| Description |
4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
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"This recording is part of America's Jazz Heritage"--Notes. |
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Program and biographical notes by Lawrence Hoffman (89 pages) laid in container. |
| Contents |
Vol. 1. Ma Rainey (Memphis Minnie) -- I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town (Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five) -- Mean old 'Frisco blues (Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup) -- Bourgeois blues (Leadbelly) -- Mean old world (T-Bone Walker) -- Evil gal blues (Dinah Washington -- I wonder (Cecil Gant) -- Blood on the moon (Hot Lips Page) -- Chicago breakdown (Big Maceo) -- Angels in Harlem (Doctor Clayton) -- Billie's blues (Billie Holiday) -- Hoodoo Hoodoo (John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson) -- Good rockin' tonight (Roy Brown and his Mighty Men) -- Chicken-shack boogie (Amos Milburn) -- Trouble blues (Charles Brown) -- Crawlin' kingsnake (John Lee Hooker) -- When things go wrong with you (it hurts me too) (Tampa Red)) -- Cairo blues (Li'l Son Jackson) -- Black Angel blues (sweet black angel) (Robert Nighthawk) -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans (Professor Longhair) -- Double crossing blues (Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther Phillips). |
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Vol. 2. Rollin' and tumblin' (pt. 1) (Muddy Waters) -- Mother earth (Memphis Slim and the Houserockers) -- Please send me someone to love (Percy Mayfield) -- Dust my broom (I believe my time ain't long) (Elmore James) -- How many more years (Howlin' Wolf) -- Black, brown and white (Big Bill Broonzy) -- Rocket "88" (Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats) -- Juke (Little Walter and his Night Cats) -- Five long years (Eddie Boyd) -- Mean old world (Little Walter and his Night Cats) -- I smell a rat (Big Mama Thornton) -- Gabbin' blues (Big Maybelle) -- (I'm your) hoochie coochie man (Muddy Waters) -- The things that I used to do (Guitar Slim and his band) -- Eisenhower blues (J.B. Lenoir) -- Okie dokie stomp (Gatemouth Brown with the Pluma Davis Orchestra) -- Come back baby (Ray Charles and his orchestra) -- How long, how long blues (Jimmy Rushing) --Cherry Red (Joe Turner and his All-stars) -- San Francisco Bay blues (Jesse Fuller) -- I can't quit you baby (Otis Rush) -- Three hours past midnight (Johnny "Guitar" Watson). |
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Vol. 3. Freight train (Elizabeth Cotten) -- Junker's blues (Champion Jack Dupree) -- Sweets' blues (Jimmy Witherspoon) -- Living with the blues (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) -- Shake 'em on down (Fred McDowell) -- Spoonful (Howlin' Wolf) -- Pardon denied again (Robert Pete Williams) -- Freddie (Mance Lipscomb) -- Hide away (Freddie King) -- Goin' back to Florida (Lightnin' Hopkins) -- Trust my baby (Sonny Boy Williamson #2) -- Drivin' wheel (Junior Parker) -- Bright lights, big city (Jimmy Reed) -- Stormy Monday blues (Bobby Bland) -- Tongue lashing (Albert Collins) -- Worry, worry (B.B. King) -- Baby scratch my back (Slim Harpo) -- Think (Jimmy McCracklin) -- Wang dang doodle (Koko Taylor) -- Early in the morning (Junior Wells) -- Sweet home Chicago (Johnny Shines). |
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Vol. 4. Crosscut saw (Albert King) -- Every night and every day (Magic Sam) -- Why I sing the blues (B.B. King) -- Everybody knows about my good thing (pt. 1) (Little Johnny Taylor) -- Little bluebird (Little Milton) -- Your turn to cry (Jimmy Johnson) -- Down home blues (Z.Z. Hill) -- Your husband is cheatin' on us (Denise LaSalle) -- How long this must go on (Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes and the Playboys) -- Jr. blues (Junior Kimbrough) -- Big legged mamas are back in style (Taj Mahal) -- Stubborn woman (Tutu Jones) -- Cities need help (Buddy guy) -- You (Billy Branch) -- Between midnight and day (Corey Harris). |
| Credits |
Compilation by Smithsonian Collection of Recordings. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Subject |
Blues (Music) -- Sound recordings.
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Blues (Music) -- 1941-1950 -- Sound recordings.
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Blues (Music) -- 1951-1960 -- Sound recordings.
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Folk music -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Smithsonian Collection of Recordings.
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| Added Title |
Blues from 1940 to 1994 |
| Music No. |
RD 110 MCA |
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RB0004 MCA |
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MSD4-35974 MCA |
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