Alexis Korner - Kornerstoned : The Alexis Korner Anthology 1954-1983 [2 CD, 2006/FLAC]

 Although his name may not be as instantly recognizable stateside as Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, or Led Zeppelin, Alexis Korner played an enormously large role in helping launch the British blues explosion of the '60s. After all, such soon-to-be household names as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ginger Baker, and Robert Plant either recorded with Korner, or credit the singer/guitarist as an early inspiration to follow their blues calling. The double-disc. 40-plus-track Kornerstoned: The Anthology 1954-1983 chronicles Korner's entire recording career, from Alexis Korner Skiffle Group in the early '50s, to fronting various bands later in the '50s and throughout the '60s (as Alex Korner's Blues Incorporated, Alex Korner's Blues All Stars, etc.), all of which are included here. Individual standouts include the recently unearthed "Steal Away," which features a 20-year-old Robert Plant (evidence that he had his whole "shrieking sex god" thing down -- even pre-Zeppelin), as well as a laid-back yet funky cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Mighty-Mighty Spade & Whitey" (credited to New Church), which features Free's then-lead singer Paul Rodgers on vocals. Also included is a mostly instrumental cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" (which long served as the theme music for the popular British TV show Top of the Pops), as well as another laid-back funk-rock cover, "The Gambler." Kornerstoned: The Anthology 1954-1983 is a fitting testament to one of rock's most oft-overlooked yet important figures.

 

Eric Clapton- Slowhand [35th Anniversary Super Deluxe, 3 CD, 2012/FLAC]

 

Eric Clapton‘s 1977 album Slowhand is being released as a super deluxe edition box set  to celebrate its 35th anniversary.

The album includes of two of Clapton’s best known songs Wonderful Tonight, and the cover of J.J. Cale’s Cocaine.

The Super Deluxe box set includes three previously unreleased session outtakes (four in total) and two CDs are devoted to presenting the complete 14-track performance of the Hammersmith Odeon concert on 27 April 1977.

The record has been remastered from the original Olympic Studios 1/4″ flat analog master tapes and the session tracks and live performances are newly mixed from the original two-inch analogue tapes. This all sounds very promising from a sound perspective.

Disc 1 – Slowhand Remastered and Expanded

1. Cocaine
2. Wonderful Tonight
3. Lay Down Sally
4. Next Time You See Her
5. We’re All the Way
6. The Core
7. May You Never
8. Mean Old Frisco
9. Peaches and Diesel
10. Looking at the Rain (Bonus track)
11. Alberta (Bonus track)
12. Greyhound Bus (Bonus track)
13. Stars, Strays and Ashtrays (Bonus track)

Disc 2 – Slowhand Hi-Res Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound Audio DVD [not included]

1. Cocaine
2. Wonderful Tonight
3. Lay Down Sally
4. Next Time You See Her
5. We’re All the Way
6. The Core
7. May You Never
8. Mean Old Frisco
9. Peaches and Diesel

Disc 3 – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon April 27, 1977 (Part 1)

1. Hello Old Friend
2. Sign Language
3. Alberta
4. Tell the Truth
5. Knockin’ on Heavens Door
6. Steady Rolling Man
7. Can’t Find My Way Home
8. Further On Up the Road
9. Stormy Monday

Disc 4 – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon April 27, 1977 (Part 2)

1. Badge
2. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
3. I Shot the Sheriff
4. Layla
5. Key to the Highway

VA - Zydeco - Essential Collection [2003/FLAC]

Zydeco is a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native American people of Louisiana. Although it is distinct in origin from the Cajun music of Louisiana, the two forms influenced each other, forming a complex of genres native to Louisiana.

Like Cajun music, the dominant instrument is the accordion, but unlike Cajun music, zydeco adds electric bass, horns, and sometimes keyboards. In a nutshell, zydeco is Creole (black) dance music of southwest Louisiana, blending Cajun music with rhythm & blues and soul. The word "zydeco" is actually a bastardization of an early zydeco song, "L'Haricots Sont Pas Sals" (The Snap Beans Aren't Salted). The first black-French recordings were made in 1928 by Amad Ardoin, an accordion player who played in the Cajun style. However, zydeco didn't begin to evolve -- at least on record -- until the mid-'50s, when Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis made their initial recordings. Like Cajun music, zydeco didn't achieve national popularity until the 1980s, buoyed somewhat by Rockin' Sidney's surprise hit "My Toot Toot." By the '90s, several zydeco artists were signed to major labels, including Terrance Simien, Boozoo Chavis, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Rockin' Dopsie.     

  

01 - Let's Go - Nathan And The Zydeco Cha Chas [00:05:25]

02 - Thre's No Use Crying - Geno Delafose And French Rockin' Boogie [00:03:26]

03 - Zydeco Boogaloo - Buckwheat Zydeco [00:03:53]

04 - Lula Lula Don't You Go To Bingo - Boozoo Chavis And The Magic Sounds [00:03:41]

05 - I Woke Up Thuis Morning - Steve Riley And The Mamou Playboys [00:03:18]

06 - I'm On The Wonder - Beau Jocque And The Zydeco Hi-Rollers [00:06:19]

07 - We Are The Boys - Chris Ardoin And Double Clutchin' [00:04:43]

08 - I'm A Hog For You - Lynn August And The Hot August Nights [00:04:47]

09 - Madame Etienne - Bruce Daigrepont [00:04:09]

10 - Bad Time Woman - Li'l Brian And The Zydeco Travelers [00:04:28]

11 - What's In That Bayou - Chris Ardoin And Double Clutchin' [00:05:11]

12 - Keep Your Dress Tail Down - Boozoo Chavis And The Magic Sounds [00:04:39]

13 - Give Him Cornbread - Beau Jocque And The Zydeco Hi-Rollers [00:04:55]

14 - Friday Night Waltz - John Delafose And The Eunice Playboys [00:03:13]

15 - Outside People - Nathan And The Zydeco Cha Chas [00:03:44]

16 - 'tite Monde (My Everything) - Geno Delafose And French Rockin' Boogie [00:04:43]

17 - Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco [00:04:41]

Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues [ 3 CD, 2006/FLAC]

Legend status came late to Buddy Guy so it shouldn't be surprising that this is the first box set devoted to the blues giant's work. Yet it is still a bit of a shock, because Guy it seems, has always been a part of the modern blues scene, ubiquitous even in the late 60's at the era's high-profile rock and folk festivals, playing the hippie ballrooms alongside the major rockers of the day.

Disc 1

1 Damn Right, I've Got The Blues 4:29

2 Lettsworth, Lousiana 5:24

3 Five Long Years 8:23

4 Honey Bee 5:46

5 She's Nineteen Years Old 5:40

6 Miss Ida B 6:32

7 Moanin' And Groanin' 3:28

8 Stone Crazy 11:49

9 When My Left Eye Jumps 3:53

10 Someone Else Is Steppin' In (Slippin' Out, Slippin' In) 4:26

11 I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled & Crazy 3:29

12 Your Mind Is On Vacation 3:18

13 Midnight Train 5:23

14 Cut You Loose 7:38

15 The Price You Gotta Pay featuring Keith Richards 3:40

16 Ten Years Ago 9:38

17 Hoodoo Man Blues 5:41

18 DJ Play My Blues 5:22

19 Come On In This House 3:39

20 Sweet Little Angel 6:18

21 Damn Right, I've Got The Blues 7:12

22 Drowning On Dry Land 16:27

23 Tramp 3:59

24 Mustang Sally 3:00

25 Louise McGhee 6:02

26 What'd I Say 3:48

Disc 2

1.Damn Right, I've Got The Blues 7:09

2 Mustang Sally 7:23

3 Five Long Years 13:43

4 Mary Ann 5:10

5 She's Nineteen Years Old 9:00

6 Miss Ida B 10:32

7 Feels Like Rain 7:15

8 7-11 10:57

9 I Smell Trouble 5:12

10 Someone Else Is Steppin' In (Slippin' Out, Slippin' In) 7:06

11 My Time After Awhile 12:07

12 Your Mind Is On Vacation 5:18

13 Midnight Train 8:43

14 Totally Out Of Control 10:47

Disc 3

1 Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar 8:29

2 Baby Please Don't Leave Me 12:03

3 Done Got Old 5:21

4 Honey Bee 9:06

5 Tramp 10:46

6 Crawlin' Kingsnake 8:36

7 Moanin' And Groanin' 5:28

8 Bad Life Blues 5:48

9 I Can't Be Satisfied (Live) 4:18

10 First Time I Met The Blues (Live) 6:52

11 I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled & Crazy 5:29

12 Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed 10:24

13 I Miss You 6:43

14 Cut You Loose 12:18

15 The Price You Gotta Pay featuring Keith Richards 5:40

VA - The Blue Horizon Story 1965-1970 Vol. 1 (3 CD, 1997) [FLAC]

 

While Blue Horizon gained its reputation as the home of great British blues (early Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, and others), its spiritual home was in America, and it released far more American artists than most people realize, beginning with its first disc, 99 copies (for tax reasons) of a Hubert Sumlin single. And that largely set the tone for the first five years of the label admirably covered in this three-CD set.

Label head Mike Vernon was a blues lover and he released the music he loved, often licensing a track and sometimes signing and developing artists, as he did with his British stable, most especially Fleetwood Mac, born after Green left employer John Mayall (who also released two cuts on Blue Horizon, both with another former blues-breaker, Eric Clapton, and both, thankfully, here). Mac hit the big time with "Albatross," which definitely wasn't a blues, but their Chicago-influenced grit is apparent elsewhere, especially on "Temperature Is Rising (98.8F)," recorded with the legendary Otis Spann in the Windy City. But the label could easily move from the raw Delta sound of Bukka White to the electrifying slide of Hound Dog Taylor without it seeming unreasonable, while bringing on British artists like Duster Bennett, Jo Ann Kelly, and T.S. McPhee (who'd go on to head the Groundhogs) along the way.


Disc 1

01. Hubert Sumlin- Across The Board (1964) 4.13
02. Hubert Sumlin- Sumlin Boogie (1964) 3.36
03. Woodrow Adams - Baby You Just Don't Know (1955) 2.56
04. Woodrow Adams - Wine Head Woman (1955) 2.42
05. Jimmy McCracklin - Christmas Time (1959) 3.362.17
06. J.B. Lenoir - Mojo Boogie (1960) 2.42
07. J.B. Lenoir - Amsterdam (1960) 3.19
08. Doctor Isaiah Ross - Mean Old World (1965) 2.30
09. T.S. McPhee - Someone To Love Me (1965) 2.18
10. Jo Ann Kelly - I Feel So Good (1965) 2.48
11. Drifting Slim - Good Morning Baby (1952) 2.49
12. Drifting Slim - My Sweet Woman (1952) 2.52
13. John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Lonely Tears (1966) 3.17
14. John Mayall & Eric Clapton - Bernard Jenkins (1966) 3.17
15. Houston Boines - Superintendet Blues (1952) 2.32
16. Houston Boines - Monkey Motion (1952) 2.22
17. Savoy Brown's Blues Band - Can't Quit You Baby (1966) 3.35
18. Champion Jack Dupree with T.S. McPhee- Get Your Head Happy (1965) 2.17
19. Champion Jack Dupree with T.S. McPhee- Talk All In My Sleep (1965) 3.24
20. Stone's Masonry - Hot Rock (1966) 3.27
21. Hound Dog Taylor - Christine (1962) 2.11
22. Little Mac Simmons & His Boys - Come Back (1959) 2.34
23. Little Mac Simmons & His Boys - My Walking Blues (1959) 3.11
24. Eddie Boyd - It's So Miserable To Be Alone (1967) 3.39
25. Eddie Boyd - Empty Arms (1967) 2.48


Disc 2

01. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac- I Believe My Time Ain't Long (1967) 2.54
02. Anysley Dunbar Retaliation - Warning (1967) 3.22
03. The Chicken Shack feat. Stan Webb- When My Left Eye Jumps (1967) 6.26
04. Arthur K. Adams- She Drives Me Out Of My Mind (1967) 3.03
05. Eddie Boyd - The Big Boat (1968 ) 2.36
06. Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (1968 ) 2.46
07. Roosevelt Holts - Prison Bound Blues (1966) 2.37
08. Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad (1968 ) 3.53
09. Champion Jack Dupree with Stan Webb- How Am I Doing It (1968 ) 2.45
10. Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good (1968 ) 2.18
11. B.B. King - The Woman I Love (1958 ) 3.01
12. Curtis Jones - You Don't Have To Go (1968 ) 3.38
13. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross (1968 ) 3.10
14. Guitar Crusher & Jimmy Spruill- Since My Baby Hit The Numbers (1968 ) 2.16
15. Garfield Love & Jimmy Spruill- Next Time You See Me (1968 ) 2.32
16. Johnny Shines - Solid Gold (1968 ) 3.10
17. Sunnland Slim - Layin' In My Cell, Sleepin' (1968 ) 3.10
18. Bobby Parker - It's Hard But It's Fair (1968 ) 2.16
19. Bobby Parker - I Couldn't Quit My Baby (1968 ) 4.52
20. Champion Jack Dupree - Stumbling Block (1969) 2.24
21. Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind (1969) 3.14
22. Otis Spann with Fleetwood Mac- Temperature Is Rising (1969) 5.11
23. Otis Rush & His Band - All Your Love (1958 ) 2.34


Disc 3

01. Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright (1957) 2.50
02. Chicken Shack - Hideaway (1969) 3.03
03. David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - My Baby's Gone (1969) 4.02
04. Coyne Clague Band - Mandy Lee (1969) 2.41
05. Gordon Smith - Too Long (1969) 2.42
06. Mississippi Joe Callicott- You Don't Know My Mind (1968 ) 5.12
07. Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues (1968 ) 4.36
08. Bukka White - Drifting Blues (1968 ) 3.51
09. Larry Johnson - Southern Train (1966) 2.45
10. Chicken Shack - Tears In The Wind (1969) 2.40
11. Duster Bennett- I'm Gonna Wind Up Ending Up With You (1969) 2.54
12. Harmonica Slim - She Wants To Rock 'n' Roll (1969) 3.45
13. Johnny Young - Moaning And Groaning (1969) 3.08
14. George 'Harmonica' Smith- Someday You're Gonna Learn (1969) 4.13
15. Top Topham - Ridin' The Blinds (1969) 2.29
16. Bacon Fat - Boom Boom (Out Goes The Light) (1969) 3.47
17. Jellybread- Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu (1969) 2.44
18. Christine Perfect - Crazy 'Bout You Baby (1969) 3.01
19. Key Largo - Voodoo Rhythm (1970) 2.59
20. Duster Bennett - I Want You To Love Me (1969) 3.32
21. Martha Velez - I'm Gonna Leave You (1969) 4.06
22. Bacon Fat - Blues Feeling (1970) 3.59

Leroy Carr - Complete Recorded Works [6 CD, 1992] [FLAC]

 

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.



Volume 1
01 - My own lonesome blues
02 - How long - how long blues
03 - Broken spoke blues
04 - Tennessee blues
05 - Truthful blues
06 - Mean old train blues
07 - You go to reap what you sow
08 - Low down dirty blues
09 - How long how long blues - no. 2
10 - How long how long blues - part 3
11 - Baby don't you love me no more
12 - Tired of your low down ways
13 - I'm going away and leave my baby
14 - Prison bound blues
15 - You don't mean me no good
16 - How about me?
17 - Straight alky blues - part 1 (c-2966)
18 - Think of me thinking of you
19 - The truth about that thing
20 - Straight alky blues - part 1 (c-3144)
21 - Straight alky blues - part 2 (c-3145)
22 - Lifeboat blues
23 - Gambler's blues
24 - There ain't nobody got it like she's got it

Volume 2
01 - That's all right for you
02 - Wrong man blues
03 - Naptown blues
04 - The new how long how long blues
05 - Love hides all faults
06 - I know that I'll be blue
07 - Gettin' all wet
08 - Rainy day blues
09 - Blue with the blues
10 - Just worryin' blues
11 - Baby you done put that thing on me
12 - I won't miss you when you're gone
13 - Don't you get tired of riding that same train all the time?
14 - I'm going back to Tennessee
15 - Christmas in jail - ain't that a pain?
16 - Prison cell blues
17 - That's tellin' 'em
18 - Papa wants a cookie
19 - Memphis town
20 - Don't say goodbye
21 - I ain't got no gal
22 - Goodbye blues
23 - The dirty dozen
24 - Workhouse blues

Volume 3
01 - Let's make up and be friends again
02 - Let's disagree
03 - Sloppy drunk blues
04 - Hard times done drove me to drink
05 - Long road blues
06 - Jail cell blues
07 - Four day rider
08 - Alabama women blues
09 - Papa's on the house top
10 - Carried water for the elephant
11 - Low down dog blues
12 - Nineteen thirty one blues
13 - Love crying blues
14 - Papa's got your water on
15 - Big house blues
16 - New how long how long blues - part 2
17 - What more can I do?
18 - Papa wants to knock a jug
19 - How long has that evening train been gone?
20 - Quittin' papa
21 - Lonesome nights
22 - I keep the blues

Volume 4
01 - Gone mother blues
02 - Midnight hour blues
03 - Moonlight blues
04 - The depression blues
05 - Mean mistreater mama (take 1)
06 - Mean mistreater mama (take 2)
07 - Mean mistreater mama no. 2
08 - Court room blues
09 - Hurry down sunshine
10 - Corn licker blues
11 - Hold them puppies
12 - Shady lane blues
13 - Blues she gave me
14 - You can't run my business no more
15 - Blues before sunrise (take 1)
16 - Blues before sunrise (take 2)
17 - I ain't got no money now
18 - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (take 1)
19 - Stormy night blues (take 2)
20 - Take a walk around the corner
21 - Baby, come back to me
22 - Blue night blues
23 - My woman's gone wrong

Volume 5
01 - Southbound blues
02 - Barrel house woman
03 - Barrel house woman no. 2
04 - Florida bound blues
05 - Cruel woman blues
06 - Muddy water
07 - I believe I'll make a change
08 - Black gal (what makes your head so hard?)
09 - Don't start no stuff
10 - George Street blues
11 - Bo bo stomp
12 - Big four blues
13 - Hard hearted papa (take 1)
14 - Hard hearted papa (take 2)
15 - You left me crying (take 1)
16 - You left me crying (take 2)
17 - Broken hearted man
18 - Evil-hearted woman (take 1)
19 - Good woman blues
20 - Hustler's blues
21 - Eleven twenty-nine blues
22 - You've got me grieving

Volume 6
01 - Bread baker
02 - Tight time blues
03 - Longing for my sugar
04 - Black wagon blues
05 - Shinin' pistol
06 - Arlena (take 1)
07 - Arlena (take 2)
08 - It's too short (take 1)
09 - It's too short (take 2)
10 - My good for nothin' gal
11 - Suicide blues (take 1)
12 - Bozetta blues (take 1)
13 - Church house blues (take 2)
14 - Rocks in my bed
15 - When the sun goes down
16 - Bad luck all the time
17 - Big four blues
18 - Just a rag
19 - Ain't it a shame
20 - Going back home
21 - Six cold feet in the ground

VA - Rhythm & Blues (Original Masters) [10 CD, 2005]

10 disc collection from German label Document contains great R&B from the period when it was moving from the juke joints to the night clubs, 1930s to '50s.





cd 1
01. Roy Milton / Milton's Boogie (Milton) [0:02:41.51]
02. Jesse Thomas / It's You I'm Thining Of (Glenn / Thomas) [0:02:38.15]
03. Wynonie Harris / Teardrops from My Eyes (Toombs) [0:02:50.49]
04. Eddie Boyd / Kilroy Won't Be Back (Brown) [0:02:58.31]
05. Lowell Fulson / Cold Hearted Woman (Lauderdale) [0:02:52.51]
06. Joe Turner / Wine-O-Baby (Turner) [0:02:31.73]
07. Eddie Vinson / Gonna Send You Back (Vinson / Blackman) [0:02:23.33]
08. Lil Amstrong / Joogie Boogie (Armstrong) [0:02:45.63]
09. Joe Morris / Beans and Corn Bread (Morris) [0:02:49.34]
10. Lowell Fulson / Baby Won't You Jump with Me (Fulson / Glenn) [0:02:33.46]
11. Joe Turner / Rocket Boogie 88 (Turner) [0:02:46.68]
12. Lowell Fulson / Juke Box Shuffle (Fulson) [0:02:20.50]
13. Rockets / Big Leg Mama (Van Walls) [0:02:35.66]
14. Lee Barnes / Blues for What I Never Had (Barnes) [0:03:00.06]
15. Mary Deloatch / Straighten Him Out (Scott) [0:02:40.56]
16. Ivory Joe Hunter / I Like It (Hunter) [0:02:34.43]
17. Joe Turner / Long Down Dog [0:03:02.46]
18. Annie Laurie / My Rough and Ready Man (Theard / Brannon) [0:02:28.62]
19. Joe Turner / My Gal's a Jockey (Turner) [0:03:10.02]
20. Stick McGhee / One Monkey Don't Stop the Show (McGhee) [0:02:35.37]

cd 2
01. Joe Turner / Mad Blues [0:02:25.27]
02. King Porter / Chitlin 'Ball [0:02:23.33]
03. Johnny Otis / Goomp Blues [0:02:44.64]
04. Pearl Reaves / You Can't Stay Here [0:02:42.00]
05. Big Mama Thornton / You Did Me Wrong [0:02:35.72]
06. Honey Brown / Rockin 'And Jumpin' [0:02:59.55]
07. Joe Turner / Sally Zu Zazz [0:02:53.09]
08. Sheri Washington / Ain't Talkin 'To Your Baby [0:02:06.17]
09. Peppermint Harris / The Blues Pick On Me [0:02:00.56]
10. Tony Grimes / Hey Now [0:02:33.37]
11. Paul Bascomb / Mumbles Blues [0:02:33.05]
12. Floyd Dixon / Wine Wine Wine [0:02:41.66]
13. Floyd Dixon / Ooh Littel Girl [0:02:12.44]
14. Jimmy McCracklin / She Felt Too Good [0:02:43.28]
15. Charlie & Ray / Oh Gee Oh Wee [0:02:23.33]
16. Gene & Eunice / I Gotte Go Home [0:02:23.32]
17. Jimmy McCracklin / I Wanna Make Love To You [0:02:26.00]
18. Jewel King / 3 x 7 = 21 [0:02:32.49]
19. GAS / Seven To Eleven [0:02:27.57]
20. H-Bomb Ferguson / Rock H-Bomb Rock [0:02:07.24]

cd 3
01. Boby and Ron / You're Mine [0:02:11.39]
02. Lula Reed / Sick And Tired [0:02:21.74]
03. The Bees / Tought Enough [0:02:34.03]
04. Rufus Thomas / Easy Livin 'Plan [0:02:45.26]
05. Wally Mercer / Rock Around [0:02:40.52]
06. Team Mates / Crazy Baby [0:02:07.10]
07. Buddy Rogers / Mad At You [0:02:30.13]
08. Finney Mo / Shake That Thing [0:02:03.08]
09. Pork Chops / Everything Is Cool [0:02:21.08]
10. Buster Brown / Sugar Babe [0:02:26.42]
11. Marty Lewis / Satisfied With My Lovin '[0:01:47.03]
12. Kid Thomas / Wolf Pack [0:02:34.35]
13. Big Boy Groves / I Got A New Car [0:02:41.14]
14. Lord Tennison / The Dance [0:02:42.06]
15. Howlin 'Wolf / Down In The Bottom [0:02:05.48]
16. L. Sundown / Mojo Man [0:02:20.31]
17. Brown and Brooks / Sleeping In An Ocean Of Tears [0:02:57.06]
18. Prince Ch. / Come On Home [0:02:32.10]
19. Little Walter / Roller Coaster [0:02:49.71]
20. W. King / Big Leg Woman [0:02:24.04]

cd 4
01. Elmo Nixon / Forgive Me Baby [0:02:19.60]
02. Doc Gaddy / Evil Man Blues [0:02:32.43]
03. Earl Williams / Let's Make Love Tonight [0:02:27.16]
04. LCWilliams / Shout Baby Shout [0:02:40.61]
05. King Perry / Come Back Baby [0:02:11.73]
06. Ch.Williams / So Worried [0:02:13.11]
07. JLSmith / If It's Too Late [0:02:16.04]
08. Homesick James / Set A Date [0:02:34.73]
09. Johnnie Fuller / No More [0:02:27.48]
10. Nat Cool Cat / Come By Here [0:02:46.21]
11. BBBrown / I Weep [0:02:21.09]
12. Elton Anderson / I Love You [0:02:36.17]
13. Harmonica Fats / My Baby Didn't Come Home [0:02:41.09]
14. Billy Gayles / Do Right Baby [0:02:05.27]
15. Hank Moore / Knock Kneed Rooster [0:01:55.35]
16. Baby Curtis / I Wanna [0:02:14.04]
17. Charles Sheffield / It's Voodoo Working [0:01:46.42]
18. Charles Walker / You Know It Ain't Right [0:02:48.48]
19. Garland / Hello Miss Sims [0:02:04.53]
20. Danny Taylor / You Look Bad [0:02:21.46]

cd 5
01. Rufus Thomas / Decorate the Counter [0:02:20.25]
02. Mr. Goolge / Oh What A Fool [0:02:37.49]
03. Milt Buckner / Red Red Wine [0:02:29.38]
04. Jimmy Preston / Oh Babe [0:02:44.18]
05. Lemmy Johnson / Eatin 'And Sleepin' Blues [0:02:46.37]
06. Carl Matthews / Big Man [0:02:56.18]
07. Jimmy Crawford / Till My Baby Comes Back [0:02:25.44]
08. Cherri Lynn / Your Money Ain't No Long Enough [0:02:37.32]
09. Webster and Conroy / Baby Baby [0:02:31.67]
10. Eddie Alston / I Just Can't Help It [0:02:19.69]
11. Johnny Duke / Oh Oh Mojo [0:01:37.56]
12. Hop Wilson / Chicken Stuff [0:01:46.05]
13. Mr. Bo / I'm Leaving This Town [0:02:15.26]
14. Ch. Sheffield / Shoo Shoo Chicken [0:02:33.50]
15. Erline Harris / Long Tall Papa [0:02:31.38]
16. Billy Wright / Man's Brand Boogie [0:02:56.66]
17. Piano Slim / Lot Of Shakin 'Lot Of Jivin' [0:02:06.37]
18. Harmon Jones / Pack Your Clothes [0:02:32.61]
19. Sandra Grimms / Hallelujah Rock And Roll [0:02:58.18]
20. Duke Jenkins / The Duke Walks [0:02:51.11]

cd 6
01. Tommy Moore / Your Car Machine [0:03:55.03]
02. Louis Payne / That's Allright With Me [0:02:53.73]
03. Mr. Sad Head / Sad Head Blues [0:02:41.54]
04. TJ Fowler / Tell Me Waht's The Matter [0:02:54.48]
05. Bob Williams / Talk To Me [0:02:10.42]
06. Leon Tarver / Somebody Help Me [0:03:00.63]
07. Herman Manzy / I'm Your Rockin Man [0:02:11.73]
08. King Perry / Erverything Gonna Be Alright Tonight [0:02:25.58]
09. Woo Woo Moore / Something's Wrong [0:02:14.70]
10. Jimmie Nelson / Great Big Hunk Of Man [0:01:48.07]
11. Jesse Stone / Runaway [0:02:07.49]
12. Jonny Otis / Court Room Blues [0:02:50.72]
13. Rudy Greene / Wild Life [0:02:29.11]
14. Eddie Riff / My Baby's Gone Away [0:02:16.64]
15. Jimmy Anthony / Before Day In The Morning [0:02:37.18]
16. Freddie Hall / She's An Upsetter [0:02:33.66]
17. Lee Christie / My Heart'S Goes Diddley Burn [0:02:52.44]
18. Mr. Rain / Who Dat [0:02:43.04]
19. Oliver Jones / What I Say [0:02:38.33]
20. Joan Shaw / You Drive Me Crazy [0:02:37.01]

cd 7
01. Royals / All Night Long [0:02:15.24]
02. George Jenkins / Shuffin 'Boogie [0:01:48.57]
03. The Kid / Booted [0:01:45.06]
04. Joe McCoy / Hey Loretta [0:02:21.04]
05. Frank Linkenberg / Ball Of Fire [0:02:28.30]
06. Jesse Allen / Love Me Baby [0:02:03.52]
07. Artie Wilson / Tarzan [0:02:14.10]
08. Bill Heyman / I Want My Baby [0:02:25.43]
09. Joe McCoy / Too Much Going On [0:01:54.29]
10. Larry Hanna / Good Lovin '[0:01:54.38]
11. Blache Thomas / You Ain't So Such A Much [0:02:21.40]
12. Niteriders / Looking For My Baby [0:01:59.40]
13. John Greer / Honey Why [0:02:19.64]
14. Willie Mitchell / Lizzie Lou [0:02:38.59]
15. Paul Kimble / That Big Fat Mama [0:02:37.40]
16. Famouse Renegades / Invasion [0:02:28.43]
17. Miss Baker / You'd Better Find [0:01:58.30]
18. Arabians / Dog Wild [0:01:53.13]
19. Billy Garner / Little Schoolgirl [0:02:06.48]
20. Good Guys / Whoa Whoa [0:02:32.68]

cd 8
01. Frankie Lee Sims / She Likes To Boogie Real Slow [0:02:16.24]
02. Lightnin 'Hopkins / Movin' Out [0:02:00.45]
03. Cardinals / Choo Choo [0:02:40.57]
04. Mojo Watson / Look A There [0:02:16.26]
05. Thrills / I Ain't Got The Money [0:02:22.72]
06. 4 Gators / Wine O Wine [0:02:41.56]
07. Billy Miranda / Go Ahead [0:02:20.14]
08. Betty James / I'm A Little Mixed Up [0:02:47.23]
09. Joe Tex / You Upset My Home [0:02:34.53]
10. Sonny Knight / But Officer [0:02:52.74]
11. King Rhythm / Killer Diller [0:02:49.18]
12. Papa Lightfoot / Jumpin 'With Jaris [0:02:13.25]
13. Crusher / I Got To Know [0:02:21.15]
14. Buddy Johnson / Walk The Chalk Line [0:02:35.54]
15. Gus Jenkins / Slow Down [0:01:56.36]
16. Mercy Baby / Pleadin '[0:02:14.26]
17. Charles Clark / Hidden Charms [0:02:31.05]
18. Sonny & Jaycee / You Keep On Doggin 'Me [0:01:56.56]
19. Lightnin 'Hopkins / I'm Wild About You [0:02:48.68]
20. Bobo Jenkins / Tell Me Who [0:02:30.03]

cd 9
01. Silhouettes / Miss Thing [0:01:53.32]
02. Millionaires / Arkansas Jane [0:02:09.44]
03. John Lee / Rhythm Rockin 'Boogie [0:02:34.19]
04. Wynona Carr / Touch And Go [0:02:10.44]
05. Eddie Clearwater / A Real Good Time [0:02:12.32]
06. Ricky Charles / Hi Yo Silver [0:02:23.31]
07. Boy Bonner / Running Shoes [0:02:25.67]
08. Bill Broonzy / Little City Woman [0:02:49.18]
09. Johnny Wright / Look At That Chick [0:02:19.50]
10. Jumpin 'Jay / Come On Home [0:02:48.50]
11. Washboard Sam / Never Never [0:02:38.08]
12. Big Maybelle / Rockhouse [0:02:14.35]
13. Model T Slim / Shake Your Boogie [0:02:30.73]
14. JDEdwards / Hobo [0:02:29.12]
15. Bobby Long / Jersey City [0:02:19.74]
16. Louisiana Red / Ride On Red [0:02:47.01]
17. Junior Wells / Little By Little [0:02:29.34]
18. Little Willie John / Leave My Kitten Alone [0:02:29.54]
19. Jimmy Liggins / I Ain't Drunk [0:02:23.05]
20. Sam Myers / You Don't Have To Go [0:02:30.41]

cd 10
01. Eddie Burnes / Hard Hearted Woman [0:02:28.66]
02. Carrie Grant / Mish Mash [0:02:18.66]
03. Brownie McGee / Anna Mae [0:02:09.47]
04. Babs Gonzales / House Rent Party [0:02:55.73]
05. Jimmy Liggins / Talking That Talk [0:02:28.04]
06. Babs Gonzales / She's Just Right For Me [0:02:54.17]
07. Stomp Gordon / The Grind [0:02:27.20]
08. Walkin 'Willie / Blow Little Willie [0:02:38.66]
09. Sultans / You Got Me Goin '[0:02:27.63]
10. Wynonie Harris / I Want My Fanny Brown [0:03:06.48]
11. Varetta Dillard / Them Their Eyes [0:02:16.29]
12. Little Esther / It Ain't What You Say [0:02:50.73]
13. Esther and Willie / Turn The Lights Down Low [0:02:20.74]
14. Amos Milburn / Let Me Go Home Whiskey [0:02:43.54]
15. Eddie Hope / A Fool No More [0:02:20.38]
16. Mister Ruffin / Bring It On Back [0:02:56.61]
17. Tarheel Slim / Number Nine Train [0:02:53.06]
18. Buddy Lucas / Night Train [0:02:35.73]
19. Arthur Crudup / That's Alright Mama [0:02:53.66]

Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts - Jamming With Edward [1961,FLAC]

 

Jamming with Edward! is an album recorded by three members of The Rolling Stones with Nicky Hopkins and Ry Cooder at London's Olympic Studio during the Let It Bleed sessions of 1969, and released on Rolling Stones Records in 1972. Keith Richards had stormed out of the sessions for a few days in protest of producer Jimmy Miller's decision to bring Cooder in to beef up the guitars as Dave Mason did during the Beggars Banquet sessions.

On the strength of The Rolling Stones' association with the album, Jamming With Edward! reached #33 on the U.S charts, although it failed to reach the UK listings.
The eponymous Edward was pianist Nicky Hopkins, as in Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder, Hopkins' star turn on Quicksilver Messenger Service's album Shady Grove.

• Ry Cooder – guitar
• Mick Jagger – harmonica, vocals
• Charlie Watts – drums
• Nicky Hopkins – keyboards, piano
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar

Groundhogs - Thank Christ For Groundhogs: The Liberty Years 1968-1972 [3 CD, 2010/FLAC]

2010 three CD set that contains their first five albums for Liberty Records (1968-72) plus bonus tracks. With a career that spans an impressive five decades, the Groundhogs are a veritable British Blues-Rock institution. With a line-up cemented around Peter Cruickshank on bass guitar, Ken Pustelnik on drums and fronted by singer, guitarist and principle songwriter Tony (T.S.) McPhee, this bluesy power trio were joined by harmonica toting Steve Rye for their full length debut, Scratching The Surface released on Liberty Records in 1968. With a reputation hard won by their incessant touring schedule, the band recorded Blues Obituary as a three piece in 1969, followed by Thanks Christ For The Bomb (1970), then hitting #5 with their most successful record, Split, in 1971 and rounded off by the fabulously titled Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs (1972).

CD 1

1968 Scratching The Surface

01. Rocking Chair

02. Early In The Morning

03. Waking Blues

04. Married Men

05. No More Doggin’

06. Man Trouble

07. Come Back Baby

08. You Don’t Love Me

09. Still A Fool

10. Still A Fool (Single Edit) *

1969 Blues Obituary (side one)

11. B.D.D.

12. Daze Of The Weak

13. Times

14. Mistreated

* Previously Unavailable on CD

CD 2

1969 Blues Obituary (side two)

01. Express Man

02. Natchez Burning

03. Light Was The Day

04. BDD (Mono Mix) *

1970 Thank Christ For The Bomb

05. Strange Town

06. Darkness Is No Friend

07. Soldier

08. Thank Christ For The Bomb

09. Ship On The Ocean

10. Garden

11. Status People

12. Rich Man, Poor Man

13. Eccentric Man

1971 Split (side one)

14. Split - Part One

15. Split - Part Two

16. Split - Part Three

17. Split - Part Four

* Previously Unavailable on CD

CD 3

1971 Split (side two)

01. Cherry Red

02. A Year In The Life

03. Junkman

04. Groundhog

1972 Who Will Save The World? (The Mighty Groundhogs)

05. Earth Is Not Room Enough

06. Wages Of Peace

07. Body In Mind

08. Music Is The Food Of Thought

09. Bog Roll Blues

10. Death Of The Sun

11. Amazing Grace

12. The Grey Maze

 

VA - Deep River of Song (The Alan Lomax Collection) [10 CD, 1999-2004]

  

Born in 1867, John A. Lomax is the person who put the Archive of American Folk Song on the map with his field recording trips. Under adverse circumstances he, and later his son Alan, were responsible for a singular achievement in preserving roots music. They published a number of song books, most of which are out of print.

Alan Lomax remains an enigmatic figure in the history of American roots music. Few can but be in awe of the amazing legacy of field recordings that he made in America and around the world. Rounder Records is in the midst of an amazing project with the Alan Lomax Archive to release 150 volumes of his field recordings in their Alan Lomax Collection. Already dozens have been released in various series. Of special interest is the Deep River of Song series which focuses on African American field recordings from 1933 to 1946. The latest two are stunning, Deep River of Song: Georgia (Rounder) and Deep River of Song: Alabama (Rounder) The four CD collection, Sounds of the South (Atlantic) from Lomax's 1959 trips through that region is another great sampler of his work. Alan Lomax also produced a five part PBS Television series American Patchwork, that over a decade ago looked at Delta Blues, Cajun music, jazz parades in New Orleans, Appalachian old time music and the contribution of elder songsters to roots music that is now available on video from Vestapol.

• Alabama - From Lullabies To Blues (2001)
• Bahamas 1935 - Chanteys & Anthems From Andros & Cat Island (1999)
• Bahamas 1935, Vol. 2 - Ring Games and Round Dances (2002)
• Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns (1999)
• Black Texicans - Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier (1999)
• Georgia - I'm Gonna Make You Happy (2001)
• Louisiana - Catch That Train and Testify! (2004)
• Mississippi - Saints and Sinners - From Before the Blues and Gospel (1999)
• South Carolina - Got the Keys to the Kingdom (2002)
• Virginia And The Piedmont - Minstrelsy, Work Songs And Blues (2000)

Alabama - From Lullabies To Blues (2001)

1 Another Man Done Gone- Vera Ward Hall 1:24

2 Railroad Bill - Vera Ward Hall 1:19

3 Poor Lazarus - Vera Ward Hall 3:18

4 Been in the Jailhouse (Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Some Day) - Blind Jessie Harris 2:20

5 I Been Drinking - Vera Ward Hall 2:44

6 Honey, Take a Whiff on Me - Blind Jessie Harris 3:11

7 Train on a Hill - Rich Amerson 4:45

8 Alabama Bound- Rich Brown 1:46

9 Moaning (I'll Soon Be Gone) - Vera Ward Hall, Dock Reed, and Henry Reed 1:31

10 Job, Job - Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward 2:46

11 Didn't That Hammer Ring? (I Can't Hold Out No Longer)- Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward 2:54

12 What Is the Soul of Man? - Vera Ward Hall, Dock Reed, and Henry Reed 1:22

13 Knock John Booker (to the Low Ground)- Mary McDonald 1:40

14 Wake, Sally Baker - Joe & Mary McDonald 2:15

15 Go to Sleep, Little Baby - Harriet McClintock 2:33

16 Hush, Little Baby - Annie Brewer 0:43

17 Come Up Horsey, Hey, Hey (Little Lapdog Lullaby) - Vera Ward Hall 2:07

18 Little Bitty Man - Mary McDonald 1:08

19 Titty, Give Me Some Titty (Titty, Mama, Titty) - Mary McDonald 1:04

20 Hopali (Hop-A-Lee) - [unknown] 1:46

21 Ain't Gonna Rain No More - [unknown] 0:35

22 Jack, Can I Ride- [unknown] 2:00

23 Billy Goat Latin - Joe F. Williams & Booker T. Williams 1:39

24 Hog Hunt - Rich Amerson 2:25

25 I'm Chopping Cotton - Sim Tartt Group 1:24

26 Gin the Cotton - Harriet McClintock 0:52

27 Boll Weevil Blues (The Boll Weevil Holler) - Vera Ward Hall 1:18

28 Worried Blues - Tom Bell 2:44

29 Steamboat Days - Rich Amerson 5:01

30 Carrie, Carrie - Thomas Langston, Judge Broadus, Albert Nicholson & Joe Millhouse 1:23

31 Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-One (Ain't Working Song) - Charley Campbell 1:37

32 Captain, I'm Getting Tired - Willie Carter, Albert Nicholson, Allen Gordon & David Alexander 1:31

Bahamas 1935 - Chanteys & Anthems From Andros & Cat Island (1999)

1. Andros Island Group - Blow, Liza, Blow

2. Andros Island Group - Roll Him Along

3. Henry Lundy - Round the Bay of Mexico

4. Henry Lundy - Bowline

5. Andros Island Group - Long Time Ago

6. Andros Island Group - When You Go to Sea

7. Cleveland Simmons Group - Histe up the John B Sail

8. Andros Island Group - John Bully

9. Zacharias Green - Stand up from Below

10. David Pryor - When the Whale Get Strike

11. Andros Island Group - A Great Storm Pass Over

12. Andros Island Group - Mary, Come Join Our Religon

13. Andros Island Group - Swing Your Tail

14. Henry Lundy - Come Down, You Roses

15. Andros Island Group - O the Last One

16. Cleveland Simmons Group - I May Be Gone

17. Andros Island Group - All Night, Jesus, All Night

18. Andros Island Group - Sittin' Down 'Longside of My Lord

19. Andros Island Group - Dig My Grave

20. Andros Island Group - Down in the Valley

21. Andros Island Group - Time

22. Andros Island Group - Job

23. Andros Island Group - Here Am I

24. Andros Island Group - I Bid You Goodnight

Bahamas 1935, Vol. 2 - Ring Games and Round Dances (2002)

1. War Down The Line - Cleveland Simmons Group

2. Hallie, Rock - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

3. Sail, Gal - Elizabeth Austin & Group

4. Sailin' In The Boat - Elizabeth Austin Group

5. Little Sally Water - Elizabeth Austin Group

6. Sand Gone In My Cuckoo-Eye - Frederick McQueen & Group

7. Oh, Tilla - Fox Hill Male Group

8. The Devil Roll Like Thunder - Fox Hill Male Group

9. The Wind Blow East - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

10. Biddy, Biddy - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

11. Auntie Dinah - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

12. Evalina - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

13. Oh, Mama, Red-Eye - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

14. Congo Dance - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

15. No Lazy Man - Rowena Bell & Group

16. The Mail - Rowena Bell & Group

17. All, Day, All Night Long - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

18. Bimini Gal - Nassau String Band

19. Abaco Is A Pretty Place - Nassau String Band

20. Wasp Bite Nobi On Her Conch-Eye - Nassau String Band

21. Don't You Hurry Worry With Me - Nassau String Band

22. Delia Gone - Nassau String Band

23. Woman Is A Nation - Fox Hill Male Group

24. Married Woman Is A Secret Murder - Nassau String Band

25. Slide, Mongoose, Slide - Nassau String Band

26. Oh, Baby, Lick It Up - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

27. Bellamina - Nassau String Band

28. The Greyhound Boat/Round And Round The Barroom - Nassau String Band

29. Raw Rum, Gin And Toddy - Nassau String Band

Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns (1999)

1. Jimmie Strothers – Cripple Creek

2. Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York – Christmas Eve

3. Theopolis Stokes – Washboard Rhythm

4. Nashville Washboard Band – Soldier's Joy

5. Nashville Washboard Band – Old Joe

6. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Arkansas Traveler

7. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Black Bayou

8. Blind Pete & George Ryan – Banty Rooster

9. Jimmie Strothers – Poontang Little, Poontang Small

10. Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York – Give The Fiddler A Dram

11. Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York – Eighth Of January

12. Introduction Of Band

13. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – The Eighth Of January

14. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Skillet Good And Greasy

15. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Devil's Dream

16. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – John Henry

17. John 'Black Sampson' Gibson – Steel-Laying Holler

18. Allen Prothero – Pauline

19. John 'Black Sampson' Gibson – Track-Lining Song

20. Sonny Terry – New Careless Love

21. Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – The Red Cross Store

22. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly & Sonny Terry – How Long Blues

Black Texicans - Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier (1999)

01. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - St. James Hospital (1:14)

02. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - The Old Chilsom Trail (1:09)

03. Pete Harris - Ranging Buffalo (The Buffalo Skinners) (1:06)

04. Lead Belly - Western Cowboy (3:33)

05. Percy Ridge - Western Cowboy (2) (2:11)

06. James 'Iron Head' Baker - St. James Hospital (2) (2:11)

07. Pete Harris - Jack of Diamonds (2:09)

08. Pete Harris - He Rambled (1:15)

09. Lightnin' Washington and work group - My Pretty Little Yellow Gal (My Yellow Gal) (3:15)

10. Unknown axe-cutting group - Pick a Bale of Cotton (1:59)

11. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - That's All Right, Baby (4:26)

12. 'Butter Boy' - Old Aunt Dinah (1:25)

13. Pete Harris - Square Dance Calls (Little Liza Jane) (2:16)

14. Smith Casey - East Texas Rag (2:10)

15. The Angelina Quartet - When I Was a Little Boy (2:39)

16. Ace Johnson - Rabbit in the Garden (2:56)

17. Henry Truvillion - Old Aunt Dinah (2) (2:24)

18. Henry Truvillion - Let's Go A-Huntin' (Come on Boys and Lets's Go to Hunting) (1:59)

19. Henry Truvillion - Walk-A-Dolly Walk (1:03)

20. Unknown harmonica player - Fox Chase (1:50)

21. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - Old Joe Clark (0:45)

22. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - Long Summer Day (1:57)

23. Uncle Billy McCrea - Log Rolling (1:53)

24. Arthur Armstrong - Buzzard Song (Old King Buzzard) (1:44)

25. Phineas Rockmore - Boll Weevil (2:39)

26. Don Mooney - Been on the Cholly So Long (1:05)

27. Will Roseborough and tie-tamping group - The Dallas Railway (1:31)

28. Phineas Rockmore - Traveling Man (3:10)

29. Unknown harmonica player - The Train (2:01)

Georgia - I'm Gonna Make You Happy (2001)

1. Boll Weevil - Blind Willie McTell

2. Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell

3. Captain Haney Blues - Camp Morris & Group

4. Po' Laz'us - Male Convict Group (previously unreleased)

5. Longest Train I Ever Saw - Jessie Wadley/John Wadley/Will Jones/Felix Davenport (previously unreleased)

6. Oh Lawdy Me, Oh Lawdy My - Male Convict Group (previously unreleased)

7. Hammer Ring - Paul Sylvester & Group (previously unreleased)

8. Judgement - Camp Morris & Group Of Six Men (previously unreleased)

9. Just as Well Get Ready, You Got to Die - Blind Willie McTell

10. All Night Long - Sophie Wing & Mixed Group (previously unreleased)

11. I Got to Cross the River Jordan - Blind Willie McTell

12. I'm Gonna Make You Happy - Buster Brown

13. Sally Walker - Sidney Stripling (previously unreleased)

14. Coon Ci'nt (Coonjine) - Sidney Stripling (previously unreleased)

15. Breakaway - Sidney Stripling (previously unreleased)

16. Sevassafool (Sebastopol) - Gus Gibson/Sidney Stripling

17. John Henry - Reese Crenshaw (previously unreleased)

18. Fast Train - John Lee Thomas

19. Poor Joe Breakdown - Robert Davis (previously unreleased)

20. War Song - Buster Brown

21. Southern Rag - James Sneed/J.F Duffey/Alvin Sanders

22. Smithy Rag - Smith Band

Louisiana - Catch That Train and Testify! (2004)

1. Hallelujah (Lamb on the Altar) - Washington Brown & Group

2. New Calvary - Washington Brown & Group

3. Lord, Lord Shorty - Joe Brown & Group (Washington)

4. Good Lord - Joe Brown & Group (Washington)

5. Catch That Train - Sam Ballard

6. Big Leg Ida - Sam Ballard

7. Julie Montgomery - Unidentified Male Section Group

8. Bye-Bye, Bonsoir, Mes Parents - Paul Junius Malveaux/Ernest Lafitte

9. J'ai Fait Tout le Tour du Pays - Jimmy Peters/Ring Dance Singers

10. La-Bas Chez Moreau - Cleveland Benoit/Darby Hicks

11. Je Veux Me Marier - Jimmy Peters/Ring Dance Singers

12. Moi Malheureux - Joe Massie

13. Si Li, Le Bat - Joe Massie

14. Bonsoir, Petit Monde - Paul Julius Malveaux/Ernest Lafitte

15. Zydeco Pas Salee - Anderson Moss & Group

16. Allons a LaFayette - Anderson Moss & Group

17. Goodnight Irene - Huddie Ledbetter

18. Mama Did You Bring Me Any Silver - Huddie Ledbetter

19. Little Liza Jane - Stavin' Chain & String Band

20. Trench Blues - John Bray

21. Baton Rouge Rag - Joe Harris

22. Winding Boy - Jelly Roll Morton

23. Tiger Rag - Jelly Roll Morton

Mississippi - Saints and Sinners - From Before the Blues and Gospel (1999)

1. Big Charlie Butler - It's Better To Be Born Lucky 1:28

Vocals - Big Charlie Butler

2. Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford - Stagolee 1:41

Guitar - Willie Ford

Guitar, Vocals - Lucious Curtis

3. Thomas "Jaybird" Jones - Walking Billy 4:08

Piano, Voice - Thomas "Jaybird" Jones

Voice - Alan Lomax

4. Joe Shores - Mississippi Sounding Calls 2:52

Vocals, Voice - Joe Shores

Voice - Herbert Halpert

5. Jim Henry - Come Here, Dog, And Get Your Bone 2:24

Vocals - Jim Henry

Voice - John A. Lomax

6. Sid Hemphill - Emmaline, Take Your Time 2:18

Panpipes [Quills], Vocals - Sid Hemphill

Voice - Alan Lomax

7. Sid Hemphill , Alec Askew , Lucious Smith & Will Head - Hog Hunt 4:42

Banjo - Lucius Smith

Bass Drum - Will Head

Fiddle, Vocals - Sid Hemphill

Guitar - Alec Askew

8. Will Starks - The Fox Hunter's Song 2:48

Vocals - Will Starks

9. Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford - Times Is Getting Hard 3:45

Guitar - Willie Ford

Guitar, Vocals - Lucious Curtis

10. Big Charlie Butler - Diamond Joe 2:15

Vocals - Big Charlie Butler

11. Crap Eye - One Morning At The Break Of Day (Wake Up Song) 1:55

Vocals, Percussion - Crap Eye

12. Jim Henry & Jeff Webster - Workin' On The Levee, Sleepin' On De Ground 1:37

Vocals - Jim Henry

Voice - Jeff Webster

13. Joe Miller & Jim Henry - Lord, I'm In Trouble 2:33

Vocals - Jim Henry , Joe Miller

14. Dobie Red - Stewball 5:15

Lead Vocals - Dobie Red

Vocals - Unknown Artist

15. Dobie Red - Rosie 2:45

Lead Vocals - Dobie Red

Vocals - Unknown Artist

16. Frank Evans - French Blues 2:13

Guitar, Vocals - Frank Evans

17. Reverend C.H. Savage - Rock Daniel 2:31

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

18. Reverend C.H. Savage - Interview 3:08

Voice - Alan Lomax , Reverend C.H. Savage

19. Henry Joiner & Annie Anderson - Hallelu, Hallelu 2:26

Lead Vocals - Annie Anderson , Henry Joiner

Vocals - Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

20. Reverend C.H. Savage - I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray 1:05

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

21. Henry Joiner - Conversion Experience 4:33

Voice - Henry Joiner

22. Reverend C.H. Savage - Let Me Ride 3:50

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

23. Deacon Tom Jones & Reverend C.H. Savage - If I Had My Way, I'd Tear The Building Down 4:10

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage , Deacon Tom Jones

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith

24. Deacon Tom Jones & Reverend C.H. Savage - Little David 3:28

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage , Deacon Tom Jones

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith

25. Reverend C.H. Savage - Calvary 3:26

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

South Carolina - Got the Keys to the Kingdom (2002)

1. Run, Mary, Run - Martha Wright, Lillie Cogswell Knox & Albertina Keith 3:20

2. John Write a Letter This Morning - Hannah Besselieu & Mittie Docter 2:07

3. Keep Workin' on a Building - Martha Wright & Lillie Cogswell Knox 1:14

4. Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, I Know - Hannah Besselieu & Mittie Docter 1:35

5. Right Down Here - Michael Maybank, John White, Francis Gadsden & Esau Sands 1:50

6. Ezekiel and the Dry Bones - John Simmons, Michael Maybank, John White, Francis Gadsden & Esau Sands 3:59

7. Daniel in the Lion's Den - Lillie Knox & Thelma Knox 2:10

8. Leprosy (Nicodemus) - Zack Knox 1:09

9. A Long Grave and a Short Grave - Zack Knox 2:49

10. Listen to the Roll - Zack Knox 1:27

11. When the Roll Is Called Again - Martha Wright, Lillie Knox & The Congregation of Jerusalem Baptist Church 1:33

12. Dead and Gone - Elsie Jenkins & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 2:35

13. Gonna Take a Ride on the Chariot Wheel - D.W. White & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 1:51

14. Got the Keys to the Kingdom - Lillie Knox 2:00

15. (Some of These Days) I'm Gonna Down to the River of Jordan - Zack Knox 2:20

16. Wants to Be in Heaven When the First Trumpet Sounds - Lillie Knox & Thelma Knox 2:56

17. I Have a Mother Gone to Glory Over Yonder's Ocean - Minnie Floyd & John A. Lomax 2:13

18. I'm Troubled About My Soul - Lillie Knox 2:23

19. Bye-O-Baby - Tina "Mom" Russell 1:32

20. Shoo Robin - Cecil, Martha, Edmond & Robert Owens 0:46

21. Ten Pound Hammer - John Simmons, Michael Maybank, John White, Francis Gadsden & Esau Sands 1:25

22. Oh Lordy Me, Oh Lordy My - J.M. Williams and Group 1:52

23. I Sure Can't Stand It Long - Luther Mack, Tommy Miller, William Long & Julius Harmon 3:13

24. Look Down That Long Lonesome Road - [unknown] 1:28

25. Tally Rally Devil - Willie James Skinner 2:17

26. The Downward Road - Jim Williams and Group 2:15

27. Where Is the Gambling Man? - Jim Williams and Group 2:54

28. Ain't but the One Train Run This Track (All Night Long) - D.W. White & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 3:15

29. Honey in the Rock - D.W. White & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 2:11

Virginia And The Piedmont - Minstrelsy, Work Songs And Blues (2000)

1. Old Dan Tucker - Golden Gate Quartet

2. Corn-Shucking Time - Jimmie Strothers

3. Jaybird - Jimmie Strothers

4. Georgia Land - Jimmie Owens

5. I Used To Work On A 'Tractor - Jimmie Strothers

6. Wild Ox Moan - Rollie Lee Johnson

7. Boll Weevil - Willie Williams

8. Po' Farmer - Lemuel Jones

9. Fox Chase - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee

10. I'll Go On - Joe Lee

11. I Feel The Spirit Moving - Michael Lewis And Group

12. We're Almost Down To The Shore - Jimmie Strothers

13. This Land Of Georgia - Joe Lee

14. Can't Hide - unknown

15. Noah And The Flood - Norman Haskins

16. Run, Sinner, Run - Golden Gate Quartet

17. Take This Hammer - Jimmie Strothers

18. Walk Down, Devils - James Wilson And Group

19. Railroad Wreck - Wille Williams

20. Bitin' Spider - Willie Williams And Group

21. John Henry - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee

22. Tin Can Alley - Ezra Lewis

23. Pick 'Em Up - Albert Shepherd And Group

24. Prison Blues - Robert Higgins

25. Every Mail Day - J. Kirby And Group

26. When I Lie Down Last Night - Blind Joe

27. Worried Blues - Sonny Terry

28. Going To Richmond - Jimmie Strothers