Where the Blues Began

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I Can’t Be Satisfied
  2:49
• 2
  Saturday Night Rub
  2:55
• 3
  Big Bill Blues
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Brown Skin Shuffle
  2:58
• 5
  Too Too Train Blues
  2:53
• 6
  Long Tall Mama
  2:49
  5.0 ★
• 7
  How You Want It Done
  2:53
• 8
  Mr. Conductor Man
  3:02
• 9
  Worrying You Off My Mind, Part 1
  3:06
• 10
  Bull Cow Blues
  2:53
• 11
  Friendless Blues
  3:26
• 12
  Serve It to Me Right
  3:28
• 13
  Mississippi River Blues
  2:43
• 14
  C.C. Rider
  3:18
• 15
  Midnight Special
  2:53
• 16
  Good Jelly
  3:19
• 17
  You May Need My Help Someday
  3:04
• 18
  Keep Your Hands Off Her
  2:54
• 19
  Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down
  2:41
• 20
  I Want My Hands on It
  2:53
• CD 2
• 1
  Good Time Tonight
  2:33
• 2
  W.P.A. Rag
  2:50
• 3
  It’s a Lowdown Dirty Shame
  2:56
• 4
  Trucking Little Woman
  2:39
• 5
  Too Many Drivers
  2:37
• 6
  Just a Dream
  2:37
• 7
  When I Been Drinking
  2:53
• 8
  Key to the Highway
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Wee Wee Hours
  2:59
• 10
  All by Myself
  2:29
• 11
  I Feel So Good
  2:48
• 12
  Where the Blues Began
  2:57
• 13
  Martha Blues
  3:14
• 14
  Texas Tornado Blues
  3:11
• 15
  I Feel Like Crying
  3:06
• 16
  Partnership Woman
  2:44
• 17
  Stop Lying Woman
  2:54
• 18
  Ramblin’ Woman
  2:58
• 19
  I Stay Blue All the Time
  2:29
• 20
  You’ve Been Mistreating Me
  2:54

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Release credits

• Big Bill Broonzy
  guitar [1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7, 1.9-11, 1.13, 2.5, 2.7-11], vocal [2.3, 2.5, 2.7-11, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7, 1.9-11, 1.13]
• Black Bob
  piano [11, 13]
• Frank Brasswell
  guitar [1]
• George Barnes
  electric guitar [3]
• Horace Malcolm
  piano [7]
• Jazz Gillum
  harmonica [8]
• John Thomas
  guitar [3]
• Joshua Altheimer
  piano [3, 5]
• Memphis Slim
  piano [9-10], spoken vocals [9]
• Odell Rand
  clarinet [5]
• Ransom Knowling
  double bass [5, 10]
• Washboard Sam
  spoken vocals [11], washboard [7-11]
• [unknown]
  double bass [3], tenor saxophone [3]

Issues

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  Where the Blues Began

  2x CD
  2000