The Original Ramblin' Bluesman 1945-1961

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  His Spirit Lives On
  3:08
• 2
  Baby, Please Don't Go
  3:06
• 3
  Stack of Dollars
  3:22
• 4
  Mellow Apples
  3:09
• 5
  Wild Cow Moan
  3:13
• 6
  P-Vine Blues
  2:36
• 7
  Bad and Weak Hearted Blues
  3:00
• 8
  King Biscuit Stomp
  2:54
• 9
  I'm a Highway Man
  2:50
• 10
  Banta Rooster Blues
  2:36
• 11
  Mean Stepfather Blues
  2:49
• 12
  House Lady Blues
  2:45
• 13
  Don't Leave Me Here
  2:39
• 14
  Jivin' Woman
  2:55
• 15
  She's a Married Woman
  2:42
• 16
  Mama Don't Allow Me
  2:45
• 17
  Delta Blues
  2:41
• 18
  Over Hauling Blues
  2:46
• 19
  Whistling Pines
  2:34
• 20
  Friends and Pals
  2:37
• 21
  Juanita
  2:36
• 22
  She Left Me a Mule
  2:32
• 23
  Bad Heart Blues
  2:45
• 24
  Baby, Please Don't Go
  2:48
• 25
  Ride in My New Car With Me
  2:35
• 26
  Rather Be Sloppy Drunk
  3:22
• 27
  Cottage Grove Blues
  4:16
• CD 2
• 1
  Goin' Back
  2:50
• 2
  My Baby Left
  2:35
• 3
  King's Highway
  2:54
• 4
  Lula Mae
  2:19
• 5
  All I Want Is My Train Fare Home
  2:48
• 6
  I'm Talkin' About You
  4:45
• 7
  Joe Williams' Blues
  4:45
• 8
  Don't Leave Me Here
  2:40
• 9
  Cow Cow Blues
  2:35
• 10
  Crawlin' King Snake
  2:51
• 11
  I May Be Wrong
  3:46
• 12
  Keep A-Knockin'
  2:36
• 13
  Cottage Grove
  2:35
• 14
  Meet Me in the Bottom
  2:18
• 15
  Bessemer Baby
  3:24
• 16
  Baby, Please Don't Go (Highway 49)
  2:56
• 17
  Shake Your Boogie
  2:07
• 18
  Jump Baby Jump
  2:05
• 19
  Mean Mistreater
  3:09
• 20
  Prison Bound
  2:15
• 21
  Whistlin' Pines
  2:54
• 22
  Bluebird Blues
  3:23
• 23
  Elevate Me Baby
  3:12
• 24
  T.B. Blues
  3:30
• 25
  King Biscuit Stomp No.2
  4:40
• 26
  Rootin' Ground Hog
  3:09

More by Big Joe Williams

Baby Please Don't Go

Baby Please Don't Go 1994

Baby Please Don't Go: The Collection 1935-62

Baby Please Don't Go: The Collection 1935-62 2023

Four Classic Albums

Four Classic Albums 2021

The Essential

The Essential 2012

Blues Masters, Volume 2

Blues Masters, Volume 2 2012

Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 1: 1935 - 1941

Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 1: 1935 - 1941 2007

Release credits

• Alfred Elkins
  additional [1.24, 2.16]
• Art Rupe
  task [26]
• Big Joe Williams
  guitar [2.10, 2.16, 2.26, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14-15, 1.24], lead vocals [1.9, 1.11, 1.14-15, 1.24, 2.10, 2.16, 2.26], vocal [1.9, 1.11, 2.10, 2.26]
• Billy Vera
  task [26]
• Lawrence "Judge" Riley
  drums (drum set) [1.9, 1.11, 1.24, 2.16], membranophone [9, 11]
• Phil Carroll
  art direction [26]
• Ransom Knowling
  bass [9, 11], double bass [1.9, 1.11, 1.24, 2.16]
• Robert Nighthawk
  guitar [26]
• Singleton Palmer
  membranophone [14-15]
• Sonny Boy Williamson
  additional [2.16, 1.24], harmonica [1.9, 1.11, 1.24, 2.16, 2.26]
• William Mitchell
  washtub bass [10]

Issues

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  The Original Ramblin' Bluesman 1945-1961

  2x CD
  4 November 2019