The Acrobat catalogue contains a wealth of blues collections by artists from across the spectrum of the genre, and this fantastic-value 100-track set comprises recordings selected from just about every artist represented in the catalogue.
It offers a rich cross-section of the finest blues of the 20th century and includes just about every regional variation, from country blues from the Delta, to electric blues from Chicago, post-war California blues, New Orleans blues, Piedmont blues, New York blues and more. The genre’s most influential luminaries and its biggest stars are all here – B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Bill Bill Broonzy, Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Ma Rainey, and dozens more.
Presented more or less in chronological order, it offers an extraordinary feast of music which provides not only a window on the development of the music of the African-American population of the USA, who provide the vast majority of the recordings here, but an anecdotal social commentary on their lives and observations which are the subject of many of the songs. Kicking off with Alberta Hunter’s Stingaree Blues, this compilation features memorable recordings of numbers such as: Shake That Thing Papa, Old New Orleans Blues, Gone Dead On You Blues, Hard Time Blues, Black Angel, Milk Cow Blues, St. Louis Blues, Baby Please Don't Go, The Honey Dripper, I Feel So Good, Junker Blues, Wynonie’s Blues, That’s All Right, Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad, Midnight Special, Every Day I Have The Blues, I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man, I Hear You Knockin’, Smokestack Lightning and Boom Boom.
A great introduction to the blues.
TRACKS
Disc 1 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Stingaree Blues |
Alberta Hunter |
2
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See See Rider Blues |
Ma Rainey with Her Georgia Jazz Band |
3 |
Shake That Thing |
Papa Charlie Jackson |
4 |
Old New Orleans Blues |
Willie Jackson |
5 |
Gone Dead On You Blues |
Blind Lemon Jefferson |
6 |
Kansas City Blues |
The Memphis Jug Band |
7 |
Dope Head Blues |
Victoria Spivey |
8 |
Levee Camp Moan Blues |
"Texas" Alexander |
9 |
Kassie Jones - Part 1 |
Furry Lewis |
10 |
A Spoonful Blues |
Charley Patton |
11 |
Guitar Blues |
Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn |
12 |
Last Time Blues |
Charlie McCoy |
13 |
Diddie Wa Diddie |
Blind Blake |
14 |
Mississippi Swamp Moan |
Alfred Lewis |
15 |
Keep It Clean |
Charley Jordan |
16 |
Hard Time Blues |
Scrapper Blackwell |
17 |
Crazy Crying Blues |
Memphis Minnie |
18 |
East Chicago Blues |
Pinetop & Lindberg |
19 |
M & O Blues Pt. 1 |
Bumble Bee Slim |
20 |
Black Angel |
Tampa Red |
21 |
Milk Cow Blues |
Kokomo Arnold |
22 |
Dough Rolling Papa |
Buddy Moss |
23 |
Sweet Sixteen |
Walter Davis |
24 |
St. Louis Blues |
Bessie Smith |
Disc 2 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Baby Please Don't Go |
Big Joe Williams |
2 |
The Honey Dripper |
Roosevelt Sykes |
3 |
Sweet Home Chicago |
Robert Johnson |
4 |
Prowling Night Hawk |
Robert Nighthawk |
5 |
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It |
Washboard Sam |
6 |
My Daddy Rocks Me |
Trixie Smith |
7 |
Bottle It Up And Go |
Tommy McLennan |
8 |
Fixin' To Die |
Bukka White |
9 |
Blowin' The Blues |
Sonny Terry |
10 |
Romance In The Dark |
Lil Green |
11 |
It's All Over Now |
Jazz Gillum |
12 |
I Feel So Good |
Big Bill Broonzy |
13 |
Working Man Blues |
Sleepy John Estes |
14 |
Worried Life Blues |
Big Maceo |
15 |
Junker Blues |
Champion Jack Dupree |
16 |
I Wonder |
Cecil Gant |
17 |
Downhearted Blues |
Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) |
18 |
Motherless Children |
Josh White |
19 |
Ella Speed |
Leadbelly |
20 |
Sk Blues Pt. 1 |
Big Joe Turner |
21 |
Wynonie’s Blues |
Wynonie Harris |
22 |
Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door |
Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five |
23 |
Garfield Avenue Blues |
Jay McShann |
24 |
That's All Right |
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup |
25 |
Old Maid Boogie |
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson |
Disc 3 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Be-Baba-Leba |
Helen Humes |
2 |
Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad |
T-Bone Walker |
3 |
Midnight Special |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
4 |
Since I Fell For You |
Annie Laurie With Paul Gayten & His Trio |
5 |
Jimmy's Blues |
Jimmy McCracklin |
6 |
Blues After Hours |
Pee Wee Crayton |
7 |
Out Of The Blue |
Hadda Brooks Trio |
8 |
Don't Forget It |
Blind Willie McTell |
9 |
Every Time I Get To Drinkin' |
Sunnyland Slim |
10 |
My Time Is Expensive |
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown |
11 |
Rock Awhile |
Goree Carter & His Hep Cats |
12 |
Creole Gal Blues |
Edgar Blanchard & The Gondoliers |
13 |
Little School Girl |
Smokey Hogg |
14 |
I Almost Lost My Mind |
Ivory Joe Hunter |
15 |
Blue Shadows |
Lowell Fulson |
16 |
Dust My Broom |
Elmore James |
17 |
Howling Woman |
Mac Willis |
18 |
Weepin' And Cryin' |
Griffin Brothers |
19 |
Eyesight To The Blind |
Sonny Boy Williamson |
20 |
Telephone Blues |
Floyd Dixon With Johnny Moore's Three Blazers |
21 |
I Got Loaded |
Peppermint Harris With Maxwell Davis And His All-Stars |
22 |
Love Love Love |
Little Bobby Harris |
23 |
Five Long Years |
Eddie Boyd Sings And Plays |
24 |
The Things That I Used To Do |
Guitar Slim |
25 |
Feelin' Good |
Little Junior's Blue Flames |
Disc 4 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Every Day I Have The Blues |
B.B. King |
2 |
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man |
Muddy Waters |
3 |
San Francisco Bay Blues |
Jesse Fuller |
4 |
I Hear You Knockin' |
Smiley Lewis |
5 |
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On |
Big Maybelle |
6 |
Those Lonely, Lonely Nights |
Earl King |
7 |
Don't Be Angry |
Nappy Brown |
8 |
Smokestack Lightning |
Howlin' Wolf |
9 |
Pretty Thing |
Bo Diddley |
10 |
Ain't That Lovin' You Baby |
Jimmy Reed |
11 |
Farther Up The Road |
Bobby Bland |
12 |
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu - Part 1 |
Huey Smith and The Clowns |
13 |
This Mean Old World |
Snooks Eaglin |
14 |
Rooster Blues |
Lightnin' Slim |
15 |
Talking Blues |
Ramblin' Jack Elliot |
16 |
My Babe |
Little Walter |
17 |
Boom Boom |
John Lee Hooker |
18 |
So Glad I'm Living |
James Cotton |
19 |
You Got Me Walkin' And Talkin' |
John Hammond |
20 |
Judgement Day |
Son House |
21 |
Rollin' And Tumblin' |
Canned Heat |
22 |
Born With The Blues |
Memphis Slim |
23 |
Easy On Your Heels |
Lightnin' Hopkins |
24 |
Prescription For The Blues |
Mike Bloomfield |
25 |
California Blues |
Jimmy Witherspoon & Richard Holmes |
26 |
Just Pickin' |
Magic Sam Aka Ron Thompson |