VA - Essential Blues (4 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 




CD1 - The Roots Of Blues
CD2 - Modern Blues
CD3 - Electric Blues
CD4 - The Voices Of Blues


CD1 - The Roots Of Blues

01. John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (2:28)
02. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago (3:00)
03. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (2:58)
04. JB. Lenoir - Alabama Blues (3:01)
05. Muddy Waters - Sad Sad Day (3:42)
06. Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues (2:10)
07. Blind Willie McTell - You Was Born To Die (2:48)
08. Frank Edwards - My Baby's Gone (2:58)
09. Neal Pattman - Shortnin' Bread (5:31)
10. Mississipi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little School Girl (2:34)
11. Howlin' Wolf - I've Got A Woman (2:49)
12. Lonnie Johnson - Blues In G (2:49)
13. Ivory Joe Hunter - Landlord Blues (2:49)
14. Django Reinhardt - St Louis Blues (2:40)
15. Big Joe Turner - Back Breaking Blues (3:02)
16. Big Joe Williams - Meet Me Around The Corner (2:57)
17. Guitar Gabriel - Came So Far (4:18)
18. Samuel Turner Stevens - Railroadin' & Gamblin' (2:35)
19. Sweet Betty - Coffee Drinkin' Blues (4:40)
20. Jack OWens - Keep On Grumblin' (2:30)

CD2 - Modern Blues

01. Popa Chubby - The wind cries Mary (3:53)
02. Lucky Peterson - Is it because I'm black (3:49)
03. Taj Mahal - Honky Tonk woman (3:56)
04. Luther Allison - Still called the blues (3:52)
05. Walter Trout - She takes more than she gives (featuring John Mayall) (3:50)
06. William Clarke - It's been a long time (4:00)
07. Lonnie Brooks - In the dark (3:51)
08. Albert Collins - Cold cold feeling (3:59)
09. Amar Sundy - Men in trouble (3:54)
10. Captain Luke - Polk salad Annie (3:29)
11. Amos Garrett Michigan Water Blues - Sam's song (3:39)
12. Duke Robillard - Tore up (4:09)
13. Gashouse Dave - It's drag always being right (2:38)
14. Nico Wayne Toussaint - Hot sometimes (2:49)
15. Tino Gonzales - No more misery (3:22)
16. Tommy Castro - It serves you right to suffer (6:51)
17. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Black eyed Blues (3:16)
18. Pura Fe' - Wait 'till you come back again (4:11)
19. Aynsley lister - Always tomorrow (4:30)
20. Jean Chartron - Baby please don't go (3:06)

CD3 - Electric Blues

01. BB King - Catfish Blues (2:24)
02. John Mayall - Road show (4:24)
03. Mighty Mo Rodgers - Blues ain't Devil music (2:59)
04. Rab MC Cullough - When the Blues comes callin' (5:39)
05. Bo Diddley - I'm a man (10:25)
06. Charles Brown - Trouble Blues (2:39)
07. Clarence Frogman Henry - Ain't got no home (2:19)
08. Jelly Roll Morton - Jelly Roll Blues (3:00)
09. Jimmy Reed - Shame shame shame (2:46)
10. Jimmy Witherspoon - Trouble in my mind (2:30)
11. Memphis Slim - Blues for my baby (2:43)
12. Pee Wee Crayton - Blues after hours (3:02)
13. Sonny Boy Williamson - Better cut that out (2:58)
14. Mason Casey - She's from NYC (4:13)
15. Larry Garner - Bull rider (5:22)
16. Bernard Allison - I can't get you out of my mind (4:02)
17. Kevin Coyne - Missing you (3:32)
18. John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues (2:47)
19. Candie Kayne - White trash girl (3:13)
20. T-Bone Walker - Blues is a woman (2:46)

CD4 - The Voices Of Blues

01. Bessie Smith - Nobody knows you when you're down and out (2:57)
02. Ma Rainey - Don't fish in my sea (2:50)
03. Memphis Minnie - Me and my chauffeur (2:59)
04. Dinah Washington - Long John Blues (3:14)
05. Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thomton - Hound dog (2:49)
06. Drink Small - Moanin' (4:11)
07. Rufus Mckenzie - Slavery time blues (3:06)
08. R.L. Burnside - Everything is broken (4:50)
09. Blind Boys of Alabama - Getting better (all the time) (4:57)
10. Pura Fe' - Hold the rain (5:52)
11. Shemekia Copeland - Married to the Blues (7:10)
12. Luther Allison with Marla Glen - Just as I am (3:15)
13. Darondo - I want your love so bad (4:08)
14. Marie Knight - You got to move (2:43)
15. Eugene Blacknell - Jive kinda friends (3:19)
16. Cyril Lance - Same thing (5:12)
17. Beverly Guitar Watkins - Baghdad Blues (3:17)
18. Little Pink Anderson - Ses that my grave is kept clean (3:35)
19. Orgone - Who knows who (3:36)
20. Sus Foley - Hardworking woman (3:40)