Tracks Edna Hicks/Hazel Meyers/Laura Smith Vol.2 1923-1927
- Lonesome For That Man Of Mine
- Cemetary Blues
- Hateful Blues
- Heartbreaking Blues
- Figtin' Blues
- Red River Blues
- Maybe Someday
- Poor Me Blues
- I Don't Love Nobody So I Don't Have No Blues
- Blackville After Dark
- Missisppi Blues
- Lost My Sweetie Blues
- Hard Luck Blues
- War Horse Mama
- Frankie Blues
- Lonesome Refugee
- When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine (I'm Gonna See You)
- Cold Weather Papa
- If You Don't Give Me What I Want
- Where Can That Somebody Be
- You'll Never Have No Luck By Quittin' Me
Release date: 2002-06-03
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.43
Review Edna Hicks/Hazel Meyers/Laura Smith Vol.2 1923-1927 / Edna Hicks:
Tracks 1929-1933
- Shipwreck Blues
- On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
- Moan, You Moaners
- Don't Cry Baby
- Worn Out Papa Blues
- Blue Blues
- Do Your Duty
- Baby Have Pity on Me
- Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
- Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
- In the House Blues
- Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
- Wasted Life Blues
- Hustlin' Dan
- Blue Spirit Blues
- You Don't Understand
- Black Mountain Blues
- New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
- See If I'll Care
- Long Old Road
- I'm Down in the Dumps
- Take Me for a Buggy Ride
- Safety Mama
- Keep It to Yourself
Release date: 1998-04-07
Price: £26.95
Review 1929-1933 / Bessie Smith:
Tracks Come a Little Closer [CASSETTE]
- Power Play
- Sookie, Sookie
- You Give Me What I Want
- Lovin' Arms [*]
- Out on the Street Again
- Mama Told Me
- Come a Little Closer
- Out on the Street Again [Single Edit][*]
- Gonna Have Some Fun Tonight
- Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
- St. Louis Blues
- Feeling Uneasy
Release date: 1990-10-17
RRP: £4.99
Price: £19.47
Review Come a Little Closer [CASSETTE] / Etta James:
Tracks Sweet Beginnings: Mildred Bailey, Vol. 1
- Home
- Georiga on My Mind
- Can't You See
- Concentratin' (on You)
- 'Leven Pounds of Heaven
- Hot Cha Medley, No. 1
- All of Me
- Lies
- Hot Cha Medley, No. 2
- Dear Old Mother Dixie
- What Kind 'O Man Is You?
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
- I Like to Do Things for You
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)
- Blues in My Heart
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- He's Not Worth Your Tears
- My Goodbye to You
- Trav'lin' All Alone
- Too Late
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.11
Review Sweet Beginnings: Mildred Bailey, Vol. 1 / Mildred Bailey:
Publisher: Black Swan
Release date: 1994-08-26
RRP: £10.99
Price: £59.94
Review The Paramounts Chronologically, Vol. 1 (1923-24) / Ma Rainey:
Tracks Complete Recorded Works 1925-29
- Trouble In Mind
- Lonesomell Alone And Blue
- Sport Model Mama
- Leavenworth Blues
- Lovesick Blues
- Pratt City Blues
- Hangman Blues
- Weary Money Blues
- Low Land Blues
- Trouble In Mind
- Do Dirty Blues
- Non-Skid Tread
- Some Cold Rainy Day
- Pleadin' For The Blues
- I Ain't Gonna Do It No More
- Kid Man Blues
- Lonesome Weary Blues
- Georgia Man
- Pratt City Blues
- Hard Time Blues
- Mess Katie Mess
- Street Walker Blues
- Panama Limited Blues
- Christmas Man Blues
Release date: 1995-03-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.88
Review Complete Recorded Works 1925-29 / Bertha 'Chippie' Hill:
Publisher: Classic World
Release date: 2002-04-23
RRP: £4.99
Price: £5.00
Review Live & Ready / Etta James:
Tracks Live from San Francisco
- Tell Mama
- Born Blue
- Hard To Handle/Just One More Day/Can't Turn You Loose
- Take It To The Limit
- Sugar On The Floor
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
Release date: 1995-03-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.15
Review Live from San Francisco / Etta James:
Tracks Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits
- Mercedes Benz [*] - Janis Joplin
- Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band
- Bye, Bye Baby - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Piece of My Heart - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Summertime - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Move Over - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Cry Baby - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Maybe [*] - Janis Joplin
- Down on Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.05
Review Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits / Janis Joplin:
Tracks Sassy Mama!
- Lost City
- Rolling Stone (Muddy Waters)
- Sassy Mama
- Mr. Cool
- Big Mama's New Love
- Everybody's Happy (But Me)
- Private Number
Price: £16.99
Review Sassy Mama! / Big Mama Thornton:
Tracks Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits [VINYL]
- Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Piece of My Heart - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Bye Bye Baby - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Cry Baby - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band
- Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin & the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Janis Joplin
- Move Over - Janis Joplin
- Down on Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Summertime - Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin
- Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin
Release date: 1998-05-15
RRP: £6.99
Price: £11.00
Review Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits [VINYL] / Janis Joplin:
Tracks Paramounts Chronologically, Vol. 5
- Black Eye Blues
- Runaway Blues
- Victim of the Blues
- Hear Me Talking to You
- Log Camp Blues
- Sleep Talking Blues
- Ma and Pa Poorhouse Blues
- Big Feeling Blues
- Screech Owl Blues
- Prove It on Me Blues
- Leaving This Morning
- Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues
- Tough Luck Blues
- Deep Moaning Blues
- Hustlin' Blues
- Blame It on the Blues
- Traveling Blues
- Black Dust Blues
- Deep Moaning Blues
- Sleep Talking Blues
- Daddy Goodbye Blues
- Sweet Rough Man
- Black Blues
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.19
Review Paramounts Chronologically, Vol. 5 / Ma Rainey:
Tracks That Rockin' Chair Lady
- Lazy Bones
- Don't Be That Way
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Emaline
- Junk Man
- Rockin' Chair
- Smoke Dreams
- Harlem Lullaby
- Georgia On My Mind
- Doin' The Uptown Lowdown
- Someday Sweetheart
- Gulf Coast Blues
- Porter's Love Song To A Chaimbermaid
- Thanks For The Memory
- Is That Religion
- Willow Tree
- Worried Over You
- Squeeze Me
- Shouting In That Amen Corner
- When Day Is Done
- Downhearted Blues
- There's A Cabin In The Pines
Release date: 1995-01-03
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.77
Review That Rockin' Chair Lady / Mildred Bailey:Although you could never actually mistake one for the other, the similarity between Mildred Bailey and the young Billie Holiday is sometimes quite striking. Certainly, they were the two most instinctively swinging female vocalists of the 1930s. Mildred was also one of biggest radio stars of the decade, and recorded prolifically. Sadly, she died in 1951, too early to benefit from the golden age of American song was just dawning, with the advent of LP records. These 20 tracks provide an attractive introduction to her light, unassertive voice and briskly elegant phrasing. Her choice of material was adventurous and her taste always impeccable. Among the songs included here are Ellington's gorgeous "All Too Soon", Alec Wilder's "It's So Peaceful In The Country" and Fats Waller's "Squeeze Me". Inevitably, there is one of many versions of her signature tune, Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair", which she sings with just the right mixture of melancholy and humour. -Dave Gelly.
Tracks Takin' a Chance on Love: The Complete Bluebird Session & More
- Taking a Chance on Love
- I Just Got a Letter
- What Goes up Must Come Down
- How Can I Face This Wearied World Alone?
- Honey in the Honeycomb
- Cabin in the Sky
- Bread and Gravy
- Jeepers Creepers
- You're a Sweetheart
- Down in My Soul
- They Say
- Am I Blue
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Baby, What Else Can I Do?
- Georgia on My Mind
- Y' Had It Comin' to You
- I'll Get Along Somehow
- Love Turned the Light Out
- Old Man Harlem
- Stop Myself from Worryin' over You
- Dinah
- Cabin in the Sky
- Lonesome Walls
- You're Mine
- If You Ever Change Your Mind
- Frankie and Johnny
- Push Out
Release date: 2000-06-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.60
Review Takin' a Chance on Love: The Complete Bluebird Session & More / Ethel Waters:
Tracks I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle Vol.1
- I've Been Mistreated And I Don't Like It
- Yellow Dog Blues
- Red Mountain Blues
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Dixie Flyer Blues
- New Gulf Coast Blues
- Golden Rule Blues
- Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
- Lonesome Desert Blues
- JC Holmes Blues
- He's Gone Blues
- At The Christmas Ball
- Soft Pedal Blues
- Them Has Been Blues
- Squeeze Me
- Nashville Woman's Blues
- Florida Bound Blues
- Nobody's Blues But Mine
- Careless Love Blues
- I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
Release date: 1999-08-16
RRP: £7.99
Price: £39.96
Review I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle Vol.1 / Bessie Smith:
Tracks Have I Got Blues for You
- Blue Cadillac
- You Blue It
- Blue Ridge Mountain Train
- Out of the Blue
- Paint the Town Blue
- Have I Got Blues for You
- Too Good to Be Blue
- These Blue Nights
- Blue One Too
- Smokin' That Blue Grass
- Blue Blood
- Boy's in Blue
Release date: 2003-03-30
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.35
Review Have I Got Blues for You / Dana Gillespie:
Tracks Tell Mama [CASSETTE]
- I'd Rather Go Blind
- I'm Gonna Take What He's Got
- Just a Little Bit
- Don't Lose Your Good Thing
- My Mother in Law
- It Hurts Me So Much
- Steal Away
- Love of My Man
- Security
- Watch Dog
- Tell Mama
- Same Rope
Release date: 1990-10-17
Price: £4.99
Review Tell Mama [CASSETTE] / Etta James:
Tracks Butterbeans & Susie Vol.1: 1924-1925
- Hydrant Love (Turn It On Shut It Off)
- I'll Put You Under The Jail
- A To Z Blues
- Construction Gang
- Adam And Eve
- I Got Your Bath Water On
- When My Man Shimmies
- You Ain't Talkin' To Me
- Sue I Don't Want You No More
- I've Had Those Lonesome Journey Blues All Day
- Do Right Papa
- How Do You Expect To Get My Lovin'
- Leaving Blues
- Don't Start Nothin' Here Tonight
- That Same Dog
- Brown Skin Gal
- Kiss Me Sweet
- Consolation Blues
- Married Man's A Fool
- If You Can't Bring It You've Got To Send It
- Cold Storage Papa (Mama's A Little Too Warm For You)
- Bow Legged Papa
- Get Yourself A Monkey Man Make Him Strut His Stuff
- I Can't Use You
Release date: 1997-07-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.33
Review Butterbeans & Susie Vol.1: 1924-1925 / Butterbeans & Susie:
Tracks Ma Rainey
- New Bo-Weavil Blues
- Hear Me Talking to You
- Black Eye Blues
- Mountain Jack Blues
- Wringin' and Twistin' Blues
- Jealous Hearted Blues
- Prove It on Me Blues
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Victim of the Blues
- See See Rider Blues
- Trust No Man
- Leavin' This Morning
- Runaway Blues
- Blame It on the Blues
- Sweet Rough Man
- Morning Hour Blues
- Bessemer Bound Blues
- Countin' the Blues
- Slave to the Blues
- Jelly Bean Blues
- Sleep Talking Blues
- Chain Gang Blues
- Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues
- Daddy Goodbye Blues
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.00
Review Ma Rainey / Ma Rainey:The Mother of the Blues was 38 when she finally began recording, but she'd incorporated the blues into her traveling stage shows since 1902. When she did hit the studio, the results were a high point of 1920s classic female blues. Rainey combined a husky voice with the songbook of a minstrel and a booming delivery. Her lyrics ranged from topical songs about Southern life to personal songs of loneliness and depression. Her original classic "See See Rider Blues," complete with rarely heard introduction, features jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, and Buster Bailey, and the grim "Slave to the Blues" includes Joe Smith and Coleman Hawkins. Ragtime guitarist Blind Blake and hokum-blues duo Georgia Tom and Tampa Red also contribute. -Marc Greilsamer.
Tracks Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe
- My Butcher Man
- You Got To Move
- Too Late
- Squat It
- I Got To Have A Little More
- You Got To Move
- Evil Devil Woman Blues
- Can I Go Home With You
- Hole In The Wall
- Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)
- Ain't No Use Trying To Tell On Me
- Someday I'll Be In The Clay
- Going Back Home Blues
- Moaning The Blues
- Keep It To Yourself
- Meat Cutter Blues
- Drunken Barrel House Blues
- Give It To Me In My Hand
- Stinging Snake Blues
Release date: 1993-11-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.22
Review Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe / Memphis Minnie:
| Models & Brands:
Edna Hicks/Hazel Meyers/Laura Smith Vol.2 1923-1927, 1929-1933, Come a Little Closer [CASSETTE], Sweet Beginnings: Mildred Bailey, Vol. 1, The Paramounts Chronologically, Vol. 1 (1923-24), Complete Recorded Works 1925-29, Live & Ready, Live from San Francisco, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, Sassy Mama!, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits [VINYL], Paramounts Chronologically, Vol. 5, That Rockin' Chair Lady, Takin' a Chance on Love: The Complete Bluebird Session & More, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle Vol.1, Have I Got Blues for You, Tell Mama [CASSETTE], Butterbeans & Susie Vol.1: 1924-1925, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe |
