60 timeless examples tracing the development of The Blues, including some of the earliest recordings through to a time when the instrumentation had radically changed but the power was undiminished.All of the key artists are here, most of them responsible for shaping the future of popular music as a whole. The likes of The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Doors etc. made possibly more familiar versions of some of these songs but we present the real thing.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues
  • 2. Ma Rainey - See See Rider
  • 3. Bertha 'Chippie' Hill - Trouble In Mind
  • 4. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Grou
  • 5. Mississippi John Hurt Frankie
  • 6. Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
  • 7. Henry Thomas - Bull Doze Blues
  • 8. Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
  • 9. Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
  • 10. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  • 11. Charley Patton - a Spoonful Blues
  • 12. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O'Lee Blues
  • 13. Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
  • 14. Lonnie Johnson - Got the Blues For Murder Only
  • 15. Skip James - I'm So Glad
  • 16. Bessie Smith - Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)
  • 17. Robert Johnson- Sweet Home Chicago
  • 18. John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson - Good Morning, School Girl
  • 19. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail
  • 20. Blind Boy Fuller - Get Your Yas Yas Out

• - 2 -

  • 1. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
  • 2. Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur Blues
  • 3. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues
  • 4. Robert Petway - Catfish Blues
  • 5. Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons - Barrelhouse Boogie
  • 6. Big Bill Broonzy - Key To the Highway
  • 7. Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues
  • 8. Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (In the Pines)
  • 9. Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's All Right
  • 10. T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday is Just A
  • 11. John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
  • 12. Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
  • 13. Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Cat Bone
  • 14. Elmore James - Dust My Broom (I Believe My Time Ain't Long)
  • 15. Little Walter Juke
  • 16. B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues
  • 17. Little Walter - Mean Old World
  • 18. Guitar Slim - the Things That I Used To Do
  • 19. Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
  • 20. Junior Wells - 'Bout the Break of Day

• - 3 -

  • 1. Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
  • 2. B.B. King- Every Day (I Have the Blues)
  • 3. Sonny Boy Williamson Ii - Don't Start Me Talkin'
  • 4. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
  • 5. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'
  • 6. Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby
  • 7. John Lee Hooker Dimples
  • 8. Slim Harpo - I'm a King Bee
  • 9. Magic Sam - All Your Love
  • 10. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Further Up the Road
  • 11. Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
  • 12. Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too
  • 13. Buddy Guy - Sit and Cry (the Blues)
  • 14. John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake
  • 15. Howlin' Wolf Spoonful
  • 16. Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me To Do
  • 17. Howlin' Wolf - the Red Rooster
  • 18. Etta James - I Just Want To Make Love To You
  • 19. Freddie King - I'm Tore Down
  • 20. Albert King - Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong