VA - Get Up Off Your Knees: From Bed Springs To Bloomers (Remastered)

Size: 172,9+161,6+173,1+146, 1 MB
Time: 73:12+68:17+73:07+61:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (2:35)
02 Margaret Carter - I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan (2:41)
03 Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey - Furniture Man Blues Parts 1 & 2 (6:13)
04 Clara Smith - Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee (3:06)
05 Lizzie Miles - Get Up Off Your Knees (2:44)
06 Cow Cow Davenport - I'm Gonna Tell You In Front So You Won't Feel Hurt Behind (3:20)
07 Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman (2:51)
08 Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:24)
09 Al Miller - I Found Your Keyhole (3:03)
10 Minnie Wallace - Dirty Butter (2:59)
11 Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues (3:08)
12 Margaret Webster - You've Got To Give Me Some (2:44)
13 Lizzie Miles - My Man O' War (3:27)
14 Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off (3:17)
15 Madelyn James - Stinging Snake Blues (3:29)
16 Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2 (2:57)
17 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Show Me What You Got (3:06)
18 Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues (3:21)
19 Lizzie Miles - Electrician Blues (3:12)
20 Barbecue Bob - She Shook Her Gin (3:08)
21 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Fish House Blues (2:29)
22 Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (3:08)
23 George Hannah - The Boy In The Boat (2:37)

CD 2:
01 Georgia Tom - What's That I Smell (2:34)
02 Hannah May - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat (2:41)
03 Mae Glover & John Byrd - Gas Man Blues (2:44)
04 Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket (3:05)
05 R.T. Hanen - She's Got The Jordan River In Her Hips (2:53)
06 Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas - Terrible Operation Blues (2:49)
07 Lonnie Johnson - The Best Jockey In Town (2:54)
08 Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker (3:09)
09 Hunter & Jenkins - Lollypop (2:56)
10 James 'Stump' Johnson - Don't Give My Lard Away (2:43)
11 Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff (3:03)
12 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama (2:52)
13 Memphis Minnie - My Butcher Man (3:00)
14 Carl Rafferty - Dresser With The Drawers (3:21)
15 Whistling Rufus - (Who's Gonna Do Your) Sweet Jelly Roll (3:27)
16 Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All (2:32)
17 St. Louis Blues - Pipe Layin' Blues (3:16)
18 Dorothy Baker - Steady Grindin' Blues (3:10)
19 Jimmie Gordon - Bed Spring Blues (3:18)
20 Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That (2:57)
21 Cliff Carlisle - Mouse's Ear Blues (3:05)
22 Bo Carter - Mashing That Thing (2:37)
23 Memphis Minnie - Jockey Man Blues (3:01)

CD 3:
01 Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry (2:46)
02 Walter Roland - I'm Gonna Shave You Dry (3:25)
03 Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man (2:48)
04 Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs - The Hottest Stuff In Town (2:40)
05 Bernice Edwards - Butcher Shop Blues (3:06)
06 Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:02)
07 Kokomo Arnold - 'Cause Your Dirty (2:59)
08 Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:04)
09 Buddy Moss - You Got To Give Me Some Of It (3:07)
10 Bo Carter - Cigarette Blues (3:15)
11 Lil Johnson - Take It Easy Greasy (3:17)
12 Al Miller - Ain't That A Mess (2:43)
13 Roosevelt Sykes - The Honeydripper (2:42)
14 Jazz Gillum - Sarah Jane (3:04)
15 Walter Davis - Think You Need A Shot (3:23)
16 Lil Johnson - My Stove's In Good Condition (2:54)
17 John Oscar & Sam Theard - I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woogie (2:28)
18 Jesse James - Sweet Petuni (3:00)
19 Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over (2:50)
20 Chicago Black Swans - Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 (2:42)
21 Blind Boy Fuller - Sweet Honey Hole (2:46)
22 Barrel House Annie - Love Operation (3:07)
23 Roosevelt Sykes - Bread Pan (Just My Size) (2:34)
24 Art McKay - She Squeezed My Lemon (2:39)
25 Lee Brown - Carpenter Man Blues (2:35)

CD 4:
01 Charlie Pickett - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon (2:48)
02 Roosevelt Sykes - My Baby's Playground (2:21)
03 Memphis Minnie - Keep On Eatin' (2:37)
04 Washboard Sam - I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted (2:36)
05 Blind Boy Fuller - What's That Smells Like Fish (2:42)
06 Lillie Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size (2:46)
07 Little Buddy Doyle - She's Got Good Dry Goods (2:28)
08 Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake (2:56)
09 Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle (2:33)
10 Bill Samuels - My Bicycle Tillie (2:54)
11 Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Doctor For Women (2:37)
12 Little Boy Fuller - Bed Spring Blues (2:43)
13 Ralph Willis - Boar Hog Blues (2:37)
14 Sylvester Cotton - Big Chested Mama Take 1 (2:34)
15 The Sharps & Flats - I Knew He Would (2:44)
16 Julia Lee - Don't Come Too Soon (2:59)
17 Dan Pickett - Lemon Man (2:51)
18 Helen Humes - I'm Gonna Let Him Ride (1:45)
19 Floyd Dixon - Too Much Jelly Roll (3:01)
20 Fats Noel - Ride. Daddy. Ride (2:07)
21 Fluffy Hunter - The Walkin' Blues (2:52)
22 Eunice Davis - Work. Daddy. Work (2:58)
23 Helen Humes - Loud Talkin' Woman (2:54)

In the 1920s, record companies found the Black audience could be profitable. Record sales soared. Sex - disguised -was a major part of blues lyrics. Fish, flesh, fruit and fowl were all co-opted, as well as rent men and gas men, butchers and bakers, carpenters and coffee grinders, keyholes and kitchens, cigarettes and sissies, frying pans and furniture, and unkindly, a bicycle. Here's a raucous, red-blooded blues investigation of one of Humanity's constant fixations, from artists like Julia Lee, Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Roosevelt Sykes and many, many more.

Get Up Off Your Knees Part 1
Get Up Off Your Knees Part 2

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V.A. - Rags, Breakdowns, Stomps & Blues: Vintage Mandolin Music (1927-1946)

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 71:46
Size: 167.7 MB
Released: 2004
Styles: Traditional blues, Appalachian, Piedmont blues
Art: Front

1. Louie Bluie - State Street Rag (2:46)
2. Dallas String Band - Hokum Blues (3:25)
3. Phebel Wright - Lint Head Stomp (2:36)
4. Carolina Peanut Boys - You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back (3:05)
5. The Blue Boys - Easy Winner (2:54)
6. John Estes - Milk Cow Blues (3:02)
7. John Estes - Watcha Doin' (3:03)
8. Dallas String Band - Dallas Rag (2:56)
9. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers - Flop Eared Mule (2:57)
10. Arizona Dranes & Choir - I Shall Wear A Crown (3:26)
11. Mississippi Mud Steppers - Jackson Stomp (3:09)
12. Ishman Bracey - Brown Mama Blues (3:08)
13. The Two Poor Boys - Two White Horses In A Line (2:51)
14. Scottdale String Band - Carbolic Rag (3:16)
15. King David's Jug Band - Rising Sun Blues (3:09)
16. Johnson Boys - Prater Blues (3:11)
17. Carolina Peanut Boys - You Got Me Rollin' (2:31)
18. Nashville Washboard Band - Arkansas Traveller (2:08)
19. Nashville Washboard Band - Goin' Away To Make Me Lonesome (3:53)
20. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers - Hawkins Rag (2:52)
21. Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers - The Little Red Caboose Behind The Train (2:55)
22. Al Miller & His Market Street Boys - Somebody's Been Using That Thing (2:47)
23. Arthur McClain & Joe Evans - Old Hen Cackle (2:43)
24. Blue Ridge Ramblers - Jug Rag (2:51)

This sprightly compilation from Document Records collects 24 vintage 78s recorded between 1927 and 1946 that feature the mandolin in a variety of settings, from blues to gospel, played by an assortment of jug, string, and hokum bands. There's a ton of energy here, and fans of the instrument will love this set, although the casual listener may find it a little repetitive.
Highlights include "State Street Rag" by the great Louie Bluie, a fluid version of "Lint Head Stomp" by Phebel Wright, the classic "Milk Cow Blues" (featuring the mandolin playing of Yank Rachell) by Sleepy John Estes, a jaunty "Jackson Stomp" by the Mississippi Mud Steppers, and the season-hopping "You Got Me Rollin'" by the Carolina Peanut Boys. Another gem is the wonderfully titled "Going Away to Make It Lonesome Here" by the Nashville Washboard Band, which features some particularly odd, cartoonish percussion. In essence Rags, Breakdowns, Stomps and Blues is a capsule history of early American mandolin playing, and the vitality and good humor of this collection should brighten any day. ~ Steve Leggett
Joe Evans & Arthur McClain, Arthur McClain (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Ishman Bracey, Sam Harris (vocals, guitar); Arizona Dranes (vocals, mandolin, piano); Coley Jones, Al Miller , Vol Stevens (vocals, mandolin); Sam Jones (vocals, pipe); Charlie "Bozo" Nickerson (vocals, harmonica); Marco Washington (vocals); Burt Hutcherson, Nap Hayes, Frank Dalton, Junior Morgan, Riley Puckett, Ted Bogan, Bo Carter, Charlie Burse (guitar); Roy Hardison, Gid Tanner (banjo); "Dude", Matthew Prater, James "Yank" Rachel, Charles Hurt, Paul Warmack, James Kelly, Louie Bluie, Phebel Wright (mandolin); Shelby David "Tex" Achinson (violin); Charley Arrington, Gordon Tanner (fiddle); Frank Melrose, Jab Jones (piano).

Rags, Breakdowns, Stomps & Blues: Vintage Mandolin Music (1927-1946)

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VA - The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

Size: 171,4 MB
Time: 73:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Ragtime Blues
Art: Front

01 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Is Mine (3:10)
02 Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) (3:06)
03 Blind Boy Fuller - Piccolo Rag (2:48)
04 Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues (3:14)
05 Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canan's (2:56)
06 Blind Blake - Blind Arthur's Breakdown (2:59)
07 Papa Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack (2:28)
08 Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
09 Memphis Minnie - Can I Do It For You (Part 1) (3:06)
10 Dick Justice - Old Black Dog (2:57)
11 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:40)
12 William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire (3:07)
13 Pillie Bolling - Shake Me Like A Dog (3:01)
14 Charlie McCoy - I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away (3:17)
15 Allen Brothers - Salty Dog Blues (3:05)
16 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beggin' Back (2:49)
17 Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Rag (2:54)
18 The Two Charlies - Pork Chop Blues (3:02)
19 Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied (2:49)
20 Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) (3:04)
21 Troy Ferguson - You Better Keep It At Home (3:02)
22 Reverend Gary Davis - Have More Faith In Jesus (3:02)
23 Buddy Boy Hawkins - Raggin' The Blues (2:26)
24 Geeshie Wiley - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:12)
25 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out (2:44)

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Made famous by the legendary Scott Joplin, ragtime developed in African-American communities throughout the southern part of the Midwest during the last decade of the nineteenth century and had a profound influence on many early blues performers. Combining the structure of marches with African-American songs and dances such as the cakewalk, ragtime’s syncopated or ‘ragged’ rhythm was initially performed as dance music for the seedier side of society in areas where bars, dancehalls and brothels were located. Many blues guitarists attempted to reproduce the complicated piano sounds, as its faster rhythm created a more upbeat and lively feel, far removed from the typical intensity of early country blues. So, when ragtime went out of favour as jazz claimed the public's imagination, it had already entered the folk consciousness through the playing of blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Blind Blake was the first commercially successful performer of this style, whose intricate fingerstyle technique and diverse repertoire ranging from upbeat rags and hokum tunes to slow blues numbers influenced all who followed, including the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis, and modern-day guitarists Ry Cooder, John Fahey and Jorma Kaukonen.

Many of the featured artists hailed from the Eastern States where the influence of ragtime was instrumental in creating the unique and much loved ‘Piedmont’ guitar style. Typically, the Piedmont guitarist would create an alternating rhythmic bass accompaniment by moving the thumb of the picking hand between the different bass strings of the guitar, whilst one or more fingers of the same hand would pick out the melody on the higher strings. Essentially this approach gives the impression that the guitar is being played like a piano.

Little is known about many of these artists, none more so than Willie Walker who only ever recorded two sides in 1930, with ‘South Carolina Rag’ being one of the absolute masterpieces of ragtime guitar playing. Other highlights to listen out for include ‘Ragtime Millionaire’ by the barbershop owner William Moore which harks back to the glory years of ragtime as well as the cakewalk inspired ‘Money Never Runs Out’ by Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers.

The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

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Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks 1928 - 1940

4cd box with 100 cuts by Bo Carter, The Mississippi Sheiks & friends. The Chatman Brothers (Lonnie, Sam, Bo and Harry) with Walter Vinson and Charlie McCoy were a musical force to be reckoned with down around Bolton, Mississippi in the early 1930s performing and recording in various line-ups of hot string bands that included The Jackson Blue Boys, Chatman’s Foot Stompers, The Mississippi Mud Steppers and The Chatman Brothers. Most ferociously prolific of all were The Mississippi Sheiks who loped around country juke joints, white dances, barbeques and roadhouses blasting out their reels, rags, hard blues and hokum numbers. Every now and then some assortment of Chatman musicians would enter the studio and out would come a hot number that would reverberate around the south – songs like Sittin’ On Top Of The World, She’s Crazy About Her Loving, Sales Tax, Bootleggers Blues, Stop And Listen Blues and other powerful stuff like the two tracks Bob Dylan took up on ‘World Gone Wrong’ sixty-odd years later, I Got Blood In My Eyes For You and The World Is Going Wrong. Chatman brother Bo, known as Bo Carter, soon realised that he could earn more money without the band and decided to go solo. His recordings show that he was a considerable talent who, despite coming from an area that contained a vast store of traditional blues styles, wrote tunes that were consistently more inventive and original than any of his contemporaries – his brothers included. Guitarist John Miller recognizes Bo as “one of the bona-fide geniuses of country blues. Bo was probably the most sophisticated of all country blues men from a harmonic viewpoint, playing with perfect facility in five tunings and showing consistent originality in his melodic and rhythmic concepts”. Lyrically he was a master of the double entendre. Titles like The Ins And Outs Of My Girl, Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me, Same Thing The Cats Fight About, My Pencil Won’t Write No More, Banana In My Fruit Basket, Don’t Mash My Digger So Deep and What Kind Of Scent Is This? mesh nicely with the harder, but no less melodic straight blues of Whiskey Blues, Shake ‘Em On Down, To Her Burying Ground and the divine I Want You To Know – one of his most beautiful compositions. These cuts demonstrate perfectly why Bo Carter was such a popular blues artist in his day and why, eighty years since these first recordings, he’s revered by blues fans the world over.

Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 79:18
Size: 183,3 MB
Covers: Full

(3:09) 1. Good Old Turnip Greens
(3:14) 2. Sweet Alberta
(3:07) 3. It Ain't No Good, Pt. 1
(2:46) 4. It's Hot Like That
(3:01) 5. Blue Heaven Blues
(2:53) 6. Your Friends Gonna Use It Too, Pt. 1
(3:04) 7. Sitting On Top of the World
(3:15) 8. The Jazz Fiddler
(3:32) 9. Stop and Listen Blues
(2:52) 10. Alma Waltz
(3:00) 11. Grind So Fine
(3:00) 12. It Still Ain't No Good
(3:01) 13. Mississippi Low Down
(3:22) 14. Seen Better Days
(3:26) 15. Frost Texas Tornado Blues
(3:08) 16. Jake Leg Blues
(3:34) 17. Bootleggers' Blues
(2:55) 18. I'm an Old Bumble Bee
(3:12) 19. Your Good Man Caught the Train and Gone
(3:24) 20. Unhappy Blues
(3:29) 21. Please Don't Wake It Up
(2:49) 22. I've Got the Whole World In My Hand
(3:21) 23. Same Thing the Cats Fight About
(3:11) 24. Times Is Tight Like That
(3:21) 25. You Gonna Need Me

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc A
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Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 79:45
Size: 184,1 MB
Covers: Full

(3:36) 1. Northern Starvers are Returning Home
(2:58) 2. My Pencil Won't Write No More
(3:09) 3. Banana In Your Fruit Basket
(3:11) 4. Sorry Feeling Blues
(3:20) 5. Twist It Baby
(2:44) 6. The Law Gonna Step On You
(2:49) 7. Howling Tom Cat Blues
(3:26) 8. What Kind of Scent Is This
(3:25) 9. The World is Going Wrong
(3:20) 10. She's a Bad Girl
(3:16) 11. Kind Treatment
(3:15) 12. Living In a Strain
(2:57) 13. Too Long
(3:03) 14. I Want You to Know
(3:09) 15. Last Go Round
(2:53) 16. Beans
(3:02) 17. Nobody Knows My Baby
(3:04) 18. Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door
(3:12) 19. Bed Spring Poker
(3:17) 20. I Got Blood In My Eyes for You
(3:32) 21. Shooting High Dice
(3:09) 22. She's Crazy About Her Lovin'
(3:28) 23. He Calls That Religion
(3:01) 24. Hitting the Numbers
(3:18) 25. It's Done Got Wet

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc B
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Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 75:04
Size: 173,3 MB
Covers: Full

(3:10) 1. I Am the Devil
(3:13) 2. She's Got Something Crazy
(3:24) 3. You'll Work Down to Me Someday
(3:12) 4. Somebody's Got to Help Me
(3:07) 5. Sales Tax
(3:01) 6. Lean To One Woman
(3:08) 7. I Can't Go Wrong
(3:03) 8. Dead Wagon Blues
(2:36) 9. She's Going to Her Lonesome Grave
(2:46) 10. Fingering With Your Fingers
(3:00) 11. Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy
(2:24) 12. Don't Do It No More
(2:59) 13. Old Shoe Blues
(2:58) 14. Let Me Roll Your Lemon
(3:05) 15. To Her Burying Ground
(2:57) 16. When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping
(2:58) 17. Spotted Sow Blues
(3:00) 18. All Around Man
(2:59) 19. You Better Know Your Business
(2:46) 20. Dinner Blues
(3:17) 21. Cigarette Blues
(3:15) 22. If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me Around
(2:52) 23. Wake Me Just Before Day
(2:47) 24. Stir It Now
(2:55) 25. Please Don't Give My Love Away

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc C
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Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 76:11
Size: 175,5 MB
Covers: Full

(2:52) 1. Pussy Cat Blues
(2:58) 2. The Ins and Outs of My Girl
(3:13) 3. Bo Carter's Advice
(2:53) 4. Doubled Up In a Knot
(2:09) 5. Your Biscuits are Big Enough for Me
(2:58) 6. Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
(2:38) 7. Flea on Me
(2:28) 8. Got to Work Somewhere
(3:11) 9. Shake 'Em On Down
(3:25) 10. Whiskey Blues
(2:48) 11. Shoo That Chicken
(3:03) 12. Old Devil
(3:15) 13. Country Fool
(3:15) 14. Santa Claus
(3:17) 15. Be My Salty Dog
(3:22) 16. Ways Like a Craw Fish
(2:50) 17. Lucille, Lucille
(3:32) 18. The County Farm Blues
(3:20) 19. Border of New Mexico Blues
(3:07) 20. Arrangement for Me Blues
(3:03) 21. Trouble, Oh Trouble
(3:04) 22. My Baby
(3:07) 23. Policy Blues
(3:13) 24. Tush Hog Blues
(3:00) 25. What You Want Your Daddy To Do

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc D
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VA - Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

Size: 170,8 MB
Time: 72:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Ragtime Blues, Country Blues
Art: Front & Back

01 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Is Mine (3:08)
02 Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) (3:06)
03 Blind Boy Fuller - Piccolo Rag (2:48)
04 Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues (3:14)
05 Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canan's (2:56)
06 Blind Blake - Blind Arthur's Breakdown (2:59)
07 Papa Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack (2:28)
08 Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
09 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Guitar Rag (3:06)
10 Dick Justice - Old Black Dog (2:55)
11 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:38)
12 William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire (3:07)
13 Pillie Bolling - Shake Me Like A Dog (3:01)
14 Charlie McCoy - I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away (3:14)
15 Allen Brothers - Salty Dog Blues (3:05)
16 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beggin' Back (2:49)
17 Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Rag (2:52)
18 The Two Charlies - Pork Chop Blues (3:02)
19 Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied (2:49)
20 Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) (3:04)
21 Troy Ferguson - You Better Keep It At Home (3:02)
22 Reverend Gary Davis - Have More Faith In Jesus (2:59)
23 Buddy Boy Hawkins - Raggin' The Blues (2:26)
24 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:09)
25 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out (2:44)

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Made famous by the legendary Scott Joplin, ragtime developed in African-American communities throughout the southern part of the Midwest during the last decade of the nineteenth century and had a profound influence on many early blues performers. Combining the structure of marches with African-American songs and dances such as the cakewalk, ragtime’s syncopated or ‘ragged’ rhythm was initially performed as dance music for the seedier side of society in areas where bars, dancehalls and brothels were located. Many blues guitarists attempted to reproduce the complicated piano sounds, as its faster rhythm created a more upbeat and lively feel, far removed from the typical intensity of early country blues. So, when ragtime went out of favour as jazz claimed the public's imagination, it had already entered the folk consciousness through the playing of blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Blind Blake was the first commercially successful performer of this style, whose intricate fingerstyle technique and diverse repertoire ranging from upbeat rags and hokum tunes to slow blues numbers influenced all who followed, including the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis, and modern-day guitarists Ry Cooder, John Fahey and Jorma Kaukonen.

Many of the featured artists hailed from the Eastern States where the influence of ragtime was instrumental in creating the unique and much loved ‘Piedmont’ guitar style. Typically, the Piedmont guitarist would create an alternating rhythmic bass accompaniment by moving the thumb of the picking hand between the different bass strings of the guitar, whilst one or more fingers of the same hand would pick out the melody on the higher strings. Essentially this approach gives the impression that the guitar is being played like a piano.

Little is known about many of these artists, none more so than Willie Walker who only ever recorded two sides in 1930, with ‘South Carolina Rag’ being one of the absolute masterpieces of ragtime guitar playing. Other highlights to listen out for include ‘Ragtime Millionaire’ by the barbershop owner William Moore which harks back to the glory years of ragtime as well as the cakewalk inspired ‘Money Never Runs Out’ by Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers.

Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

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Bo Carter - The Essential

Bo Carter was born Armenter Chatmon and with brothers Lonnie and Sam Chatmon formed the much-revered blues jug band the Mississippi Sheiks. A multi-instrumentalist (he played guitar, fiddle, and bass viol), Carter recorded several solo 78s in addition to his work with the Sheiks and is remembered as a master of the sexual double entendre, where even "Cigarette Blues" (included here) ends up having not much at all to do with smoking. He could play it straight, as well, and this two-disc collection includes several classics that don't fall into the hokum category, including the first recorded version of "Corrine Corrina," which features Carter's fiddle, and the sly, satirical "Sales Tax." The ancient "Old Devil Blues" and the fiddle-driven "Back to Mississippi" are also here. Although born in the Delta (he was a half brother to the legendary Charley Patton), Carter's guitar playing showed little of the local "Big Road Blues" style of Patton, Son House, and others, but featured intricate proto-ragtime fingerpicking. As versatile and charming as Bo Carter is, three-dozen tracks by him is probably more than most people need. -- Allmusic.

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Time: 55:22 + 54:01
Size: 127,5 MB + 124,4 MB
Covers: Full

Album: The Essential Disc 1
(2:44) 1. The Law Gonna Step on You
(2:52) 2. Pigment Is What I Crave
(3:19) 3. Twist It, Babe
(3:22) 4. Same Thing the Cats All Fight About
(3:09) 5. Banana in Your Fruit Basket
(3:04) 6. I Want You to Know
(3:31) 7. Baby, How Can It Be?
(2:24) 8. Don't Do It No More
(2:41) 9. Mashing That Thing
(3:19) 10. It's Done Got Wet
(3:18) 11. Cigarette Blues
(2:47) 12. Honey
(3:19) 13. Let's Get Drunk Again
(3:03) 14. Old Devil Blues
(2:54) 15. Pussy Cat Blues
(3:19) 16. Corrine Corrina
(2:49) 17. I've Got the Whole World in My Hand
(3:18) 18. Ways Like a Crawfish

Album: The Essential Disc 1
(3:01) 1. Ram Rod Daddy
(2:49) 2. Howling Tom Cat Blues
(3:03) 3. She's Gonna Crawl Back Home to You
(3:00) 4. All Around Man
(3:26) 5. What Kind of Scent Is This
(3:03) 6. Sales Tax
(3:09) 7. Last Go Round
(2:54) 8. Beans
(3:11) 9. Shake 'Em on Down
(3:10) 10. Back to Mississsippi
(3:07) 11. Arrangement for Me Blues
(2:58) 12. Let Me Roll Your Lemon
(2:48) 13. Shoo That Chicken
(2:57) 14. I Get the Blues
(2:39) 15. Rolling Blues
(2:50) 16. Pussy Cat Blues
(2:37) 17. Who's Been Here?
(3:10) 18. Bo Carter's Advice

The Essential Disc 1
The Essential Disc 2
The Essential artwork

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VA - Risque Blues Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 & Vol. 4

Size: 169,9 MB
Time: 72:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Dirty Blues
Art: Front

01 Mae West - A Guy What Takes His Time (2:38)
02 Ray Noble & His Orchestra - Oh, You Nasty Man (3:06)
03 Helen Kane - Do Something (2:36)
04 Sippie Wallace - Bedroom Blues (3:12)
05 Hunter & Jenkins - Lollypop (2:57)
06 Clara Smith - For Sale (Hannah Johnson's Big Jack Ass) (2:58)
07 Ruth Wallis - The Pistol Song (3:02)
08 Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:24)
09 Georgia Tom - Terrible Operation Blues (2:50)
10 Roosevelt Sykes - The Honey Dripper (2:41)
11 Blind Boy Fuller - What's That Smell Like (2:41)
12 The Light Crust Doughboys - Give Me Some Of That (2:26)
13 Barrell House Annie - If You Don't Force It (2:48)
14 Washboard Sam - I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted (2:36)
15 Bo Carter - Ram Rod Daddy (2:57)
16 Hannah May - Pussy Cat Pussy Cat (2:41)
17 Walter Davis - I Think You Need A Shot (3:22)
18 Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All (2:32)
19 Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off (3:17)
20 Lil Johnson - Meat Balls (2:52)
21 Kokomo Arnold - 'Cause You're Dirty (2:59)
22 Mississippi Sheiks - Driving That Thing (3:23)
23 Art McKay - She Squeezed My Lemon (2:38)
24 Big Bill Broonzy - Horny Frog (3:02)
25 Jimmie Gordon - She Smells Good Meat (2:34)

Dirty blues encompasses forms of blues music that deal with socially taboo subjects, including sexual acts and/or references to drug use of some kind. Due to the sometimes graphic subject matter, such music was often banned from radio and only available on a jukebox. The style was most popular in the years before World War II and had a revival in the 1960s.

Many songs used innuendo, slang terms, or double entendres, such as Lil Johnson's "Press My Button (Ring My Bell)" ("Come on baby, let's have some fun/Just put your hot dog in my bun"). However, some were very explicit. The most extreme examples were rarely recorded at all, Lucille Bogan's obscene song Shave 'em Dry (1935) being a rare example ("by far the most explicit blues song preserved at a commercial pre-war recording session").

The more noteworthy musicians who utilised the style included Bo Carter, Bull Moose Jackson, Myra Johnson, The Lamplighters, Harlem Hamfats, Wynonie Harris, and Hank Ballard and The Midnighters.

Risque Blues Vol. 1

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Size: 170,1 MB
Time: 72:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Dirty Blues
Art: Front

01 Lillie Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size (2:46)
02 St. Louis Jimmy - Pipe Layin' Blues (3:18)
03 George Hannah - The Boy In The Boat (2:37)
04 Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff (3:02)
05 Georgia Tom - My Wash Woman's Gone (3:07)
06 Buddy Woods - Don' Sell It (Don't Give It Away) (2:56)
07 Georgia White - If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It (Before I Give It Away) (2:54)
08 Mae Glover - Gas Man Blues (2:44)
09 Cow Cow Davenport - I'm Gonna Tell You In Front So You Won't Feel Hurt Behind (3:20)
10 Bo Carter - Don't Mash My Digger So Deep (2:54)
11 Memphis Minnie - My Butcher Man (2:56)
12 Barbeque Bob - She Shook Her Gin (3:11)
13 Walter Davis - Poor Grinder Blues (2:41)
14 Georgia Tom - What's That I Smell (2:34)
15 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (2:35)
16 Dorothy Baker - Steady Grinding Blues (3:10)
17 R.T. Hansen - She Got Jordan River In Her Hips (2:49)
18 Jesse James - Sweet Petunia (3:00)
19 Lucille Bogan - Struttin' My Stuff (2:47)
20 Carl Rafferty - Dresser With The Drawers (3:34)
21 Georgia Tom - Fish Hous Blues (2:29)
22 Jimmie Gordon - Little Red Dress (Mary Usta Wear) (2:49)
23 Victoria Spivey - One Hour Mama (2:40)
24 Roosevelt Sykes - Hard Lead Pencil (2:52)
25 Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle (2:33)

Risque Blues Vol. 2

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Size: 167,2 MB
Time: 71:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Dirty Blues
Art: Front

01 Georgia Pine Boy - One More Greasing (3:10)
02 Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over (2:52)
03 Little Boy Fuller - Bed Springs Blues (2:43)
04 Brownie McGhee - Auto Mechanic Blues (2:55)
05 Marylin Scott - I Got What My Daddy Likes (2:38)
06 Ralph Willis - Boar Hog Blues (2:37)
07 Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Doctor For Women (2:38)
08 Julia Lee - King Size Papa (2:38)
09 Sippie Wallace - A Man For Every Day In The Week (3:07)
10 Lil Johnson - Sam The Hot Dog Man (2:59)
11 Lil Johnson - Hot Nuts (Get 'em From The Peanut Man) (3:08)
12 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock Me (2:46)
13 Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman (3:01)
14 Victoria Spivey - Garter Snake Blues (3:12)
15 Barrel House Annie - If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It) (2:48)
16 Albina Jones - What's The Matter With Me (2:45)
17 Papa Charlie Jackson - You Put It In, I'll Take It Out (3:10)
18 Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole (3:21)
19 Bo Carter - Let Me Roll Your Lemon (2:54)
20 Eddie Miller - Good Jelly Blues (2:50)
21 Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - (It Must Be Jelly 'cos You Know) Jam Don't Shake (2:39)
22 Crown Prince Waterford - Move Your Hand Baby (2:30)
23 Johnny Temple - Sit Right On It (2:16)
24 Modern Mountaineers - Everybody's Truckin' (2:25)
25 Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket (3:05)

Risque Blues Vol. 3

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Size: 171,5 MB
Time: 73:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Dirty Blues
Art: Front

01 Bob How - The Hottest Stuff In Town (2:46)
02 Black Bob - Press My Button, Ring My Bell (3:15)
03 Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (3:11)
04 Milton Brown & His Brownies - Somebody's Been Using That Thing (2:50)
05 Ethel Waters - My Handy Man (2:53)
06 Alberta Hunter - You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark (2:58)
07 Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys - My Girl's Pussy (3:10)
08 Ruth Wallis - Queer Things (3:24)
09 Bo Carter - Warm My Weiner (2:55)
10 Kansas City Joe - She Wouldn't Give Me None (2:56)
11 Yank Rachell - Tappin' That Thing (2:49)
12 Sophie Tucker - He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday (2:53)
13 The Light Crust Doughboys - Pussy, Pussy, Pussy (2:28)
14 Unkown - Once A Boy (3:03)
15 Six Jumping Jacks - Masculine Women, Feminine Men (3:01)
16 Memphis Minnie - Lean Meat Won't Fry (2:43)
17 Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some Of Your Pie (2:39)
18 Bo Carter - You're Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
19 Memphis Minnie - Dirty Mother For You (2:45)
20 Bessie Smith - I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (2:45)
21 Kokomo Arnold - Sissy Man Blues (3:05)
22 Kokomo Arnold - The Twelves (Dirty Dozens) (3:07)
23 Helen Kane - I've Got It (But It Don't Do Me No Good) (2:23)
24 Harry Roy - She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor (2:47)
25 Unknown - Silent George (4:05)

Risque Blues Vol. 4

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Various - Blues People: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 1936-1937

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:52
Size: 100.5 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Country blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[2:48] 1. Falcon Trio - Raise Your Window
[2:42] 2. Walter Vinson - Rats Been On My Cheese
[2:49] 3. Bo Carter - Ride My Mule
[3:02] 4. Lil Johnson - Sam-The Hot Dog Man
[3:00] 5. Jazz Gillum - Sarah Jane
[3:16] 6. Casey Bill Weldon - W.P.A. Blues
[2:51] 7. Robert Hill - You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old
[2:45] 8. Black Ace - Black Ace
[3:10] 9. Bo Carter - Bo Carter's Advice
[2:29] 10. Buddy Woods - Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away)
[3:32] 11. Andy Boy - Evil Blues
[2:57] 12. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[2:53] 13. Sleepy John Estes - Hobo Jungle Blues
[2:23] 14. Black Boy Shine - Ice Pick And Pistol Woman Blues
[3:08] 15. Rosetta Howard - If You're A Viper

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Various - Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:36
Size: 138.7 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Lil Johnson - Sam The Hot Dog Man
[2:55] 2. Lil Johnson - My Stove's In Good Condition
[3:17] 3. Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off
[2:54] 4. Lonnie Johnson - The Best Jockey In Town
[2:49] 5. Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry, No. 1
[3:06] 6. Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry Ii
[2:47] 7. Little Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size
[2:49] 8. Barrel House Annie - If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)
[3:05] 9. Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Jackson - Furniture Man Blues Pt 1
[3:07] 10. Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Jackson - Furniture Man Blues Pt 2
[2:54] 11. Bo Carter - My Pencil Won't Write No More
[3:06] 12. Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket
[3:09] 13. Lil Johnson - Get 'em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
[2:54] 14. Lil Johnson - Get 'em From The Peanut Man (The Hot New Nuts)
[3:22] 15. Mississippi Sheiks - Driving That Thing
[3:09] 16. Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker
[2:56] 17. Hunter Jenkins - Lollypop
[2:55] 18. Hunter Jenkins - Meat Cuttin' Blues
[3:07] 19. Buddy Moss -You Got To Give Me Some Of It
[3:05] 20. Bernice Edwards - Butcher Shop Blues

This sex-based set of early blues-oriented recordings has 19 double entendre songs and a humorous (and quite profane) "alternate" version of Lucille Bogan's "Shave 'Em Dry" that still could not be played on the radio. Among the performers are Lil Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Barrel House Annie, Bo Carter and Buddy Moss. With titles such as "Sam The Hot Dog Man," "The Best Jockey In Town," "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It," "Banana In Your Fruit Basket" and "You Got To Give Me Some Of It," the subject matter is easy to figure out. ~Scott Yanow

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Bo Carter - Twist It Baby (1931-1940)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:23
Size: 92.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, Delta blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:17] 1. Twist It, Baby (1931)
[2:47] 2. Some Day (1938)
[2:51] 3. Doubled Up In A Knot (1935)
[3:09] 4. Shake 'em On Down (1938)
[2:55] 5. Let Me Roll Your Lemon (1935)
[3:00] 6. My Baby (1940)
[2:37] 7. Rolling Blues (1935)
[3:03] 8. Policy Blues (1940)
[2:44] 9. Honey (1940)
[2:41] 10. The Law Gonna Step On You (1931)
[2:54] 11. I Get' The Blues (1935)
[2:28] 12. Howling Tom Cat Blues (1934)
[2:47] 13. Pussy Cat Blues (1936)
[3:02] 14. Bo Carter Special (1934)

Singer/guitarist Bo Chatmon lived something of a double musical life. One had him playing country-blues with the Mississippi Sheiks, one of the most popular African-American string bands of the 1920s and 1930s, while, as Bo Carter, he became a highly successful solo performer, peddling his popular brand of double-entendre blues. The first of two Yazoo Bo Carter anthologies (the companion to Banana in Your Fruit Basket), Twist It, Babe collects sides the guitarist recorded between 1931 and 1938. Carter himself, though he may lack significant spark as a performer, remains a competent fingerpicker, with a smooth, pleasant singing tone. Combined with relatively clean fidelity, the sentiments of his songs have been preserved, loud and clear. Much of the material here is comprised of Carter's one-dimensional sexual metaphors (the title track, "Doubled in a Knot," "Let Me Roll Your Lemon," etc.). Yet while the concerns on Twist It, Babe are largely the same ones that occupied Carter throughout the greater part of his career, they are often less blatant. While "Twist It, Babe" repeats a simple vocal pattern over some graceful guitar work with little variation, songs like "Some Day," "The Law Gonna Step on You," and "I Get the Blues" reveal more complex melodies and greater subtlety in dealing with his subject matter. "Rolling Blues" is a fine version of Jim Jackson's hit "Kansas City Blues" (a song also reworked by Charlie Patton as "Going to Move to Alabama"). "Policy Man Blues" even manages to break the mold with its tale of a familiar roustabout, prone to losing his earnings in card games. Twist It, Babe presents an accurate portrait of Carter and is a more well-rounded collection than its companion volume. ~Nathan Bush

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