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!
21-01 B.B. King - B.B. Boogie
21-02 B.B. King - When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
21-03 B.B. King - Got the Blues
21-04 B.B. King - Take a Swing with Me
21-05 B.B. King - Miss Martha King
21-06 B.B. King - Mistreated Woman
21-07 B.B. King - The Other Night Blues
21-08 B.B. King - Walkin' and Cryin'
21-09 B.B. King - My Baby Is Gone
21-10 B.B. King - Fine Looking Woman
21-11 B.B. King - She's Dynamite
21-12 B.B. King - She's a Mean Woman
21-13 B.B. King - Hard Working Woman
21-14 B.B. King - That Ain't the Way to Do It
21-15 B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues
21-16 B.B. King - She Don't Move Me No More
21-17 B.B. King - Shake It Up and Go
21-18 B.B. King - My Own Fault Darlin'
21-19 B.B. King - Gotta Find My Baby
21-20 B.B. King - B.B. Blues
22-01 Little Walter - Blues with a Feeling
22-02 Little Walter - Juke
22-03 Little Walter - Sad Hours
22-04 Little Walter - Tell Me Mama
22-05 Little Walter - Off the Wall
22-06 Little Walter - You Better Watch Yourself
22-07 Little Walter - My Babe
22-08 Little Walter - Last Night
22-09 Little Walter - You're So Fine
22-10 Little Walter - Roller Coaster
22-11 Little Walter - Moonshine Blues
22-12 Little Walter - Bad Acting Woman
22-13 Little Walter - Blue Baby
22-14 Little Walter - Can't Hold On Much Longer
22-15 Little Walter - Tonight with a Fool
22-16 Little Walter - Boogie
22-17 Little Walter - Red Headed Woman
22-18 Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her
22-19 Little Walter - Mean Old World
22-20 Little Walter - Lights Out
23-01 Lightnin' Slim - Rock Me Mama
23-02 Lightnin' Slim - Bad Luck
23-03 Lightnin' Slim - New Orleans Bound
23-04 Lightnin' Slim - Bugger Bugger Boy
23-05 Lightnin' Slim - I'm a Rollin' Stone
23-06 Lightnin' Slim - Hoodoo Man
23-07 Lightnin' Slim - I'm Grown
23-08 Lightnin' Slim - Nothing but the Devil
23-09 Lightnin' Slim - Tom Cat Blues
23-10 Lightnin' Slim - Wintertime Blues
23-11 J.B. Lenoir - I Have Married
23-12 J.B. Lenoir - How Much More
23-13 J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll Pt. 1
23-14 J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo Pt. 1
23-15 J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman
23-16 J.B. Lenoir - Louise
23-17 J.B. Lenoir - When I Was Young
23-18 J.B. Lenoir - Bassology
23-19 J.B. Lenoir - Play a Little While
23-20 J.B. Lenoir - Livin' in the White House
24-01 Leadbelly - Alabama Bound
24-02 Leadbelly - Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
24-03 Leadbelly - Leavin' Blues
24-04 Leadbelly - Midnight Special
24-05 Leadbelly - T.B. Woman Blues
24-06 Leadbelly - New York City
24-07 Leadbelly - Shorty George
24-08 Leadbelly - John Hardy
24-09 Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues
24-10 Leadbelly - Good Morning Blues
24-11 Leadbelly - Easy Rider
24-12 Leadbelly - Pretty Flower in Your Backyard
24-13 Leadbelly - Black Snake Moan
24-14 Leadbelly - See See Rider
24-15 Leadbelly - Roberta Pt. 1
24-16 Leadbelly - Pigmeat
24-17 Leadbelly - Grey Goose
24-18 Leadbelly - Pick a Bale of Cotton
24-19 Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
24-20 Leadbelly - Death Letter Blues Pt. 1
25-01 Little Willie John - Fever
25-02 Little Willie John - All Around the World
25-03 Little Willie John - Suffering with the Blues
25-04 Little Willie John - Tell It Like It Is
25-05 Little Willie John - Person to Person
25-06 Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad
25-07 Little Willie John - Talk to Me, Talk to Me
25-08 Little Willie John - Home at Last
25-09 Little Willie John - My Nerves
25-10 Little Willie John - Leave My Kitten Alone
25-11 Smiley Lewis - How Long
25-12 Smiley Lewis - Goin' to Jump and Shout
25-13 Smiley Lewis - Ain't Goin' There No More
25-14 Smiley Lewis - Last Night
25-15 Smiley Lewis - Tee-Nah-Nah
25-16 Smiley Lewis - Lonesome Highway
25-17 Smiley Lewis - Lying Woman
25-18 Smiley Lewis - No Letter Today
25-19 Smiley Lewis - Mama Don't Like
25-20 Smiley Lewis - I Want to Be with Her
26-01 Furry Lewis - Everybody's Blues
26-02 Furry Lewis - Sweet Papa Moon
26-03 Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones Pt. 1
26-04 Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons and Stack-O-Lee
26-05 Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues
26-06 Furry Lewis - John Henry
26-07 Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues
26-08 Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green
26-09 Furry Lewis - Jelly Roll
26-10 Furry Lewis - Good Looking Girl Blues
26-11 Furry Lewis - Mistreatin' Mama
26-12 Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues
26-13 Furry Lewis - Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
26-14 Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues
26-15 Furry Lewis - Why Don't You Come Home Blues
26-16 Robert Lockwood - Dust My Broom
26-17 Robert Lockwood - Pearly
26-18 Robert Lockwood - Aw Aw Baby [Sweet Home Chicago]
26-19 Robert Lockwood - Sweet Woman from Maine
26-20 Robert Lockwood - You've Gotta Stop This Mess
27-01 Magic Sam - All Your Love
27-02 Magic Sam - Love Me with a Feeling
27-03 Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright
27-04 Magic Sam - Easy Baby
27-05 Magic Sam - 21 Days in Jail
27-06 Jimmy McCracklin - Listen Woman
27-07 Jimmy McCracklin - I Can't Understand Love
27-08 Jimmy McCracklin - Josephine (Just Won't Let Her Go)
27-09 Jimmy McCracklin - Love When It Rains
27-10 Jimmy McCracklin - I Think My Time Is Here
27-11 Jimmy McCracklin - Deceivin' Blues
27-12 Jimmy McCracklin - Beer Drinkin' Woman
27-13 Jimmy McCracklin - Hamburger Joint
27-14 Jimmy McCracklin - Just Won't Let Her Go
27-15 Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' All Day
27-16 Jimmy McCracklin - Gotta Cut Out
27-17 Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' Man
27-18 Jimmy McCracklin - Looking for a Woman
27-19 Jimmy McCracklin - True Love Blues
27-20 Jimmy McCracklin - The Walk
28-01 Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone to Love
28-02 Percy Mayfield - Strange Things Happening
28-03 Percy Mayfield - What a Fool I Was
28-04 Percy Mayfield - Lost Love (Baby, Please)
28-05 Percy Mayfield - Advice
28-06 Percy Mayfield - Nightmare
28-07 Percy Mayfield - You Don't Exist No More
28-08 Percy Mayfield - Get Way Back
28-09 Percy Mayfield - The River's Invitation
28-10 Percy Mayfield - Life Is Suicide
28-11 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Dragnet Blues
28-12 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Saturday Night (Four Nights Drunk)
28-13 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Johnny, Johnny
28-14 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Down in Texas
28-15 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Be Cool
28-16 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Playing Numbers
28-17 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Crazy with the Blues
28-18 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Nightmare Blues
28-19 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Gee, It's Rough
28-20 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - I Don't Know, Yes I Know
29-01 Memphis Minnie - Frisco Town
29-02 Memphis Minnie - Moonshine
29-03 Memphis Minnie - Nothing in Rambling
29-04 Memphis Minnie - I'm Talking About You
29-05 Memphis Minnie - Joe Louis Strut
29-06 Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur Blues
29-07 Memphis Minnie - My Baby Don't Want Me No More
29-08 Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee
29-09 Memphis Minnie - Boy Friend Blues
29-10 Memphis Minnie - In My Girlish Days
29-11 Big Maybelle - Gabbin' Blues (Don't Run My Business)
29-12 Big Maybelle - Rain Down Rain
29-13 Big Maybelle - Way Back Home
29-14 Big Maybelle - Please Stay Away from My Sam
29-15 Big Maybelle - Jinny Mule
29-16 Big Maybelle - I've Got a Feelin'
29-17 Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
29-18 Big Maybelle - Hair Dressin' Women
29-19 Big Maybelle - Don't Leave Poor Me
29-20 Big Maybelle - No More Trouble out of Me
30-01 Roy Milton - Cryin' and Singin' the Blues
30-02 Roy Milton - I Want a Little Girl
30-03 Roy Milton - My Blue Heaven
30-04 Roy Milton - 'Taint Me
30-05 Roy Milton - Groovy Blues
30-06 Roy Milton - Waking Up Blues
30-07 Roy Milton - Sympathetic Blues
30-08 Roy Milton - Playboy Blues
30-09 Roy Milton - Rhythm Cocktail
30-10 Roy Milton - Bye Bye Blues
30-11 Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
30-12 Amos Milburn - I'm Still a Fool for You
30-13 Amos Milburn - All Is Well
30-14 Amos Milburn - My Happiness Depends on You
30-15 Amos Milburn - I Know You Love Me
30-16 Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
30-17 Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
30-18 Amos Milburn - Let's Have a Party
30-19 Amos Milburn - Down the Road Apiece
30-20 Amos Milburn - Trouble in Mind
21-02 B.B. King - When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
21-03 B.B. King - Got the Blues
21-04 B.B. King - Take a Swing with Me
21-05 B.B. King - Miss Martha King
21-06 B.B. King - Mistreated Woman
21-07 B.B. King - The Other Night Blues
21-08 B.B. King - Walkin' and Cryin'
21-09 B.B. King - My Baby Is Gone
21-10 B.B. King - Fine Looking Woman
21-11 B.B. King - She's Dynamite
21-12 B.B. King - She's a Mean Woman
21-13 B.B. King - Hard Working Woman
21-14 B.B. King - That Ain't the Way to Do It
21-15 B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues
21-16 B.B. King - She Don't Move Me No More
21-17 B.B. King - Shake It Up and Go
21-18 B.B. King - My Own Fault Darlin'
21-19 B.B. King - Gotta Find My Baby
21-20 B.B. King - B.B. Blues
22-01 Little Walter - Blues with a Feeling
22-02 Little Walter - Juke
22-03 Little Walter - Sad Hours
22-04 Little Walter - Tell Me Mama
22-05 Little Walter - Off the Wall
22-06 Little Walter - You Better Watch Yourself
22-07 Little Walter - My Babe
22-08 Little Walter - Last Night
22-09 Little Walter - You're So Fine
22-10 Little Walter - Roller Coaster
22-11 Little Walter - Moonshine Blues
22-12 Little Walter - Bad Acting Woman
22-13 Little Walter - Blue Baby
22-14 Little Walter - Can't Hold On Much Longer
22-15 Little Walter - Tonight with a Fool
22-16 Little Walter - Boogie
22-17 Little Walter - Red Headed Woman
22-18 Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her
22-19 Little Walter - Mean Old World
22-20 Little Walter - Lights Out
23-01 Lightnin' Slim - Rock Me Mama
23-02 Lightnin' Slim - Bad Luck
23-03 Lightnin' Slim - New Orleans Bound
23-04 Lightnin' Slim - Bugger Bugger Boy
23-05 Lightnin' Slim - I'm a Rollin' Stone
23-06 Lightnin' Slim - Hoodoo Man
23-07 Lightnin' Slim - I'm Grown
23-08 Lightnin' Slim - Nothing but the Devil
23-09 Lightnin' Slim - Tom Cat Blues
23-10 Lightnin' Slim - Wintertime Blues
23-11 J.B. Lenoir - I Have Married
23-12 J.B. Lenoir - How Much More
23-13 J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll Pt. 1
23-14 J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo Pt. 1
23-15 J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman
23-16 J.B. Lenoir - Louise
23-17 J.B. Lenoir - When I Was Young
23-18 J.B. Lenoir - Bassology
23-19 J.B. Lenoir - Play a Little While
23-20 J.B. Lenoir - Livin' in the White House
24-01 Leadbelly - Alabama Bound
24-02 Leadbelly - Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
24-03 Leadbelly - Leavin' Blues
24-04 Leadbelly - Midnight Special
24-05 Leadbelly - T.B. Woman Blues
24-06 Leadbelly - New York City
24-07 Leadbelly - Shorty George
24-08 Leadbelly - John Hardy
24-09 Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues
24-10 Leadbelly - Good Morning Blues
24-11 Leadbelly - Easy Rider
24-12 Leadbelly - Pretty Flower in Your Backyard
24-13 Leadbelly - Black Snake Moan
24-14 Leadbelly - See See Rider
24-15 Leadbelly - Roberta Pt. 1
24-16 Leadbelly - Pigmeat
24-17 Leadbelly - Grey Goose
24-18 Leadbelly - Pick a Bale of Cotton
24-19 Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
24-20 Leadbelly - Death Letter Blues Pt. 1
25-01 Little Willie John - Fever
25-02 Little Willie John - All Around the World
25-03 Little Willie John - Suffering with the Blues
25-04 Little Willie John - Tell It Like It Is
25-05 Little Willie John - Person to Person
25-06 Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad
25-07 Little Willie John - Talk to Me, Talk to Me
25-08 Little Willie John - Home at Last
25-09 Little Willie John - My Nerves
25-10 Little Willie John - Leave My Kitten Alone
25-11 Smiley Lewis - How Long
25-12 Smiley Lewis - Goin' to Jump and Shout
25-13 Smiley Lewis - Ain't Goin' There No More
25-14 Smiley Lewis - Last Night
25-15 Smiley Lewis - Tee-Nah-Nah
25-16 Smiley Lewis - Lonesome Highway
25-17 Smiley Lewis - Lying Woman
25-18 Smiley Lewis - No Letter Today
25-19 Smiley Lewis - Mama Don't Like
25-20 Smiley Lewis - I Want to Be with Her
26-01 Furry Lewis - Everybody's Blues
26-02 Furry Lewis - Sweet Papa Moon
26-03 Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones Pt. 1
26-04 Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons and Stack-O-Lee
26-05 Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues
26-06 Furry Lewis - John Henry
26-07 Furry Lewis - Black Gypsy Blues
26-08 Furry Lewis - I Will Turn Your Money Green
26-09 Furry Lewis - Jelly Roll
26-10 Furry Lewis - Good Looking Girl Blues
26-11 Furry Lewis - Mistreatin' Mama
26-12 Furry Lewis - Furry's Blues
26-13 Furry Lewis - Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
26-14 Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues
26-15 Furry Lewis - Why Don't You Come Home Blues
26-16 Robert Lockwood - Dust My Broom
26-17 Robert Lockwood - Pearly
26-18 Robert Lockwood - Aw Aw Baby [Sweet Home Chicago]
26-19 Robert Lockwood - Sweet Woman from Maine
26-20 Robert Lockwood - You've Gotta Stop This Mess
27-01 Magic Sam - All Your Love
27-02 Magic Sam - Love Me with a Feeling
27-03 Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright
27-04 Magic Sam - Easy Baby
27-05 Magic Sam - 21 Days in Jail
27-06 Jimmy McCracklin - Listen Woman
27-07 Jimmy McCracklin - I Can't Understand Love
27-08 Jimmy McCracklin - Josephine (Just Won't Let Her Go)
27-09 Jimmy McCracklin - Love When It Rains
27-10 Jimmy McCracklin - I Think My Time Is Here
27-11 Jimmy McCracklin - Deceivin' Blues
27-12 Jimmy McCracklin - Beer Drinkin' Woman
27-13 Jimmy McCracklin - Hamburger Joint
27-14 Jimmy McCracklin - Just Won't Let Her Go
27-15 Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' All Day
27-16 Jimmy McCracklin - Gotta Cut Out
27-17 Jimmy McCracklin - Rockin' Man
27-18 Jimmy McCracklin - Looking for a Woman
27-19 Jimmy McCracklin - True Love Blues
27-20 Jimmy McCracklin - The Walk
28-01 Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone to Love
28-02 Percy Mayfield - Strange Things Happening
28-03 Percy Mayfield - What a Fool I Was
28-04 Percy Mayfield - Lost Love (Baby, Please)
28-05 Percy Mayfield - Advice
28-06 Percy Mayfield - Nightmare
28-07 Percy Mayfield - You Don't Exist No More
28-08 Percy Mayfield - Get Way Back
28-09 Percy Mayfield - The River's Invitation
28-10 Percy Mayfield - Life Is Suicide
28-11 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Dragnet Blues
28-12 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Saturday Night (Four Nights Drunk)
28-13 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Johnny, Johnny
28-14 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Down in Texas
28-15 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Be Cool
28-16 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Playing Numbers
28-17 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Crazy with the Blues
28-18 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Nightmare Blues
28-19 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Gee, It's Rough
28-20 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - I Don't Know, Yes I Know
29-01 Memphis Minnie - Frisco Town
29-02 Memphis Minnie - Moonshine
29-03 Memphis Minnie - Nothing in Rambling
29-04 Memphis Minnie - I'm Talking About You
29-05 Memphis Minnie - Joe Louis Strut
29-06 Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur Blues
29-07 Memphis Minnie - My Baby Don't Want Me No More
29-08 Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee
29-09 Memphis Minnie - Boy Friend Blues
29-10 Memphis Minnie - In My Girlish Days
29-11 Big Maybelle - Gabbin' Blues (Don't Run My Business)
29-12 Big Maybelle - Rain Down Rain
29-13 Big Maybelle - Way Back Home
29-14 Big Maybelle - Please Stay Away from My Sam
29-15 Big Maybelle - Jinny Mule
29-16 Big Maybelle - I've Got a Feelin'
29-17 Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
29-18 Big Maybelle - Hair Dressin' Women
29-19 Big Maybelle - Don't Leave Poor Me
29-20 Big Maybelle - No More Trouble out of Me
30-01 Roy Milton - Cryin' and Singin' the Blues
30-02 Roy Milton - I Want a Little Girl
30-03 Roy Milton - My Blue Heaven
30-04 Roy Milton - 'Taint Me
30-05 Roy Milton - Groovy Blues
30-06 Roy Milton - Waking Up Blues
30-07 Roy Milton - Sympathetic Blues
30-08 Roy Milton - Playboy Blues
30-09 Roy Milton - Rhythm Cocktail
30-10 Roy Milton - Bye Bye Blues
30-11 Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
30-12 Amos Milburn - I'm Still a Fool for You
30-13 Amos Milburn - All Is Well
30-14 Amos Milburn - My Happiness Depends on You
30-15 Amos Milburn - I Know You Love Me
30-16 Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
30-17 Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
30-18 Amos Milburn - Let's Have a Party
30-19 Amos Milburn - Down the Road Apiece
30-20 Amos Milburn - Trouble in Mind