Various - Plantation Blues - Cotton Patch & Tobacco Belt Blues (2008)

The plantations of the South were a crucible for “Southern culture”, and the blues was one of its best-known musical forms. But if the blues of the vast cotton-fields in the Deep South was the raw, bitter, tormented and piercing cry of a Black tenant-farmer, the blues of the Tobacco Belt in the Old South, deeply influenced by ragtime, was light, dancing, cheerful and highly virtuosic. These two great styles demonstrate the great diversity of the origins of the blues.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Garfield Akers - Cottonfield Blues (3:21)
1.02 - Son House - Government Fleet Blues (6:51)
1.03 - Joe Calicot - Fare Thee Well Blues (3:12)
1.04 - John D. Fox - The Moaning Blues (3:02)
1.05 - Blind Joe Reynolds - Third Street Woman Blues (2:42)
1.06 - Robert Hill - I'm Going To Write And Tell My Mother (2:57)
1.07 - Robert Petway - Rocking Chair Blues (3:03)
1.08 - Matilda Powell - Hard Working Woman (2:55)
1.09 - Pinetop Slim - Appeljack Boogie (2:28)
1.10 - Dan Pickett - Baby How Long (2:44)
1.11 - David Wylie - Shackles Around My Body (3:00)
1.12 - Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Stranger Here (2:57)
1.13 - Richard Trice - Lazy Bug Blues (2:16)
1.14 - John Tinsley - Keep Your Hands Out Off Her (2:26)
1.15 - Willie Trice - Come On In Here Mama (3:15)
1.16 - Bull City Red - Black Woman And Poison Blues (3:02)
1.17 - Dipper Floyd Council - Looking For My Baby (2:52)
1.18 - Bob Campbell - Worried All The Time (2:56)
1.19 - Cedar Creek Sheik - V-8 Ford (2:49)
1.20 - Roosevelt Antrim - Complaint To Make (3:25)
1.21 - Sonny Jones - I'm Pretty Good At It (2:49)
1.22 - Alec Seward - Little Annie Blues (3:08)