dominos – "Have You Ever Loved a Woman"
- Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers – "Give Me Back My Wig"
- The Allman Brothers Band – "One Way Out"
- Z.Z. Hill – "Down Home Blues"
- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Pride And Joy"
- Robert Cray – "Smoking Gun"
- The Fabulous Thunderbirds – "Tuff Enuff"
- John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt - "I'm in the Mood"
- Ali Farka Toure – "Timbarma"
- Keb' Mo' – "Am I Wrong?"
- Luther Allison – "Cherry Red Wine"
- Peggy Scott-Adams – "Bill"
- Susan Tedeschi – "Just Won't Burn"
- Gov't Mule – "Time To Confess"
- Los Lobos – "Voodoo Music"
- Bonnie Raitt – "Round And Round"
- Cassandra Wilson - "Vietnam Blues"
- Robert Cray and Shemekia Copeland - "I Pity the Fool" (Live)
- Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris – "Sweet Home Chicago"