Contents: From the Delta to the city : country blues and spirituals, jug bands, and hokum. My soul is a witness (Austin Coleman) ; It's nobody's fault but mine (Blind Willie Johnson) ; The crucifixion of Christ (Jessie May Hill) ; Shake that thing (Papa Charlie Jackson) ; Outside woman blues (Blind Joe Reynolds) ; It's a good thing (Frank Stokes, Beale Street Sheiks) ; Minglewood blues (Gus Cannon's Jug...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhythm and Blues Records 2008

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Sykes, Roosevelt.

Contents: "44" blues -- I'm tired of being mistreated -- Mosby stomp -- Big Legs Ida blues -- Dresser with the drawers -- She showed it all -- Dirty mother for you -- Soft and mellow (Stella blues) -- The honey dripper -- Drunken gambler -- Let me hang my stockings in your Christmas tree -- Journey from the germs -- You can't fix it back -- Love will wear you down -- New mistake in life -- We will never...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Story of Blues 1988

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Hurt, Mississippi John

Contents: Frankie (3:21) -- Nobody's dirty business (2:52) -- Ain't no tellin' (2:54) -- Louis Collins (2:57) -- Avalon blues (3:01) -- Big leg blues (2:50) -- Stack o' Lee (2:55) -- Candy man blues (2:44) -- Got the blues (can't be satisfied) (2:49) -- Blessed be the name (2:46) -- Praying on the old camp ground (2:35) -- Blue harvest blues (2:51) -- Spike driver blues (3:13).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1996

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Blind Blake.

Contents: Southern rag -- Georgia bound -- Blind Arthur's breakdown -- Too tight blues, no. 2 -- Dry bone shuffle -- Rope stretchin' blues, part 1 -- Panther squall blues -- Skeedle loo doo blues -- You gonna quit me blues -- Sea board stomp -- No dough blues -- West coast blues -- Depression's gone from me blues -- Come on boys let's do that messin' around -- Wabash rag -- He's in the jailhouse now --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 2000

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Various Artists.

Contents: Hot fingers (Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang) (2:56) -- A handful of riffs (Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang) (3:05) -- Work ox blues (Texas Alexander) (3:16) -- I'm busy and you can't come in (Sylvester Weaver) (3:18) -- Georgia rag (Blind Willie McTell as Georgia Bill) (2:54) -- Warm it up to me (Blind Willie McTell as Blind Willie) (2:54) -- Untitled (Sylvester Weaver) (3:10) -- Untitled (Sylvester...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1991

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Contents: CD A. Mabel's dream ; Riverside blues (King Oliver's Jazz Band) -- Buddy's habits ; Henpecked blues (Charlie Straight & his orchestra) -- Piggly wiggly blues ; South African blues (Windy Rhythm Kings) -- Mr. Jelly Lord ; Steady Roll (Jelly Roll Morton's Stomp Kings) -- Steppin' on the blues ; Traveling blues ; Charleston, South Carolina ; Heebie jeebies ; Peepin' blues (Lovie Austin & her Blues...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2009

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Contents: Down at Jasper's bar-b-que (Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon) (2:46) -- Who did you give my barbecue to? Part 1 (Big Boy Teddy Edwards) (2:59) -- Pig meat on the line (Memphis Minnie) (2:33) -- Pork chop blues (The Two Charlies) (2:57) -- Barbecue bust (Mississippi Jook Band) (2:35) -- I crave my pig meat (Blind Boy Fuller) (2:44) -- Barbecue blues (Barbecue Bob) (3:11) -- Pepper sauce mama (Charlie...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 2011

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Contents: CD A : Don't grieve after me ; I Want to Go Where Jesus Is / Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet -- Old Time Corn Shuckin', pt. 1 ; Old Time Corn Shuckin', pt. 2 / Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers -- Walking in the Way With Jesus ; Wreck of the Virginian / Blind Alfred Reed -- I Am Bound For The Promised Land ; Where We'll Never Grow Old / Alfred G. Karnes -- Are You Washed in the Blood? ; Sweeping...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2012

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Carter Family (Musical group)

Contents: Disc A. (75 min.): Bury me under the weeping willow -- Little log cabin by the sea -- The orphan child -- The storms are on the ocean -- Single girl, married girl -- The wandering boy -- Meet me by the moonlight, alone -- Little darling, pal of mine -- Keep on the sunny side -- Anchored in love -- John Hardy was a desparate little man -- I ain't goin' to work tomorrow -- Will you miss me when...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2001

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Morton, Jelly Roll

Contents: King Porter -- New Orleans joys (1st take) -- New Orleans joys (2nd take) -- Grandpa's spells -- Kansas City stomp -- Wolverine blues -- The pearls -- Tia Juana -- Shreveport stomps -- Mamamita -- Jelly Roll blues -- Big foot ham -- Bucktown blues -- Tom cat blues -- Stratford hunch -- Perfect rag -- Frog-i-more rag -- London blues -- Thirty-fifth Street blues -- Mamanita -- Big fat ham --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone 1992

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Darby & Tarlton

Contents: CD A. Atlanta, 1927-1929. Down in Florida on a hog ; Birmingham Town ; Birmingham Jail ; Columbus Stockade blues ; Gamblin' Jim ; Lonesome in the pines ; After the ball ; I can't tell you why I love you ; Irish police ; The hobo tramp ; Alto waltz ; Mexican rag ; Birmingham Jail no. 2 ; The rainbow division ; Country girl valley ; Lonesome railroad ; If you ever learn to love me ; If I had...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Contents: He's in the jailhouse now (Blind Blake) -- No job blues (Ramblin' Thomas) -- 22-20 blues (Skip James) -- Rising high water blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- Down the dirt road blues (Charley Patton) -- Death cell blues (Blind Willie McTell) -- Rough rugged road (Bumble Bee Slim) -- Dry spell blues (Son House) -- Bad feeling blues (Blind Blake) -- Beale Town bound (the Beale Street Sheiks) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Contents: Violin blues (Johnson Boys) (3:17) -- K.C. Railroad blues (Andrew & Jim Baxter) (3:28) -- Beaver slide rag ("Peg Leg" Howell & His Gang) (3:18) -- Alma waltz (Mississippi Mud Steppers) (2:52) -- Window pane blues (Tommie Bradley) (3:14) -- Travelin' railroad man (Alabama Sheiks) (2:58) -- Pig meat blues (Whistler & His Jug Band) (3:07) -- Right now blues (Frank Stokes) (3:04) -- East Jackson...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 1999

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Contents: CD #1: K.C. blues ; Cannon ball blues / (Frank Hutchison) -- Leaving home ; If the river was whiskey / (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Duplin County blues / (Cauley Family) -- Sweet Sarah blues ; Frankie Dean / (Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton) -- A darkey's wail / (Riley Puckett) -- Johnson City blues / (Clarence Green) -- Mistreated blues / (the Carolina Buddies) -- Haunted...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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Contents: Disc 1. Love: Baby, how can it be? (Bo Carter)) -- My Angeline (Mississippi Maulers)) -- I wants my Lulu (Welling & McGhee) -- If I had my way (Norridge Mayhams and his Barbecue Boys) -- We courted in the rain ("Dock" Walsh) -- Poche Town (Joseph Falcon) -- My pretty little Indian Napanee (Davey Miller) -- Hapa haole hula girl (Kalama's Quartette) -- Sweetest girl in town (Oscar Ford) -- I'm...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Dust-to-Digital 2010

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Carr, Leroy

Contents: Papa wants a cookie -- How long has that evening train been gone -- Midnight hour blues -- Mean mistreater mama -- Blues before sunrise -- Barrelhouse woman no. 2 -- Prison bound blues -- Good woman blues -- When the sun goes down -- Rocks in my bed -- Tight time blues -- Low down dog blues -- Sloppy drunk blues -- Hurry down sunshine -- Carried water for the elephant -- Straight alky blues...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Indigo 1995

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Morton, Jelly Roll

Contents: Black bottom stomp (3:11) -- Smoke-house blues (3:25) -- The chant (3:11) -- Sidewalk blues (3:28) -- Dead man blues (3:14) -- Steamboat stomp (3:06) -- Someday sweetheart (3:29) -- Grandpa's spells (2:53) -- Original Jelly Roll blues (3:04) -- Doctor Jazz stomp (3:23) -- Cannon ball blues (2:51) -- Hyena stomp (3:10) -- Billy goat stomp (3:31) -- Wild man blues (3:07) -- Jungle blues (3:27) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CDS Records 1997

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Memphis Jug Band

Contents: Tired of you driving me -- A black woman is like a black snake -- Aunt Caroline Dyer blues -- Popa's got your water on -- On the Road again -- K.C. Moan -- Cocaine habit blues -- Coal oil blues -- You may leave, but this will bring you back -- Memphis yo yo blues -- Memphis shakedown -- She stays out all night long -- Meningitis blues -- Stealin' stealin' -- He's in the jailhouse now -- Taking...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 2000

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Patton, Charley

Contents: Down the dirt road blues -- Mississippi bo weavil blues -- Screamin' and hollerin' the blues -- Stone pony blues -- It won't be long -- Shake it and break it -- Magnolia blues -- Dry well blues -- High water everywhere pt. I -- High water everywhere pt. II -- Green river blues -- Bird nest bound -- High sheriff blues -- A spoonful blues -- Moon going down -- Pony blues -- Elder green blues --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 1995

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Summary: From the very start, blues guitarists forged an irresistible partnership with the slide, the sound of which epitomizes the very essence of the genre. This Rough Guide highlights the revolutionary players who pioneered this most captivating of styles during the early recorded heyday of the blues.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Contents: Kentucky blues / (Little Hal Jones) (3:13) -- Crow Jane / (Carl Martin) (2:53) -- Fare thee blues, part 1 / (Johnnie Head) (2:43) -- Honey blues / ("Funny Papa" Smith (2:53) -- Lost lover blues / (Lottie Kimbrough & Winston Holmes) (3:08) -- Just can't stand it / (Fred McMullen & Ruth Willis) (2:41) -- Rollin' dough blues / (Jack Gowdlock) (2:53) -- Two white horses in a line / (The Two...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides/World Music Network 2018

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Contents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005

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Contents: CD 1. Croquet habits (Freeny's Barn Dance Band) ; Mississippi county farm blues (Son House) ; Up jumped the rabbit (Georgia Pot Lickers) ; I'm going back home (Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy) ; Fightin' in the war with Spain (Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles) ; Old Timbrook blues (John Byrd) ; A little talk with Jesus (Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers) ; Slidin' delta (Tommy Johnson) ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 2006

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