The Essential

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Black and Evil Blues
  3:15
• 2
  Gone Mother Blues
  2:34
• 3
  Little Brother Blues
  3:02
• 4
  Good Gal
  3:05
• 5
  Barbecue Blues

  feat. Lucille Bogan
  2:41
• 6
  School Boy Blues

  feat. Walter Roland
  2:50
• 7
  Baby, Won’t You Doodle‐Doo‐Doo
  3:00
• 8
  Double Crossin’ Woman
  2:52
• 9
  I Believe I’ll Make a Change
  2:53
• 10
  Good Woman Blues

  feat. Leroy Carr
  2:59
• 11
  High Brown Cheater
  3:00
• 12
  Oh Lordy Mama No. 2

  feat. Buddy Moss
  3:08
• 13
  D.B.A. Blues
  3:06
• 14
  Crying Blues
  3:05
• 15
  Wang Wang Harmonica Blues

  feat. Carverboys
  3:00
• 16
  Friendless City Blues
  2:52
• 17
  Black Gal Blues
  2:56
• 18
  You Got to Give Me Some of It

  feat. Buddy Moss
  3:07
• CD 2
• 1
  Blood Red River Blues
• 2
  Bed Springs Blues
• 3
  Pigmeat and Whiskey Blues
• 4
  Sail On Little Girl No. 2

  feat. Walter Roland
• 5
  Hustler’s Blues

  feat. Leroy Carr
• 6
  Lazy Black Snake Blues
• 7
  Downhearted Man Blues
• 8
  Mistreated Boy

  feat. Buddy Moss
• 9
  Silicosis Is Killin’ Me
• 10
  Badly Mistreated Man
• 11
  New Milk Cow Blues
• 12
  Sisco Harmonica Blues

  feat. The Carver Boys
• 13
  Sissy Man Blues
• 14
  Homeless and Hungry Blues
• 15
  45 Pistol Blues

  feat. Walter Roland
• 16
  Prison Bound Blues
• 17
  Hard Time Blues
• 18
  There’s a Man Goin’ Around Taking Names

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Southern Exposure 1941

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Release credits

• Josh White
  guitar [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.11, 1.14, 2.18], vocal [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.11, 1.14, 2.18]

Issues

• T
  The Essential

  2x CD
  2001