The Essential Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Bumble Bee
  2:50
• 2
  Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)
  2:54
• 3
  Nothing in Rambling
  2:44
• 4
  Pickin' the Blues
  3:07
• 5
  My Butcher Man
  3:02
• 6
  Hole in the Wall
  3:16
• 7
  Fishin' Blues
  2:59
• 8
  Jockey Man Blues
  3:06
• 9
  Georgia Skin Blues
  3:27
• 10
  If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)
  3:19
• 11
  Me and My Chauffeur Blues
  2:45
• 12
  Black Cat Blues
  2:58
• 13
  Joe Louis Strut
  2:53
• 14
  Plymouth Rock Blues
  2:54
• 15
  Ice Man (Come On Up)
  3:02
• 16
  Black Rat Swing
  2:55
• 17
  When The Levee Breaks
  3:14
• 18
  Tricks Ain't Walking No More
  3:09
• 19
  Hoodoo Lady
  3:06
• 20
  North Memphis Blues
  2:36
• CD 2
• 1
  In My Girlish Days
  2:35
• 2
  Reachin' Pete
  3:17
• 3
  New Dirty Dozen
  3:00
• 4
  What's the Matter With the Mill
  2:49
• 5
  Let's Go to Town
  3:08
• 6
  Where Is My Good Man?
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Drunken Barrelhouse Blues
  2:52
  5.0 ★
• 8
  I'm a Gamblin' Woman
  3:10
• 9
  Can I Do it For You? Pt. 1
  3:09
• 10
  I'd Rather See Him Dead
  2:49
• 11
  Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)
  3:16
• 12
  Dirty Mother For You
  2:47
• 13
  He's in the Ring (Doing that Same Old Thing)
  3:09
• 14
  Stinging Snake Blues
  3:03
• 15
  Selling My Pork Chops
  2:53
• 16
  Ball and Chain Blues
  3:28
• 17
  Moaning the Blues
  3:05
• 18
  New Orleans Stop Time
  3:01
• 19
  Keep on Goin'
  2:28
• 20
  I'm a Back Luck Woman
  3:00

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Release credits

• Alfred Elkins
  bass [16]
• Bill Settles
  double bass [1.13, 2.15-16]
• Black Bob
  piano [2.15-16, 2.18, 1.10, 1.13]
• Bumble Bee Slim
  performer [18], vocal [18]
• Charles Segar
  piano [12]
• Kansas Joe McCoy
  guitar [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.20, 2.3-6, 2.9, 2.17], vocal [1.6, 1.17, 2.4, 2.9]
• Little Son Joe
  guitar [1.3, 1.11, 1.16, 2.1], vocal [16]
• Memphis Minnie
  guitar, lead vocals [12], vocal [2.1-4, 2.6-9, 2.11, 2.13-20, 1.1-3, 1.5-15, 1.15, 1.18-19, 1.19-20]
• [unknown]
  bass [11], double bass [1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.19, 2.8, 2.18, 2.20], guitar [1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.19, 2.8, 2.19-20], wood block [2.20, 1.10, 1.12]

Issues

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  The Essential Recordings

  2x CD
  2010