Jolly Joker presents

Sir Douglas Quintet – The Crazy Cajun Recordings [2 CD, 1998]

Arguably the greatest and most influential Tex-Mex group ever, the Sir Douglas Quintet epitomized Texas' reputation as a fertile roots music melting pot and established the career of Tex-Mex cult legend Doug Sahm. The Quintet mixed country, blues, jazz, R&B, Mexican conjunto/norteño music, Cajun dances, British Invasion rock & roll, garage rock, and even psychedelia into a heady stew that could only have come from Texas. Although they went largely underappreciated during their existence (mostly in the '60s), their influence was far-reaching and continues to be felt in Texas (particularly the similarly eclectic Austin scene) and beyond; afterward, Sahm embarked on a frequently fascinating solo career and reunited with the Quintet or its individual members several times over the years.

Doug Sahm - lead vocals
Frank Morin - sax, trumpet, keyboards
Augie Meyers - organ
Harvey Kagan - bass
Johnny Perez - drums

CD1:

01. She's About a Mover 2:23

02. The Rains Came 2:14

03. T-Bone Shuffle 3:06

04. Oh, What a Mistake! 2:09

05. The Tracker Kline 2:35

06. Nuevo Laredo 2:43

07. Image of Me Howard 3:03

08. In the Pines 2:25

09. Ain't Nothin' Wrong With YouBaby 3:18

10. When I Sing the Blues 2:29

11. In the Jailhouse Now 2:24

12. It's a Man Down There 3:16

13. We'll Take Our Last Walk Tonight 2:45

14. Wolverton Mountain 4:00

15. Son of Bill Beaty 4:48

16. In Time 2:15

17. Please Just Say So 2:26

18. She Digs My Love 2:46

19. You Got Me Hurtin' 2:14

20. You've Got Your Good Thing Down 1:32

21. Philadelphia Lawyer 2:15

22. Sugar Bee Shuler 2:19

23. Seguin 2:46

CD2:

01. Hot Tomato Man 2:18

02. Bacon Fat 2:25

03. Blue Norther 2:16

04. Dallas Alice 3:13

05. Just a Teeny Bit of Your Love 2:05

06. Quarter to Three 1:46

07. She's Gotta Be Boss 2:10

08. Isabella 2:32

09. You're Out Walking the Streets Tonight 2:17

10. Linda Lou/Country Girl 7:02

11. One Too Many Mornings/Got toSing a Happy Song 5:06

12. Beginning of the End 2:59

13. Revolutionary Ways 2:29

14. The Change Is in the City 3:06

15. Time Changes Everything 2:00

16. You're Mine Tonight 5:48

17. Blues Pass Me By 2:53

18. Funky Side of Your Mind 8:36

Recorded: 1966-1970

VA - Breaking Out Of New Orleans 1922-1929 [4 CD, 2004]

There was something special about the Crescent City, with its tropical carnival atmosphere and its bubbling mixture of cultures, that made it surely the most musical city in the New World - and its jazzmen, from the nigh-legendary Buddy Bolden to today's Wynton Marsalis, some of the most influential. The work of three of New Orleans' biggest names, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver, is already well documented in the JSP catalogue (see below). This collection concerns itself with their compatriots and contemporaries, presenting 101 historic recordings by numerous hot ensembles featuring a host of New Orleans' finest, including Oscar 'Papa' Celestin, Louis Dumaine, Lee Collins, Armand Piron, Freddie Keppard and Johnny Dodds. Customary JSP remastering and packaging with an authoritative essay by Keith Briggs.

Disc A
01. Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Original Tuxedo Rag
02. Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Careless Love
03. Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Black Rag
04. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - I'm Satisfied You Love Me
05. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - My Josephine
06. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Station Calls
07. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Station Calls
08. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Give Me Some More
09. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Dear Almanzoer
10. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Papa's Got The Jim-Jams
11. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - As You Like It
12. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Just For You Dear, I'm Crying
13. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Just For You Dear, I'm Crying
14. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - When I'm With You
15. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - It's A Jam Up
16. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - The Sweetheart Of The TKO
17. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - Ta Ta Daddy
18. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - Pretty Audrey
19. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - To-Bac-A-Wa
20. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - Franklin Street Blues
21. Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - Red Onion Drag
22. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Astoria Strut
23. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Duet Stomp
24. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Damp Weather
25. Jones And Collins Astoria Hot - Tip Easy Blues

Disc B
01. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Steppin' On The Gas
02. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Everybody's Talking About Sammy
03. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Mobile Stomp
04. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Sing On
05. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Short Dress Gal
06. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Boogalousa Strut
07. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Down By The Riverside
08. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Over In The Gloryland
09. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Bouncing Around
10. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Kiss Me Sweet
11. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - New Orleans Wiggle
12. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Mama's Gone, Goodbye
13. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Sud Bustin' Blues
14. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - West Indies Blues
15. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Do-Doodle-Oom
16. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - West Indies Blues
17. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Ghost Of The Blues
18. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Bright Star Blues
19. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Louisiana Blues
20. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Sitting On A Curbstone Blues
21. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Red Man Blues
22. Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - Do Just As I Say
23. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Of All The Wrongs You Done Me
24. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Terrible Blues
25. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Santa Claus Blues
26. Red Onion Jazz Babies - Cake-Walking Babies (From Home)

Disc C
01. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Krooked Blues
02. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - When You're All Alone Blues
03. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Maybe Someday
04. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - That Sweet Something Dear
05. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Ory's Creole Trombone
06. Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Society Blues
07. Fate Marable's Society Syncopators - Frankie And Johnny
08. Fate Marable's Society Syncopators - Pianoflage
09. Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra - Cutie Blues
10. Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra - Chinaman Blues
11. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - Scissor Grinder Joe
12. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - Lonely Little Wallflower
13. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - So This Is Venice
14. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - Moanful Man
15. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - The Memphis Maybe Man
16. Cook's Dreamland Orchestra - The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else
17. Cookie's Gingersnaps - Messin' Around
18. Cookie's Gingersnaps - High Fever
19. Cookie's Gingersnaps - Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man
20. Cookie's Gingersnaps - Love Found You For Me
21. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man!
22. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - Brown Sugar
23. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - High Fever
24. Cook And His Dreamland Orchestra - Spanish Mama

Disc D
01. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals - Stock Yards Strut
02. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals - Salty Dog
03. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals - Salty Dog
04. New Orleans Wanderers - Perdido Street Blues
05. New Orleans Wanderers - Gate Mouth
06. New Orleans Wanderers - Too Tight
07. New Orleans Wanderers - Papa Dip
08. New Orleans Wanderers - Mixed Salad
09. New Orleans Bootblacks - I Can't Say
10. New Orleans Bootblacks - Flat Foot
11. New Orleans Bootblacks - Mad Dog
12. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - Come On And Stomp, Stomp, Stomp
13. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - After You've Gone
14. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - After You've Gone
15. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - Joe Turner Blues
16. Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers - When Erastus Plays Old Kazoo
17. The Chicago Footwarmers - Ballin' The Jack
18. The Chicago Footwarmers - Grandma's Ball
19. The Chicago Footwarmers - My Baby
20. The Chicago Footwarmers - Oriental Man
21. The Chicago Footwarmers - Get 'Em Again Blues
22. The Chicago Footwarmers - Brush Stomp
23. The Chicago Footwarmers - My Girl
24. The Chicago Footwarmers - Sweep 'Em Clean
25. The Chicago Footwarmers - Lady Love
26. The Chicago Footwarmers - Brown Bottom Bess

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey [5 CD, 2003 ]

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 Various artists box set . It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different blues sub-genres and tangential music styles, as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time.

Disc one

Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - "Shortnin' / Henduck"
Lightning & Group - "Long John"
Mamie Smith – "Crazy Blues"
W.C. Handy – "St. Louis Blues"
Bessie Smith – "Muddy Water"
Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Match Box Blues"
Furry Lewis – "Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee"
Ma Rainey – ""Ma" Rainey's Black Bottom"
Blind Willie Johnson – "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"
Louis Armstrong – "Savoy Blues"
Frank Stokes – "Downtown Blues"
Mississippi John Hurt – "Frankie"
Henry Thomas – "Fishing Blues"
Leroy Carr – "How Long, How Long Blues"
Tommy Johnson – "Canned Heat Blues"
Blind Willie McTell – "Southern Can Is Mine"
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – "It's Tight Like That"
Pine Top Smith – "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"
Lonnie Johnson – "Guitar Blues"
Charley Patton – "Pony Blues"
Blind Blake – "Diddie Wah Diddie"
Memphis Jug Band – "K.C. Moan"
Jimmie Rodgers – "Standin' On The Corner (Blue Yodel # 9)"
Mississippi Sheiks – "Sittin' on Top of the World"
Son House – "Preachin' The Blues"

Disc two

Skip James – "Devil Got My Woman"
Lead Belly – "C.C. Rider"
Big Joe Williams – "Baby, Please Don't Go"
Roosevelt Sykes – "Dirty Mother For You (Don't You Know)"
Billie Holiday - "Billie's Blues"
Robert Johnson – "Cross Roads Blues"
Sonny Boy Williamson I - "Good Mornin' Little School Girl"
Bukka White – "Shake 'em on Down"
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – "Roll 'Em Pete"
Robert Petway – "Catfish Blues"
Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing – "Going To Chicago Blues"
Big Bill Broonzy – "Key To The Highway"
Memphis Minnie – "Me And My Chauffeur Blues"
Big Maceo Merriweather – "Worried Life Blues"
Tommy McClennon – "Cross Cut Saw Blues"
Lionel Hampton Sextet with Dinah Washington – "Evil Gal Blues"
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – "Strange Things Happening Everyday"
Joe Liggins – "Honeydripper"
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown – "Drifting Blues"
Louis Jordan – "Let the Good Times Roll"
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup – "That's All Right Mama"
T-Bone Walker – "Call It Stormy Monday"
Wynonie Harris – "Good Rockin' Tonight"
Jimmy Witherspoon – "Ain't Nobody's Business, Part One"
The Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & The Robins – "Double Crossing Blues"

Disc three

Memphis Slim – "Mother Earth"
Percy Mayfield – "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
Jackie Brenston – "Rocket 88"
Elmore James – "Dust My Broom"
Rosco Gordon – "No More Doggin'"
Little Walter – "Juke"
Big Mama Thornton – "Hound Dog"
Lowell Fulson – "Reconsider Baby"
Guitar Slim – "The Things That I Used to Do"
Professor Longhair – "In The Night"
Muddy Waters – "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
J. B. Lenoir – "Eisenhower Blues"
Fats Domino – "Blue Monday"
Ray Charles – "Hard Times"
Smiley Lewis – "I Hear You Knockin'"
Elvis Presley – "Mystery Train"
Sonny Boy Williamson II – "Don't Start Me To Talkin'"
Howlin' Wolf – "Smokestack Lightnin'"
Bo Diddley – "Who Do You Love"
Slim Harpo – "I'm a King Bee"
Chuck Berry – "Johnny B. Goode"
Bobby "Blue" Bland – "Farther Up The Road"
Otis Rush – "So Many Roads, So Many Trains"
Buddy Guy – "First Time I Met The Blues"
Jimmy Reed – "Big Boss Man"

Disc four

Freddie King – "Hide Away"
Junior Parker – "Drivin' Wheel"
John Lee Hooker – "Boom Boom"
Albert Collins – "Frosty"
Muddy Waters – "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had"
Howlin' Wolf – "Killing Floor"
Son House – "Death Letter Blues"
Mississippi Fred McDowell – "You Gotta Move"
Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited"
Junior Wells – "Hoodoo Man Blues"
Koko Taylor – "Wang Dang Doodle"
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - "All Your Love"
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – "I've Got A Mind To Give Up Livin'"
Jimi Hendrix – "Red House"
Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign"
Magic Sam – "Mama Talk To Your Daughter"
Etta James – "Tell Mama"
The Jeff Beck Group – "I Ain't Superstitious"
Taj Mahal – "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)"
Fleetwood Mac – "Albatross"
Janis Joplin – "One Good Man"

Disc five

B. B. King – "The Thrill Is Gone"
Johnny Winter – "Dallas"
Derek and the Dominos – "Have You Ever Loved a Woman"
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers – "Give Me Back My Wig"
The Allman Brothers Band – "One Way Out"
Z.Z. Hill – "Down Home Blues"
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – "Pride And Joy"
Robert Cray – "Smoking Gun"
The Fabulous Thunderbirds – "Tuff Enuff"
John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt - "I'm in the Mood"
Ali Farka Toure – "Timbarma"
Keb' Mo' – "Am I Wrong?"
Luther Allison – "Cherry Red Wine"
Peggy Scott-Adams – "Bill"
Susan Tedeschi – "Just Won't Burn"
Gov't Mule – "Time To Confess"
Los Lobos – "Voodoo Music"
Bonnie Raitt – "Round And Round"
Cassandra Wilson - "Vietnam Blues"
Robert Cray and Shemekia Copeland - "I Pity the Fool" (Live)
Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris – "Sweet Home Chicago"

VA - Let Me Tell You About The Blues : Atlanta [3 CD, 2010]

Like Memphis, Tennessee, Atlanta was a staging post for itinerant musicians and like Memphis, it was home to an impressive number of guitarists who established a very distinctive style of playing that became synonymous with the city. It was also the location for the first country blues artist, Ed Andrews, to be recorded. Three years later, Julius Daniels was the first Carolina bluesman to record. Atlanta was also a recording centre for out-of-state artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bo Carter, the Memphis Jug Band, Blind Willie Johnson and Hambone Willie Newbern. A further school of blues gathered around Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony.

The source of Atlanta’s principal blues style was Curley Weaver’s mother, Savannah Shepard, who also taught the Hicks brothers, Charlie and Robert, known on record as Charlie Lincoln and Barbecue Bob. Her influence is also heard in the music of Willie Baker and George Carter. She didn’t teach Blind Willie McTell but he was probably the inspiration for Riley Puckett’s ‘A Darkey’s Wail’. Weaver and McTell recorded together as the Georgia Cotton Pickers, while Weaver also worked with Fred McMullen and Buddy Moss as the Georgia Browns. Willie McTell also accompanied Weaver and artists such as Harris & Harris and Mary Willis. The wealth of musical talent recorded in Atlanta, included Sloppy Henry, Too Tight Henry, Billy Bird, Lonnie Coleman, Barefoot Bill, Lil McClintock, King David’s Jug Band and the Birmingham Jug Band.

World War II put paid to recording in Atlanta until the end of the 1940s, when record companies returned to the city. McTell and Weaver were still around and other country blues artists like Frank Edwards, David Wylie and Pinetop Slim made their mark. But their music was in decline as rhythm and blues rose in importance. Atlanta’s stars included Billy Wright, Piano Red and Blow Top Lynn, sometimes backed by bands led by tenor-man Fred Jackson. Others included Tommy Brown, Melvin Smith, Zilla Mays, Willie Brown and Joyce Jackson. Most popular of all were Chuck Willis and Little Richard, each went on to greater fame after making impressive recording debuts. They merely underlined once again what a valuable breeding ground for talent Atlanta had continued to be.

Disc 1

01. Ed Andrews / Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay [00:02:50]
02. JULIUS DANIELS -- My Mamma Was A Sailor [00:03:28]
03. Blind Lemon Jefferson / Match Box Blues [00:02:57]
04. Barbecue Bob / Barbecue Blues [00:03:15]
05. Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band / Under The Chicken Tree [00:03:21]
06. Riley Puckett / A Darkey's Wail [00:02:57]
07. Blind Willie McTell / Mama, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day [00:03:03]
08. Emery Glen / Back Door Blues [00:03:04]
09. Memphis Jug Band / Kansas City Blues [00:02:58]
10. Will Weldon / Turpentine Blues [00:03:28]
11. Vol Stevens / Vol Stevens Blues [00:03:22]
12. Charlie Lincoln / Jealous Hearted Blues [00:03:39]
13. Peg Leg Howell / Skin Game Blues [00:03:09]
14. Bobby Grant / Lonesome Atlanta Blues [00:03:02]
15. Pink Anderson & Simmie Cooley / C.C. & O. Blues [00:03:09]
16. Henry Williams & Eddie Anthony / Georgia Crawl [00:03:26]
17. Nellie Florence / Midnight Weeping Blues [00:03:01]
18. Uncle Bud Walker / Look Here Mama Blues [00:02:58]
19. Sloppy Henry / Canned Heat Blues [00:02:59]
20. Curley Weaver / No No Blues [00:03:12]
21. Too Tight Henry / Charleston Contest Pt.1 [00:03:29]
22. Billy Bird / Down In The Cemetery [00:03:15]
23. Alec Johnson / Miss Meal Cramp Blues [00:03:03]
24. Willie Baker / Mama, Don't Rush Me Blues [00:02:57]
25. George Carter / Rising River Blues [00:02:49]

Disc 2

01. Macon Ed & Tampa Joe / Worrying Blues [00:03:13]
02. Hambone Willie Newbern / Shelby County Workhouse Blues [00:02:57]
03. Lonnie Coleman / Old Rock Island Blues [00:03:17]
04. Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill / Ball And Chain Blues [00:03:05]
05. Harris & Harris / This Is Not The Stove To Brown Your Bread [00:02:34]
06. Eli Framer / Framer's Blues [00:03:09]
07. Barbecue Bob / She Shook Her Gin [00:03:13]
08. Pillie Bolling / Brown Skin Woman [00:03:24]
09. Barefoot Bill / Snigglin' Blues [00:02:41]
10. Blind Willie Johnson / You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond [00:03:14]
11. Jaybird Coleman / Coffee Grinder Blues [00:03:08]
12. Lil McClintock / Furniture Man [00:03:19]
13. Willie Walker / South Carolina Rag [00:03:12]
14. Georgia Cotton Pickers / I'm On My Way Down Home [00:03:16]
15. Lillie Mae / Buggy Jail House Blues [00:02:44]
16. Birmingham Jug Band / Giving It Away [00:03:15]
17. King David's Jug Band / What's That Tastes Like Gravy [00:03:10]
18. Bo Carter / What Kind Of Scent Is This [00:03:29]
19. Mississippi Sheiks / Bed Spring Poker [00:03:14]
20. Mary Willis & Blind Willie McTell / Talkin' To You Wimmen About The Blues [00:03:06]
21. Fred McMullen / DeKalb Chain Gang [00:03:08]
22. Georgia Browns / Decatur Street 81 [00:02:48]
23. Buddy Moss / Hard Times Blues [00:03:18]
24. Chasey Collins / Atlanta Town [00:02:39]
25. Blind Willie McTell / Dying Crapshooter's Blues [00:03:11]

Disc 3

01. Pinetop Slim / Applejack Boogie [00:02:42]
02. Curley Weaver / Brown Skin Woman [00:03:19]
03. Blind Willie McTell / Love Changin' Blues [00:02:32]
04. Frank Edwards / Gotta Get Together [00:02:13]
05. David Wylie / You're Gonna Weep And Moan [00:03:30]
06. Fred Jackson / Duck Fever [00:02:30]
07. Billy Wright / Stacked Deck [00:03:00]
08. Blow Top Lynn / Reliefin' Blues [00:02:27]
09. Tommy Brown / V-8 Baby [00:02:59]
10. Chuck Willis / It Ain't Right To Treat Me Wrong [00:02:52]
11. Joyce Jackson / Body Rocking Daddy [00:02:35]
12. Waymon Brown / Barefoot Susie [00:02:28]
13. Roy Mays Orchestra / Royal Peacock Boogie [00:02:55]
14. Willie Brown / Korea Blues [00:02:40]
15. Little Richard / Get Rich Quick [00:02:20]
16. Piano Red / Hey Good Lookin' [00:02:23]
17. Junior Tamplin / Under the Viaduct (in Atlanta G.A.) [00:02:53]
18. Little Richard / Thinkin' 'bout My Mother [00:02:56]
19. Melvin Smith / Everybody's Got The Blues [00:02:46]
20. Zilla Mays & The Blues Caravan / Nite Shift Blues [00:02:38]
21. H-Bomb Ferguson / You Made Me Baby [00:02:37]
22. Billy Wright / Four Cold, Cold Walls [00:02:50]
23. Arthur ''Big Boy'' Crudup / If You Ever Been To Georgia [00:02:37]
24. Papa Lightfoot / Mean Old Train [00:02:16]
25. Piano Red / Wrong Yo-Yo [00:03:15]

VA - The Road To Robert Johnson And Beyond [4 CD, 2007]

During the last quarter of the 20th century, and thanks largely to Eric Clapton's remarkable devotion to his memory, Robert Leroy Johnson posthumously became the most celebrated Delta blues musician of the pre-WWII era. Among numerous editions of his complete works and various anthologies that combine his recordings with those of his contemporaries and followers, J.S.P.'s The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond combines many of his essential performances with those by dozens of other blues artists from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Henry Thomas to Muddy Waters and Elmore James. 105 tracks fill four CDs with several decades' worth of strongly steeped blues that trace the African American migration from the deep south on up into Chicago. This is a fine way to savor the recorded evidence, as primary examples from Blind Blake, Charley Patton, Son House, Charlie McCoy, Walter Vincson, Skip James, Ma Rainey, Tampa Red, Kokomo Arnold, Scrapper Blackwell, Leroy Carr, Lonnie Johnson, and Peetie Wheatstraw lead directly to early modern masters like Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Johnny Temple, Leroy Foster, Johnny Shines, Homesick James Williamson, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Snooky Pryor, Little Walter, and David Honeyboy Edwards, among many others. This collection would be greatly enhanced by Edward Komara's The Road to Robert Johnson: The Genesis and Evolution of Blues in the Delta from the Late 1800s Through 1938, a highly regarded work of musicological scholarship published at the same time as J.S.P. released their similarly titled box set in 2007. Careful remastering and affordable pricing make this hefty stash of classic blues an excellent option for anyone who cares at all about where the music came from and how it evolved.

CD A

01. Son House - Walkin' Blues (2:57)
02. Leroy Carr - Mean Mistreater Mama (2:56)
03. Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:07)
04. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:00)
05. Blind Blake - Georgia Bound (3:23)
06. Lonnie Johnson - Blue Ghost Blues (3:11)
07. Carl Rafferty - Mr. Carl's Blues (3:06)
08. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Change My Luck Blues (2:24)
09. Tampa Red - Things 'Bout Coming My Way (3:15)
10. Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues (3:05)
11. Kokomo Arnold - Old Original Kokomo Blues (2:54)
12. Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues (3:03)
13. Ramblin' Thomas - No Job Blues (3:12)
14. Bid Bill Broonzy - Shelby County Blues (3:20)
15. Ma Rainey - Booze And Blues (3:10)
16. Charley Patton - You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die (2:51)
17. Skip James - 20-20 Blues (2:51)
18. Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues (3:09)
19. Son House - Preachin' The Blues (Pt. 1) (3:05)
20. Lonnie Johnson - Life Saver Blues (3:05)
21. Johnny Temple - The Evil Devil Blues (3:13)
22. Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down (2:57)
23. Henry Thomas - Red River Blues (3:08)
24. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Dry Southern Blues (2:51)
25. Mississippi Sheiks - Show Me What You Got (3:10)

CD B

01. Robert Johnson - Kind Hearted Woman Blues (2:53)
02. Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom (3:00)
03. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago (2:59)
04. Robert Johnson - Ramblin' On My Mind (2:53)
05. Robert Johnson - When You Got A Good Friend (2:53)
06. Robert Johnson - Come On In My Kitchen (2:45)
07. Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues (3:01)
08. Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues (2:40)
09. Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues (2:50)
10. Robert Johnson - They're Red Hot (2:59)
11. Robert Johnson - Dead Shrimp Blues (2:32)
12. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (2:41)
13. Robert Johnson - Walkin' Blues (2:31)
14. Robert Johnson - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2:40)
15. Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues (2:51)
16. Robert Johnson - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (2:36)
17. Robert Johnson - Stones In My Passway (2:29)
18. Robert Johnson - I'm A Steady Rollin' Man (2:37)
19. Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late (2:25)
20. Robert Johnson - Hell Hound On My Trail (2:37)
21. Robert Johnson - Little Queen Of Spades (2:19)
22. Robert Johnson - Malted Milk (2:23)
23. Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man (2:28)
24. Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues (2:35)
25. Robert Johnson - Stop Breakin' Down Blues (2:24)
26. Robert Johnson - Travelin' Riverside Blues (2:47)
27. Robert Johnson - Honeymoon Blues (2:19)
28. Robert Johnson - Love In Vain (2:18)
29. Robert Johnson - Milkcow's Calf Blues (2:22)

CD C

01. Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No.1) (3:27)
02. Muddy Waters - I Be's Troubled (3:06)
03. Muddy Waters - Burr Clover Farm Blues (2:56)
04. Muddy Waters - Ramblin' Kid Blues (3:19)
05. Muddy Waters - Rosalie (3:04)
06. Muddy Waters - Take A Walk With Me (3:03)
07. Muddy Waters - Burr Clover Blues (3:13)
08. Muddy Waters - I Be Bound To Write To You (No.1) (3:24)
09. Muddy Waters - I Be Bound To Write To You (No.2) (2:54)
10. Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (No.1) (3:23)
11. Muddy Waters - You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days (2:09)
12. Muddy Waters - Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You (2:09)
13. Muddy Waters - Country Blues (No.2) (3:36)
14. Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (No.2) (3:41)
15. Muddy Waters - 32-20 Blues (3:24)
16. Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue (3:05)
17. Calvin Frazier - She's A Double-Crossin' Woman (2:50)
18. Robert Lee McCoy - Friar's Point Blues (2:51)
19. Big Joe Williams - I'm A Highway Man (2:53)
20. Johnny Shines - Evil Hearted Woman Blues (2:49)
21. Calvin Frazier - Lilly Mae (No.1) (4:00)
22. Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (2:32)
23. Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago (3:00)
24. Johnny Shines - Fishtail (2:30)
25. Little Walter - Muskadine Blues (3:12)

CD D

01. Elmore James - Dust My Broom (2:48)
02. Homesick James - Long Lonesome Day (2:26)
03. 'Baby Face' Leroy Foster - Rollin' & Tumblin' (Parts 1&2) (5:28)
04. Homesick James - Johnnie Mae (2:47)
05. Baby Boy Warren - Stop Breaking My Heart (2:36)
06. Elmore James - Standing At The Crossroads (2:48)
07. Homesick James - Lonesome Blues (2:21)
08. Homesick James - Homesick (3:07)
09. Elmore James - I Believe (3:17)
10. Johnny Shines - Rambling Blues (2:34)
11. Johnny Shines - Maggie Lee Blues (6:27)
12. Johnny Shines - You're The One That I Love (3:52)
13. Johnny Shines - Sweet Home Chicago (3:30)
14. Johnny Shines - Shake 'Em On Down (3:39)
15. Johnny Shines - Moanin' & Groanin' The Blues (5:24)
16. Blind Will Dukes - Terraplane Blues (3:04)
17. Blind Will Dukes - Dead Shrimp Blues (2:32)
18. Blind Will Dukes - Steady Rollin' Man (2:22)
19. Blind Will Dukes - Me And The Devil (2:20)
20. Blind Will Dukes - Mean Hearted Woman (2:29)
21. Blind Will Dukes - Ramblin' Blues (1:32)
22. Blind Will Dukes - Hobo Blues (1:42)
23. Blind Will Dukes - Milk Cow Blues (2:02)
24. Blind Will Dukes - Mistreated So Long (1:44)
25. Blind Will Dukes - Sail On Little Woman (2:06)
26. Blind Will Dukes - Hoodoo Man (2:08)