Triumphs of the Blues - Various Artists

Triumphs of the Blues

Compilation by Various Artists

Released 2001

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CD 1: From the Delta to Detroit
1
Spoonful Blues
Charley Patton
3:11
2
Love My Stuff
Charley Patton
2:56
3
You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die
Charley Patton
2:55
4
1934 Blues
Charley Patton
2:57
5
Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues
Charley Patton
3:05
6
Hang It on the Wall
Charley Patton
2:43
7
Revenue Man Blues
Charley Patton
2:41
8
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues
Charley Patton
3:05
9
Some Summer Day
Charley Patton
2:59
10
When Your Way Gets Dark
Charley Patton
3:06
11
Some of These Days I'll Be Gone
Charley Patton
2:52
12
Jim Lee Blues
Charley Patton
3:02
13
Boogie Chillen
John Lee Hooker
3:08
14
She Was in Chicago
John Lee Hooker
2:58
15
Shady Grove Blues
John Lee Hooker
3:21
16
Talking Boogie
John Lee Hooker
3:07
17
Hobo Blues
John Lee Hooker
3:02
18
Drifting From Door to Door
John Lee Hooker
3:00
19
Crawling King Snake
John Lee Hooker
3:00
1.0 ★
20
Alberta
John Lee Hooker
3:07
21
Momma Poppa Boogie
John Lee Hooker
2:57
22
Black Cat Blues
John Lee Hooker
3:03
23
The Numbers
John Lee Hooker
3:07
24
Forgive Me
John Lee Hooker
3:14
25
Sally Mae
John Lee Hooker
3:09
CD 2: Mississippi Blues
1
Sweet Home Chicago
Robert Johnson
3:01
4.0 ★
2
Love in Vain
Robert Johnson
2:26
3
Crossroad
Robert Johnson
2:40
4
I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Robert Johnson
2:58
5.0 ★
5
Ramblin' on My Mind
Robert Johnson
2:52
4.5 ★
6
Walking Blues
Robert Johnson
2:30
7
Come on in My Kitchen
Robert Johnson
2:48
4.0 ★
8
Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Robert Johnson
2:51
5.0 ★
9
Stone in My Pathway
Robert Johnson
2:28
10
Terraplane Blues
Robert Johnson
3:00
4.0 ★
11
Shetland Pony Blues
Son House
3:23
12
Delta Blues
Son House
5:12
13
Special Rider Blues
Son House
3:03
14
Depot Blues
Son House
2:51
15
Am I Right or Wrong?
Son House
1:44
16
Walking Blues
Son House
2:54
17
County Farm Blues
Son House
2:08
18
The Pony Blues
Son House
4:08
19
Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Bukka White
2:32
20
Parchman Farm
Bukka White
2:36
21
Bukka Jitterbug Blues
Bukka White
2:35
22
High Fever
Bukka White
2:48
23
Fixin' to Die
Bukka White
2:45
24
Pine Bluff Arkansas
Bukka White
2:49
25
Shake 'em on Down
Bukka White
2:55
CD 3: Texas Blues
1
Match Box Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
3:01
2
Corrina Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:53
3
Black Snake Moan
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:52
4
Bad Luck Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:51
5
Easy Rider Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:54
6
Mosquito Moan
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:59
7
Southern Woman Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
3:03
8
Shuckin' Sugar Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
3:03
9
Long Distance Moan
Blind Lemon Jefferson
3:21
10
That Crawling Baby Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:41
11
Broke and Hungry
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:59
12
Rabbit Foot Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
2:52
13
Wichita Falls Blues
T‐Bone Walker
3:10
14
T-Bone Blues
T‐Bone Walker
3:16
15
T-Bone Boogie
T‐Bone Walker
3:03
16
Come Back to Me Baby Blues
T‐Bone Walker
3:06
17
I'm Gonna Find My Baby
T‐Bone Walker
2:56
18
Bobby Sox Blues
T‐Bone Walker
2:37
19
Call It Stormy Monday
T‐Bone Walker
3:02
20
Dream Girl Blues
T‐Bone Walker
2:35
21
Description Blues
T‐Bone Walker
3:02
22
T-Bone Shuffle
T‐Bone Walker
2:36
23
Wise Man Blues
T‐Bone Walker
3:13
24
I Wish You Were Mine
T‐Bone Walker
2:56
25
I'm Gonna Move You Out and Get Somebody Else
T‐Bone Walker
2:56
CD 4: Female Blues Singers #1
1
Down Hearted Blues
Bessie Smith
3:24
2
Cemetery Blues
Bessie Smith
3:28
3
Weeping Willow Blues
Bessie Smith
3:09
4.0 ★
4
St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith
3:09
5
Cold in Hand Blues
Bessie Smith
3:11
6
Soft Pedal Blues
Bessie Smith
3:18
7
Careless Love
Bessie Smith
3:25
8
Back Water Blues
Bessie Smith
3:17
9
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Bessie Smith
3:20
10
Dyin' by the Hour
Bessie Smith
2:57
11
Empty Bed Blues, Part One
Bessie Smith
3:00
12
Empty Bed Blues, Part Two
Bessie Smith
3:19
13
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Bessie Smith
2:56
14
Bumble Bee
Memphis Minnie
2:47
15
Nothing Is Rambling
Memphis Minnie
2:44
16
Me and My Chauffeur
Memphis Minnie
2:47
17
I Got to Make a Change Blues
Memphis Minnie
2:59
18
You Got to Get Out of Here
Memphis Minnie
2:36
19
When My Man Comes Home
Memphis Minnie
2:34
20
Dirty Mother for You
Memphis Minnie
2:45
21
Hoodoo Lady
Memphis Minnie
3:02
22
If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)
Memphis Minnie
3:14
23
Good Morning
Memphis Minnie
2:57
24
I've Been Treated Wrong
Memphis Minnie
2:52
25
I'm Sailin'
Memphis Minnie
2:36
CD 5: Female Blues Singers #2
1
Crazy Blues
Mamie Smith
3:26
2
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin'
Alberta Hunter
2:48
3
I Thought I'd Do It
Hattie McDaniel
2:57
4
West Indies Blues
Esther Bigeou
2:46
5
Prove It on Me Blues
Ma Rainey
2:41
6
Death Letter Blues
Ida Cox
3:08
7
Coffee Grindin' Blues
Lucille Bogan
3:26
8
Shake That Thing
Ethel Waters
3:10
9
Can't Be Bothered With No Sheik
Rosa Henderson
3:18
10
That Bonus Done Gone Thru
Lil Johnson
3:01
11
Midnight Weeping Blues
Nellie Florence
2:57
12
Cross-Eyed Blues
Helen Humes
3:09
13
Dope Head Blues
Victoria Spivey
3:15
14
The Blues Ain't Nothin' But...
Georgia White
2:40
15
How Long Daddy (Will You Keep Me This Way)
Rosetta Howard
2:23
16
Uncle Sam Come and Get Him
Wea Wea Booze
3:14
17
Trouble in Mind
Rosetta Tharpe
2:33
18
New Orleans Blues
Blue Lu Barker
2:51
19
Why Don't You Do Right?
Lil Green
2:56
20
Pallet on the Floor
Merline Johnson
2:52
21
Salty Papa Blues
Dinah Washington
3:01
22
Mailman Blues
Tiny Mayberry
3:05
23
Dream Lucky Blues
Julia Lee
3:05
24
Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday
3:12
25
Basin Street Blues
Ella Fitzgerald
3:05
CD 6: Country Blues
1
The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair
Sleepy John Estes
2:57
2
Diving Duck Blues
Sleepy John Estes
3:16
3
Milk Cow Blues
Sleepy John Estes
3:04
4
Down South Blues
Sleepy John Estes
3:09
5
Stop That Thing
Sleepy John Estes
2:44
6
Someday Baby Blues
Sleepy John Estes
3:01
7
Drop Down Mama
Sleepy John Estes
3:11
8
Everybody Ought to Make a Change
Sleepy John Estes
2:49
9
Clean It Up at Home
Sleepy John Estes
2:37
10
Time Is Drawning Near
Sleepy John Estes
2:22
11
Drop Down
Sleepy John Estes
2:46
12
Brownsville Blues
Sleepy John Estes
3:05
13
Lightnin's Boogie
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:17
14
Have to Let You Go
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:37
15
Honey Babe
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:32
16
Unpredictable Woman
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:57
17
Feel So Bad
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:07
18
Short Haired Woman
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:23
19
Down Baby
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:14
20
Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:30
21
Fast Mail Rambler
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:46
22
Picture on the Wall
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:47
23
Sugar on My Mind
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:41
24
Someday Baby
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:37
25
Come Back, Baby
Lightnin’ Hopkins
2:39
CD 7: Chicago Blues
1
Worrying You Off My Mind
Big Bill Broonzy
3:03
2
Too-Too Train
Big Bill Broonzy
2:50
3
Bull Cow Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
2:49
4
Long Tall Mama
Big Bill Broonzy
2:46
5
Just a Dream
Big Bill Broonzy
2:50
6
Medecine Man
Big Bill Broonzy
2:53
7
I Feel So Good
Big Bill Broonzy
2:44
8
Roll Their Bones
Big Bill Broonzy
2:43
9
Why Did You Do That to Me?
Big Bill Broonzy
3:02
10
Old Man Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
3:17
11
Saturday Evening Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
3:08
12
Ramblin' Bill
Big Bill Broonzy
2:52
13
Rolling Stone
Muddy Waters
3:07
14
Walking Blues
Muddy Waters
2:57
3.0 ★
15
Louisiana Blues
Muddy Waters
2:54
16
Gypsy Woman
Muddy Waters
2:34
17
Good Looking Woman
Muddy Waters
2:43
5.0 ★
18
I Can't Be Satisfied
Muddy Waters
2:43
19
I Feel Like Going Home
Muddy Waters
3:10
20
Train Fare Home
Muddy Waters
2:47
21
Mean Red Spider
Muddy Waters
2:17
22
Streamline Woman
Muddy Waters
3:18
23
Little Geneva
Muddy Waters
2:47
5.0 ★
24
Rollin' and Tumblin'
Muddy Waters
3:00
25
Burying Ground Blues
Muddy Waters
2:31
CD 8: Blues Stylists
1
Mean Old Bedbug Blues
Lonnie Johnson
2:54
2
Have to Change Keys (To Play These Blues)
Lonnie Johnson
3:01
3
Guitar Blues
Lonnie Johnson
3:14
3.0 ★
4
Playing With the Strings
Lonnie Johnson
3:01
5
No More Trouble Now
Lonnie Johnson
3:15
6
6/88 Glide
Lonnie Johnson
3:00
7
Flood Water
Lonnie Johnson
2:43
8
Swing Out Rhythm
Lonnie Johnson
2:38
9
Hot Springs Blues (Skin and Bones)
Lonnie Johnson
2:58
10
I'm Not Rough
Lonnie Johnson avec Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
2:59
11
Blind Arthur Breakdown
Blind Blake
3:01
12
You're Gonna Quit Me Baby
Blind Blake
2:45
13
Dry Bone Suffle
Blind Blake
2:45
14
Southern Rag
Blind Blake
2:52
15
Too Tight Blues
Blind Blake
2:55
5.0 ★
16
Georgia Bound
Blind Blake
3:21
17
Depression's Gone From Me Blues
Blind Blake
3:35
18
Police Dog Blues
Blind Blake
2:50
19
A Blues
Scrapper Blackwell
3:00
20
D Blues
Scrapper Blackwell
2:42
21
Miss Martha King
B.B. King
2:41
22
When Your Baby Packs Up
B.B. King
2:27
23
The Other Night Blues
B.B. King
3:30
24
B.B.'s Boogie
B.B. King
3:12
25
Walking and Crying
B.B. King
3:18
CD 9: Piano Blues #1
1
Grinder Man Blues
Memphis Slim
3:11
2
Empty Room Blues
Memphis Slim
2:55
3
Old Taylor
Memphis Slim
2:46
4
Jasper's Girl
Memphis Slim
2:56
5
You Got to Help Me Some
Memphis Slim
3:00
6
Maybe I'll Loan You a Dime
Memphis Slim
2:51
7
Whiskey and Gin Blues
Memphis Slim
2:45
8
Send Me Your Love
Memphis Slim
3:13
9
Don't Ration My Love
Memphis Slim
2:44
10
Pacemaker Boogie
Memphis Slim
2:47
11
Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have the Blues)
Memphis Slim
2:30
12
Blue and Lonesome
Memphis Slim
2:37
13
New Low Down Dog
Champion Jack Dupree
2:57
14
Cabbage Green N°1
Champion Jack Dupree
2:34
15
Angola Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
2:52
16
My Cabin Inn
Champion Jack Dupree
2:39
17
Bad Health Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
2:37
18
That's All Right
Champion Jack Dupree
2:31
19
Gibing Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
2:46
20
Dupree Shake Dance
Champion Jack Dupree
2:41
21
Junker Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
2:40
22
Big Time Mama
Champion Jack Dupree
2:35
23
Hurry Down Sunshine
Champion Jack Dupree
2:36
24
Jackie P. Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
2:41
25
Heavy Heart Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
2:32
CD 10: Piano Blues #2
1
They May Not Be My Toes
Whistlin’ Alex Moore
3:00
2
Patrol Wagon Blues
Saint-Louis Jimmy Oden
3:38
3
Slave Man Blues
Peetie Wheatstraw
2:47
4
Beer Drinkin' Woman
Jimmy Gordon
2:38
5
Vicksburg Blues
Little Brother Montgomery
2:54
6
Solid Jive
Curtis Jones
2:45
7
Let Me in Your Saddle
Walter Davis
3:21
8
Blue Monday Blues
Eddie Boyd
2:53
9
Roosevelt Blues
Roosevelt Sykes
2:47
10
Cow Cow Blues
Cow Cow Davenport & Dora Carr
3:05
11
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Pinetop Smith
3:09
12
Shout for Joy
Albert Ammons
2:23
13
Saint-Louis Stomp
Speckled Red
3:15
14
Yancey Stomp
Jimmy Yancey
2:47
15
Detroit Rocks
Montana Taylor
3:18
16
Head Rag Hop
Iromeio “Romeo” Nelson
2:54
17
Chicago Breakdown
Big Maceo
2:55
18
Cecil Boogie
Cecil Gant
2:18
19
Dive Bomber
Pete Johnson
2:54
20
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Meade Lux Lewis
3:08
21
How Long Blues
Count Basie
2:55
22
Blues I Can't Forget
Erroll Garner
3:06
23
Boogin' With Big Sid
Sammy Price
3:12
24
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington - Billy Strayhorn
2:59
25
Aunt Hagar's Blues
Art Tatum
2:39
26
Boogie Woogie Prayer
Meade Lux Lewis - Albert Amons - Pete Johnson
4:03
CD 11: Piano-Guitar Duos
1
How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
2:50
2
Midnight Hour Blues
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
3:03
3
Blues Before Sunrise
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
3:31
4
When the Sun Goes Down
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
2:56
5
Going Back Home
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
3:13
6
Stormy Night Blues
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
2:35
7
I Believe I'll Make a Change
Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell
2:54
8
My Old Pal
Scrapper Blackwell / Dorothy Rice
2:58
9
Lonesome Bedroom Blues
Curtis Jones / Willie B. James
3:05
10
Worried Life Blues
Tampa Red / Big Maceo
2:49
11
I'm So Worried
Big Maceo / Tampa Red
2:29
12
Mercy Mama Blues
Tampa Red / Big Maceo
2:46
13
Ashes in My Whiskey
Walter Davis / Henry Townsend
2:33
14
West Coast Blues
Walter Davis / Robert Nighthawk
3:18
15
Oh! Me, Oh! My, Blues
Walter Davis / Leonard Caston
3:17
16
Hastings Street
Blind Blake / Charlie Spand
3:11
17
Come on Mama
Georgia Tom Dorsey / Tampa Red
2:50
18
All by Myself
Big Bill Broonzy / Memphis Slim
2:24
19
What More Can a Man Do?
Peetie Wheatstraw / Lonnie Johnson
3:02
20
She's My Mary
Lonnie Johnson / Joshua Altheimer
2:57
21
Flyright Baby
Lonnie Johnson / Blind John Davis
3:18
22
Big Woman Blues
Johnny Temple / Horace Malcolm
2:44
23
Sundown Blues
Johnny Temple / Horace Malcolm
2:34
24
Shady Lane
Champion Jack Dupree / Jesse Ellory
2:41
25
Morning Tea
Champion Jack Dupree / Jesse Ellory
2:43
CD 12: Blues & Folksongs
1
Irene
Lead Belly
1:46
2
Midnight Special
Lead Belly
2:05
3
Good Morning Blues
Lead Belly
2:50
4
Bourgeois Blues
Lead Belly
5:32
5
On Monday
Lead Belly
1:49
6
Pigmeat
Lead Belly
3:09
7
Black Snake Moan
Lead Belly
3:08
8
See See Rider
Lead Belly
2:55
9
Alberta
Lead Belly
3:07
10
Take This Hammer
Lead Belly
1:34
11
Yellow Gal
Lead Belly
2:21
12
Little Sally Walker
Lead Belly
2:34
13
I Got a Pretty Flower
Lead Belly
2:27
14
Little Brother Blues
Josh White
2:58
15
Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
Josh White
3:01
16
While the Blood Runs in Your Veins
Josh White
3:00
17
My Soul Gonna Leave With God
Josh White
2:57
18
Trouble
Josh White
3:18
19
Jerry
Josh White
2:07
20
Bad Housing Blues
Josh White
2:34
21
Number 12 Train
Josh White
3:42
22
St. James Infirmary
Josh White
3:35
23
Blues in Berlin
Josh White
3:08
24
T.B.Blues
Josh White
3:11
25
I Left a Good Deal in Mobile
Josh White
3:02
CD 13: East Coast Blues
1
My Brownskin Sugar Plum
Blind Boy Fuller
2:58
2
Looking for My Woman
Blind Boy Fuller
3:08
3
Ain't It a Cryin' Shame
Blind Boy Fuller
3:03
4
Log Cabin Blues
Blind Boy Fuller
3:17
5
I'm a Stranger Here
Blind Boy Fuller / Sonny Terry
2:53
6
Pistol Slapper Blues
Blind Boy Fuller / Sonny Terry
2:39
7
Train Whistle Blues
Sonny Terry
2:44
8
Harmonica Blues
Sonny Terry
2:40
9
Shake Down Blues
Sonny Terry / Brownie McGhee
2:50
10
Death of Blind Boy Fuller
Brownie McGhee
2:39
11
I'm a Black Woman's Man
Brownie McGhee
2:48
12
Key to My Door
Brownie McGhee
2:45
13
I Don't Believe in Love
Brownie McGhee
3:00
14
Unfair Blues
Brownie McGhee
2:45
15
Telephone Blues
Sonny Terry / Brownie McGhee
3:23
16
Riff and Harmonica Jump
Sonny Terry / Sticks McGhee
2:47
17
Harmonica Rag
Sonny Terry / Sticks McGhee
2:24
18
Dirty Mistreater, Don't You Know
Sonny Terry / Brownie McGhee
2:42
19
Crow Jane Blues
Sonny Terry / Brownie McGhee
2:33
20
Hot Headed Woman
Sonny Terry / Brownie McGhee
3:11
21
Big Legged Woman
Brownie McGhee / Sonny Terry
2:39
22
Aunt Jane Blues
Brownie McGhee
2:42
23
Poor Boy Blues
Brownie McGhee
2:44
24
Robbie-Doby-Boogie
Brownie McGhee
2:15
25
Brownie's New Worried Life Blues
Brownie McGhee
2:29
CD 14: Harmonica Blues
1
Viola Lee Blues
Noah Lewis
3:05
2
Trouble Trouble
Hammie Nixon
3:00
3
Gillum's Windy Blues
Jazz Gillum
2:24
4
Mule Blues
Jazz Gillum
3:12
5
Against My Will
Jazz Gillum
3:03
6
Boar Hog Blues
Jazz Gillum
2:49
7
Stavin' Chain
Jazz Gillum
2:40
8
Got to Reap What You Sow
Jazz Gillum
3:01
9
Key to the Highway
Jazz Gillum
2:40
10
Muddy Pond Blues
Jazz Gillum
3:00
11
From Now On
Jazz Gillum
2:34
12
I'm Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town
Jazz Gillum
2:53
13
Good Morning Little School Girl
Sonny Boy Williamson
3:01
14
Suzie Q
Sonny Boy Williamson
3:15
15
Decoration Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
3:31
16
Tell Me Baby
Sonny Boy Williamson
2:50
17
I've Been Dealing With the Devil
Sonny Boy Williamson
2:46
18
War Time Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
2:54
19
Sloppy Drunk Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
3:12
20
Whiskey Headed Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
2:57
21
Goodbye Red
Sonny Boy Williamson
3:08
22
Blue Bird Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
3:06
23
Lost Baby Blues
Big Walter Horton
2:40
24
I Just Keep Loving Her
Little Walter
2:25
25
Boogie
Snooky Pryor
2:17
CD 15: Steel & Slide Guitarists
1
King Fish Blues
Tampa Red
3:10
2
Mean Mistreater Blues
Tampa Red
2:48
3
I'll Get a Break Someday
Tampa Red
3:10
4
Boogie Woogie Dance
Tampa Red
3:12
5
Black Angel Blues
Tampa Red
3:27
6
Don't You Lie to Me
Tampa Red
2:57
7
It Hurts Me Too
Tampa Red
2:33
8
Old Original Kokomo Blues
Kokomo Arnold
2:50
4.0 ★
9
Milk Cow Blues
Kokomo Arnold
3:07
4.0 ★
10
The Twelve (dirty Dozens)
Kokomo Arnold
3:07
11
Policy Wheel Blues
Kokomo Arnold
2:53
3.0 ★
12
Cold Winter Blues
Kokomo Arnold
3:07
3.0 ★
13
Crying Blues
Kokomo Arnold
2:56
3.0 ★
14
Bad Luck Blues
Kokomo Arnold
2:51
3.0 ★
15
Two-Twin' Woman
Casey Bill Weldon
3:23
16
I Believe I'll Make a Change
Casey Bill Weldon
3:00
17
You Just as Well Let Her Go
Casey Bill Weldon
3:06
5.0 ★
18
Big Bill Blues
Casey Bill Weldon
3:05
19
The Big Boat
Casey Bill Weldon
3:10
5.0 ★
20
Guitar Swing
Casey Bill Weldon
2:55
21
Way Down in Louisiana
Casey Bill Weldon
3:23
22
Black Ace
Black Ace
2:52
5.0 ★
23
You Gonna Need My Help Someday
Black Ace
2:39
24
Sweet Black Angel
Robert Nighthawk
3:04
25
Annie Lee Blues
Robert Nighthawk
3:14
CD 16: Blues Guitarists
1
No Woman No Nickel
Bumble Bee Slim
3:29
5.0 ★
2
Going Back Home Blues
Kansas Joe McCoy
3:01
5.0 ★
3
Peace Breakin' People
Lil Son Jackson
2:32
4
No More Woman Blues
Alger “Texas” Alexander
2:59
5
Cold Country Blues
Buddy Moss
3:25
6
Something's Gone Wrong
Dan Pickett
2:33
7
Bottle It Up and Go
Tommy McClennan
2:48
8
Banana in Your Fruit Basket
Bo Carter
3:06
9
C. C. And O. Blues
Pink Anderson & Blind Simmie Dooley
3:03
10
Dough Roller Blues
Garfield Akers
3:09
5.0 ★
11
Run, Mollie, Run
Henry Thomas
2:50
5.0 ★
12
Devil Got My Woman
Skip James
2:56
13
Titanic Blues
"Hi" Henry Brown
3:10
5.0 ★
14
I'll Go With Her
Robert Wilkins
3:05
15
Mississippi Jail House Groan
Rube Lacy
3:19
16
South Bound Blues
“Kid” Prince Moore
3:00
17
Lonesome Road
Sam Collins
3:01
5.0 ★
18
Canned Heat Blues
Tommy Johnson
3:38
5.0 ★
19
Ain't No Tellin'
Mississippi John Hurt
2:54
20
Southern Can Is Mine
Blind Willie McTell
3:12
21
It Won't Be Long Now
Frank Stokes
3:22
22
This Morning She Was Gone
Jim Jackson
3:11
23
Dry Land Blues
Furry Lewis
3:03
5.0 ★
24
Little Boy Blues
Robert Lockwood
3:03
25
Delta Pine Blues
Johnny Shines
2:59
CD 17: Jug Bands, Washboards...
1
Barbecue Bust
Mississippi Jook Band
2:38
2
Peaches in the Springtime
Memphis Jug Band
3:11
3
Bring It With You When You Come
Gus Cannon
2:41
4
Bed String Poker
Mississippi Sheiks
3:10
5
Newport Blues
Cincinnati Jug Band
2:53
5.0 ★
6
Jackson Stomp
Mississippi Mud Steppers
3:05
5.0 ★
7
Vine Street Drag
The Tennessee Chocolate Drops
3:04
8
Ted's Stomp
Howard Armstrong & Ted Logan
2:47
9
State Street Rag
Howard Armstrong & Ted Logan
2:47
10
My Mind Got Bad
Yank Rachell
3:03
11
When You Feel Down
Yank Rachell
3:14
12
My Babe Walked Out on Me in 44
Johnny Young
2:53
13
Hamfats Swing
Harlem Hamfats
3:05
14
The Big Boat
Washboard Sam
3:00
15
She Fooled Me
Washboard Sam
2:52
16
She's Coming Back Home Some Cold Rainy Day
Georgia Cotton Pickers
3:04
17
If You Take Me Back
Big Joe & His Washboard Band
2:43
18
Muscat Hill Blues
Buddy Woods
2:48
19
Hard Road Red
Tampa Red
2:54
20
Baby, Please Don't Go
Big Joe Williams
3:22
3.0 ★
21
Elder Green Blues
Charley Patton
2:55
22
Doggin' Me Mama Blues
Blind Blake
3:13
23
Cornbread Rough
Lead Belly
2:08
24
Rock Island Line
Lead Belly
2:52
25
Paul & Silas in Jail
Washington Philips
2:38
CD 18: Gospels & Evangelists
1
Dark Was the Night
Blind Willie Johnson
3:19
3.8 ★
2
It's Nobody's Fault but Mine
Blind Willie Johnson
3:09
5.0 ★
3
Mother's Children Have a Hard Time
Blind Willie Johnson
3:20
4
God Moves on the Water
Blind Willie Johnson
2:59
5
Cross and Evil Blues
Blind Gary Davis
3:00
6
I Saw the Light
Blind Gary Davis
2:57
7
I'm the Light of This World
Blind Gary Davis
2:59
8
Little More Faith in Jesus
Blind Gary Davis
3:01
9
When the Train Comes Along
Blind Gary Davis
2:37
10
Massa's in the Cold Cold Ground
Golden Gate Quartet
2:49
11
Golden Gate Gospel
Golden Gate Quartet
2:38
12
Sweet Adeline
Golden Gate Quartet
2:25
13
Jezebel
Golden Gate Quartet
2:49
14
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Golden Gate Quartet
3:03
15
Move on Up a Little Higher
Mahalia Jackson
6:01
16
Tired
Mahalia Jackson
2:38
17
There's Not a Friend Like Jesus
Mahalia Jackson
2:38
18
Amazing Grace
Mahalia Jackson
3:31
19
When the Saints Go Marching In
Barbecue Bob
3:08
5.0 ★
20
God Don't Like It
Blind Willie & Kate McTell
2:44
21
God's Mighty Hand
Utah Smith
2:47
22
Run on for a Long Time
Bill Landford & The Landfordaires
2:35
23
Oh Glory, Glory
Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk
3:12
24
Warming by the Devil's Fire
Reverend Johnny Blake & The Sanctified Singers
3:23
25
On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand
Seventh Day Adventist's Choir
2:33
CD 19: Rhythm and Blues
1
Good Rockin' Tonight
Roy Brown
2:53
2
The Dirty Dozen
Sammy Price
2:32
3
The Fat Man
Fats Domino
2:35
4
Shake It, Break It
Big Joe Turner
2:57
5
I Can Never Be That Way
Gatemouth Brown
2:47
6
Cornbread
Hal Singer
2:56
7
Milton's Boogie
Roy Milton
2:48
8
Caldonia
Louis Jordan
2:41
9
The Honeydripper
Joe Liggins
3:03
10
Cherry Red Blues
Eddie Vinson
3:02
11
Harlem Nocturne
Johnny Otis
3:07
12
That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch
Ella & Buddy Johnson
3:07
13
He's a Real Gone Guy
Nellie Lutcher
2:59
14
Teardrops From My Eyes
Ruth Brown
2:49
15
No Rollin' Blues
Jimmy Witherspoon
3:39
16
Driftin' Blues
Charles Brown
3:11
17
Route 66
Nat King Cole
2:59
18
Here Comes the Blues
Wynonie Harris
2:53
19
Bad, Bad Whiskey
Amos Milburn
2:57
20
Your Hands Ain't Clean
Paul Gayten
2:28
21
Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Sticks McGhee
2:16
22
That's All Right Mama
Arthur Big Boy Cruddup
2:50
23
Luedella
Jimmie Rogers
2:49
24
Late, in the Evening
Ray Charles
3:02
25
Signifying Monkey
Willie Dixon
2:51
CD 20: From Blues to Jazz
1
Back 'o Town Blues
Louis Armstrong
3:17
2
Blue Horizon
Sidney Bechet
4:27
3
Black and Tan Fantasy
Duke Ellington
3:07
4
Really the Blues
Tommy Ladnier
3:35
3.0 ★
5
Good Morning Blues
Count Basie
3:12
6
Mamie's Blues
Jelly Roll Morton
2:50
7
It's Tight Like That
Jimmie Noone
2:43
8
After Hours
Erskine Hawkins
3:19
9
Dicky Wells Blues
Dicky Wells
3:11
10
Solid Old Man
Rex Stewart
3:05
11
Jeep's Blues
Johnny Hodges
2:52
12
Whistlin' Blues
Meade Lux Lewis
3:28
13
Pagin' the Devil
Kansas City Six
3:49
14
Relaxin' at the Touro
Muggsy Spanier
3:16
15
Uptown Blues
Jimmy Lunceford
2:55
16
Frankie and Johnny
Erroll Garner
2:53
17
Illinois Blows the Blues
Illinois Jacquet
2:27
18
Blues With Lips
Hot Lips Page
3:56
19
St. Louis Blues
Django Reinhardt
2:40
20
Cool Blues
Charlie Parker
3:07
21
Back to the Land
Lester Young
3:55
22
Blues for Blanton
Oscar Pettiford
2:39
23
Misterioso
Thelonious Monk
3:16
24
Bud's Blues
Sonny Stitt
2:30

Release credits

Ahmet Ertegun
producer [14]
Alan Lomax
field recordist [11-12, 14-15, 17]
Alfred Elkins
bass [4.18, 14.11-12]
Art Hodes
piano [2]
Art Satherly
executive [1, 4-5, 7-8, 10]
Art Tatum
piano [25], solo [25]
Arthur Edwards
bass [19]
B.B. King
guitar [21], vocal [21-22]
Ben Branch
saxophone [22], tenor saxophone [21]
Benny Carter
trumpet [18]
Bernard Besman
producer [19, 24], recording [24]
Bessie Smith
vocal [3, 5]
Big Bill Broonzy
guitar [15.16, 14.3-6, 14.8, 14.10-12, 14.16], performer [7]
Big Joe Williams
guitar [14.13, 14.15, 14.22, 17.20], lead vocals [20], vocal [20]
Big Maceo
lead vocals [17], piano [17]
Billy Hadnott
bass [24-25]
Billy Strayhorn
piano [24]
Black Ace
steel guitar [22], vocal [22]
Black Bob
guitar [16], piano [15.5, 4.22]
Blind Boy Fuller
guitar [1-2, 4, 6], vocal [1-2, 4, 6]
Blind John Davis
piano [14.12, 14.19, 15.6-7]
Blind Lemon Jefferson
guitar [1, 3-8, 8-12], vocal [1, 3-8, 8-12]
Blind Roosevelt Graves
guitar [1]
Blind Willie Johnson
guitar [1-4], other vocals [1], vocal [1-4]
Blue Lu Barker
vocal [18]
Bob Coleman
guitar [5]
Bob Harris
bass [21]
Brownie McGhee
guitar [21], vocal [21]
Budd Johnson
tenor saxophone [14]
Budd Johnson Orchestra
performing orchestra [14]
Buddy Moss
guitar [5], lead vocals [5]
Bukka White
guitar [19, 23-25], lead vocals [19, 23-25], vocal [19, 23-24]
Buster Bailey
clarinet [18]
Calvin Newborn
guitar [21]
Casey Bill Weldon
steel guitar [16], vocal [16]
Champion Jack Dupree
piano [13, 17-18, 23-24], vocal [13, 17-18, 23-24]
Charles Saunders
drums (drum set) [17]
Charles Segar
piano [20]
Charles “Chick” Sanders
drums (drum set) [17]
Charley Patton
acoustic guitar [16], guitar [17.21, 1.1-8, 1.10, 1.12], lead vocals [1], slide guitar [9], vocal [1.2-10, 1.12, 17.21]
Charlie Green
trombone [3]
Chasey Collins
background vocals [20], washboard [20]
Cliff Jackson
piano [4]
Cooney Vaughn
piano [1]
Curley Weaver
guitar [5]
Dad Tracy
fiddle [20]
Danny Barker
guitar [18]
Don Law
producer [1, 4-5, 7-8, 10]
Duke Ellington
piano [24]
Edmond Hall
clarinet [25]
Elijah Jones
guitar [15]
Elmer James
bass [4]
Ernest Lane
piano [24]
Fletcher Henderson
piano [3]
Frank Clarke
bass [17]
Fred Longshaw
piano [5]
Fred Williams
drums (drum set) [17-18], membranophone [19]
Furry Lewis
guitar [23], lead vocals [23]
Garfield Akers
guitar [10], lead vocals [10], vocal [10]
George "Pops" Foster
double bass [2]
George Barnes
electric guitar [3, 6], guitar [3]
Hal Singer
tenor saxophone [6]
Harrison
double bass [13]
Helen Humes
vocal [12]
Henderson Chambers
trombone [25]
Henry Sims
violin [21], vocal [12]
Henry Thomas
guitar [11], lead vocals [11], solo [11]
Herb Abramson
producer [14]
Herb Morand
trumpet [13]
Horace Malcolm
piano [14.11, 17.13]
Irving Randolph
trumpet [25]
J.P. Louper
saxophone [22]
Jab Jones
piano [3]
Jac Holzman
engineer [18], producer [22]
Jack McVea
tenor saxophone [17]
Jack McVea & His All Stars
performer [17]
Jack Trainor
trumpet [24-25]
Jazz Gillum
harmonica [3, 3-6, 8, 10-12], lead vocals [3, 3-6, 8, 10-12]
Jesse Ellery
guitar [23-24]
Jim Jackson
guitar [22], lead vocals [22]
Joe Kelly
trumpet [17]
Joe Smith
cornet [3]
John Lee Hooker
guitar [19], vocal [19]
John Simmons
double bass [23]
Josh White
guitar [14, 20, 25], vocal [14, 20, 25]
Joshua Altheimer
piano [4-5, 8, 17-18]
Kansas Joe McCoy
guitar [17.13, 16.2, 4.14], vocal [2]
Kokomo Arnold
guitar [8-9, 11-14], vocal [8-9, 11-14]
Leonard Ripley
engineer [18]
Leroy Carr
piano [2, 4], vocal [2, 4]
Leroy Williams
harmonica [12]
Lewis Jones
field recordist [11-12, 14-15, 17]
Little Son Joe
guitar [15-19]
Lloyd Glenn
piano [19]
Lonnie Chatmon
violin [4]
Lonnie Johnson
acoustic guitar [6]
Louis Armstrong
cornet [5]
Manzie Johnson
drums (drum set) [2, 4]
Memphis Minnie
guitar [14-21, 21-23], lead vocals [20], vocal [14-19, 21, 21-23]
Mezz Mezzrow
clarinet [4], tenor saxophone [4]
Milt Jackson
vibraphone [23]
Mississippi John Hurt
guitar [19], vocal [19]
Nathan Woodward
trumpet [22]
Odell Rand
clarinet [13]
Oscar Lee Bradley, Sr.
drums (drum set) [19, 24-25]
Oscar “Buddy” Woods
guitar [18], vocal [18]
Pearlis Williams
drums (drum set) [13]
Peetie Wheatstraw
piano [3], vocal [3]
Phineas Newborn, Jr.
piano [21-22]
Phineas Newborn, Sr.
drums (drum set) [21]
Porter Grainger
piano [6]
Rabon Tarrant
drums (drum set) [17]
Ransom Knowling
bass [4], double bass [19]
Robert Johnson
guitar [1, 4-5, 7-8, 10], vocal [1, 4-5, 7-8, 10]
Robert Nighthawk
guitar [15.24, 14.13-14, 14.21-22], lead vocals [24]
Roosevelt Sykes
lead vocals [9], piano [9]
Rube Lacy
guitar [15], lead vocals [15], vocal [15]
Ruth Brown
vocal [14]
Sam Collins
guitar [17], vocal [17]
Sammie Jett
trombone [22]
Sammy Price
piano [18]
Scrapper Blackwell
guitar [11.2, 11.4, 8.19-20], solo [19-20]
Shadow Wilson
drums (drum set) [23]
Sidney Bechet
clarinet [4], soprano saxophone [2, 4]
Sidney De Paris
trumpet [2]
Skip James
guitar [12], lead vocals [12]
Sleepy John Estes
guitar [3], vocal [3]
Son House
guitar [11-17], lead vocals [13, 16], slide guitar [16], vocal [11-12, 14-17]
Sonny Boy Williamson
harmonica [13-22], lead vocals [13-22]
Speckled Red
piano [14, 21]
Stick McGhee
guitar [21], lead vocals [21]
Sylvester Weaver
guitar [12]
Tampa Red
guitar [10.17, 15.2, 15.4, 15.4-7, 17.19], kazoo [15.6-7, 17.19], solo [4], vocal [17.19, 15.2, 15.5-7]
Teddy Buckner
trumpet [19]
Teddy Bunn
guitar [4]
Thelonious Monk
piano [23]
Thomas Kahn
piano [17]
Tommy Johnson
guitar [18], lead vocals [18], vocal [18]
Tommy Ladnier
trumpet [4]
Tuff Green
bass [21], double bass [22]
T‐Bone Walker
electric guitar [17, 19, 24-25], performer [17, 19, 24-25], vocal [17, 19]
Uaroy Graves
tambourine [1]
Vic Dickenson
trombone [2]
Vincent Liebler
recording [1, 4-5, 7-8, 10]
Walter Beasley
slide guitar [12]
Walter Davis
piano [16]
Walter Jacobs
guitar [4], vocal [4]
Washboard Sam
washboard [14.3, 14.6, 14.10, 2.19, 2.23]
Wellman Braud
double bass [18]
Wendell Marshall
double bass [24]
Whistlin’ Alex Moore
piano [1], vocal [1]
Willard McDaniel
piano [24-25]
Willie Brown
acoustic guitar [9]
Willie Dixon
bass [24]
Willie Hatcher
mandolin [14, 21]
Wilson Swain
bass [13, 23-24]
Yank Rachell
mandolin [14.15, 14.20, 6.3]
[unknown]
additional [1], bass [15.7, 4.16-17], double bass [4.21-23, 17.18], guitar [4.21-23, 17.18, 2.24-25], harmonica [5], jug [5], kazoo [1], other vocals [1], piano [15.14, 17.18], wood block [22-23]
“Bumps” Myers
tenor saxophone [19, 24-25]
“Jackson” Joe Williams
guitar [20]
“Papa” Charlie McCoy
guitar [16.2, 17.13], mandolin [17.13, 15.16]

Issues

L
Les Triomphes Du Blues
20x CD
2001
T
Triumphs of the Blues
20x CD (limited edition, cardboard sleeves)
2003