VA - Really the Blues? A Blues History Volume 1 (1893-1929) [9CD] (2010)

Artist: VA
Title: Really the Blues? A Blues History Volume 1 (1893-1929)
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: West Hill Radio Archives
Genre: Boogie Woogie, Country Blues, Gospel, Ragtime, Piano Blues, Cajun, Country, Hillbilly
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 11:50:56
Total Size: 2,8 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

CD 1

1. Mama's Black Baby Boy - Unique Quartet Fall
2. Keep Movin' - Standard Quartette
3. Poor Mourner - Cousins and DeMoss
4. You Been a Good Old Wagon - Len Spencer
5. Poor Mourner - Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
6. Nobody - Bert Williams
7. What a Time - Polk Miller Old South Quartette
8. The Camp Meeting Jubilee - Male Quartet
9. Poor Mourner - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
10. Down Home Rag - James Reese Europe
11. The Rain Song - The Afro-American Folk Song Singers
12. Memphis Blues - Victor Military Band
13. Memphis Blues - Morton Harvey
14. Blame It On the Blues - Victor Military Orchestra
15. St. Louis Blues - Prince's Band
16. N Blues - George O'Connor
17. Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
18. Moonlight Blues - W.C. Handy
19. Death Where is Thy Sting? - Arthur Collins
20. Beale Street Blues - Al Bernard
21. Memphis Blues - James Reese Europe
22. Kansas City Blues - Wilbur Sweatman
23. Swanee Blues - J. Milton Decamp
24. Lovin' Sam From Alabam - Mamie Smith
25. Frankie Blues - Mamie Smith
26. Chain Gang Blues - Sam Moore
27. My Soul is a Witness - Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet

CD 2

1. Society Blues - Kid Ory
2. Teasin' the Frets - Nick Lucas
3. I Ain't Got Nobody - Marion Harris
4. Midnight Blues - Ethel Waters
5. Aggravatin' Papa - Sophie Tucker
6. New Orleans Joys - Jelly Roll Morton
7. Guitar Blues - Sylvester Weaver
8. London Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Jazz Orchestra
9. Waitin' For the Evening Mail - Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle
10. Bleeding Hearted Blues - James P. Johnson
11. London Cafe Blues - Jimmie Noone/King Oliver/Baby Dodds
12. The Gospel Train Am Comin' - Homer Rodheaver/Wiseman Quartet
13. Any Woman's Blues - Bessie Smith
14. God's Gonna Set This World On Fire - Kentucky Trio
15. If You Do What You Do - Eddie Cantor & the Georgians
16. Hatchet Head Blues - Old Southern Jug Band
17. Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay - Ed Andrews
18. Waffle Man's Call - Johnny Bayersdorffer
19. Rhapsody In Blue - Paul Whiteman
20. I've Got a Cross Eyed Papa - Lewitsch Tanzorchester
21. Barrel House Blues - Rosa Henderson
22. Mississippi Shivers - Zez Confrey and His Orchestra
23. Kiss Me Sweet - Butterbeans - (featuring King Oliver)
24. Toddlin' Blues - Bix Beiderbecke & His Rhythm Jugglers
25. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning - Alberta Hunter
26. Steppin On the Blues - Lovie Austin

CD 3

1. All Night Long Blues - Roba Stanley
2. Meddlin' With the Blues - The Two Of Spades
3. Frank Du Pree - Blind Andy (Jenkins)
4. Steel String Blues - Sylvester Weaver
5. Hersal Blues - Hersal Thomas
6. Street Cries of New Orleans - Edna Thomas
7. The Wagon - Ben Harney
8. A Married Man's Blues - Wade Ward
9. She's Cryin' For Me - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
10. Put Me In the Alley - Albert Nicholas
11. All I Want is a Little Spoonful - Papa Charlie Jackson
12. Red Man Blues - Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
13. South Street Blues - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
14. No Home Blues - Louise Ross
15. Sugar Babe - Lee Morse
16. Careless Love - Bessie Smith
17. Don't Fish In My Sea - Ma Rainey - (featuring Jimmy Blythe)
18. I'll Be Rested - Roosevelt Graves and Brother
19. I Want My Life To Testify - Hendersonville Double Quartet
20. Can't Sleep Blues - The Pebbles
21. String Band Blues - Kansas City Blues Strummers
22. Black Cat Blues - Old Pal Smoke Shop Four
23. Mama's Angel Child - Papa Stovepipe
24. Jack O' Diamond Blues - Hersal Thomas/Sippie Wallace
25. Memphis Shake - The Dixieland Jug Blowers
26. Crucifixion - Arizonia Dranes
27. Royal Palm Special - Leecan and Cooksey

CD 4

1. Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean - Arizona Dranes ; Rev. F.W. McGee ; Jubilee Singers
2. I Shall Wear a Crown - Arizona Dranes
3. High Fever - Cookie's Gingersnaps/Freddie Keppard
4. I Want Jesus To Walk With Me - Homer Quincy Smith
5. Blackville - Hazel Meyers
6. Bridwell Blues - Nolan Welsh - (featuring L. Armstrong)
7. Fat Meat and Greens - Jelly Roll Morton
8. Christians Fight On Your Time Ain't Long - Sam Butler (Bo Weavil Jackson)
9. Got the Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
10. Chock House Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
11. Birth of the Blues - Paul Whiteman
12. Knoxville Blues - Sam McGee
13. My Soul is a Witness - Arizonia Dranes
14. Smoke House Blues - Jelly Roll Morton/Kid Ory/Omer Simeon
15. Boneyard Shuffle - The Red Heads
16. Motherless Child - Blind Willie Johnson
17. Bumps, The - Jeanette's Synco Jazzers
18. Tin Roof Blues - Sol Hoopii
19. Bamalong Blues - Jim Baxter/Andrew Baxter
20. Hana Won't You Open the Door - Kirk McGee/Sam McGee
21. Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance - Henry Thomas
22. James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
23. Franklin Street Blues - Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight
24. Fight That Thing - Reb Spikes
25. Clarinet Wobble - Johnny Dodds
26. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose - South Georgia Highballers

CD 5

1. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way To Love - Leecan ; Cooksey ; Thomas Morris
2. Honey In the Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand
3. Georgia Crawl - Eddie Anthony
4. Blessed Are the Poor - Luther Magby
5. A Good Man is Hard To Find - Bix ; Tram ; Murray ; Russell ; Rolini ; Venuti ; Eddie Green
6. I Am Resolved - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
7. Curley Headed Woman - Burnett & Rutherford
8. Down South Blues - Doc Boggs
9. Black Snake Blues - King Oliver
10. Weary Way Blues - Jimmy Blythe/Johnny Dodds/Natty Dominique
11. Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade "Lux" Lewis
12. The Lord is My Shepherd - Blind Connie Rosemond
13. Penn Beach Blues - Joe Venuti ; Eddie Lang ; Signorelli ; Don Murray
14. Black Hearse Blues - Sarah Martin - (featuring Sylvester Weaver)
15. Cold Penitentiary Blues - B.F. Shelton
16. Shaking the Blues Away - Ruth Etting - (featuring Rube Bloom)
17. The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes
18. Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington
19. Gods Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares - Blind Joe Taggart
20. Jazz Me Blues - Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang
21. Royal Garden Blues - Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang
22. Chattanooga Blues - Allen Brothers
23. New Orleans Lowdown - Duke Ellington
24. Barrelhouse Man - Will Ezell
25. I Am Born To Preach the Gospel - Blind Washington Phillips

CD 6

1. Death is Only a Dream - Rev. Edward Clayborn
2. Neckbones and Beans - Henry Johnson & His Boys
3. She's In the Graveyard Now - Earl Macdonald's Original Jug Band
4. Yellow Dog Blues - Sam Collins
5. Mamlish Blues - Ed Bell
6. Starvation Blues - Jessie Stone
7. Wild Man Blues - Johnny Dodds/Louis Armstrong
8. Can You Blame the Colored Man? - Gus Cannon
9. Mama You Don't Know How Long - Long Cleve Reed & the Downhome Boys
10. A Woman Gets Tired of the Same Man All the Time - Sam "Stovepipe No. 1" Jones
11. Second-Hand Blues - Margaret Johnson with Leecan ; Cooksey
12. Awful Fix - Buddy Boy Hawkins
13. Train 45 - Grayson and Whitter
14. Hesitation Blues - Al Bernard/Al Duffy
15. Section Gang Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander - (featuring Lonnie Johnson)
16. Lonesome Ghost Blues - Lonnie Johnson
17. Lord I Can't Stay Away - Violet Harmony Singers
18. Deep River - Paul Robeson
19. Doan Let Satan Git You - Barbour's Plantation Singers
20. Every Time I Feel the Spirit - Four Aces of Harmony
21. Man Trouble - Jaybird Coleman
22. Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
23. Deep River - Forbes Randolph's Kentucky Jubilee Choir
24. Blues In the Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
25. Stealin' - Memphis Jug Band
26. I'm Wild About My Lovin' - Jim Jackson

CD 7

1. Viola Lee Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
2. Take Me Back - Frank Stokes
3. Three Preludes [2nd Prelude] - George Gershwin
4. I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say - Biddleville Quintette
5. Away Down In the Alley Blues - Lonnie Johnson
6. Going Across the Sea - H.L. Bandy
7. Chocolate To the Bone - Barbecue Bob
8. Pinetop's Blues - Pinetop Smith
9. 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
10. Touch Me Light Mama - George "Bullet" Williams
11. Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy
12. Sawmill Moan - Ramblin' Thomas
13. Johnson City Blues - Clarence Green
14. Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
15. I Must Have That Man - Annette Hanshaw
16. Slow Motion - Bennie Moten
17. Molly Man - Rev. Moses Mason
18. If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
19. Mon Cherie - Dennis McGee
20. Four or Five Times - King Oliver
21. Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
22. I Ain't Got Nobody - Emmett Miller
23. G Burns is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson ; Nelson ; Porkchop
24. Can't Help Lovin' That Man - Helen Morgan
25. Violin Blues - Johnson Boys
26. Good Old Turnip Greens - Bo Chatman

CD 8

1. Every Day of the Week Blues - Pink Anderson/Simmie Dooley
2. Alley Rat - Jimmy Blythe
3. I'm On My Journey Home - The Denson Quartet
4. One Way Gal - William Moore
5. Stack O'Lee, Pt. 2 - Cliff Edwards
6. Worried Blues - Gladys Bentley
7. Can't Help Lovin' That Man - Helen Morgan
8. Jungle Blues - Benny Goodman's Boys
9. Old Man River - Bing with Paul Whiteman
10. Old Time Baptism, Pt. 2 - Reverend R.M. Massey
11. Blue Piano Stomp - Johnny Dodds
12. Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band
13. Midnight Mama - Frances Hereford ; J.R. Morton
14. Lord Lord He Sure is Good - Elder Richard Bryant - (featuring The Sanctified Singers)
15. Wang Wang Blues - Sam Ku's West Harmony Boys
16. Tight Like That - Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
17. A Blues Serenade - The Original Memphis Five
18. I Truly Understand You Love Another Man - Shortbuckle Roarke & His Family
19. I Found a New Baby - Teschmacher ; Spanier ; Sullivan ; Krupa ; Clarence Williams
20. Hard Hustling Blues - Bernice Edwards
21. The Boy In the Boat - Charlie Johnson's Original Paradise Ten
22. School Girl Blues - Rosie Mae Moore
23. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Boyd Senter & His Senterpedes
24. Ham Beats All Meat - Dr Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters
25. In the Mornin' - Johnson ; Nelson ; Porkchop
26. The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid His Bible Down - The Tennessee Ramblers
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CD 9

1. Home Town Blues - The Roane County Ramblers
2. Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis
3. Caution Blues - Earl Hines
4. Blue Harmony - Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers/Hense Grundy/Cal Smith
5. Cannon Ball Blues - Frank Hutchison
6. Brown Skin Blues - Dick Justice
7. Leake County Blues - The Leake County Revelers
8. Bathe In That Beautiful Pool - Doc Walsh
9. Easy Rider Blues - Leo Soileau
10. Operation Blues - Georgia Tom Dorsey/Frankie Jaxon
11. I'm a Mighty Tight Woman - Sippie Wallace
12. That's No Way To Get Along - Robert Wilkins
13. Walking Blues - Raymond Barrow
14. Don't Mistreat Your Good Boyfriend - Bubbling Over Five
15. St. Louis Blues/Weary Yodelin' Blues - Roy Evans ; W.C. Handy
16. Fresno Blues - Albert Crockett/Johnnie Crockett
17. Mean Low Blues - Blues Birdhead
18. Georgia Bound - Blind Blake
19. If I Call You Mama - Luke Jordan
20. Just Blues - Memphis Jazzers/Al Duffy/Andy Sannella
21. Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Blind Teddy Darby
22. New York Blues - Will Ezell/Blind Roosevelt Graves
23. Guitar Blues - Lonnie Johnson
24. Avenue Strut - Herve Duerson
25. Slum Guillion Stomp - Cow Cow Davenport