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The Rough Guide To The Roots Of The Blues (Lp)

Various Artists

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Format: CD

Cat No: RGNET1397CD

Format Details: Lp

Release Date:  28 February 2020

Label:  World Music Network

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  605633139723

Genres:  Blues  Country-Blues  

Release Date:  28 February 2020

Label:  World Music Network

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  605633139747

Genres:  Blues  Country-Blues  

  • Description

    'The Rough Guide to the Roots of the Blues' features the greatest names in early blues music including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Charley Patton and Ma Rainey, lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques.

    It offers the perfect overview of the many different styles and key performers of early blues on one album and an incredibly diverse selection of tracks including bottleneck guitar, barrelhouse piano, classic songster tunes and vaudeville blues

    It's an album which traces the development of blues music during its early recorded history of the 1920s, offering a unique insight into the first great wave of blues artists who remain an inspiration to this day.

    Description

    'The Rough Guide to the Roots of the Blues' features the greatest names in early blues music including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Charley Patton and Ma Rainey, lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques.

    It offers the perfect overview of the many different styles and key performers of early blues on one album and an incredibly diverse selection of tracks including bottleneck guitar, barrelhouse piano, classic songster tunes and vaudeville blues

    It's an album which traces the development of blues music during its early recorded history of the 1920s, offering a unique insight into the first great wave of blues artists who remain an inspiration to this day.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - When The Levee Breaks
      • 2. Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues
      • 3. Ma Rainey - Stack O'lee Blues
      • 4. Blind Blake - West Coast Blues
      • 5. Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues
      • 6. Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin'
      • 7. Victoria Spivey - T.B. Blues
      • 8. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
      • 9. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
      • 10. Blind Willie Johnson - Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
      • 11. Dick Justice - Brown Skin Blues
      • 12. Bo Weevil Jackson - Devil And My Brown Blues
      • 13. Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied
      • 14. Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues
      • 15. Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
      • 16. Texas Alexander - Section Gang Blues
      • 17. Blind Willie Mctell - Statesboro Blues
      • 18. Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen
      • 19. Charley Patton - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
      • 20. Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas)
      • 21. Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues
      • 22. Papa Charlie Jackson - All I Want Is A Spoonful
      • 23. Weaver And Beasley - Bottleneck Blues
      • 24. Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That - No. 2
      • 25. Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied
      • 2. Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
      • 3. Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
      • 4. Ma Rainey - Stack O'Lee Blues
      • 5. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
      • 6. Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues
      • 7. Papa Charlie Jackson - All I Want Is A Spoonful
      • 8. Charley Patton - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
      • 9. Blind Willie Johnson - Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
      • 10. Bessie Smith - St Louis Blues
      • 11. Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas)
      • 12. Clarence "Pinetop" Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
      • 13. Blind Blake - West Coast Blues