This 52 disc Ultimate Collection features music from the Delta to the Big Cities. This special first edition also includes a historic puck harmonica. How blue can you get? You will find your favorites here and discover some hidden gems, as the 'ABC of the Blues' brings together the best of the best.
It presents some of the most influential Blues musicians - some of the most influential musicians, period. Their styles may range as far and wide as their attitudes, their concepts, yes, even their stories and legends. The oldest member of the distinct congregation were born in the late 19th century. Some of the young'uns still record and perform to this day. The music may lift you up or get you down. But one thing is for sure:
The Blues will live on!
It presents some of the most influential Blues musicians - some of the most influential musicians, period. Their styles may range as far and wide as their attitudes, their concepts, yes, even their stories and legends. The oldest member of the distinct congregation were born in the late 19th century. Some of the young'uns still record and perform to this day. The music may lift you up or get you down. But one thing is for sure:
The Blues will live on!
01-01 Kokomo Arnold - Backfence Picket Blues
01-02 Kokomo Arnold - Fool Man Blues
01-03 Kokomo Arnold - Long and Tall
01-04 Kokomo Arnold - Sally Dog
01-05 Kokomo Arnold - Cold Winter Blues
01-06 Kokomo Arnold - Sister Jane Cross the Hall
01-07 Kokomo Arnold - Wild Water Blues
01-08 Kokomo Arnold - Laugh and Grin Blues
01-09 Kokomo Arnold - Mean Old Twister
01-10 Kokomo Arnold - Red Beans and Rice
01-11 Billy Boy Arnold - My Heart Is Crying
01-12 Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would
01-13 Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got You
01-14 Billy Boy Arnold - Here's My Picture
01-15 Billy Boy Arnold - You Got Me Wrong
01-16 Billy Boy Arnold - Prisoner's Plea
01-17 Billy Boy Arnold - Every Day, Every Night
01-18 Billy Boy Arnold - No, No, No, No, No
01-19 Billy Boy Arnold - Rockinitis
01-20 Billy Boy Arnold - I Was Fooled
02-01 Richard Berry - Louie, Louie
02-02 Richard Berry - Sweet Sugar You
02-03 Richard Berry - You Look So Good
02-04 Richard Berry - Mess Around
02-05 Richard Berry - No Room
02-06 Richard Berry - I Want You to Be My Girl
02-07 Richard Berry - I'm Your Fool
02-08 Richard Berry - Walk Right In
02-09 Richard Berry - Give It Up
02-10 Richard Berry - Have Love, Will Travel
02-11 Barbecue Bob - Yo Yo Blues
02-12 Barbecue Bob - California Blues
02-13 Barbecue Bob - Motherless Chiles Blues
02-14 Barbecue Bob - She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
02-15 Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues
02-16 Barbecue Bob - Ease It to Me Blues
02-17 Barbecue Bob - Chocolate to the Bone
02-18 Barbecue Bob - Good Time Rounder
02-19 Barbecue Bob - Atlanta Moan
02-20 Barbecue Bob - Diddle-Da-Diddle
03-01 Bobby "Blue" Bland - It's My Life, Baby
03-02 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Honey Bee
03-03 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Lost Lover Blues
03-04 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Time Out
03-05 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Million Miles from Nowhere
03-06 Bobby "Blue" Bland - You've Got Bad Intentions
03-07 Bobby "Blue" Bland - I Don't Believe
03-08 Bobby "Blue" Bland - You Did Me Wrong
03-09 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Last Night
03-10 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Wise Man's Blues
03-11 Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues
03-12 Charles Brown - Trouble Blues
03-13 Charles Brown - In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
03-14 Charles Brown - Get Yourself Another Fool
03-15 Charles Brown - Black Night
03-16 Charles Brown - Hard Times
03-17 Charles Brown - Cryin' Mercy
03-18 Charles Brown - Evening Shadows
03-19 Charles Brown - Fool's Paradise
03-20 Charles Brown - Merry Christmas, Baby
04-01 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Midnight Hour
04-02 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Ain't That Dandy
04-03 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Dirty Work at the Crossroads
04-04 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Hurry Back Good News
04-05 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Okie Dokie Stomp
04-06 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Sad Hour
04-07 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Gate's Salty Blues
04-08 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Just Before Dawn
04-09 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Depression Blues
04-10 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - For Now So Long
04-11 Blue Lu Barker - Trombone Man Blues
04-12 Blue Lu Barker - Here's a Little Girl
04-13 Blue Lu Barker - A Little Bird Told Me
04-14 Blue Lu Barker - What Did You Do to Me?
04-15 Blue Lu Barker - Leave My Man Alone
04-16 Blue Lu Barker - Now You're Down in the Alley
04-17 Blue Lu Barker - When the Wagon Comes
04-18 Blue Lu Barker - Loan Me Your Husband
04-19 Blue Lu Barker - Bow Legged Daddy
04-20 Blue Lu Barker - Love That Man
05-01 Big Bill Broonzy - Mississippi River Blues
05-02 Big Bill Broonzy - Long Tall Mama
05-03 Big Bill Broonzy - Worrying You Off My Mind (Part 1)
05-04 Big Bill Broonzy - Rising Sun Shine On
05-05 Big Bill Broonzy - Come Home Early
05-06 Big Bill Broonzy - Good Jelly
05-07 Big Bill Broonzy - Bull Cow Blues
05-08 Big Bill Broonzy - I Can't Make You Satisfied
05-09 Big Bill Broonzy - How You Want It Done
05-10 Big Bill Broonzy - Hattie Blues
05-11 Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues
05-12 Blind Blake - Come On Boys, Let's Do That Messin' Around
05-13 Blind Blake - Hard Pushin' Papa
05-14 Blind Blake - Skeedle Loo Doo Blues
05-15 Blind Blake - Georgia Bound
05-16 Blind Blake - Too Tight Blues, No. 2
05-17 Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie
05-18 Blind Blake - Southern Rag
05-19 Blind Blake - C.C. Pill Blues
05-20 Blind Blake - Rope Stretching Blues, Pt. 1
06-01 Champion Jack Dupree - Strollin'
06-02 Champion Jack Dupree - T.B. Blues
06-03 Champion Jack Dupree - Can't Kick the Habit
06-04 Champion Jack Dupree - Evil Woman
06-05 Champion Jack Dupree - Nasty Boogie
06-06 Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues
06-07 Champion Jack Dupree - Bad Blood
06-08 Champion Jack Dupree - Goin' Down Slow
06-09 Champion Jack Dupree - Frankie & Johnny
06-10 Champion Jack Dupree - Stack-O-Lee
06-11 Cousin Joe - Fly Hen Blues
06-12 Cousin Joe - Little Eva
06-13 Cousin Joe - Lightning Struck the Poorhouse
06-14 Cousin Joe - Baby You Don't Know at All
06-15 Cousin Joe - The Barefoot Baby
06-16 Cousin Joe - Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue
06-17 Cousin Joe - Beggin' Woman
06-18 Cousin Joe - Sadie Brown
06-19 Cousin Joe - Evolution Blues
06-20 Cousin Joe - Box Car Shorty's Confession
07-01 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Wrong Man Blues
07-02 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Gettin' All Wet
07-03 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Blue with the Blues
07-04 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Christmas in Jail, Ain't That a Pain
07-05 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - That's Tellin'em
07-06 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Papa Wants a Cookie
07-07 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - The Dirty Dozen
07-08 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Carried Water for the Elephant
07-09 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Let's Disagree
07-10 Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Papa's Got Your Water On
07-11 Pee Wee Crayton - Win-O
07-12 Pee Wee Crayton - I Got News for You
07-13 Pee Wee Crayton - Blues Before Dawn
07-14 Pee Wee Crayton - Don't Break My Heart
07-15 Pee Wee Crayton - The Telephone Is Ringing
07-16 Pee Wee Crayton - California Women
07-17 Pee Wee Crayton - Blues for My Baby
07-18 Pee Wee Crayton - Dedicated to the Blues
07-19 Pee Wee Crayton - Phone Call from My Baby
07-20 Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours
08-01 Bo Diddley - I'm a Man
08-02 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
08-03 Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing
08-04 Bo Diddley - Bring It to Jerome
08-05 Bo Diddley - Diddy Wah Diddy
08-06 Bo Diddley - I'm Looking for a Woman
08-07 Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
08-08 Bo Diddley - You Don't Love Me
08-09 Bo Diddley - Hey Bo Diddley
08-10 Bo Diddley - Mona (I Need You Baby)
08-11 Bo Diddley - Say Boss Man
08-12 Bo Diddley - Before You Accuse Me
08-13 Bo Diddley - Say Man
08-14 Bo Diddley - The Clock Strikes Twelve
08-15 Bo Diddley - Crackin' Up
08-16 Bo Diddley - Don't Let It Go (Hold On to What You Got)
08-17 Bo Diddley - Mumblin' Guitar
08-18 Bo Diddley - She's Alright
08-19 Bo Diddley - Road Runner
08-20 Bo Diddley - The Story of Bo Diddley
09-01 Willie Dixon - Don't Let That Music Die
09-02 Willie Dixon - I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man
09-03 Willie Dixon - Money Tree Blues
09-04 Willie Dixon - Since My Baby Gone
09-05 Willie Dixon - No One to Love Me
09-06 Willie Dixon - Hard Notch Boogie Beat
09-07 Willie Dixon - If the Sea Was Whiskey
09-08 Willie Dixon - Got You on My Mind
09-09 Willie Dixon - Tell That Woman
09-10 Willie Dixon - Come Here Baby
09-11 Floyd Dixon - Dallas Blues
09-12 Floyd Dixon - Moonshine
09-13 Floyd Dixon - Real Lovin' Mama
09-14 Floyd Dixon - Prairie Dog Blues
09-15 Floyd Dixon - Shuffle Blues
09-16 Floyd Dixon - Blues for Cuba
09-17 Floyd Dixon - Telephone Blues
09-18 Floyd Dixon - Lovin'
09-19 Floyd Dixon - Let's Dance
09-20 Floyd Dixon - Opportunity Blues
10-01 Snooks Eaglin - Careless Love
10-02 Snooks Eaglin - Let Me Go Home, Whisky
10-03 Snooks Eaglin - Trouble in Mind
10-04 Snooks Eaglin - St. James Infirmary
10-05 Snooks Eaglin - Rock Island Line
10-06 Snooks Eaglin - Sophisticated Blues
10-07 Snooks Eaglin - I'm Looking for a Woman
10-08 Snooks Eaglin - Look Down That Lonesome Road
10-09 Snooks Eaglin - I Got a Questionnaire
10-10 Snooks Eaglin - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
10-11 Sleepy John Estes - Jack and Jill Blues
10-12 Sleepy John Estes - Poor Man's Friend
10-13 Sleepy John Estes - Hobo Jungle Blues
10-14 Sleepy John Estes - Airplane Blues
10-15 Sleepy John Estes - Floating Bridge
10-16 Sleepy John Estes - Need More Blues
10-17 Sleepy John Estes - Fire Department Blues
10-18 Sleepy John Estes - New Someday Baby
10-19 Sleepy John Estes - Liquor Store Blues
10-20 Sleepy John Estes - Brownsville Blues