VA - Essential Women In Blues - House of Blues (2 CD, 1997/FLAC)


This two-disc set draws on music from the 1920s to the 1990s, and includes songs from Bessie Smith ("Do Your Duty"), Etta James ("Good Rockin' Daddy"), Alberta Hunter ("I Got Myself a Working Man"), Koko Taylor ("Jump for Joy") Sippie Wallace, and Hadda Brooks.  





CD 1
01. Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton / A Fool In Love [0:03:16.42]
02. Koko Taylor / Jump for Joy [0:04:22.45]
03. Big Time Sarah / I Don't Want No Man [0:04:05.88]
04. Ida Cox / Wild Women Don't Have the Blues [0:03:17.56]
05. Ruth Brown / If I Can't Sell It (I'll Keep Sittin' On It) [0:05:23.40]
06. Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Trouble In Mind [0:02:34.41]
07. Alberta Hunter / I Got Myself a Workin' Man [0:03:17.16]
08. Candye Kane / No! I Ain't Gonna Let You Go [0:02:59.38]
09. Lavelle White / Why Young Men Go Wild [0:03:32.74]
10. Bessie Smith / Do Your Duty [0:03:25.58]
11. Etta James / Good Rockin' Daddy [0:02:24.56]
12. Lil Green / Why Don't You Do Right? [0:02:59.70]
13. Saffire / I Want My Money Back [0:03:33.56]
14. Victoria Spivey / Dirty Tee Bee Blues [0:03:08.49]
15. Edith Wilson / Popa-Mama Blues [0:03:53.08]


CD 2

01. Michelle Willson / Better Left Unsaid [0:03:21.93]
02. Katie Webster / Two-Fisted Mama [0:03:24.49]
03. Big Maybelle / Gabbin' Blues [0:02:41.24]
04. Becky Barksdale / Satisfy Me [0:04:48.42]
05. "Ma" Rainey / "Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom [0:03:11.38]
06. Sippie Wallace / Black Snake Blues [0:02:49.20]
07. Dinah Washington / Evil Gal Blues [0:02:54.73]
08. Willie Mae Thornton / Hound Dog [0:02:50.85]
09. Nina Simone / I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl [0:02:32.89]
10. Rory Block / The Spirit Returns [0:03:20.08]
11. Mamie Smith / Crazy Blues [0:03:20.30]
12. Francine Reed / One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show) [0:03:43.29]
13. Hadda Brooks / That's My Desire [0:02:44.70]
14. Blu Lu Barker / Don't You Feel My Leg [0:03:02.40]
15. Memphis Minnie / Me and My Chauffeur Blues [0:02:49.81]