Title: The Best That Ever Was: Legendary Early Rural Blues Performers Artist: Various Artists Label: Yazoo Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 016351300225 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2003-08-26 Number of Discs: 1
Features the 20 greatest blues performers of the earlies peroid of blues recordings, the 1920s into the early 1930s, including Charlie Patton, Skip James, Son House, Blind Willie McTell among others.
Tracks: 1.1 Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers 1.2 Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson 1.3 My Black Mamma - Part 1 - Son House 1.4 Ain't No Tellin - Mississippi John Hurt 1.5 Cypress Grove - Skip James 1.6 I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - Blind Willie Johnson 1.7 Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell 1.8 Barefoot Blues - Jaydee Short 1.9 I'll Go with Her Blues - Robert Wilkins 1.10 Squabblin Blues - Ed Bell 1.11 It Won't Be Long - Charlie Patton 1.12 What's the Matter Blues - Frank Stokes 1.13 Last Kind Word Blues - Geeshie Wiley 1.14 Bullfrog Blues - William Harris 1.15 You Gonna Quit Me Blues - Blind Blake 1.16 The Gone Dead Train - King Solomon Hill 1.17 Outdoor Blues - Memphis Minnie 1.18 Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson 1.19 Graveyard Digger's Blues - Sam Collins 1.20 Big Chief Blues - Furry Lewis
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