Blues historian and musicologist, Bill Dahl from Chicago, has produced the most comprehensive history of electric blues ... ever! With nearly 300 tracks, Bear Family Records is telling the story from the beginning into the new millennium. In the 1930s, the invention of Gibson's ES-150 - the first electric guitar - changed popular music forever. The first generation of blues pioneers played acoustic instruments, but with the invention of amplification, guitar and harmonica players could be heard over the piano, drums and horns. Music was revolutionized!
Here's the complete story from jazz-inspired jump numbers in the late 1930s to hard-driving blues/rock from the States and Great Britain in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond. The journey closes with today's contemporary blues. This is it! Truly definitive! Done as only Bear Family can do it!
Disc 1
01 Floyd's Guitar Blues Kirk, Andy and His Twelve Clou
02 Mean Old World , T-Bone Walker
03 Strange Things Happening Every Day , Sister Rosetta Tharpe
04 Drifting Blues Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
05 Ain't That Just Like A Woman ,Louis Jordan and his Tympany 5
06 That's All Right , Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
07 Let Me Play With Your Poodle ,Lightnin' Hopkins
08 Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Walker, T-Bone
09 Better Cut That Out Williamson, Sonny Boy
10 Ramblin' Bill Big Bill (Broonzy) & His Rhyth
11 I Can't Be Satisfied Muddy Waters
12 Boogie Chillen , John Lee Hooker
13 Blues After Hours , Pee Wee Crayton
14 Mary Is Fine , Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
15 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee , Stick McGhee and His Buddies
16 Hit The Road Little Willie Littlefield
17 Who's Been Jivin' You , Jimmy Witherspoon
18 Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)The Nighthawks, (Robert Nighthawk)
19 My Special Friend Blues Baby Boy Warren
20 Every Day I Have The Blues (Lonely Heart Blue , Lowell Fulson
21 Rock Awhile Goree Carter, and His Hepcats
22 Bon Ton Roula , Clarence Garlow
23 Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 1 Baby Face Leroy Trio
24 Slippin' And Slidin' , Gene Phillips with Jack McVea
25 Rockin' All Day (aka Rockin' And Reelin') , Jimmy McCracklin and His Blue
26 Love Don't Love Nobody , Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men
Disc 2
01 That's All Right , Jimmy Rogers and His Trio
02 Midnight Boogie Tampa Red
03 Black Night , Charles Brown and His Band
04 Rock Little Baby , Cecil Gant
05 Why Should I Cry? , Lonnie Johnson
06 Rocket '88' , Jackie Brenston and His Delta
07 How Many More Years? Howlin' Wolf
08 Boogie Woogie Nighthawk , James 'Wide Mouth' Brown
09 Baby Let's Go Down To The Woods , Floyd Dixon
10 Kansas City Blues , Robert Nighthawk and His Nighthawks
11 Pontiac Blues , Sonny Boy Williamson
12 Dust My Broom , Elmore James
13 I'm In The Mood , John Lee Hooker
14 Cold Cold Feeling , T-Bone Walker
15 Ramblin' On My Mind , Boyd Gilmore
16 Please Send My Baby Back , Sunny Blair
17 Trust In Me , Fats Domino
18 Juke Little Walter
19 Me And My Chauffeur Blues Memphis Minnie with Little Joe
20 Five Long Years , Eddie Boyd
21 Lonesome Train , Eddie 'Cleanhead'Vinson
22 Hound Dog , Willie Mae 'Big Mama Thornton
23 Chocolate Pork Chop Man , Pete 'Guitar' Lewis
24 Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone) , B.B.King and His Orchestra
25 Evening Sun , Johnny Shines
26 Cryin' Shame , Snooky Pryor and His Trio
Disc 3
01 Messin' Up , Chuck Norris
02 Please Love Me , B.B.King and His Orchestra
03 Forty Cups Of Coffee , Danny Overbea
04 Ice Cream Man , John Brim
05 Losing Hand , Ray Charles
06 Hydramatic Woman , Joe Hill Louis
07 Feelin' Good Little Junior's Blue Flames
08 One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer , Amos and Milburn His Aladdin
09 Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) Rufus Thomas Jr
10 Blues With A Feeling Little Walter and His Jukes
11 Piggly Wiggly , Lil' Son Jackson
12 T.V. Mama , Joe Turner and His Blues King
13 The Things That I Used To Do Guitar Slim and His Band
14 Shim Sham Shimmy , Champion Jack Dupree
15 Dirty Work At The Crossroad , Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
16 You Don't Have To Go , Jimmy Reed and His Trio
17 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man Muddy Waters
18 Sloppy Drunk , Jimmy Rogers and His Rocking
19 Shake That Thing , Wynonie Harris
20 Wine, Women, Whiskey , Papa Lightfoot
21 I'm Gonna Murder My Baby , Pat Hare
22 Pet Cream Man , J. B. Hutto and His Hawks
23 Reconsider Baby , Lowell Fulson
24 Don't Have To Worry (Jumpin' In The Heart Of , Lafayette Thomas
25 The Boogie Disease , Dr. Ross
