This Is the Blues

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Pony Blues
  3:04
• 2
  A Spoonful Blues
  3:15
• 3
  Devil Sent the Rain Blues
  3:07
• 4
  Frankie & Albert
  3:14
• 5
  Heart Like Railroad Steel
  2:54
• 6
  Down the Dirt Road Blues
  3:03
• 7
  Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
  3:13
• 8
  Pea Vine Blues
  3:08
• 9
  Shake It & Break It
  3:11
• 10
  Mississippi Boll Weevil Blues
  3:13
• 11
  Prayer of Death, Part 1
  3:10
• 12
  Prayer of Death, Part 2
  2:56
• 13
  Green River Blues
  3:12
• 14
  Hammer Blues
  3:22
• 15
  Magnolia Blues
  3:01
• 16
  Jim Lee Blues, Part 1
  3:09
• 17
  Jim Lee Blues, Part 2
  3:05
• 18
  Running Wild Blues
  3:00
• 19
  High Water Everywhere, Part 1
  3:03
  4.7 ★
• 20
  High Water Everywhere, Part 2
  3:01
• CD 2
• 1
  Mean Black Cat Blues
  2:57
• 2
  Some of These Days I'll Be Gone
  2:54
• 3
  You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die
  2:54
• 4
  Jesus Is A-Dying (Bed Maker)
  2:56
• 5
  When Your Way Gets Dark
  3:11
• 6
  Circle Round the Moon
  2:36
• 7
  Bird Nest Bound
  3:15
• 8
  Some Summer Day
  3:07
• 9
  Dry Well Blues
  3:25
• 10
  Moon Going Down
  3:20
• 11
  Revenue Man Blues
  2:48
• 12
  High Sheriff Blues
  3:16
• 13
  Stone Pony Blues
  2:58
• 14
  Jersey Bull Blues
  3:14
• 15
  Hang It on the Wall
  2:49
• 16
  Poor Me
  3:03
• 17
  34 Blues
  3:01
• 18
  Love My Stuff
  3:01
• 19
  Troubled 'Bout My Mother
  3:00
• 20
  O Death!
  2:54

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Release credits

• Bertha Lee
  vocal [19-20]
• Charley Patton
  guitar [1.1-20, 2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9-20], lead vocals [2, 6, 8, 11-12], slide guitar [8], vocal [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.7-20, 2.1, 2.3-20]
• Henry Sims
  violin [2.6, 1.3, 1.18], vocal [16]
• Willie Brown
  acoustic guitar [8], additional [7, 9-10], guitar [7, 9-10]
• [unknown]
  additional [2, 6]

Issues

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  (Combined release view)
• T
  This Is the Blues

  2x CD
  2008