The Definitive Charley Patton

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Mississippi Boweavil Blues
  3:13
• 2
  Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
  3:03
• 3
  Down the Dirt Road Blues
  2:56
• 4
  Pony Blues
  3:01
• 5
  Banty Rooster Blues
  3:05
• 6
  It Won't Be Long
  3:24
• 7
  Pea Vine Blues
  3:05
• 8
  Tom Rushen Blues
  3:05
• 9
  A Spoonful Blues
  3:10
• 10
  Shake It and Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama)
  3:08
• 11
  Prayer of Death, Part 1
  3:05
• 12
  Prayer of Death, Part 2
  2:50
• 13
  Lord I'm Discouraged
  3:08
• 14
  I'm Goin' Home
  3:03
• 15
  Going to Move to Alabama
  3:02
• 16
  Elder Greene Blues
  3:00
• 17
  Circle Round the Moon
  2:32
• 18
  Devil Sent the Rain Blues
  2:56
• 19
  Mean Black Cat Blues
  2:53
• 20
  Frankie and Albert
  3:13
• CD 2
• 1
  Some These Days I'll Be Gone
  3:17
• 2
  Green River Blues
  3:14
• 3
  Hammer Blues
  3:14
• 4
  Magnolia Blues
  3:09
• 5
  When Your Way Gets Dark
  3:07
• 6
  Heart Like Railroad Steel
  2:50
• 7
  Some Happy Day
  3:11
• 8
  You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die
  2:56
• 9
  Jim Lee Blues, Part 1
  3:01
• 10
  Jim Lee Blues, Part 2
  3:01
• 11
  High Water Everywhere, Part 1
  3:06
  4.7 ★
• 12
  High Water Everywhere, Part 2
  3:04
• 13
  Jesue Is a Dying-Bed Maker
  2:57
• 14
  I Shall Not Be Moved
  3:03
• 15
  Rattlesnake Blues
  2:43
• 16
  Running Wild Blues
  2:52
• 17
  Joe Kirby
  3:09
• 18
  Mean Black Moan
  3:09
• 19
  Dry Well Blues
  3:17
• 20
  Some Summer Day, Part 1
  2:53
• CD 3
• 1
  Moon Going Down
  3:16
• 2
  Bird Nest Bound
  3:11
• 3
  Jersey Bull Blues
  3:08
• 4
  High Sheriff Blues
  3:11
• 5
  Stone Pony Blues
  2:49
• 6
  34 Blues
  2:59
• 7
  Love My Stuff
  2:56
• 8
  Revenue Man Blues
  2:39
• 9
  Oh Death
  2:52
• 10
  Troubled 'Bout My Mother
  2:56
• 11
  Poor Me
  2:58
• 12
  Hang It on the Wall
  2:42
• 13
  Farrell Blues
  3:08
• 14
  Come Back Corrina
  3:10
• 15
  Tell Me Man Blues
  3:13
• 16
  Be True, Be True Blues
  3:03
• 17
  Yellow Bee
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 18
  Mind Reader Blues
  2:50
  5.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bertha Lee
  vocal [9-10, 17-18]
• Charley Patton
  guitar [1.1-20, 2.1-15, 2.15-20, 3.1-18], lead vocals [3, 7, 9, 11-14], vocal [1.1-2, 1.4-8, 1.10-20, 3.1-12, 2.1-15, 2.15-20]
• Henry Sims
  violin [2.15-18, 1.15-18, 3.13-14], vocal [2.9, 3.13-16]
• Walter “Buddy Boy” Hawkins
  vocal [14]
• Willie Brown
  additional [2.19, 3.1-2], guitar [3.1-2, 2.19]
• [unknown]
  additional [3, 9]

Issues

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  The Definitive Charley Patton

  3x CD
  2001