A Life In Music - Selected Sides 1925-1953

Compilation by Lonnie Johnson

Released 2009

Tracklist

  • CD 1: 1925-1928
  • 1
    Won't Don't Blues
  • 2
    Mr Johnson's Blues
  • 3
    Falling Rain Blues
  • 4
    No Good Blues
  • 5
    Newport Blues
  • 6
    Love Story Blues
  • 7
    Nile of Genago
  • 8
    To Do This You Gotta Know How
  • 9
    South Bound Water
  • 10
    I Done Told You
  • 11
    Steppin' on the Blues
  • 12
    Four Hands Are Better Than Two
  • 13
    I Love You Mary Lou
  • 14
    Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers
  • 15
    Stay Out of Walnut Street Alley
  • 16
    St. Louis Cyclone Blues
  • 17
    6/88 Glide
  • 18
    Life Saver Blues
  • 19
    Untitled Instrumental
  • 20
    I'm Not Rough
  • 21
    Hotter Than That
  • 22
    Savoy Blues
  • 23
    Playing With the Strings
  • 24
    Stompin' Em Along Slow
  • 25
    Away Down in the Alley Blues
  • CD 2: 1928-1932
  • 1
    The Mooche
  • 2
    Move Over
  • 3
    Hot and Bothered
  • 4
    Careless Love
  • 5
    Paducah
  • 6
    Star Dust
  • 7
    Have to Change Key to Play These Blues
  • 8
    Jet Black Blues
  • 9
    Blue Blood Blues
  • 10
    Sitting on Top of the World
  • 11
    Kansas City Man Blues
  • 12
    A Handful of Riffs
  • 13
    She's Makin' Whoopee in Hell Tonight
  • 14
    Another Woman Booked Out and Bound to Go
  • 15
    Wipe It Off
  • 16
    The Dirty Dozen
  • 17
    Deep Sea Blues
  • 18
    Got the Blues for Murder Only
  • 19
    Just a Roamin' Man
  • 20
    Jelly Killed Old Sam
  • 21
    The Faults of All Women and Men
  • 22
    The Best Jockey in Town
  • 23
    Uncle Ned Don't Lose Your Head
  • 24
    I'm Nuts About That Gal
  • 25
    Racketeers Blues
  • CD 3: 1937-1947
  • 1
    Man Killing Broad
  • 2
    Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where
  • 3
    Got the Blues for the West End
  • 4
    Why Women Go Wrong
  • 5
    Jersey Belle Blues
  • 6
    Four-O-Three Blues
  • 7
    Crowing Rooster Blues
  • 8
    Lazy Woman Blues
  • 9
    Chicago Blues
  • 10
    From 22 to 44
  • 11
    Rambler's Blues
  • 12
    Fly Right, Baby
  • 13
    He's a Jelly-Roll Baker
  • 14
    Watch Shorty
  • 15
    Keep What You Got
  • 16
    Drifting Along Blues
  • 17
    How Could You Be So Mean
  • 18
    Rocks in My Bed
  • 19
    Love Is the Answer
  • 20
    Blues for Everybody
  • 21
    Blues in My Soul
  • 22
    Your Last Time Out
  • 23
    Blues for Lonnie
  • 24
    What a Woman
  • 25
    Tomorrow Night
  • CD 4: 1947-1953
  • 1
    Friendless Blues
  • 2
    Falling Rain Blues
  • 3
    It's Too Late to Cry
  • 4
    Playing Around
  • 5
    My My Baby
  • 6
    Trouble Ain't Nothing but the Blues
  • 7
    Blues Stay Away From Me
  • 8
    Nothing but Trouble
  • 9
    Old Fashioned Love
  • 10
    What Do You Want That I've Got, Pretty Baby
  • 11
    Why Should I Cry
  • 12
    It Was All in Vain
  • 13
    You Only Want Me When You're Lonely
  • 14
    Me and My Crazy Self
  • 15
    Seven Long Days
  • 16
    I'm Guilty
  • 17
    Just Another Day
  • 18
    You Can't Buy Love
  • 19
    Can't Sleep Any More
  • 20
    Don't Make Me Cry, Baby
  • 21
    My Woman Is Gone
  • 22
    Will You Remember
  • 23
    Stick With It, Baby
  • 24
    I Found a Dream
  • 25
    It's Been So Long

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