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

---

Memphis Minnie - Killer Diller Blues: Her Best 24 Songs

Size: 164,1 MB
Time: 69:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01. Bumble Bee (2:48)
02. Memphis Minnie Jitis Blues (3:24)
03. Plymoth Rock Blues (2:51)
04. New Bumble Bee (2:56)
05. Frankie Jean (2:52)
06. Crazy Cryin´ Blues (3:31)
07. Where Is My Good Man (3:02)
08. My Butcher Man (2:57)
09. Hustlin´ Woman Blues (2:54)
10. Doctor, Doctor Blues (3:17)
11. Hoodoo Lady Blues (3:03)
12. Down In The Alley (3:03)
13. I Hate To See The Sun Go Down (2:45)
14. Has Anyone Seen My Man (2:46)
15. Nothing In Rambling (2:47)
16. In My Girlish Days (2:36)
17. Me And My Chauffeur Blues (2:45)
18. This Is Your Last Chance (2:59)
19. I Am Sailin´ (2:51)
20. Fashion Plate Daddy (3:00)
21. Moaning Blues (2:42)
22. Killer Diller Blues (2:28)
23. Down Home Girl (2:45)
24. Kissing In The Dark (2:28)

Although highly-regarded by those in the know, it is perhaps surprising that Memphis Minnie is not better known. Born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, on 03 June 1897, Minnie was a fabulous singer, a sharp songwriter and a magnificent finger-style guitarist. She recorded over 200 songs in a career that lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s. She played with the likes of Willie Brown (author of “Future Blues” and friend and musical partner of both Charley Patton and Robert Johnson) and slide guitar wizard, Casey Bill Weldon, to whom she was also briefly married in the 1920s. She was also an innovator, being one of the first blues players to use a steel-bodied National guitar in 1929, and playing an electric wood body National and various other electric guitars in the 1940s.

Killer Diller Blues is a collection of 24 tracks from across Minnie’s career from the esteemed Austrian blues record label, Wolf Records. It is possible to distinguish three clear strands to her musical evolution through her recording career, and the CD contains representative tracks from each era. Her initial recordings with her second husband, Kansas Joe McCoy in the late 1920s and early 1930s (here represented by seven tracks, including the classic “Bumble Bee”) were essentially acoustic guitar duets. This led on to the more sophisticated swing band sound of the late 1930s and early 1940s where she played with the likes of pianist Black Bob, mandolin player Charlie McCoy and drummer Fred Williams. Killer Diller Blues contains six songs from this era, including “I Hate To See The Sun Go Down” which borrows heavily from WC Handy’s earlier “St Louis Blues”. The third phase began around 1941, when she started playing with Little Son Joe on second guitar, often with a stand-up bass and drums. Minnie’s single note lines on tracks like “Moaning Blues” and “Down Home Girl” augured and influenced the subsequent electric stylings of Jimmy Rogers and Johnny Shines.

The sparse liner notes to the CD, written by Hannes Folterbauer, are perhaps most notable for incorrectly referring to Willie Brown as “Henry Brown” and for repeating the story from Big Bill Broonzy’s autobiography about a cutting contest between Broonzy and Minnie in Chicago in 1933 for the prize of a bottle of wine and a bottle of gin. Broonzy wrote that Minnie won the prize by playing “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” and “Looking the World Over”. As noted by Paul and Beth Garon, however, in their excellent Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues, this story at best is an amalgamation of different contests, since both of the songs alleged to have been played by her date from the 1940s rather than the 1930s. Indeed, “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” borrows the melody of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Good Morning, School Girl”, itself only from 1937. Killer Diller Blues contains Minnie’s 1941 recording of “Me And My Chauffeur Blues” but sadly does not include “Looking The World Over” (later magnificently covered by BB King on his My Kind Of Blues album).

Given the sheer number of songs Minnie recorded during her career, there will always be room for healthy debate as to what are her best 24 songs. Obvious omissions include “When The Levee Breaks” (yes, that is where the Led Zeppelin song comes from), “What’s The Matter With The Mill?” and “Black Rat Swing”. With excellent remastering by Fabian Wessely at Soundborn Studio, however, the tracks on Killer Diller Blues are certainly a fine introduction to one of the indisputable all-time blues greats and Wolf Records are to be congratulated on another fine reissue. ~by Rhys Williams

Killer Diller Blues MP3
Killer Diller Blues FLAC

---

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

---

Memphis Minnie - Chaffeur Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:21
Size: 113.0 MB
Styles: Classic female lues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:54] 1. Ice Man (Come On Up)
[2:57] 2. Good Morning
[2:44] 3. Me And My Chauffeur Blues
[2:49] 4. New Bumble Bee
[3:05] 5. It's Hard To Be Mistreated
[3:00] 6. Keep On Sailin'
[2:56] 7. Man You Won't Give Me No Money
[2:30] 8. Down By The Riverside
[3:14] 9. Chickasaw Train Blues
[2:46] 10. Moonshine
[3:18] 11. Biting Bug Blues
[2:21] 12. I Don't Want That Junk Out Of You
[2:46] 13. She Put Me Outdoors
[2:49] 14. Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)
[3:20] 15. Meningitis Blues
[2:42] 16. I Hate To See The Sun Go Down
[3:03] 17. Hot Stuff

Memphis Minnie was one of the popular blues acts in Chicago when she recorded ‘Me and My Chauffeur Blues’ there on May 21, 1941. Accompanied by her husband, Ernest ‘Little Son Joe’ Lawlers on second guitar, Minnie made it clear what she wanted her ‘chauffeur’ to do: ‘he drives so easy, I can’t put him down.’ An engaging blues in the mold of Sonny Boy Williamson’s ‘Good Morning Little Schoolgirl,’ the record was further enlivened by a hot dual guitar break by Minnie and Son Joe. ‘Chauffeur’ was later recorded by Jefferson Airplane, Big Mama Thornton, Clifton Chenier and Lucinda Williams, among others.

Chaffeur Blues

---

Various Artists - Memphis Shakedown More Jugband Classics

Like most JSP box sets, Memphis Shakedown is an affordably priced grab bag of vintage music presented with enough care and attention to detail that interested parties may dive directly in and experience more proof that history can be entertaining, invigorating, and deeply rewarding. The focus here is bluesy jug, mouth harp, kazoo, washboard, mandolin, and guitar-driven entertainment as it materialized on phonograph records in and around Memphis, TN, during the years 1929-1939. Featured are ukulele handler Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats; Jed Davenport of the Beale Street Jug Band; mouth organist Noah Lewis (best known as a member of Cannon's Jug Stompers), performing solo and leading his own jug band; Kaiser Clifton; Memphis Minnie; the Beale Street Rounders; the Delta Boys; Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band; the well-known Memphis Jug Band and their star vocalist, Minnie Wallace; and five recordings released under one of the group's aliases, the Picaninny Jug Band. Memphis Shakedown was released on the heels of JSP's equally expansive and worthwhile four-CD set Memphis Jug Band with Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, and works well as a sequel to that anthology. For those who thrive on this kind of music, obtaining both boxes would be a very sensible move. -- Allmusic.

Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 69:34
Size: 160,3 MB
Covers: Full

Tracks 1 - 25 : South Memphis Jug Band

(2:50) 1. Highway No. 61 Blues
(2:49) 2. Highway No. 61 Blues No. 2
(3:04) 3. Red Ripe Tomatoes
(2:52) 4. Believe I'll Go Back Home
(3:00) 5. Country Woman
(3:12) 6. Cheatin' Woman
(3:13) 7. Ko-Ko-Mo Blues (Take 1)
(3:11) 8. Ko-Ko-Mo Blues (Take 2)
(3:05) 9. Cold Iron Bed
(3:07) 10. R.F.C. Blues
(2:56) 11. Policy Rag
(2:58) 12. President Blues
(2:44) 13. Highway No. 61 Blues
(2:51) 14. Cadillac Baby
(2:58) 15. Doctor Medicine
(2:30) 16. Lightnin' Blues
(2:27) 17. Betty Sue Blues
(2:35) 18. Flower Blues
(2:24) 19. Joe Louis Special
(2:26) 20. High Behind Blues
(2:21) 21. You Done Done It
(2:30) 22. Diamond Buyer Blues
(2:28) 23. World Wandering Blues
(2:24) 24. Neck Bone Blues
(2:25) 25. Men Fooler Blues

Memphis Shakedown Disc A
Memphis Shakedown Disc A artwork

---

Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 72:37
Size: 167,4 MB
Covers: Full

Tracks 1 - 5 : Picaninny Jug Band
Tracks 6 - 21 : Memphis Jug Band
Tracks 22 - 25 : Kaiser Clifton

(2:42) 1. You Gotta Have That Thing
(2:30) 2. Tappin' That Thing
(2:28) 3. Bottle It Up and Go
(2:40) 4. I Got Good Taters
(3:16) 5. Come Along Little Children
(3:12) 6. Mary Ann Cut Off
(3:03) 7. My Love Is Cold
(2:55) 8. Jazzbo Stomp
(2:47) 9. Gator Wobble
(2:57) 10. Tear It Down, Bed Slats and All
(2:58) 11. Boodie Bum Bum
(2:50) 12. Take Your Finger Off It
(2:56) 13. Little Green Slippers
(2:59) 14. Fishin' in the Dark
(2:57) 15. Bottle It Up and Go
(3:06) 16. Insane Crazy Blues
(2:51) 17. She Done Sold It Out
(2:53) 18. Memphis Shakedown
(2:54) 19. Rukus Juice and Chittlin'
(3:22) 20. My Business Ain't Right
(3:09) 21. Jug Band Quartette
(2:54) 22. Cash Money Blues
(2:50) 23. Forth Worth & Denver Blues
(2:44) 24. She'll Be Back Someday
(2:34) 25. Teach Me Right from Wrong

Memphis Shakedown Disc B
Memphis Shakedown Disc B artwork

---

Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:08
Size: 170,9 MB
Covers: Full

Tracks 1 - 7 : Noah Lewis
Tracks 8 - 15 : Jed Davenport
Tracks 16 - 17 : Beale Street Rounders
Tracks 18 - 19 : Memphis Minnie
Tracks 20 - 25 : The Delta Boys

(2:40) 1. Ticket Agent Blues
(2:42) 2. New Minglewood Blues
(2:45) 3. Selling the Jelly
(2:50) 4. Bad Luck's My Buddy
(3:18) 5. Chickasaw Special
(2:55) 6. Devil in the Woodpile
(3:04) 7. Like I Want to Be
(3:00) 8. How Long, How Long Blues
(2:49) 9. Cow Cow Blues
(2:58) 10. Beale Street Breakdown
(3:19) 11. You Ought to Move Out of Town
(3:04) 12. The Dirty Dozen
(2:58) 13. Jug Blues
(2:49) 14. Save Me Some
(2:56) 15. Piccolo Blues
(2:49) 16. I'm Sittin' on Top of the World
(3:01) 17. Talkin' 'bout Yo-Yo
(2:53) 18. Bumble Bee Blues
(3:17) 19. Meningitis Blues
(3:11) 20. Don't You Want to Know
(2:33) 21. You Shoudn't Do That
(3:02) 22. When the Saints Go Marching In
(2:57) 23. Black Gal Swing
(2:52) 24. Get Up and Go
(3:12) 25. Every Time My Heart Beats

Memphis Shakedown Disc C
Memphis Shakedown Disc C artwork

---

Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 65:58
Size: 152,0 MB
Covers: Full

Tracks 1 - 20 : Charlie Burse
Tracks 21 - 24 : Minnie Wallace

(2:25) 1. Beale Street Holiday
(2:49) 2. Baby, You Win
(2:42) 3. Oil It Up and Go
(2:39) 4. What's the Matter with the Well
(2:37) 5. I'm in Buddy's Wagon
(2:39) 6. Good Potatoes on the Hill
(2:48) 7. Weed Smoking Mama
(2:46) 8. Dawn of Day Blues
(2:44) 9. Goldie May
(2:29) 10. Scared to Death
(2:28) 11. You Better Watch Out
(2:43) 12. Too Much Beef
(2:39) 13. Magic Spell Blues
(2:41) 14. It Makes No Difference Now
(2:50) 15. Radio Blues
(2:25) 16. Hell's Highway
(2:33) 17. It's Against the Rule
(2:38) 18. Ain't Gonna Be No Doggone Afterwhile
(2:42) 19. Memphis Highway Stomp
(2:54) 20. Brand New Day Blues
(2:58) 21. The Cockeyed World
(3:09) 22. Field Mouse Stomp
(3:27) 23. Let's All Do That Thing
(2:58) 24. Pick 'Em Up and Put 'Em Down

Memphis Shakedown Disc D
Memphis Shakedown Disc D artwork

---

Memphis Minnie - The Essential

Lizzie Douglas (aka Memphis Minnie) learned to play banjo and guitar at a young age and performed on the streets of Memphis as a kid, also her first nickname. On Beale Street she made a living by playing guitar and singing in clubs and on the street. In 1929 she performed together with Joe McCoy, her second husband and they were discovered by a talent scout of Columbia Records. After recording in New York City they were given the names Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie. During the next few years they released a series of recordings, performing as a duet. After their divorce in 1935, Memphis Minnie relocated to Chicago and she worked regularly for producer Lester Melrose and recording for Bluebird, Vocalion and Decca. Around 1938 she married guitarist Ernest Lawlars aka Little Son Joe. By 1941 Minnie played electric guitar and recorded het biggest hit "Me and My Chauffeur Blues". By the end of the 1940s, musical tasts changed, clubs hired younger artists and record labels dropped lots of older blues artists. Memphis Minnie and Little Son Joe retired from their musical careers and settled in Memphis. Minnie suffered several strokes and spent her last years in a nursing home.

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Time: 53:41 + 52:05
Size: 124,0 MB + 120,3 MB
Covers: Full

Album: Memphis Minnie - The Essential Disc 1
(2:46) 1. I'm Goin' Back Home
(3:01) 2. My Butcher Man
(3:03) 3. Where Is My Good Man At?
(2:53) 4. That Will Be Alright
(2:44) 5. I Never Told a Lie
(2:52) 6. What's the Matter With the Mill?
(3:11) 7. Let's Go to Town
(3:14) 8. Ain't No Use Trying to Tell on Me (I Got Something on You)
(2:53) 9. Drunken Barrel House Blues
(3:03) 10. Going Back to Texas
(3:24) 11. Memphis Minnie
(3:01) 12. New Dirty Dozen
(2:51) 13. Today Today Blues
(2:59) 14. Too Late
(3:02) 15. New Orleans Stop Time
(2:49) 16. Boy Friend Blues
(3:04) 17. I'm a Bad Luck Woman
(2:45) 18. Me and My Chauffeur Blues

Album: Memphis Minnie - The Essential Disc 2
(2:49) 1. Dirty Mother for You
(3:12) 2. Cherry Ball Blues
(2:52) 3. Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)
(2:50) 4. Keep It to Yourself
(2:46) 5. Nothing in Rambling
(2:57) 6. Black Cat Blues #2
(2:30) 7. I'm Waiting on You
(3:07) 8. Remember Me Blues
(2:53) 9. Black Rat Swing
(2:57) 10. Georgia Skin
(2:33) 11. Keep on Goin'
(3:00) 12. Stop Lying on Me
(3:00) 13. Ice Man
(3:18) 14. Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)
(3:19) 15. Reachin' Pete
(2:45) 16. Ma Rainey
(2:36) 17. Pig Meat on the Line
(2:33) 18. In My Girlish Days

The Essential Disc 1
The Essential Disc 2
The Essential artwork

---

Various - Booze & The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:48
Size: 148.3 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. State Street Swingers - You Drink Too Much
[2:50] 2. Charley Jordan - Cherry Wine Woman
[2:49] 3. Memphis Minnie - Drunken Barrel House Blues
[3:30] 4. Mississippi Sheiks - Bootleggers' Blues
[3:06] 5. Barbecue Bob - Me And My Whiskey
[2:38] 6. Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues
[2:36] 7. Charlie Spand - Rock And Rye
[2:50] 8. Memphis Jug Band - Rukus Juice And Chittlin'
[2:34] 9. Merline Johnson - Bad Whiskey Blues
[3:04] 10. Amos Easton - Part I
[3:08] 11. Amos Easton As Bumble Bee Slim - Part Ii
[2:43] 12. Little Bill Gaither - Moonshine By The Keg
[2:54] 13. Lucille Bogan - Drinking Blues
[2:59] 14. Peetie Wheatstraw - More Good Whiskey Blues
[3:00] 15. Joshua White - Pigmeat And Whiskey Blues
[2:42] 16. Casey Bill Weldon - Give Me Another Shot
[2:55] 17. Rosetta Howard - When I Been Drinking
[2:53] 18. Lewis Black - Corn Liquor Blues
[3:07] 19. Sloppy Henry - Canned Heat Blues
[3:14] 20. Big Bill Broonzy - When I Been Drinking
[2:46] 21. Jack Newman - Blackberry Wine
[3:04] 22. Rev. W.M. Mosley - Drinking Shine

Booze & the Blues is a thoroughly entertaining collection of 22 pre-war blues songs about wine, drinking, whiskey and blues. It's a gimmicky excuse for a collection, but it works, not only because the songs and performances are good, but because the tracks all have a similar spirit. Among the highlights are tracks by Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Sheiks, Robert Hicks, the Memphis Jug Band, Amos Easton, Lucille Bogan, Peetie Wheatstraw and Joshua White. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Booze & The Blues mc
Booze & The Blues zippy

---

Various - That's Chicago's South Side

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:57
Size: 171.6 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Sam Theard - That's Chicago's South Side
[3:15] 2. Peetie Wheatstraw - Pete Wheatstraw
[2:59] 3. Roosevelt Sykes - Devil's Island Gin Blues
[3:16] 4. Amos Easton - Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
[3:27] 5. Joe Pullum - Black Gal, What Makes Your Head So Hard
[2:49] 6. Lil Johnson - I Lost My Baby
[2:50] 7. Big Bill Broonzy - Keep Your Hands Off Her
[2:55] 8. Leroy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down
[2:51] 9. Memphis Minnie - Selling My Pork Chops
[3:06] 10. The Sparks Brothers - Every Day I Have The Blues
[2:48] 11. Walter Davis - Sweet Sixteen
[2:57] 12. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
[2:39] 13. Richard M. Jones - Trouble In Mind
[3:21] 14. Merline Johnson - He Roars Like A Lion
[3:01] 15. Robert Lee Mccoy - Prowling Nighthawk
[2:58] 16. Sonny Boy Williamson I - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:09] 17. Speckled Red - You Got To Fix It
[2:41] 18. Washboard Sam - Bucket's Got A Hole In It
[2:45] 19. Tommy Mcclennan - Bottle It Up And Go
[2:37] 20. Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway
[2:56] 21. Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me
[2:53] 22. Johnny Temple - What Is That She Got
[3:10] 23. St. Louis Jimmy Oden - Goin' Down To Slow
[3:17] 24. James Yank Rachel - Hobo Blues
[3:15] 25. Lonnie Johnson - He's A Jelly Roll Baker

Ask a rock & roller to discuss Chicago's contributions to the blues, and he/she is likely to talk about Chess Records and electric post-World War II greats like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells. But the Windy City had a healthy blues scene long before the rise of Chess -- one that went back to the days of Al Capone and Prohibition. Spanning 1931-1942, When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 3: That's Chicago's South Side spotlights the acoustic pre-Chess, pre-Muddy Waters era of Chicago blues -- an era that helped pave the way for Chess Records as well as rock & roll. The recordings on this excellent CD point to fact that, long before Chicago became synonymous with electric blues, the city had its own unique blues sound. Gems like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning, Schoolgirl" (1937), Roosevelt Sykes' "Devil's Island Gin Blues" (1933), and Tommy McClennan's "Bottle It Up and Go" (1939) are quite different from the blues that were coming from the Deep South in the '30s and early '40s -- these artists offer an acoustic sound, but a harder, tougher acoustic sound than the Southern country blues that were coming from Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee back then. Of course, some of the artists who blues fans associate with Chicago blues were originally from the South; Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, for example, were born in Mississippi. But when Southern bluesmen moved north and interacted with Chicago-based musicians, their music could easily take on a more urban outlook. And an urban outlook definitely prevails on this CD, which underscores the richness of Chicago's pre-Chess blues scene. ~Alex Henderson

That's Chicago's South Side

---

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

---

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

---

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

---

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

---

VA - Work, Daddy, Work: Risque Ladies Of The Blues

Size: 143,7 MB
Time: 60:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01 Eunice Day - Work, Daddy, Work (2:57)
02 Mae Glover - Gas Man Blues (2:44)
03 Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff (3:02)
04 Lillie Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size (2:50)
05 Helen Humes - Pleasing Man Blues (3:06)
06 Louise Johnson - On The Wall (3:00)
07 Kansas City Kitty - Show Me What You've Got (3:06)
08 Lil Johnson - Meat Balls (2:52)
09 Hannah Mae - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat (2:41)
10 Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:24)
11 Marylin Scott - I Got What My Daddy Likes (2:35)
12 Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over (2:49)
13 Georgia Tom - Terrible Operation Blues (2:49)
14 Lucille Bogan - Struttin' My Stuff (2:47)
15 Dorothy Baker - Steady Grindin' Blues (3:07)
16 Memphis Minnie - My Butcher Man (2:56)
17 Helen Humes - I'm Gonna Let Him Ride (1:44)
18 Georgia Tom - What's That I Smell (2:34)
19 Rosetta Howard - Too Many Drivers (3:04)
20 Dorothy Ellis - Drill, Daddy, Drill (2:55)
21 Barrel House Annie - If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It (2:48)

Work, Daddy, Work

---

Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1991
Styles: Blues
Time: 59:21
Size: 136,6 MB
Covers: Full

(3:01) 1. Down in the Alley
(2:46) 2. Has Anyone Seen My Man?
(2:45) 3. I Hate to See the Sun Go Down
(3:00) 4. Ice Man (Come on Up)
(3:05) 5. Hoodoo Lady
(3:03) 6. I'm a Bad Luck Woman
(2:57) 7. Caught Me Wrong Again
(2:57) 8. Black Cat Blues
(3:00) 9. Good Morning
(2:59) 10. Man, You Won't Give Me Any Money
(2:40) 11. Keep on Eatin'
(2:55) 12. I've Been Treated Wrong
(2:43) 13. Good Biscuits
(3:17) 14. Ain't No Use Tryin' Tell on Me (I Know Something on You)
(3:00) 15. My Butcher Man
(3:01) 16. My Strange Man
(3:18) 17. If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)
(2:49) 18. My Baby Don't Want Me No More
(2:57) 19. Please Don't Stop Him
(2:59) 20. I'm Going Don't You Know

Memphis Minnie held her own in a genre famous for its casualties, and as a blues guitarist, few players in the 1920s could cut her, and that, coupled with Minnie's natural showmanship and a penchant for marrying her guitar duet partners (Casey Bill Weldon, Kansas Joe McCoy, Ernest Lawlars), makes her one of the most colorful figures in blues history. This set brings together key tracks that she recorded for Columbia Records between 1933 and 1937, but it's just a small part of this musician's prolific recording catalog (she also recorded for the Bluebird, OKeh, Vocalion, Regal, Checker, and JOB imprints during her four-decade career). The sound is good, though, which makes this a nice place to start. -- Allmusic.

Born in Algiers, LA, in 1897, Lizzie Douglas forged a reputation as Memphis Minnie during the late '20s and throughout the '30s by singing topical blues tunes in a powerful voice while strumming the guitar, sometimes with piano, mandolin, and additional guitar accompaniment. Although her career extended well into the 1940s and she was still active in the '50s, Minnie is mainly remembered for her sanguine contribution to the developing Midwestern urban blues scene of the 1930s. In 2008 the U.K.'s Snapper label came out with a 22-track Memphis Minnie collection and chose to call it Hoodoo Lady, instantly generating confusion between their product and the identically titled benchmark Columbia Roots & Blues collection of 1991. Of that disc's 18 titles, only three are included in the Snapper edition, and for this reason the two complement each other beautifully. It's worth having the Columbia disc just to be able to savor her rendition of "If You See My Rooster," during which she anticipates the howling of Howlin' Wolf (who revived this tune many years later) by crowing gently like a chanticleer. Snapper's Hoodoo Lady is equally fine, and includes a rowdy singalong number called "Shout the Boogie." Owning one or both of these excellent samplers will enable the listener to decide whether or not to pursue Memphis Minnie's complete early recordings as released in chronological order by the Document and Wolf labels, or to shop around and piece together a unified history of her entire recording career. -- Amazon.

Hoodoo Lady
Hoodoo Lady artwork

---

Various - Blues Is Killin' Me

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:57
Size: 132.7 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1991/2006
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Baby Face Leroy - Pet Rabbit
[3:01] 2. Baby Face Leroy - Louella
[3:11] 3. Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours At Midnight
[3:05] 4. Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me
[3:15] 5. Floyd Jones - Dark Road
[2:50] 6. Floyd Jones - I Lost A Good Woman
[2:15] 7. Floyd Jones - Skinny Mama
[2:51] 8. Floyd Jones - Rising Wind
[3:13] 9. Floyd Jones - On The Road Again
[2:47] 10. Unknown - Where Have You Been So Long
[2:45] 11. Little Hudson - Rough Treatment
[2:36] 12. Little Hudson - I'm Looking For A Woman
[2:33] 13. Little Hudson - Things Going So Tough With Me
[2:53] 14. Little Hudson - Don't Hang Around
[2:31] 15. Memphis Minnie - Kissing In The Dark
[3:06] 16. Memphis Minnie - World Of Trouble
[2:33] 17. Memphis Minnie - In Love Again
[3:00] 18. Memphis Minnie - What A Night
[3:09] 19. Little Son Joe - Ethel Bea
[3:13] 20. Little Son Joe - A Little Too Late

20 track, rock solid collection of classic Blues sides from Chicago's JOB label, primarily focusing on both sides of original issue 78s by Floyd Jones, Memphis Minnie, Baby Face Leroy and Little Hudson's Red Devil Trio with a few unissued surprises rounding out the already excellent package. ~Cub Koda

Blues Is Killin' Me

---

Various - The First Time I Met The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 75:59
Size: 174.0 MB
Styles: Assorted blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. Victoria Spivey - Telephoning The Blues
[3:08] 2. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues
[3:28] 3. Genevieve Davis - Haven't Got A Dollar To Pay Your House Rent Man
[3:27] 4. Ishman Bracey - Saturday Blues
[3:13] 5. Jim Jackson - When I Woke Up This Morning She Was Gone
[3:36] 6. Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
[2:32] 7. Blind Willie Mctell - Statesboro Blues
[2:55] 8. Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin'
[3:02] 9. Furry Lewis - Judge Harsh Blues
[3:02] 10. Edna Winston - Rent Man Blues
[2:46] 11. Alfoncy Harris - I Don't Care What You Say
[3:25] 12. Jelly Roll Morton - I Hate A Man Like You
[3:16] 13. Frank Stokes - 'tain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Part 1)
[2:50] 14. Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman
[2:38] 15. Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #9
[2:55] 16. Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair
[3:12] 17. Memphis Minnie - Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To)
[2:47] 18. Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues
[3:16] 19. Blind Willie Reynolds - Married Woman Blues
[2:57] 20. Jimmie Davis - Red Nightgown Blues
[2:51] 21. Mississippi Matilda - Hard Working Woman
[2:50] 22. Bo Carter - Doubled Up In A Knot
[2:41] 23. Daddy Stovepipe - If You Want Me Baby
[2:47] 24. Little Brother Montgomery - The First Time I Met The Blues
[3:05] 25. Mississippi Sheiks - Sales Tax

Great achievement in sound on these recordings, some of which are 80 years old. Initiates will be amazed at how closely these country and jugband blues numbers border on rock & roll, and close observers will spot originals later covered by the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Canned Heat, and other disciples of the genre. Essential listening. ~R. Riis

The First Time I Met The Blues mc
The First Time I Met The Blues zippy

---