The Essential Tampa Red

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Grievin' and Worrin'
  3:02
• 2
  Kingfish Blues
  3:07
• 3
  Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here (feat. The Hokum Jug Band)
  3:13
• 4
  Stockyard Fire
  3:12
• 5
  Stormy Sea Blues
  2:46
• 6
  It's Heated (feat. Frankie Jaxon)
  3:29
• 7
  Mean Mistreater Blues
  2:46
• 8
  Delta Woman Blues
  3:06
• 9
  My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) (feat. The Hokum Jug Band)
  3:32
• 10
  Boogie Woogie Dance
  3:11
• 11
  Keep on Dealin' (Play Your Hand)
  3:27
• 12
  Mean Old Tom Cat
  2:41
• 13
  Don't Deal With the Devil
  2:51
• 14
  Coffee Grindin' Blues (feat. Lucille Bogan)
  3:27
• 15
  Denver Blues
  2:57
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Uncle Bud (Dog Gone Him)
  2:39
• 17
  You Can't Get That Stuff No More
  2:50
• 18
  Chicago Moan
  3:08
• CD 2
• 1
  Black Hearted Blues
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 2
  What's That Tastes Like Gravy
  2:50
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Boot It Boy (with The Hokum Jug Band)
  2:57
• 4
  Witchin' Hour Blues
  3:15
• 5
  Deceitful Friend Blues
  3:01
• 6
  Forgive Me Please
  2:48
• 7
  Worried Devil Blues
  3:26
• 8
  Dead Cat on the Line
  2:47
• 9
  You Got to Reap What You Sow
  3:19
• 10
  Grouchy Hearted Woman
  2:54
• 11
  Hard Road Blues
  2:58
• 12
  Moanin' Heart Blues
  3:00
• 13
  She's Love Crazy
  2:49
• 14
  It Hurts Me Too
  2:31
• 15
  Someday I'm Bound to Win
  3:13
• 16
  House Rent Scuffle (with Lil Johnson)
  2:51
• 17
  Love With a Feeling
  2:59
• 18
  Sweet Little Angel
  2:58

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Release credits

• Big Maceo
  piano [2.13, 1.13]
• Bill Johnson
  bass [2.3, 1.9]
• Bill Settles
  bass [6]
• Black Bob
  piano [1.2, 1.11, 2.17]
• Blind John Davis
  piano [6, 14]
• Carl Martin
  guitar [1]
• Carl Reid
  jug [2.3, 1.9]
• Charles Avery
  piano [16]
• Cow Cow Davenport
  piano [3]
• Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon
  lead vocals [2.3, 1.9], vocal [3]
• Henry “45” Scott
  piano [1.4, 2.4, 2.7]
• Herman Brown
  washboard [1.9, 2.3]
• Jasper Taylor
  washboard [3]
• Lil Johnson
  lead vocals [16]
• Little Johnny Jones
  piano [18]
• Odie Payne
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Ransom Knowling
  bass [2.13, 2.18, 1.13]
• Tampa Red
  guitar [1.1-4, 1.7, 1.9-10, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.15-17, 1.17-18, 2.2-4, 2.6-8, 2.8-9, 2.9, 2.11-14, 2.16-18], kazoo [2.11, 2.13-14, 2.18, 1.1-2, 1.11, 1.13], lead vocals [2], performer [7], piano [2.5, 2.10, 2.15, 1.5, 1.8], solo [2.9, 2.12, 1.10, 1.15], vocal [2.4-8, 2.8, 2.10-11, 2.13-15, 2.17-18, 1.1-2, 1.4-5, 1.7-8, 1.11, 1.13, 1.16-17, 1.17-18]
• Thomas A. Dorsey
  piano [2.2, 2.8, 1.16-17, 1.17-18], vocal [1.16, 2.8]
• Willie B. James
  guitar [2.5, 2.10, 2.15, 1.5, 1.8]
• [unknown]
  bass [10, 14, 17], kazoo [3]
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