Various Artists Rough Guide - Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters [CD]
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Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters
Various Artists Rough Guide
CD Rel Date: 1985-09-25
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Before there was the bluesman there was the songster and it was these travelling troubadours who helped lay the foundations for the development of the blues. In the decades preceding the phonograph and radio and before the American national entertainment industry had reached into the deepest parts of the South, it was these wandering musicians who provided the musical entertainment for all manner of social events. In order to be able to scrape a living together the songster had to be incredibly versatile and come up with something for everyone.
Tracklist:
- Luke Jordan - Pick Poor Robin Clean
- Henry Thomas - Don't Leave Me Here
- Jim Jackson - What a Time (Take 1)
- Daddy Stovepipe ; Mississippi Sarah - the Spasm
- Papa Charlie Jackson - Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
- Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie
- Pink Anderson ; Simmie Dooley - Every Day in the Week Blues
- Frank Stokes - How Long
- Furry Lewis - John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) ? Part 1
- Lonnie Coleman - Old Rock Island Blues
- Dick Justice - Cocaine
- Charley Patton - Mississippi Boweavil Blues
- Frank Hutchison - Stackalee
- Hambone Willie Newbern - Nobody Knows (What the Good Deacon Does)
- Stovepipe No. 1 ; David Crockett - a Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around
- Louie Laskey - How You Want Your Rollin? Done
- Leadbelly - Midnight Special
- Long 'Cleve' Reed ; Little Harvey Hull - Hey! Lawdy Mama - the France Blues
- Will Bennett - Railroad Bill
- Blind Blake - Come on Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around
- Richard 'Rabbit' Brown - James Alley Blues
- Cannon's Jug Stompers - Going to Germany
- Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
- Tommie Bradley - Nobody's Business If I Do