VA - Before Bob Dylan (2018)

 


100 recordings drawn from the Folk, Blues, Country, Gospel and Rock 'N' Roll traditions which would inspire popular music's greatest troubadour who transformed the template for the modern song






001 - Davis Sisters - I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (03:00)
002 - Tampa Red - It Hurts Me Too (02:29)
003 - Bo Carter - Corrina, Corrina (03:18)
004 - Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (02:52)
005 - Bob Ross - Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (01:07)
006 - Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me (02:33)
007 - Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues (03:19)
008 - Reverend Gary Davis - Cocaine Blues (02:23)
009 - Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues (03:00)
010 - Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues (02:50)
011 - Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell - Alabama Woman Blues (02:53)
012 - Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues (02:54)
013 - Charley Patton - Pony Blues (03:04)
014 - Leadbelly - Worried Blues (03:09)
015 - Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues (03:08)
016 - Charlie Poole, The North Carolina Ramblers - White House Blues (03:25)
017 - Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues (02:46)
018 - Blind Blake - You Gonna Quit Me Blues (02:44)
019 - Prairie Ramblers - Deep Elem Blues (03:20)
020 - Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (02:45)
021 - Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (02:57)
022 - Woody Guthrie - Ramblin' Blues (01:57)
023 - The Stanley Brothers - I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow (02:57)
024 - The Stanley Brothers - Highway of Regret (00:41)
025 - The Stanley Brothers - Little Maggie (02:20)
026 - The Delmore Brothers - Blues Stay Away from Me (02:49)
027 - The Louvin Brothers - Mary of the Wild Moor (03:11)
028 - Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line (02:45)
029 - Hank Snow - I'm Movin' On (02:53)
030 - Hank Williams - I Can't Get You off My Mind (02:50)
031 - Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart (02:46)
032 - Hank Williams - Lost Highway (02:43)
033 - Hank Williams - Half as Much (02:43)
034 - Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil (03:24)
035 - Merle Travis - Dark as a Dungeon (02:46)
036 - Kitty Wells - Making Believe (02:53)
037 - Mississippi Sheiks - Sittin' on Top of the World (03:14)
038 - Mississippi Sheiks - I've Got Blood in My Eyes for You (03:15)
039 - Mississippi Sheiks - The World Is Going Wrong (03:25)
040 - Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie (And Albert) (03:22)
041 - Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd (03:06)
042 - Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam (02:56)
043 - Woody Guthrie With Pete Seeger - Gypsy Davey (02:53)
044 - Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home (02:46)
045 - Blind Willie McTell - Broken Down Engine (03:06)
046 - Blind Willie McTell - Delia (02:33)
047 - Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks (03:11)
048 - Memphis Minnie - Ma Rainey (02:46)
049 - Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree (04:58)
050 - Herta Marshall - Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies (02:31)
051 - Joan O'Bryant - The Lily of the West (03:19)
052 - Elvis Presley - That's All Right Mama (01:55)
053 - Gene Vincent - You Belong to Me (02:31)
054 - Gene Vincent - Baby Blue (02:37)
055 - The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream (02:21)
056 - Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town (02:14)
057 - Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night (03:02)
058 - The Ink Spots - We Three (03:19)
059 - Frankie Laine - That Lucky Old Sun (02:56)
060 - Clyde McPhatter - Without Love (There Is Nothing) (02:57)
061 - Harold Dorman - Mountain of Love (02:20)
062 - Al Bowlly - Soon (03:10)
063 - Jimmie Rodgers - My Blue Eyed Jane (02:47)
064 - Doc Pomus - Blues for Sale (02:52)
065 - Robert Johnson - Come on in My Kitchen #1 (02:53)
066 - Leadbelly - Frankie and Albert (04:06)
067 - Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (03:24)
068 - Sleepy John Estes - Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too (03:19)
069 - Blind Boy Fuller - Mama Let Me Lay It on You (02:56)
070 - Blind Boy Fuller - Step It up and Go (02:57)
071 - Brownie McGhee - Step It up and Go (02:33)
072 - Henry Thomas - Honey Won't You Allow Me One More Chance (02:51)
073 - Lightnin' Hopkins - Automobile (02:50)
074 - Muddy Waters - Rollin' and Tumblin' Part 1 (02:59)
075 - William Brown - Ragged and Dirty (04:50)
076 - Dick Justice - Henry Lee (03:25)
077 - Logan English - Love Henry (02:29)
078 - Bently Boys - Down on Penny's Farm (02:50)
079 - The Carter Family - Blackjack David (02:41)
080 - The Carter Family - Little Moses (03:14)
081 - The Carter Family - Hello Stranger (02:44)
082 - Riley Puckett, The Skillet Lickers - Dixie (03:13)
083 - Mornoe Gevedon - The Two Soldiers (03:16)
084 - Kelly Harrell - My Name Is John Jo Hannah (03:16)
085 - Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter (03:16)
086 - GB Grayson - Omie Wise (03:09)
087 - Horace Sprott - Take Rocks and Gravel to Make a Solid Road - Railroad Blues (02:44)
088 - The Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin' (02:55)
089 - Frank Hutchison - Stackalee (03:01)
090 - Tennessee Ernie Ford - Stack-O-Lee (02:49)
091 - Alan Mills - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (Froggie Went A-Courtin') (03:13)
092 - A.L. Lloyd - Jim Jones at Botany Bay (03:08)
093 - Paul Clayton - The Twa Sisters (The Two Sisters) (06:55)
094 - Pete Seeger - O Susanna (01:15)
095 - Josh White - The House of the Rising Sun (03:00)
096 - Cisco Houston - Diamond Joe (02:29)
097 - Cisco Houston - Railroad Bill (01:47)
098 - The Highway Q.C.'S - Working on the Building (02:22)
099 - The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day (02:57)
100 - L.M. Hilton - Hard Times Come Again No More (02:21)