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!
31-01 Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
31-02 Big Maceo - County Jail Blues
31-03 Big Maceo - Can't You Read
31-04 Big Maceo - Tuff Luck Blues
31-05 Big Maceo - It's All Up to You
31-06 Big Maceo - Poor Kelly Blues
31-07 Big Maceo - My Last Go Round
31-08 Big Maceo - I Got the Blues
31-09 Big Maceo - Ramblin' Mind Blues
31-10 Big Maceo - Why Should I Hang Around
31-11 Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag
31-12 Blind Willie McTell - Rough Alley Blues
31-13 Blind Willie McTell - Low Rider's Blues
31-14 Blind Willie McTell - Painful Blues
31-15 Blind Willie McTell - Experience Blues
31-16 Blind Willie McTell - Low Down Blues
31-17 Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues
31-18 Blind Willie McTell - Mama, Let Me Scoop for You
31-19 Blind Willie McTell - Rollin' Mama Blues
31-20 Blind Willie McTell - Searching the Desert for the Blues
32-01 Memphis Slim - Really Got the Blues
32-02 Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
32-03 Memphis Slim - I Guess I'm a Fool
32-04 Memphis Slim - Havin' Fun
32-05 Memphis Slim - Marack
32-06 Memphis Slim - Tia Juana
32-07 Memphis Slim - Reverend Bounce
32-08 Memphis Slim - I'm Crying
32-09 Memphis Slim - Blues for My Baby
32-10 Memphis Slim - Slim's Blues
32-11 Tommy McClennan - Baby, Don't You Want to Go
32-12 Tommy McClennan - You Can't Mistreat Me
32-13 Tommy McClennan - Shake 'em On Down
32-14 Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up and Go
32-15 Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl
32-16 Tommy McClennan - I'm Going Don't You Know
32-17 Tommy McClennan - My Baby's Gone
32-18 Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Headed Woman
32-19 Tommy McClennan - It's Hard to Be Lonesome
32-20 Tommy McClennan - Highway 51
33-01 Mississippi Fred McDowell - I'm Going Down to the River
33-02 Mississippi Fred McDowell - When the Train Comes Along
33-03 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'em On Down
33-04 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Worried Mind
33-05 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
33-06 Mississippi Fred McDowell - What's the Matter Now?
33-07 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
33-08 Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Done Told Everybody
33-09 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
33-10 Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
33-11 Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues
33-12 Mississippi John Hurt - Blessed Be the Name
33-13 Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business
33-14 Mississippi John Hurt - Louis Collins
33-15 Mississippi John Hurt - Praying on the Old Camp Ground
33-16 Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues
33-17 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
33-18 Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Telling
33-19 Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues
33-20 Mississippi John Hurt - Got the Blues
34-01 Robert Nighthawk - Crying Won't Help You
34-02 Robert Nighthawk - Seventy-Four
34-03 Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie
34-04 Robert Nighthawk - Kansas City
34-05 Robert Nighthawk - Bricks in My Pillow
34-06 Robert Nighthawk - Maggie Campbell
34-07 Robert Nighthawk - Feel So Bad
34-08 Robert Nighthawk - You Missed a Good Man
34-09 Robert Nighthawk - The Moon Is Rising
34-10 Robert Nighthawk - Take It Easy, Baby
34-11 Johnny Otis - Good Ole Blues
34-12 Johnny Otis - Mean Ole Gal
34-13 Johnny Otis - Hangover Blues
34-14 Johnny Otis - Thursday Night Blues
34-15 Johnny Otis - I Gotta Guy
34-16 Johnny Otis - Get Together Blues
34-17 Johnny Otis - Double Crossing Blues
34-18 Johnny Otis - Head Hunter
34-19 Johnny Otis - Going to See My Baby
34-20 Johnny Otis - New Orleans Shuffle
35-01 Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1
35-02 Charley Patton - Hang It on the Wall
35-03 Charley Patton - Prayer of Death Pt. 1
35-04 Charley Patton - Sic em Dogs On
35-05 Charley Patton - Watch and Pray
35-06 Charley Patton - Snatch and Grab It
35-07 Charley Patton - M and O Blues
35-08 Charley Patton - Dark Road Blues
35-09 Charley Patton - Country Farm Blues
35-10 Charley Patton - Forty Four
35-11 Snooky Pryor - Snooky and Moody's Boogie
35-12 Snooky Pryor - Telephone Blues
35-13 Snooky Pryor - Boogy Fool
35-14 Snooky Pryor - Stop the Train, Conductor
35-15 Snooky Pryor - Walking Boogie
35-16 Snooky Pryor - Uncle Sam, Don't Take My Man
35-17 Snooky Pryor - Rough Treatment
35-18 Snooky Pryor - Stockyard Blues
35-19 Snooky Pryor - Keep What You Got
35-20 Snooky Pryor - Let Me Ride Your Mule
36-01 Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
36-02 Professor Longhair - In the Night
36-03 Professor Longhair - Hey Little Girl
36-04 Professor Longhair - Walk Your Blues Away
36-05 Professor Longhair - Willie Mae
36-06 Professor Longhair - Professor Longhair Blues
36-07 Professor Longhair - Misery
36-08 Professor Longhair - Looka, No Hair
36-09 Professor Longhair - Cuttin' Out
36-10 Professor Longhair - Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
36-11 Junior Parker - Feelin' Good
36-12 Junior Parker - Mystery Train
36-13 Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Bar
36-14 Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Window
36-15 Junior Parker - Sittin', Drinkin' and Thinkin'
36-16 Junior Parker - Dirty Friend Blues
36-17 Junior Parker - Backtracking
36-18 Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble
36-19 Junior Parker - There Better Be No Feet
36-20 Junior Parker - Fussin' and Fightin' Blues
37-01 Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me to Do
37-02 Jimmy Reed - Found Love
37-03 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
37-04 Jimmy Reed - Hush Hush
37-05 Jimmy Reed - I'm Nervous
37-06 Jimmy Reed - Going by the River Pt. 1
37-07 Jimmy Reed - I Ain't Got You
37-08 Jimmy Reed - Come Love
37-09 Jimmy Reed - Meet Me
37-10 Jimmy Reed - I Was So Wrong
37-11 Otis Rush - Checking on My Baby
37-12 Otis Rush - Love That Woman
37-13 Otis Rush - My Baby Is a Good'un
37-14 Otis Rush - All Your Love
37-15 Otis Rush - If You Were Mine
37-16 Otis Rush - Violent Love
37-17 Otis Rush - My Love Will Never Die
37-18 Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool
37-19 Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby
37-20 Otis Rush - It Takes Time
38-01 Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues
38-02 Jimmy Rushing - See See Rider
38-03 Jimmy Rushing - Take Me Back, Baby
38-04 Jimmy Rushing - Sent for You Yesterday
38-05 Jimmy Rushing - Roll'em Pete
38-06 Jimmy Rushing - My Friend Mr. Blues
38-07 Jimmy Rushing - Every Day
38-08 Jimmy Rushing - Sometimes I Think I Do
38-09 Jimmy Rushing - Take Me with You, Baby
38-10 Jimmy Rushing - Evenin'
38-11 Tampa Red - You Missed a Good Man
38-12 Tampa Red - She Want to Sell My Monkey
38-13 Tampa Red - She's Love Crazy
38-14 Tampa Red - Hard Road Blues
38-15 Tampa Red - Let Me Play with Your Poodle
38-16 Tampa Red - Crying Won't Help You
38-17 Tampa Red - Sweet Little Angel
38-18 Tampa Red - But I Forgive You
38-19 Tampa Red - So Much Trouble
38-20 Tampa Red - Big Stars Falling Blues
39-01 Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues
39-02 Bessie Smith - Gulf Coast Blues
39-03 Bessie Smith - Oh Daddy Blues
39-04 Bessie Smith - Baby Won't You Please Come Home
39-05 Bessie Smith - Aggravation Papa
39-06 Bessie Smith - Beale Street Mama
39-07 Bessie Smith - Keeps On A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
39-08 Bessie Smith - Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
39-09 Bessie Smith - Mama's Got the Blues
39-10 Bessie Smith - Outside of That
39-11 Bessie Smith - Lady Luck Blues
39-12 Bessie Smith - Yodling Blues
39-13 Bessie Smith - Bleeding Hearted Blues
39-14 Bessie Smith - Midnight Blues
39-15 Bessie Smith - If You Don't, I Know Who Will
39-16 Bessie Smith - Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
39-17 Bessie Smith - Jaul House Blues
39-18 Bessie Smith - Sam Jones Blues
39-19 Bessie Smith - Cemetery Blues
39-20 Bessie Smith - Graveyard Dream Blues
40-01 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
40-02 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Chickee Wah Wah
40-03 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Hush Your Mouth
40-04 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Know Yockomo
40-05 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Havin' a Good Time
40-06 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Beatnik Blues
40-07 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Well I'll Be John Brown
40-08 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Everybody's Wailin'
40-09 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Mean Mean Mean
40-10 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Liza Jane
40-11 Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues
40-12 Frankie Lee Sims - Long Gone
40-13 Frankie Lee Sims - Jelly Roll Baker
40-14 Frankie Lee Sims - I Done Talked and I Done Talked
40-15 Frankie Lee Sims - Cryin' Won't Help You
40-16 Frankie Lee Sims - Don't Take It Out on Me
40-17 Frankie Lee Sims - Raggedy and Dirty
40-18 Frankie Lee Sims - Frankie's Blues
40-19 Frankie Lee Sims - Married Woman
40-20 Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues Pt. 2
31-02 Big Maceo - County Jail Blues
31-03 Big Maceo - Can't You Read
31-04 Big Maceo - Tuff Luck Blues
31-05 Big Maceo - It's All Up to You
31-06 Big Maceo - Poor Kelly Blues
31-07 Big Maceo - My Last Go Round
31-08 Big Maceo - I Got the Blues
31-09 Big Maceo - Ramblin' Mind Blues
31-10 Big Maceo - Why Should I Hang Around
31-11 Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag
31-12 Blind Willie McTell - Rough Alley Blues
31-13 Blind Willie McTell - Low Rider's Blues
31-14 Blind Willie McTell - Painful Blues
31-15 Blind Willie McTell - Experience Blues
31-16 Blind Willie McTell - Low Down Blues
31-17 Blind Willie McTell - Lonesome Day Blues
31-18 Blind Willie McTell - Mama, Let Me Scoop for You
31-19 Blind Willie McTell - Rollin' Mama Blues
31-20 Blind Willie McTell - Searching the Desert for the Blues
32-01 Memphis Slim - Really Got the Blues
32-02 Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
32-03 Memphis Slim - I Guess I'm a Fool
32-04 Memphis Slim - Havin' Fun
32-05 Memphis Slim - Marack
32-06 Memphis Slim - Tia Juana
32-07 Memphis Slim - Reverend Bounce
32-08 Memphis Slim - I'm Crying
32-09 Memphis Slim - Blues for My Baby
32-10 Memphis Slim - Slim's Blues
32-11 Tommy McClennan - Baby, Don't You Want to Go
32-12 Tommy McClennan - You Can't Mistreat Me
32-13 Tommy McClennan - Shake 'em On Down
32-14 Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up and Go
32-15 Tommy McClennan - Brown Skin Girl
32-16 Tommy McClennan - I'm Going Don't You Know
32-17 Tommy McClennan - My Baby's Gone
32-18 Tommy McClennan - Whiskey Headed Woman
32-19 Tommy McClennan - It's Hard to Be Lonesome
32-20 Tommy McClennan - Highway 51
33-01 Mississippi Fred McDowell - I'm Going Down to the River
33-02 Mississippi Fred McDowell - When the Train Comes Along
33-03 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'em On Down
33-04 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Worried Mind
33-05 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
33-06 Mississippi Fred McDowell - What's the Matter Now?
33-07 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
33-08 Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Done Told Everybody
33-09 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
33-10 Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
33-11 Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues
33-12 Mississippi John Hurt - Blessed Be the Name
33-13 Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business
33-14 Mississippi John Hurt - Louis Collins
33-15 Mississippi John Hurt - Praying on the Old Camp Ground
33-16 Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues
33-17 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
33-18 Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Telling
33-19 Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues
33-20 Mississippi John Hurt - Got the Blues
34-01 Robert Nighthawk - Crying Won't Help You
34-02 Robert Nighthawk - Seventy-Four
34-03 Robert Nighthawk - Nighthawk Boogie
34-04 Robert Nighthawk - Kansas City
34-05 Robert Nighthawk - Bricks in My Pillow
34-06 Robert Nighthawk - Maggie Campbell
34-07 Robert Nighthawk - Feel So Bad
34-08 Robert Nighthawk - You Missed a Good Man
34-09 Robert Nighthawk - The Moon Is Rising
34-10 Robert Nighthawk - Take It Easy, Baby
34-11 Johnny Otis - Good Ole Blues
34-12 Johnny Otis - Mean Ole Gal
34-13 Johnny Otis - Hangover Blues
34-14 Johnny Otis - Thursday Night Blues
34-15 Johnny Otis - I Gotta Guy
34-16 Johnny Otis - Get Together Blues
34-17 Johnny Otis - Double Crossing Blues
34-18 Johnny Otis - Head Hunter
34-19 Johnny Otis - Going to See My Baby
34-20 Johnny Otis - New Orleans Shuffle
35-01 Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1
35-02 Charley Patton - Hang It on the Wall
35-03 Charley Patton - Prayer of Death Pt. 1
35-04 Charley Patton - Sic em Dogs On
35-05 Charley Patton - Watch and Pray
35-06 Charley Patton - Snatch and Grab It
35-07 Charley Patton - M and O Blues
35-08 Charley Patton - Dark Road Blues
35-09 Charley Patton - Country Farm Blues
35-10 Charley Patton - Forty Four
35-11 Snooky Pryor - Snooky and Moody's Boogie
35-12 Snooky Pryor - Telephone Blues
35-13 Snooky Pryor - Boogy Fool
35-14 Snooky Pryor - Stop the Train, Conductor
35-15 Snooky Pryor - Walking Boogie
35-16 Snooky Pryor - Uncle Sam, Don't Take My Man
35-17 Snooky Pryor - Rough Treatment
35-18 Snooky Pryor - Stockyard Blues
35-19 Snooky Pryor - Keep What You Got
35-20 Snooky Pryor - Let Me Ride Your Mule
36-01 Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
36-02 Professor Longhair - In the Night
36-03 Professor Longhair - Hey Little Girl
36-04 Professor Longhair - Walk Your Blues Away
36-05 Professor Longhair - Willie Mae
36-06 Professor Longhair - Professor Longhair Blues
36-07 Professor Longhair - Misery
36-08 Professor Longhair - Looka, No Hair
36-09 Professor Longhair - Cuttin' Out
36-10 Professor Longhair - Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
36-11 Junior Parker - Feelin' Good
36-12 Junior Parker - Mystery Train
36-13 Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Bar
36-14 Junior Parker - Sittin' at the Window
36-15 Junior Parker - Sittin', Drinkin' and Thinkin'
36-16 Junior Parker - Dirty Friend Blues
36-17 Junior Parker - Backtracking
36-18 Junior Parker - I Wanna Ramble
36-19 Junior Parker - There Better Be No Feet
36-20 Junior Parker - Fussin' and Fightin' Blues
37-01 Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me to Do
37-02 Jimmy Reed - Found Love
37-03 Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
37-04 Jimmy Reed - Hush Hush
37-05 Jimmy Reed - I'm Nervous
37-06 Jimmy Reed - Going by the River Pt. 1
37-07 Jimmy Reed - I Ain't Got You
37-08 Jimmy Reed - Come Love
37-09 Jimmy Reed - Meet Me
37-10 Jimmy Reed - I Was So Wrong
37-11 Otis Rush - Checking on My Baby
37-12 Otis Rush - Love That Woman
37-13 Otis Rush - My Baby Is a Good'un
37-14 Otis Rush - All Your Love
37-15 Otis Rush - If You Were Mine
37-16 Otis Rush - Violent Love
37-17 Otis Rush - My Love Will Never Die
37-18 Otis Rush - Three Times a Fool
37-19 Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me Baby
37-20 Otis Rush - It Takes Time
38-01 Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues
38-02 Jimmy Rushing - See See Rider
38-03 Jimmy Rushing - Take Me Back, Baby
38-04 Jimmy Rushing - Sent for You Yesterday
38-05 Jimmy Rushing - Roll'em Pete
38-06 Jimmy Rushing - My Friend Mr. Blues
38-07 Jimmy Rushing - Every Day
38-08 Jimmy Rushing - Sometimes I Think I Do
38-09 Jimmy Rushing - Take Me with You, Baby
38-10 Jimmy Rushing - Evenin'
38-11 Tampa Red - You Missed a Good Man
38-12 Tampa Red - She Want to Sell My Monkey
38-13 Tampa Red - She's Love Crazy
38-14 Tampa Red - Hard Road Blues
38-15 Tampa Red - Let Me Play with Your Poodle
38-16 Tampa Red - Crying Won't Help You
38-17 Tampa Red - Sweet Little Angel
38-18 Tampa Red - But I Forgive You
38-19 Tampa Red - So Much Trouble
38-20 Tampa Red - Big Stars Falling Blues
39-01 Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues
39-02 Bessie Smith - Gulf Coast Blues
39-03 Bessie Smith - Oh Daddy Blues
39-04 Bessie Smith - Baby Won't You Please Come Home
39-05 Bessie Smith - Aggravation Papa
39-06 Bessie Smith - Beale Street Mama
39-07 Bessie Smith - Keeps On A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
39-08 Bessie Smith - Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
39-09 Bessie Smith - Mama's Got the Blues
39-10 Bessie Smith - Outside of That
39-11 Bessie Smith - Lady Luck Blues
39-12 Bessie Smith - Yodling Blues
39-13 Bessie Smith - Bleeding Hearted Blues
39-14 Bessie Smith - Midnight Blues
39-15 Bessie Smith - If You Don't, I Know Who Will
39-16 Bessie Smith - Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
39-17 Bessie Smith - Jaul House Blues
39-18 Bessie Smith - Sam Jones Blues
39-19 Bessie Smith - Cemetery Blues
39-20 Bessie Smith - Graveyard Dream Blues
40-01 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
40-02 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Chickee Wah Wah
40-03 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Hush Your Mouth
40-04 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Know Yockomo
40-05 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Havin' a Good Time
40-06 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Beatnik Blues
40-07 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Well I'll Be John Brown
40-08 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Everybody's Wailin'
40-09 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Mean Mean Mean
40-10 Huey 'Piano' Smith - Little Liza Jane
40-11 Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues
40-12 Frankie Lee Sims - Long Gone
40-13 Frankie Lee Sims - Jelly Roll Baker
40-14 Frankie Lee Sims - I Done Talked and I Done Talked
40-15 Frankie Lee Sims - Cryin' Won't Help You
40-16 Frankie Lee Sims - Don't Take It Out on Me
40-17 Frankie Lee Sims - Raggedy and Dirty
40-18 Frankie Lee Sims - Frankie's Blues
40-19 Frankie Lee Sims - Married Woman
40-20 Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues Pt. 2
