Various Artists - Pye Blues Legends In London (3 CD)

Album: Pye Blues Legends In London
Size: 88,2+91,4+176,9 MB
Time: 37:58+39:27+75:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

In many respects, England was a more hospitable home for the blues in the mid-/late-1950's than America was - where even labels such as Chicago's Chess usually limited their blues LPs to collections of singles. In England it was possible for artists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Josh White, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee to record entire LPs while touring. Pye/Nixa Records reissued these sides many times, but it wasn't until 2003 that the current owner of their library, Castle Communications, did a state-of-the-art digital remastering of their three classic U.K. albums, Broonzy's "Tribute to Big Bill" (1955), White's "Blues and ..." (1956), and Terry and McGhee's "Sonny, Brownie & Chris" (1958), with full annotation.

The music is a mix of virtuoso acoustic blues with some small jazz-style group accompaniment, from some top players, including Chris Barber and Phil Seamen, all of which is worth hearing and a lot of which is filled with surprises for all of us. /Bruce Eder, AllMusic

CD 1: Josh White - Blues And... (1956)
1. How Long Blues (3:07)
2. Careless Love (5:43)
3. Oh Lula (2:54)
4. St. Louis Blues (4:26)
5. Kansas City Blues (3:44)
6. I Had To Stoop To Conquer You (2:49)
7. I Know How To Do It (3:01)
8. Dink's Blues (4:37)
9. Mint Julep (3:04)
10. Good Morning Blues (4:27)

CD 2: Big Bill Broonzy - Tribute To Big Bill (1955)
1. It Feels So Good (2:44)
2. Southbound Train (3:17)
3. Southern Saga/Joe Turner Blues (8:10)
4. When The Sun Goes Down/Going Down This Road Feeling Bad (7:30)
5. Saturday Evening (3:28)
6. Glory Of Love (2:40)
7. St. Louis Blues (2:37)
8. Mindin' My Own Business (2:52)
9. When Do I Get To Be Called A Man (3:20)
10. Partnership Woman (2:44)

CD 3: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Sonny, Terry And Chris (1958)
1. Brownie's Blues (5:26)
2. Sonny's Blues (3:21)
3. Auto Mechanic Blues (3:42)
4. Wholesale And Retail (2:30)
5. Black Horse Blues (2:48)
6. I Love You Baby (2:01)
7. Just A Dream (4:43)
8. Hooray (This Woman Is Killing Me) (2:26)
9. Change The Lock On My Door (3:24)
10. You'd Better Mind (2:09)
11. Cornbread, Peas And Black Molasses (2:31)
12. Climbing On Top Of The Hill (3:02)
13. (I've Been) Treated Wrong (3:27)
14. Fox Chase (2:11)
15. Woman's Lover Blues (2:21)
16. Southern Train (2:44)
17. The Way I Feel (3:53)
18. Gone But Not Forgotten (2:31)
19. Betty And Dupree (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (5:16)
20. No Worries On My Mind (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (3:44)
21. This Little Light Of Mine (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (2:41)
22. Glory (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (2:19)
23. Custard Pie (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (2:11)
24. Key To The Highway (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (2:15)
25. If I Could Only Hear My Mother Pray Again (w. Chris Barber's Jazz Band) (2:08)

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Big Bill Broonzy - In Concert (With Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band)

Size: 156.5 MB
Time: 66:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Blues, Jazz
Art: Front & Back

01. Get Out Of Here (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (4:50)
02. Muskrat Ramble (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (2:41)
03. Bull Ant Blues (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (2:58)
04. Big Chief Battle Axe (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (3:01)
05. Announcement By Olaf Hudtwalker (0:35)
06. Kansas City Stomps (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (3:10)
07. High Society (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (3:46)
08. John Henry (3:55)
09. In The Evening (4:54)
10. I Feel So Good (With The Graeme Bell Band) (3:08)
11. Who's Sorry Now (With The Graeme Bell Band) (3:03)
12. Introduction Of Big Bill Broonzy By Olaf Hudtwalker (0:32)
13. Trouble In Mind (3:03)
14. Keep Your Hands Off Her (3:41)
15. Mama Don't Allow (With The Graeme Bell Band) (5:11)
16. Introduction Of Piano Solo By Olaf Hudtwalker (1:16)
17. Black And White Rag (Graeme Bell's Ragtime Four) (2:33)
18. Introduction Of Johnny Sangster By Olaf Hudtwalker (0:22)
19. It Don't Mean A Thing (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) (4:06)
20. Introduction Of Lazy Ade By Olaf Hudtwalker (0:19)
21. Who Stole The Lock (Lazy Ade's Late Hour Boys) (2:46)
22. Hello Jim Eadie (Lazy Ade's Late Hour Boys) (2:48)
23. When The Saints Go Marching In (Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band With Big Bill Broonzy) (3:17)

"Get Out Of Here" was the bell band's opener. The rest of the first set includes two tunes from the classic jazz period in "Muskrat Ramble" and "High Society", together with "Big Chief Battle Axe" which is associated with Bunk Johnson. "Kansas City Stomps" is a Jelly Roll Morton tune and is given a fine rolling treatment. To complete the set, we have Graeme Bell's original composition, "Bull Ant Blues". "High Society" with which the set finished is, of course, a march and the mobile members of the band performed it while marching round the stage. Big Bill opens with "John Henry". Leroy Carr's "In The Evening" is a song that demands and gets an evocative performance in contrast to the joyful tunes that finished the set, "I Feel So Good" and the popular song "Who's Sorry Now". On his second set, Big Bill returned to the classic blues with "Trouble In Mind" and then the folk/blues standard "Keep Your Hands Off Her" extolling the virtues of his lady and warning off any predatory males. His set is completed by the arrival of the Bell band for the novelty number "Mama Don't Allow". Graeme Bell shows his ragtime skills on "Black And White Rag" in a nicely paced version before the band's drummer is featured on cornet with the Ellington favourite "It Don't Mean A Thing". The concert closed with "When The Saints" on which the vocal is shared between Lazy Ade and Big Bill.

In Concert (With Graeme Bell & His Australian Jazz Band) MP3
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Big Bill Broonzy - Get Back Vol. 1

Size: 73.9 MB
Time: 31:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Country Blues
Art: Front

01. Sixteen Tons (Live, Remastered) (2:12)
02. Keep Your Hands Off Her (Live, Remastered) (3:19)
03. C.C.Rider (Live, Remastered) (2:22)
04. Nobody's Business (Live, Remastered) (2:45)
05. Down By The Riverside (Live, Remastered) (2:59)
06. The Glory Of Love (Live, Remastered) (2:35)
07. Willie Mae (Live, Remastered) (2:58)
08. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (Live, Remastered) (1:54)
09. I've Been Waiting For You (Live, Remastered) (1:12)
10. Labour Man Blues (Live, Remastered) (3:22)
11. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Live, Remastered) (1:54)
12. Goodnight, Irene (Live, Remastered) (3:47)

William Lee Conley Broonzy Bradley, blues singer and guitarist.
Born: June 26, 1893 or 1903 in Scott County, Mississippi
Died: August 14 or 15, 1958 in Chicago (throat cancer)

In the 1930’s Broonzy became known as one of the major artist on the Chicago Blues scene. During this time he performed with other top blues artists in Chicago such as l Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Jazz Gillum, Lonnie Johnson (2), and Sonny Boy Williamson. In 1938, Broonzy performed at John Hammond’s famous Spiritual and Swing concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. This was the first time that he had ever performed in front of a white audience. After the concert, people start calling him “Big Bill” Broonzy. He was one of the best known blues players and recorded over 260 blues songs, including Feelin’ Low Down, Remember Big Bill, Make Me Getaway, and Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues. His recording career spanned five long decades, as he traveled from Mississippi to Chicago and even to Europe, where he became well-known.
In 1980, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame.

Get Back Vol. 1 MP3
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Big Bill Broonzy - Blues is my Business

Size: 161 MB
Time: 51:21
File: Flac
Released: 2006
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Baby please don't go (3:11)
2. In the evening (when the sun goes down) (3:25)
3. St. Louis Blues (2:25)
4. Feelin' lowdown (4:44)
5. See see rider (3:00)
6. All I got belongs to you (3:08)
7. Ridin' on down (4:55)
8. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen (3:26)
9. I got up one mornin' blues (4:40)
10. Treat everybody right (3:12)
11. Down by the riverside (2:31)
12. Black, brown and white (2:35)
13. This train (bound for glory) (3:10)
14. Midnight special (1:59)
15. I get the blues when it rains (2:43)
16. House rent stomp (2:09)

Big Bill Broonzy, byname of William Lee Conley Broonzy, (born June 26, 1893, Scott, Mississippi, U.S.—died August 14, 1958, Chicago, Illinois), American blues singer and guitarist who represented a tradition of itinerant folk blues. Broonzy maintained that he was born in 1893 in Scott, Mississippi, but some sources suggest that he was born in 1903 near Lake Dick, Arkansas. In any case, Broonzy grew up in Arkansas. He served in the army (1918–19) and moved to Chicago in 1920, where six years later he made his recording debut as guitar accompanist to African American blues singers. Later he became a singer himself, and by 1940 he was recognized as one of the best-selling blues recording artists. His New York City concert debut was made at Carnegie Hall in 1938. In 1951 he visited Europe and soon became popular across that continent. At the height of his popularity, in 1957, his vocal effectiveness was reduced by a lung operation, and he died the following year of cancer. His best-known songs included “I Can’t Be Satisfied,” “Key to the Highway,” “W.P.A. Blues,” “All by Myself,” and, perhaps most notably, “Black, Brown and White.”

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Big Bill Broonzy - Blues & Rhythm Series 5124: The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy 1951-52

Size: 282 MB
Time: 76:59
File: FLAC
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

01. Bill Bailey (3:24)
02. Make My Get Away (3:19)
03. Blue Tail Fly (3:03)
04. Backwater Blues (3:20)
05. In The Evenin (3:26)
06. Trouble In Mind (2:38)
07. It´s Your Time Now (4:22)
08. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (3:19)
09. I Feel So Good (2:19)
10. How Long Blues (3:38)
11. Black, Brown And White (2:24)
12. John Henry (3:09)
13. Get Away Blues (2:22)
14. Coal Black Curley (4:08)
15. Letter To My Baby (3:11)
16. Hey Bud Blues (4:57)
17. Baby Please Dont Go (3:14)
18. Do Right Blues (3:16)
19. Kind Hearted Blues (3:28)
20. Louise Louise Blues (4:29)
21. Down By The Riverside (3:06)
22. Stand Your Test In Judgment (2:56)
23. Guitar Shuffle (3:22)

The third in a series presenting Big Bill Broonzy's complete recorded output in chronological order, this set covers 1951 and 1952 and features the guitarist and singer in mostly solo acoustic mode, including yet another version of his signature "Baby Please Don't Go" as well as a surprisingly sleek take on "Bill Bailey" and turns on various folk chestnuts like "Blue Tail Fly." More reined-in than a lot of Big Bill's output, these tracks have a confident intimacy about them, and remind one a bit of some of Leadbelly's similar folk-blues sets. ~Steve Leggett

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Big Bill Broonzy - Blues & Rhythm Series 5101: The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy 1951

Size: 326 MB
Time: 75:27
File: FLAC
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

01. Blues In 1890 (3:46)
02. Big Bill Blues (3:26)
03. Lonesome Road Blues (3:21)
04. When Did You Leave Heaven (3:33)
05. John Henry (3:23)
06. Keep Your Hands Off (3:14)
07. Stump Blues (3:15)
08. Five Foot Seven (3:04)
09. Plough Hand Blues (3:01)
10. Hey, Hey (2:55)
11. Stump Blues (3:00)
12. Get Back (3:03)
13. Willie Mae (2:50)
14. Walkin' The Lonesome Road (3:19)
15. Mopper's Blues (2:39)
16. I Know She Will (3:14)
17. Hollerin' The Blues (3:08)
18. Leavin' Day (3:02)
19. Southbound Train (3:01)
20. Tomorrow (2:51)
21. You Changed (2:54)
22. John Henry (3:19)
23. Crawdad (2:51)
24. Wonderin' Man (3:06)

Big Bill Broonzy's second Parisian session opens this installment in the Classics Blues & Rhythm Series. On September 21 1951 Broonzy was on his second day of recording for Vogue, and what you get here are the master takes (tracks one-through five). This is Broonzy the one-man folk, pop, and blues revue. He digs deep into the tradition for "John Henry," puts his own stamp on the Tin Pan Alley love song "When Did You Leave Heaven," and salutes legendary philanthropist Joe Turner with "Blues in 1890." Three days later, Broonzy was in London cutting a handful of topical blues for Melodisc. Back in Chicago for an Emarcy date on November 8, Broonzy knocked out eight solid numbers with rhythmic string bass accompaniment by Bluebird sessionman Ransom Knowling. The piano heard on "Hollerin' the Blues" is credited to either Bob Call or Memphis Slim. Broonzy was a remarkably expressive and moving singer and these are sublime examples of how passionately he sang from the heart. One song is particularly poignant, and places Broonzy in parallel contrast with Leadbelly, the master of folk and blues, who had passed away in December 1949. In 1939, Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" had broken the ice by publicly -- and graphically -- describing the specter of murderous racist violence. Twelve years later, Big Bill was tossing off periodic broadsides that essentially paved the way for J.B. Lenoir and other politically outspoken musicians. "Get Back" -- the toughest number on the entire collection -- has a formulaic refrain that spells out the gradated obsession with skin pigment that most every African American child has had to contend with from an early age: "If you white, all right, if you brown, stick around, but if you black -- get back, get back, get back". Broonzy's straight shooting delivery, seconded by Knowling's powerfully plucked bass, hammers home the grim delineations on which was founded the U.S. color line caste system. Unlike Columbia, who in 1939 refused to record "Strange Fruit" and farmed out Lady Day to Commodore for the assignment, Emarcy did issue "Get Back" -- probably at the insistence of a progressive young producer by the name of Norman Granz. Broonzy recorded again for Emarcy in November and December of 1951, first with a quintet featuring reedmen Sax Mallard and Bill Casimir, then one-on-one with bassist Big Crawford, for a return to traditional fare: a second invocation of "John Henry" and the old-time singalong favorite "Crawdad." ~arwulf arwulf

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Big Bill Broonzy - Blues & Rhythm Series 5078: The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy 1949-51

Size: 156 MB
Time: 70:48
File: FLAC
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

01. I Love My Whiskey (3:01)
02. You've Been Mistreating Me (2:55)
03. I Stay Blue All The Time (2:26)
04. Water Coast Blues (2:48)
05. Five Feet Seven (3:22)
06. I Wonder (2:54)
07. Keep Your Hands Off Her (2:57)
08. Mindin' My Own Bisiness (3:09)
09. House Rent Stomp (3:15)
10. In The Evening (3:37)
11. The Moppin' Blues (3:33)
12. Hey, Hey, Baby (3:35)
13. Willie Mae Blues (2:33)
14. Black, Brown And White (3:05)
15. Back Water Blues (Big Bill Blues) (3:29)
16. Low Down Blues (Lonesome Road Blues) (3:26)
17. Feelin' Low Down (4:38)
18. What I Used To Do (3:09)
19. Make My Get Away (3:28)
20. Hollerin' And Cryin' The Blues (9:19)

Curiously, the years 1949-1951 are the least documented on disc of Big Bill Broonzy's career. He was, in fact, very busy, shuttling between Chicago and New York, one of the premier acoustic blues figures from the old Mississippi school who was still active on the instrument. While he wasn't averse to playing up the songster side a little bit, he was, in fact, a very sophisticated figure, and a polished raconteur. In fact, it wasn't until 1949 that his surname was added to records -- an indication of how big a star he'd been. It's notable, too, that after World War II he moved away from playing to black audiences, focusing on people who loved jazz and folk music, helping to bring those strands together -- and also beginning to perform overseas. The dearth of material from this three-year period makes this disc especially valuable. It's easy to hear the obvious fluency in his playing, far removed from his Delta roots by now, and owing a great deal to players like Tampa Red. This was the period, too, when he recorded "Black, Brown and White," his indictment of American racism, which wasn't released until 1951, and then only in France (where he toured for the first time that year). ~Chris Nickson

The Chronological Big Bill Broonzy 1949-51

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Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy - The Bluesmen

Year: 1992
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:15
Size: 181,4 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Scans: Full

1. I Love You Baby (2:00)
2. Cornbread, Peas And Black Molasses (2:30)
3. That's How I Feel (3:52)
4. Gone But Not Forgotten (2:30)
5. Treated Wrong (3:26)
6. Brownie's Blues (5:24)
7. Southern Train (2:43)
8. Just A Dream (4:42)
9. Sonny's Blues (3:19)
10. You'd Better Mind (2:09)
11. Change The Lock On My Door (3:23)
12. Climbing On The Top Of The Hill (3:01)
13. When Do I Get To Be Called A Man? (3:18)
14. Mindin' My Own Business (2:51)
15. Partnership Woman (2:44)
16. St. Louis Blues (2:35)
17. Southern Saga (Inc. Joe Turner Blues) (8:09)
18. Southbound Train (3:15)
19. Saturday Evening (3:26)
20. Glory Of Love (2:39)
21. It Feels So Good (2:42)
22. When The Sun Goes Down/Going Down This Road Feeling Bad (7:28)

Tracks 1-12: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Tracks 13-22: Big Bill Broonzy

(Haven't been able to find any specific info for this compilation, and I don't think it contains any "new" or rare material, so let the music speak for itself. Think most of you guys are already familiar with these three bluesmen, but for those who are not - or if you want to learn more about them - there are artist biographies for each artist included in the folder.)

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VA - Eric Clapton Life In 12 Bars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Size: 177,3+184,5 MB
Time: 75:29+78:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Big Bill Broonzy - Backwater Blues ( 4:08)
02. Muddy Waters - My Life Is Ruined ( 2:37)
03. Muddy Waters - I've Got My Mojo Working (Live At Newport Jazz Festival 1960) ( 4:23)
04. Yardbirds - I Wish You Would ( 2:16)
05. Yardbirds - For Your Love ( 2:28)
06. John Mayall - Steppin' Out ( 2:27)
07. John Mayall - All Your Love ( 3:33)
08. Cream - I Feel Free ( 2:50)
09. Cream - Strange Brew ( 2:46)
10. Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love ( 4:12)
11. Aretha Franklin - Good To Me As I Am To You ( 3:55)
12. Cream - Crossroads (Live) ( 4:14)
13. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Remastered 2009) ( 4:43)
14. Cream - Badge ( 2:46)
15. Cream - White Room (Live) ( 5:48)
16. Cream - Spoonful (Live At Forum) (17:25)
17. Blind Faith - Presence Of The Lord ( 4:49)

CD 2:
01. Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Coming Home (Live At Fairfield Halls) (Feat. Eric Clapton) (7:49)
02. Eric Clapton - After Midnight (Eric Clapton Mix) (3:19)
03. Eric Clapton - Let It Rain (Eric Clapton Mix) (5:16)
04. Derek & The Dominos - High (3:08)
05. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (4:37)
06. Derek & The Dominos - Thorn Tree In The Garden (40Th Anniversary Version) (2:54)
07. Derek & The Dominos - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (40Th Anniversary Version) (5:05)
08. Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues (40Th Anniversary Version) (5:05)
09. Derek & The Dominos - Layla (40Th Anniversary Version) (7:09)
10. Derek & The Dominos - Little Wing (Live At Filmore East) (6:33)
11. Derek & The Dominos - Got To Get Better In A Little While (40Th Anniversary Version) (6:07)
12. Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff (Full Length Version) (6:49)
13. Eric Clapton - Little Queenie (Live At Long Beach Arena) (6:16)
14. Eric Clapton - Mainline Florida (4:05)
15. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven (From Rush Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (4:31)

The Official Soundtrack to the new Eric Clapton documentary ‘Life In 12 Bars’, directed by Oscar-winner Lili Fini Zanuck. The documentary about the legendary 18-time Grammy winner premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before Showtime bought the US TV rights. The 32-track double CD features 4 previously unreleased songs, and includes tracks by Clapton, Yardbirds, Derek & the Dominoes, Cream, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and Muddy Waters.

Eric Clapton Life In 12 Bars

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Various - Classic Delta & Deep South Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:34
Size: 154.7 MB
Styles: Acoustic delta blues
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[2:37] 1. Big Bill Broonzy - C.C. Rider
[2:26] 2. Roosevelt Sykes - Woman In Elaine, Arkansas
[3:01] 3. Son House - Death Letter Blues
[2:46] 4. K.C. Douglas - Your Crying Won't Make Me Stay
[3:33] 5. Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues
[1:57] 6. Cat-Iron - I'm Goin’ To Walk Your Log
[3:20] 7. Clifton Chenier - Why Did You Go Last Night
[3:54] 8. Sam Chatmon - I Stand And Wonder
[3:59] 9. Johnny Young - Sleeping With The Devil
[2:47] 10. Shortstuff Macon - Short Stuff's Corinna
[2:01] 11. Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues
[3:01] 12. Little Brother Montgomery - Up The Country Blues
[4:48] 13. John Littlejohn - Dream
[3:40] 14. Doctor Ross - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:31] 15. David Honeyboy Edwards - Catfish Blues
[3:41] 16. Memphis Slim - M & O Blues
[4:19] 17. Scott Dunbar - Forty-Four
[5:03] 18. Son House - Sun Goin' Down
[4:03] 19. Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Frisco Line
[2:58] 20. Big Bill Broonzy - Diggin' My Potatoes

Mississippi, particularly the Delta, lays claim to being the land where the blues began. Forged in the crucible of poverty and racial oppression, blues flourished there as nowhere else, evolving into what most critics consider the deepest or most intense strain of the blues tradition. During the Great Migration, music changed consistently, adapting to its new surroundings like St. Louis and Chicago, while retaining its connection to its down home Delta roots. This collection celebrates the diversity and dissemination of the blues’ most powerful and influential voices.

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VA - The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

Size: 171,4 MB
Time: 73:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Ragtime Blues
Art: Front

01 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Is Mine (3:10)
02 Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) (3:06)
03 Blind Boy Fuller - Piccolo Rag (2:48)
04 Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues (3:14)
05 Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canan's (2:56)
06 Blind Blake - Blind Arthur's Breakdown (2:59)
07 Papa Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack (2:28)
08 Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
09 Memphis Minnie - Can I Do It For You (Part 1) (3:06)
10 Dick Justice - Old Black Dog (2:57)
11 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:40)
12 William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire (3:07)
13 Pillie Bolling - Shake Me Like A Dog (3:01)
14 Charlie McCoy - I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away (3:17)
15 Allen Brothers - Salty Dog Blues (3:05)
16 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beggin' Back (2:49)
17 Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Rag (2:54)
18 The Two Charlies - Pork Chop Blues (3:02)
19 Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied (2:49)
20 Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) (3:04)
21 Troy Ferguson - You Better Keep It At Home (3:02)
22 Reverend Gary Davis - Have More Faith In Jesus (3:02)
23 Buddy Boy Hawkins - Raggin' The Blues (2:26)
24 Geeshie Wiley - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:12)
25 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out (2:44)

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Made famous by the legendary Scott Joplin, ragtime developed in African-American communities throughout the southern part of the Midwest during the last decade of the nineteenth century and had a profound influence on many early blues performers. Combining the structure of marches with African-American songs and dances such as the cakewalk, ragtime’s syncopated or ‘ragged’ rhythm was initially performed as dance music for the seedier side of society in areas where bars, dancehalls and brothels were located. Many blues guitarists attempted to reproduce the complicated piano sounds, as its faster rhythm created a more upbeat and lively feel, far removed from the typical intensity of early country blues. So, when ragtime went out of favour as jazz claimed the public's imagination, it had already entered the folk consciousness through the playing of blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Blind Blake was the first commercially successful performer of this style, whose intricate fingerstyle technique and diverse repertoire ranging from upbeat rags and hokum tunes to slow blues numbers influenced all who followed, including the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis, and modern-day guitarists Ry Cooder, John Fahey and Jorma Kaukonen.

Many of the featured artists hailed from the Eastern States where the influence of ragtime was instrumental in creating the unique and much loved ‘Piedmont’ guitar style. Typically, the Piedmont guitarist would create an alternating rhythmic bass accompaniment by moving the thumb of the picking hand between the different bass strings of the guitar, whilst one or more fingers of the same hand would pick out the melody on the higher strings. Essentially this approach gives the impression that the guitar is being played like a piano.

Little is known about many of these artists, none more so than Willie Walker who only ever recorded two sides in 1930, with ‘South Carolina Rag’ being one of the absolute masterpieces of ragtime guitar playing. Other highlights to listen out for include ‘Ragtime Millionaire’ by the barbershop owner William Moore which harks back to the glory years of ragtime as well as the cakewalk inspired ‘Money Never Runs Out’ by Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers.

The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

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Big Bill Broonzy - Volume 3 1940-1951 The War and Post War Years

Mississippi-born guitarist Big Bill Broonzy had a voice that could really grow on you. The living embodiment of the rural-to-urban blues tradition, he often infused the gutsy, sometimes brutally honest immediacy of acoustic Chicago blues and good time hokum with the lonely intensity of the field holler. Vol. 3 in JSP's extensively complete Big Bill Broonzy retrospective covers his recording activity between the years 1940 and 1951, a time span that takes in the Second World War and its aftermath. His musical companions during this decade included the mighty Washboard Sam, a wonderful string bassist named Ransom Knowling, harmonica ace Jazz Gillum, blues saxophonist Buster Bennett, pianists Blind John Davis, Big Maceo Merriweather and Memphis Slim, and seasoned jazzmen Punch Miller, Don Byas and Slick Jones. This excellent set offers 99 examples of Broonzy's personalized musical responses to everything that life had to offer or snatch away. Topics include romance, jealousy and heartache; honest labor, conscription and prison, as well as betrayal, alcohol and insomnia. Big Bill was also fond of old-time folk melodies and included them regularly in his repertoire. This outstanding tribute is the perfect introduction to Broonzy; it will also delight those who already know his music, love and respect his memory, and who will hasten to track down the rest of his recordings as reissued by JSP. -- Allmusic.

Album: Volume 3 1940-1951 Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues
Time: 72:17
Size: 166,7 MB
Covers: Full

(3:00) 1. Medicine Man Blues
(3:01) 2. Looking Up at Down
(2:43) 3. Midnight Steppers
(2:58) 4. Lone Wolf Blues
(2:40) 5. Hit the Right Lick
(3:00) 6. You Better Cut That Out
(2:31) 7. I Wonder What's Wrong with Me
(2:48) 8. Bed Time Blues
(2:49) 9. Merry Go Round Blues
(2:53) 10. Serenade Blues
(2:56) 11. Lonesome Road Blues
(2:39) 12. Getting Older Every Day Tk 1
(3:18) 13. Getting Older Every Day Tk 2
(2:43) 14. That Number of Mine
(2:54) 15. My Gal Is Gone
(2:49) 16. I'll Never Dream Again
(2:49) 17. Rockin' Chair Blues
(3:00) 18. Shine On, Shine On
(3:01) 19. Green Grass Blues
(2:50) 20. My Little Flower
(3:01) 21. Sweet Honey Bee
(2:53) 22. When I Been Drinking
(3:03) 23. Key to the Highway
(2:48) 24. Double Trouble
(2:57) 25. Going Back to My Plow

Volume 3 1940-1951 Disc A
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Album: Volume 3 1940-1951 Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues
Time: 71:38
Size: 165,0 MB
Covers: Full

(2:50) 1. I'm Having So Much Trouble
(2:59) 2. Wee Wee Hours
(2:36) 3. Conversation with the Blues
(2:29) 4. All by Myself
(2:56) 5. Keep Your Hand on Your Heart
(2:52) 6. Why Should I Spend My Money
(2:37) 7. What's Wrong with Me
(2:48) 8. I Feel So Good
(2:44) 9. In the Army Now
(2:48) 10. Bad Acting Woman
(2:51) 11. Night Watchman Blues
(2:43) 12. She's Gone with the Wind
(2:54) 13. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
(2:59) 14. Tell Me Baby
(3:04) 15. Hard Hearted Woman
(3:01) 16. I'm Woke Up Now
(2:47) 17. Please Believe Me
(3:03) 18. Why Did You Do That to Me
(3:13) 19. You Got to Play Your Hand
(3:03) 20. Just a Dream
(2:54) 21. Doing the Best I Can
(2:38) 22. Partnership Woman
(2:57) 23. Where the Blues Began
(2:54) 24. Humble Blues
(2:47) 25. Oh Baby

Volume 3 1940-1951 Disc B
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Album: Volume 3 1940-1951 Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:50
Size: 172,5 MB
Covers: Full

(2:55) 1. Cell No. 13 Blues
(2:54) 2. When I Get to Thinkin'
(2:46) 3. Roll Dem Bones
(2:48) 4. You Got the Best Go
(2:57) 5. I Can Fix It
(3:18) 6. Old Man Blues
(2:45) 7. I Can't Write
(3:08) 8. What Can I Do
(3:06) 9. San Antonio Blues
(3:10) 10. Saturday Evening Blues
(3:14) 11. Martha Blues
(3:11) 12. Texas Tornado Blues
(3:08) 13. Big Bill's Boogie
(2:42) 14. Just Rocking
(3:01) 15. Shoo Blues
(3:05) 16. I Feel Like Crying
(2:49) 17. Stop Lying Woman
(2:52) 18. Rambling Bill
(3:14) 19. Summer Time Blues
(3:19) 20. Bad Luck Man
(3:08) 21. (I'm A) Wonderin' Man
(3:01) 22. I Love My Whiskey
(2:55) 23. You've Been Mistreating Me
(2:26) 24. I Stay Blue All the Time
(2:47) 25. Water Coast Blues

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Album: Volume 3 1940-1951 Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues
Time: 73:50
Size: 170,2 MB
Covers: Full

(3:23) 1. Five Feet Seven
(2:53) 2. I Wonder
(2:56) 3. Keep Your Hands off Her
(3:09) 4. Mindin' My Own Business
(2:55) 5. Hey Hey
(3:00) 6. Stump Blues
(3:03) 7. Get Back
(2:50) 8. Willie Mae Blues
(3:19) 9. Walkin' the Lonesome Road
(2:39) 10. Mopper's Blues
(3:14) 11. I Know She Will
(3:07) 12. Hollerin' the Blues
(3:02) 13. Leavin' Day
(3:01) 14. South Bound Train
(2:52) 15. Tomorrow
(2:54) 16. You Changed
(3:19) 17. John Henry
(2:51) 18. Crawdad
(3:24) 19. Bill Bailey
(3:19) 20. Make My Get Away
(3:03) 21. Blue Tail Fly
(3:20) 22. Backwater Blues
(3:27) 23. In the Evenin'
(2:37) 24. Trouble in Mind

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Big Bill Broonzy - Volume 2 1937-1940

The second volume in JSP's Big Bill Broonzy retrospective is four discs long, covering the bluesman's years in Chicago and New York. What is astonishing is that there are 100 tracks here. While it's true that there are many alternate takes for the sake of the historical record, nonetheless, when combined with volume one, this accounts for a prolific output by the singer and guitarist. Each disc is fully annotated with session information. Some of the musicians on these sessions include Blind John Davis, Washboard Sam, Punch Miller, Black Bob, and Ransom Knowling. The sound is good to very good indeed, as the music here has been completely remastered. Presentation is sparse but more than serviceable, and as always with JSP, the price is excellent. Neil Slaven wrote biographical liner notes for the set. -- Allmusic.

Album: Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc A Chicago 1937
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 77:01
Size: 178,0 MB
Covers: Full

(2:54) 1. You Do Me Any Old Way Tk1
(3:04) 2. You Do Me Any Old Way Tk 2
(2:54) 3. Down in the Alley Tk 1
(2:51) 4. Down in the Alley Tk 2
(2:53) 5. Stuff They Call Money
(2:48) 6. Louise, Louise Blues Tk 1
(2:45) 7. Louise, Louise Blues Tk 2
(3:13) 8. Let Me Be Your Winder
(3:00) 9. Hattie Blues Tk 1
(3:01) 10. Hattie Blues Tk 2
(2:55) 11. My Old Lizzie
(3:04) 12. Come Home Early Tk 1
(3:04) 13. Come Home Early Tk 2
(3:01) 14. Come Home Early Tk 3
(2:56) 15. Come Home Early Tk 4
(2:49) 16. My Gal Is Gone
(2:43) 17. Evil Hearted Me
(2:59) 18. I Want My Hands on It Tk 1
(2:56) 19. I Want My Hands on It Tk 2
(3:08) 20. It's Too Late Now Tk 1
(3:04) 21. It's Too Late Now Tk 2
(3:00) 22. Make a Date with an Angel Tk 1
(3:10) 23. Make a Date with an Angel Tk 2
(2:57) 24. Play Your Hand
(2:45) 25. Hattie Blues Tk 3
(2:58) 26. Somebody's Go to Go

Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc A
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Album: Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc B Chicago 1937-1938
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 70:00
Size: 161,7 MB
Covers: Full

(2:54) 1. Good Boy
(2:54) 2. I Want You by My Side
(2:52) 3. Border Blues
(2:49) 4. Sweetheart Land
(2:56) 5. It's a Low Down Dirty Shame
(2:57) 6. Got to Get Ready Tonight
(2:39) 7. Trucking Little Woman
(2:38) 8. Unemployment Stomp
(2:59) 9. Why Do You Do That to Me
(2:51) 10. It's Your Time Now
(2:45) 11. I'll Start Cutting on You
(2:54) 12. Sad Letter Blues
(2:44) 13. The Mill Man Blues
(2:57) 14. I'll Do Anything for You
(2:36) 15. Sad Pencil Blues
(2:55) 16. New Shake-Em on Down
(2:50) 17. Night Time Is the Right Time No. 2
(2:37) 18. Let Me Dig It
(2:50) 19. W.P.A. Rag
(2:53) 20. Going Back to Arkansas
(2:44) 21. Rider Rider Blues
(2:56) 22. Living on Easy Street
(2:32) 23. Good Time Tonight
(2:39) 24. Trouble and Lying Woman
(2:27) 25. I'll Believe I'll Go Back Home

Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc B
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Album: Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc C Chicago & New York 1938-1939
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 68:37
Size: 158,7 MB
Covers: Full

(3:00) 1. Flat Foot Susie with Her Flat Yes Yes
(2:44) 2. Trucking Little Woman
(2:56) 3. Hell Ain't But a Mile and a Quarter
(2:41) 4. Don't You Lay It on Me
(2:34) 5. Done Got Wise
(2:56) 6. Louise, Louise
(2:42) 7. Spreadin' Snake Blues
(2:44) 8. Baby Don't You Remember
(2:54) 9. Whiskey and Good Time Blues
(2:32) 10. Baby I Done Got Wise
(2:42) 11. Preachin' the Blues
(2:36) 12. Just a Dream (On My Mind)
(2:37) 13. Fightin' Little Rooster
(2:36) 14. Mary Blues
(2:39) 15. You Can't Sell 'Em in Here
(2:33) 16. Just Got to Hold You Tight Tk 1
(2:35) 17. Just Got to Hold You Tight Tk 2
(2:48) 18. Just Wondering
(2:45) 19. Keep on A-Smilin'
(2:45) 20. She Never
(2:57) 21. Woodie Woodie
(2:37) 22. Too Many Drivers
(2:44) 23. You Can't Win
(2:51) 24. Ride, Alberta, Ride
(2:57) 25. That's All Right, Baby

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Album: Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc D Chicago 1939-1940
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 70:30
Size: 162,9 MB
Covers: Full

(2:46) 1. Please Be My So and So
(3:02) 2. I.C. Blues
(2:48) 3. Cotton Choppin' Blues
(2:42) 4. Hot Dog Mama
(2:50) 5. Dreamy Eyed Baby
(2:38) 6. My Last Goodbye to You
(2:50) 7. Don't You Want to Ride
(2:47) 8. Don't You Be No Fool
(2:50) 9. Just a Dream No. 2
(2:57) 10. Tell Me What I Done
(2:36) 11. Oh Yes
(2:49) 12. I'm Still You Sweetheart, Baby
(2:55) 13. Down and Lost in Mind
(2:58) 14. Let's Have a Little Fun
(2:44) 15. Messed Up in Love
(2:59) 16. Plow Hand Blues
(2:56) 17. Jivin' Mr. Fuller Blues
(2:49) 18. Make My Getaway
(2:51) 19. Looking for My Baby
(2:39) 20. I've Got to Dig You
(2:46) 21. Leap Year Blues
(2:55) 22. When I Had Money
(2:52) 23. You Got to Hit the Right Lick
(2:37) 24. What Is That She Got
(2:43) 25. Merry Go Round Blues

Volume 2 1937-1940 Disc D
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Big Bill Broonzy - All the Classic Sides 1928-1937

Of all the pre-war Delta bluesman, no one achieved the popular status of Big Bill Broonzy. Indeed, as Neil Slaven states in his liner notes to Volume One of this collection, Broonzy had been issuing recordings for over 20 years before his last name was attached to the labels; only "Big Bill" appeared under the track listing. This five-CD collection by JSP is astonishing in its scope. There are 128 tracks here from the first decade of Broonzy's recording career, featuring every 78 recorded during the period, for labels such as Paramount, Jewel, ARC, Perfect, Romeo, and others. His sides with Frank Brasswell and Georgia Tom, as well as other incarnations of his own band, called the Famous Hokum Boys, the Chicago Black Swans, or the Midnight Ramblers (Broonzy is listed as Bill Williams, Big Bill Johnson, Sammy Sampson, etc.) are all here, and many more. The great irony here is that Broonzy had been recording for a decade before his big hits ever came to be. The material here is a prologue of what was to come until his death in 1958. These sides are for hardcore fans certainly, but they are also for those who have been taken with the '40s and '50s material by Broonzy when he was a living American folk-blues legend. These tracks, then, are a treasure-trove, a journey into a largely unnoticed but stunningly creative archive of Broonzy, who arrived fully formed onto the scene. The audiophiles might have trouble with the sound quality of some of this material, but for those with less discriminating sonic palettes, this is an essential purchase, one rooted in history, mystery, and enjoyment -- and its' budget price makes it even more so. -- Allmusic.

Album: All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:35
Size: 172,3 MB
Covers: Full

(2:39) 1. House Rent Stomp
(2:59) 2. Big Bill Blues
(3:30) 3. Down in the Basement Blues
(3:18) 4. Starvation Blues
(2:44) 5. Somebody's Been Using That Thing
(2:59) 6. Black Cat Rag
(2:50) 7. Pig Meat Strut
(2:54) 8. Guitar Rag
(2:56) 9. Saturday Night Rub
(2:48) 10. I Can't Be Satisfied
(2:26) 11. Grandma's Farm
(2:46) 12. Skoodle Do Do
(2:31) 13. Tadpole Blues
(2:43) 14. Bow Leg Baby
(2:47) 15. Skoodle Do Do
(2:56) 16. Saturday Night Rub
(2:58) 17. Pig Meat Strut
(2:47) 18. Papa's Gettin' Hot
(2:44) 19. Police Station Blues
(2:51) 20. They Can't Do That
(2:55) 21. No Good Buddy
(3:01) 22. State Street Woman
(3:01) 23. Meanest Kind of Blues
(2:56) 24. I Got the Blues for My Baby
(2:35) 25. The Banker's Blues
(2:48) 26. How You Want It Done

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc A
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Album: All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Time: 77:54
Size: 179,7 MB
Covers: Full

(3:03) 1. Worried in Mind Blues
(3:00) 2. Too Too Train Blues
(3:00) 3. Mistreatin' Mamma
(2:59) 4. Big Bill Blues
(2:57) 5. Brown Skin Shuffle
(2:48) 6. Stove Pipe Stomp
(3:04) 7. Beedle Um Bum
(3:00) 8. Selling That Stuff
(3:02) 9. Mr. Conductor Man
(2:53) 10. Too Too Train Blues
(3:07) 11. Worrying You Off My Mind, Pt. 1
(3:09) 12. Worrying You Off My Mind, Pt. 2
(3:20) 13. Shelby County Blues
(3:04) 14. Mistreatin' Mama Blues
(2:53) 15. Bull Cow Blues
(2:53) 16. How You Want It Done
(2:50) 17. Long Tall Mama
(3:20) 18. M and O Blues
(3:06) 19. Rukus Juice Blues
(3:26) 20. Friendless Blues
(3:19) 21. Milk Cow Blues
(3:33) 22. Hungry Man Blues
(2:56) 23. I'll Be Back Home Again
(3:36) 24. Bull Cow Blues, Pt. 2
(3:27) 25. Serve It to Me Right

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc B
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Album: All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Time: 78:58
Size: 182,1 MB
Covers: Full

(3:27) 1. Starvation Blues
(2:43) 2. Mississippi River Blues
(3:00) 3. At the Break of Day
(2:48) 4. I Want to Go Home
(3:25) 5. Hard Headed Woman
(3:00) 6. Dying Day Blues
(3:23) 7. I Want to See My Baby
(2:56) 8. Serve It to Me Right
(3:23) 9. Dirty No-Gooder
(3:35) 10. Let Her Go-She Don't Know
(3:15) 11. Hobo Blues
(3:04) 12. Prowlin' Ground Hog
(3:18) 13. C.C. Rider
(3:20) 14. C.C. Rider
(2:51) 15. Sweet to Mama
(3:11) 16. Rustlin' Man
(3:06) 17. She Caught the Train
(2:53) 18. Midnight Special
(3:04) 19. The Dozen
(3:11) 20. Don't Tear My Clothes
(3:37) 21. The Southern Blues
(3:19) 22. Good Jelly
(2:59) 23. C & A Blues
(2:54) 24. Something Good
(3:03) 25. You May Need My Help Someday

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc C
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Album: All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Time: 78:51
Size: 182,0 MB
Covers: Full

(3:12) 1. Rising Sun Shine On
(3:04) 2. Mountain Blues
(3:10) 3. Bad Luck Blues
(3:14) 4. I Can't Make You Satisfied
(3:01) 5. I'm Just a Bum
(2:54) 6. Keep Your Hands Off Her
(3:04) 7. The Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Someday
(2:46) 8. Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down
(3:20) 9. Down the Line Blues
(3:09) 10. Bricks in My Pillow
(2:54) 11. Tell Me What You Been Doing
(2:38) 12. Ash Hauler
(3:00) 13. Evil Women Blues
(2:53) 14. These Ants Keep Biting Me
(2:58) 15. Big Billl Blues (These Blues Are Doggin' Me)
(3:13) 16. You Know I Need Lovin'
(3:02) 17. Match Box Blues
(3:04) 18. Low Down Woman Blues
(3:04) 19. Keep Your Mind on It
(3:08) 20. Bull Cow Blues, No.3
(3:05) 21. Married Life's a Pain
(2:57) 22. Black Mare Blues
(2:43) 23. Pneumonia Blues
(3:10) 24. Big Bill's Milk Cow, No. 2
(3:04) 25. W.P.A. Blues
(2:50) 26. I'm a Southern Man

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc D
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Album: All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc E
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues
Time: 77:31
Size: 178,7 MB
Covers: Full

(3:04) 1. Nancy Jane
(3:05) 2. Lowland Blues
(3:00) 3. Seven-Eleven (Dice Please Don't Fail Me)
(2:53) 4. You Know I Got a Reason
(3:10) 5. Oh Babe (Don't Do Me That Way)
(2:58) 6. Detroit Special
(3:22) 7. Falling Rain
(2:55) 8. Black Widow Spider
(3:16) 9. Cherry Hill
(3:00) 10. Out With the Wrong Woman
(2:45) 11. Don't Tear My Clothes, No. 2
(3:11) 12. You Drink Too Much
(3:16) 13. Southern Flood Blues
(3:15) 14. My Big Money
(3:02) 15. My Woman Mistreats Me
(3:18) 16. Let's Reel and Rock
(3:14) 17. Come Up to My House
(2:59) 18. Get Back (Black, Brown and White)
(3:06) 19. Terrible Flood Blues
(3:08) 20. Little Bug
(3:12) 21. Horny Frog
(3:05) 22. Horny Frog
(3:03) 23. Mean Old World
(3:10) 24. Mean Old World
(2:51) 25. Barrelhouse When It Rains

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937 Disc E
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VA - Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

Size: 170,8 MB
Time: 72:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Ragtime Blues, Country Blues
Art: Front & Back

01 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Is Mine (3:08)
02 Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) (3:06)
03 Blind Boy Fuller - Piccolo Rag (2:48)
04 Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues (3:14)
05 Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canan's (2:56)
06 Blind Blake - Blind Arthur's Breakdown (2:59)
07 Papa Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack (2:28)
08 Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
09 Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Guitar Rag (3:06)
10 Dick Justice - Old Black Dog (2:55)
11 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:38)
12 William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire (3:07)
13 Pillie Bolling - Shake Me Like A Dog (3:01)
14 Charlie McCoy - I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away (3:14)
15 Allen Brothers - Salty Dog Blues (3:05)
16 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beggin' Back (2:49)
17 Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Rag (2:52)
18 The Two Charlies - Pork Chop Blues (3:02)
19 Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied (2:49)
20 Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) (3:04)
21 Troy Ferguson - You Better Keep It At Home (3:02)
22 Reverend Gary Davis - Have More Faith In Jesus (2:59)
23 Buddy Boy Hawkins - Raggin' The Blues (2:26)
24 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:09)
25 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out (2:44)

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Made famous by the legendary Scott Joplin, ragtime developed in African-American communities throughout the southern part of the Midwest during the last decade of the nineteenth century and had a profound influence on many early blues performers. Combining the structure of marches with African-American songs and dances such as the cakewalk, ragtime’s syncopated or ‘ragged’ rhythm was initially performed as dance music for the seedier side of society in areas where bars, dancehalls and brothels were located. Many blues guitarists attempted to reproduce the complicated piano sounds, as its faster rhythm created a more upbeat and lively feel, far removed from the typical intensity of early country blues. So, when ragtime went out of favour as jazz claimed the public's imagination, it had already entered the folk consciousness through the playing of blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Blind Blake was the first commercially successful performer of this style, whose intricate fingerstyle technique and diverse repertoire ranging from upbeat rags and hokum tunes to slow blues numbers influenced all who followed, including the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis, and modern-day guitarists Ry Cooder, John Fahey and Jorma Kaukonen.

Many of the featured artists hailed from the Eastern States where the influence of ragtime was instrumental in creating the unique and much loved ‘Piedmont’ guitar style. Typically, the Piedmont guitarist would create an alternating rhythmic bass accompaniment by moving the thumb of the picking hand between the different bass strings of the guitar, whilst one or more fingers of the same hand would pick out the melody on the higher strings. Essentially this approach gives the impression that the guitar is being played like a piano.

Little is known about many of these artists, none more so than Willie Walker who only ever recorded two sides in 1930, with ‘South Carolina Rag’ being one of the absolute masterpieces of ragtime guitar playing. Other highlights to listen out for include ‘Ragtime Millionaire’ by the barbershop owner William Moore which harks back to the glory years of ragtime as well as the cakewalk inspired ‘Money Never Runs Out’ by Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers.

Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

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Various - Classic African-American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:49
Size: 153.0 MB
Styles: Folk, Blues, Old Time
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:44] 1. Warner Williams With Jay Summerour - Mouse On The Hill
[1:22] 2. K.C. Douglas - Casey Jones
[2:42] 3. Lead Belly - John Hardy
[3:33] 4. John Jackson - Railroad Bill
[3:32] 5. Memphis Slim And Willie Dixon - Stewball
[4:02] 6. Sonny Terry And Brownie Mcghee - John Henry
[2:22] 7. Snooks Eaglin - St. James Infirmary
[5:02] 8. John Cephas And Phil Wiggins - Staggerlee (Stackolee)
[4:53] 9. Convict Group, Ramsey And Retrieve State Farms - Lost John
[3:44] 10. Josh White - Betty And Dupree
[1:57] 11. Lead Belly - Old Riley
[2:26] 12. Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim, And Arbee Stidham - The Race Of The Jim Lee And Katy Adam
[2:49] 13. Pink Anderson - The Titanic
[2:10] 14. Big Bill Broonzy - Frankie And Johnny
[1:58] 15. Earl Taylor And The Stony Mountain Boys - White House Blues
[3:17] 16. John Jackson - Louis Collins
[2:13] 17. Woody Guthrie - Bad Lee Brown
[2:24] 18. Bhorace Sprott - Luke And Mullen
[2:59] 19. Dave Van Ronk - Duncan And Brady
[2:44] 20. Lead Belly - Gallis Pole
[3:03] 21. Pink Anderson - Boll Weevil
[3:42] 22. Josh White Jr. - Delia's Gone

Classic African-American Ballads is a sampling of an important, historic, and engaging slice of America's Black music heritage. The heyday of the Black ballad tradition (1890-1920) left a lasting strain of creativity and a monument to African American life of the time. Ranging from songs created from the heritage of the English ballad, to social commentary vilifying abusive white authority figures, to "blues ballads," this album reminds us of the enormity and constant evolution of African American musical tradition.

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VA - Lost Blues 1950 To 1970

Size: 110,4 MB
Time: 47:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01 James Cotton - Blow Wind Blow (3:47)
02 Joe Carter - Stormy Monday (5:57)
03 Big Bill Broonzy - It's A Low Down Dirty Shame (2:54)
04 Billy Boy Arnold - Back Door Friend (3:40)
05 Big Walter 'Shakey' Horton - That Ain't It (3:29)
06 Robert Lockwood Jr. - Take A Little Walk With Me (3:26)
07 Memphis Slim - El Capitan (2:54)
08 Sammy Price - How Long Blues (3:48)
09 Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign (5:26)
10 Fenton Robinson - Somebody Loan Me A Dime (3:46)
11 Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Asked For Whiskey, She Brought Me Gasoline (2:55)
12 Lightnin' Hopkins - One Eyed Woman (5:19)

Lost Blues 1950 To 1970

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Various Artists - The Melotone Blues Story (2 CD)

Melotone began life in late 1930 as a budget record label issuing 78rpm discs in the US and Canada. The American Recording Corporation (ARC) bought out owners Warner/Brunswick and operated the label successfully during the Depression years. With its distinctive blue and silver label design, Melotone released popular music in a variety of genres such as jazz, country, dance and Mexican. Significantly it also issued early recordings by musicians who would go on to help define one of the most important musical movements of the 20th century - the blues.

Melotone was discontinued in 1938 when ARC went bankrupt and was later purchased by CBS Network founder William Paley; more recently, it was revived in 2010 as a division of Melotone Music LLC. The music industry has changed beyond all recognition since its heyday, but this compilation will transport you back to the highs and lows of the Depression era when singers as well-known as Josh White and as obscure as Washboard Sam and the Mississippi Jook Band helped popularise the blues. /Excerpt from the sleeve notes by Nigel Cross

Album: The Melotone Blues Story - CD 1
Year: 2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:13
Size: 144,0 MB
Styles: Blues, acoustic blues, country blues
Scans: Full

1. Blind Boy Fuller - Rag, Mama, Rag (3:07)
2. Big Bill Broonzy - Bricks In My Pillow (3:09)
3. Rev. Blind Gary Davis - The Great Change In Me (3:17)
4. Josh White - Good Gal (3:04)
5. Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) - Changed Ways Blues (2:57)
6. Washboard Sam - I'm A Prowlin' Groundhog (3:35)
7. Peetie Wheatstraw - Remember And Forget Blues (3:11)
8. Sam Montgomery - Honey Dripper (3:06)
9. Mississippi Jook Band - Skippy Whippy (2:47)
10. Floyd 'Dipper Boy' Council - Working Man Blues (3:03)
11. Big Bill Broonzy - Match Box Blues (3:02)
12. Lil Johnson & Black Bob - Take It Easy Greasy (3:25)
13. Kid Prince Moore - Sign Of Judgement (2:57)
14. Walter Roland - 45. Pistol Blues (2:57)
15. Josh White - Did You Read That Letter (3:06)
16. George Noble - If You Lose Your Good Gal (2:57)
17. Charley Jordan - Don't Put Your Dirty Hands On Me (2:52)
18. Buddy Moss - Undertaker Blues (3:11)
19. Blind Boy Fuller - Evil Hearted Woman (3:05)
20. Leadbelly - Pig Meat Papa (3:16)

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Album: The Melotone Blues Story - CD 2
Year: 2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:01
Size: 139,0 MB
Styles: Blues, acoustic blues, country blues
Scans: Full

1. Josh White (Pinewood Tom) - No More Ball And Chain (3:01)
2. Leadbelly - Becky Deem, She Was A Gamblin' Girl (3:05)
3. Big Bill Broonzy - It's Too Late Now (3:08)
4. Leroy Carr - I Believe I'll Make A Change (2:58)
5. Blind Boy Fuller - Truckin' My Blues Away (3:06)
6. Walter Roland - Club Meeting Blues (3:06)
7. Sam Montgomery - Baby Please Don't Go (2:41)
8. Peetie Wheatstraw - Mistreated Love Blues (3:09)
9. Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues (2:43)
10. Lil Johnson - That Bonus Done Gone Thru (3:02)
11. Charley Jordan - Got Your Water On (2:49)
12. Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:06)
13. Josh White - Greenville Sheik (3:06)
14. Rev. Blind Gary Davis - I Belong To The Band, Hallelujah! (3:12)
15. George Noble - Seminole Blues (3:08)
16. Washboard Sam - Don't Tear My Clothes (2:55)
17. Big Bill Broonzy - Tell Me What You Been Doing (2:54)
18. Buddy Moss - Mistreated Boy (2:58)
19. Walter Roland - Bad Dream Blues (3:03)
20. Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) - Lonesome Midnight Blues (2:41)

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Sonny Boy Williamson I - Bluebird Blues: The Secret History Of Rock & Roll

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:22
Size: 165.7 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. Good Morning School Girl
[3:03] 2. Blue Bird Blues
[2:57] 3. Sugar Mama Blues
[2:33] 4. Got The Bottle Up And Gone
[2:46] 5. Early In The Morning
[2:54] 6. Whiskey Headed Blues
[3:31] 7. Decoration Blues
[3:12] 8. Deep Down In The Ground
[2:46] 9. I Been Dealing With The Devil
[2:56] 10. My Little Machine
[2:50] 11. Jivin' The Blues
[2:59] 12. Western Union Man
[3:09] 13. My Baby Made A Change
[3:03] 14. Mattie Mae Blues
[3:13] 15. Sloppy Drunk Blues
[3:02] 16. Million Years Blues
[2:42] 17. My Black Name Blues
[2:36] 18. She Was A Dreamer
[2:45] 19. Sonny Boy's Jump
[2:38] 20. Elevator Woman
[2:54] 21. Hoodoo Hoodoo
[2:33] 22. Mellow Chick Swing
[2:26] 23. Polly Put Your Kettle On
[2:47] 24. Alcohol Blues
[2:56] 25. Better Cut That Out

Bluebird Blues focuses on 25 excellent performances by John Lee Williamson (aka Sonny Boy Williamson I, not to be confused with Rice Miller aka Sonny Boy Williamson II). These tracks were originally recorded between May 1937 through November 1947 for RCA Victor and include the staples "Sugar Mama Blues," "Blue Bird Blues," and one of the most recorded tunes in both blues and rock, "Good Morning, School Girl." Joining the versatile prewar harmonica wizard on numerous tracks are Big Joe Williams, Robert Lee McCoy, Henry Townsend, Yank Rachell, Blind John Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, and Eddie Boyd. If the only Sonny Boy you're familiar with is Rice Miller, give Sonny Boy I equal space in your collection. This is a great disc to start with. ~Al Campbell

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Big Bill Broonzy - The Essential

Here's a good overview of a prolific and truly archetypal bluesman, who from 1927-1958 recorded more than 500 songs under his own name and countless more as an accompanist or in collaboration with other instrumentalists. 35 examples drawn from 1930-1941 find Broonzy busily interacting with groups like the Chicago Black Swans, the State Street Boys, and the Hokum Boys; the roster of participants includes Cripple Clarence Lofton, Bumble Bee Slim, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Washboard Sam, Georgia Tom Dorsey, and rock-solid Bluebird sessionmen Ransom Knowling and Black Bob. Is this really the essential Big Bill Broonzy? Given the length of his career and the magnitude of his recorded output, the narrowing of the lens to exclude all of his later works seems to guarantee only a partial essence. But don't let that steer you away from hearing these great prewar sides, on which Broonzy worked up a full range of moods and messages with singers and players who operated at the heart of Chicago's Depression-era blues scene. -- Allmusic.

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Time: 52:58 + 51:23
Size: 122,4 MB + 118,7 MB
Covers: Full

Album: Big Bill Broonzy - The Essential Disc 1
(2:51) 1. Bull Cow Blues
(3:12) 2. Rising Sun Shine On
(2:47) 3. I Can't Be Satisfied
(2:55) 4. Saturday Night Rub
(2:52) 5. Too Too Train Blues
(2:52) 6. Come on Mama
(2:52) 7. Midnight Special
(3:07) 8. Can't You Trust Me No More?
(2:58) 9. Brown Skin Shuffle
(2:52) 10. How You Want It Done?
(2:53) 11. My Stove's in Good Condition
(2:57) 12. Big Bill Blues
(2:48) 13. Long Tall Mama
(3:03) 14. Monkey Man Blues
(2:58) 15. Mr. Conductor Man
(2:50) 16. Pig Meat Strut
(3:05) 17. Rukus Juice Blues
(2:58) 18. Crazy About You

Album: Big Bill Broonzy - The Essential Disc 2
(2:45) 1. Don't Tear My Clothes No 2
(3:03) 2. Key To The Highway
(2:55) 3. Jivin'mr.Fuller Blues
(3:06) 4. Where Were You Last Night
(2:47) 5. Stove Pipe Stomp
(3:04) 6. Mountain Blues
(3:36) 7. The Southern Blues
(3:03) 8. Nancy Jane
(3:13) 9. My Big Money
(2:55) 10. St.Louis Women Blues
(2:47) 11. I Feel So Good
(2:50) 12. Looking For My Baby
(3:17) 13. C.C.Rider (Take A)
(2:42) 14. That Number Of Mine
(2:58) 15. Black Cat Rag
(3:03) 16. You May Need My Help Someday
(3:12) 17. Martha Blues

The Essential Disc 1
The Essential Disc 2
The Essential artwork

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