Tracks Angola Prison
- See How They Done My Lord - Angola Quartet
- Steal Away - Angola Choir
- Dyin' Soul - Robert Pete Williams
- I Know I Got Religion - Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely
- Rise and Fly - Angola Choir,
- I'm on My Way - Andy Mosely, , Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Stranded on the Banks of Ole Jordan - Angola Quartet,
- When I Lay My Burden Down - Robert Pete Williams
- Each Day (Life's Evening Sun) - Angola Choir
- Church on Fire with the Word of God - Robert Pete Williams
- What Shall I Do - Robert Welch
- Be With Me Jesus - Angola Quartet
- Let My People Go - Roosevelt Charles
- Old Ship of Zion - Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne,
- Brother Mosely Crossed the Water - Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely
- Dig My Grave With a Silver Spade - Tom Dutson, , Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes - Robert Pete Williams
- Brother Norah - Angola Quartet
- Little School Song - Tom Dutson, , Robert Pete Williams
- So Much Is Happenin' in the News - Robert Pete Williams
- Jesus - Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely
- I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me) - Angola Choir
Publisher: Arhoolie Release date: 2003-08-11 RRP: £11.99 Price: £4.30
Review Angola Prison / Various Artists:
Tracks A Tribute to Leadbelly
- You Must Have That True Religion
- On A Monday
- Rock Island Line
- Bring Me Lil' Water Silby
- Redbird
- Poor Howard
- John Henry
- Alan Lomax And Leadbelly On Meter
- Baby Please Don't Go
- De Grey Goose
- Pigmeat
- Midnight Special
- Ain't Goin' Down To De Well No Mo'
- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Pigmeat
- In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
- I Know It Was The Blood
- Best Of Friends
- Leadbelly On The Blues
- Bourgeois Blues
- Meeting At The Building
- Good Night Irene
Publisher: Blues Alliance Release date: 2004-04-05 RRP: £8.99 Price: £8.95
Review A Tribute to Leadbelly / Leadbelly:
Tracks Complete Recorded Works Vol.7 1947-1949
- Ain't Going Down to the Well No More
- Shout On (Honey I'm All Out and Down)
- Pick a Bale of Cotton
- Green Card
- I Will Be So Glad When I Get Home [Live] - Leadbelly,
- John Henry
- Ha Ha This A-Way
- Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong With You
- Goin' Back to Mary (If I Had You Governor/Governor Pat Neff)
- Take a Whiff on Me
- It Was Early One Morning
- Come and Sit Down Beside Me
- Birmingham Jail (Down in the Valley)
- Noted Rider
- You Can't Lose a Me, Charlie
- It Was Soon One Morning
- Pretty Papa
- Go Down, Old Hannah
- Ain't Gonna Let You Worry My Life No More
- Rooster Crows at Midnight (Christmas Day)
- Parting Song (When You Smile-O)
- Whoa Back Buck
- Old Ship of Zion [Live] - Leadbelly,
- Ox Driving Moan
- John Henry
- Take This Hammer
- Good Morning Blues
- Skip to My Lou
Publisher: Document Release date: 2000-03-01 RRP: £10.99 Price: £11.15
Review Complete Recorded Works Vol.7 1947-1949 / Leadbelly:
Tracks Pure Religion and Bad Company
- My Heart Is Fixed
- Candy Man
- Seven Sisters
- Pure Religion
- Bad Company
- Cocaine Blues
- Runnin' To The Judgement
- Time Is Drawing Near
- Crucifixion
- Mountain Jack
- Right Now
- Evening Sun Goes Down
- Moon Going Down
- Hesitation Blues
- I Didn't Want To Join The Band
- Buck Dance
- Devil's Dream
Publisher: Smithsonian Folkways Release date: 1995-02-21 RRP: £15.99 Price: £6.76
Review Pure Religion and Bad Company / Rev. Gary Davis:
Tracks The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s
- Are You Making Any Money? - Chick Bullock
- I Surrender, Dear - Red Norvo & His Orchestra
- We Sure Got Hard Times - Barbecue Bob
- Happy Days Are Here Again - Casa Loma Orchestra
- Detroit Moan - Victoria Spivey
- Mean Low Blues - Blues Birdhead
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Rudy Vallée
- Whistle While You Work - Artie Shaw & His New Music, Artie Shaw
- Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
- All of Me - Louis Armstrong
- Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) - Blind Willie Johnson
- Dawn of a New Day - Horace Heidt & His Orchestra
- He's in the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing) - Memphis Minnie
- With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldn't Do) - Hal Kemp
- Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington
- Hungarian Varsovienne - Henri Ford, Old Fashioned Dance Orch.
- There's a New Day Coming - Ted Lewis
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington
- Headin' for Better Times - T. Lewis
- NRA Blues - Bill Cox
- I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe) - Duke Ellington
Publisher: Columbia Release date: 1993-10-26 RRP: £9.99 Price: £14.95
Review The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s / Various Artists:
Tracks Blue Light Boogie [Us Import]
- Honky Tonk Women
- Blue Light Boogie
- Down Home Girl
- River of Love
- John the Revelator
- Take a Giant Step
- Feats Don't Fail Me Now
- Big Legged Mamas Are Back in Style
- She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)
- Mercedes Benz
- Don't Call Us
- Dark Angel
Publisher: Private Music Release date: 1999-12-23 RRP: £15.99 Price: £15.95
Review Blue Light Boogie [Us Import] / Taj Mahal:
Tracks Soul Fever: Selected Singles 1955-6
- Why Do You Do Me (Like You Do) - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- No No No - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- Hold My Baby's Hand - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- Fever - John, 'Little' Willie
- Please Please Please - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- Let's Make It - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- Home At Last - John, 'Little' Willie
- I Feel That Old Feeling Coming In - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- Need Your Love So Bad - John, 'Little' Willie
- I'm Sticking With You Baby - John, 'Little' Willie
- Just Won't Do Right - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
- Are You Ever Coming Back - John, 'Little' Willie
- Letter From My Darling - John, 'Little' Willie
- Don't Leave Me Dear - John, 'Little' Willie
- All Around The World - John, 'Little' Willie
- I Don't Know - Brown, James & The Famous Flames
Publisher: Saga Release date: 2007-11-26 RRP: £5.99 Price: £4.19
Review Soul Fever: Selected Singles 1955-6 / James Brown:
Tracks I Am a True Vine: 1962-1963
- Blow Gabriel
- Blues In E
- Sportin' Life Blues
- Moon Is Goin' Down
- Piece Without Words
- Lord Stand By Me
- Whoopin' Blues
- I Am A True Vine
- Slippin' Til My Gal Comes In Partner
- I Want To Be Saved
- Wall Hollow Blues
- Get Right Church
- Won't You Hush
- Mean Ol' World
Publisher: Heritage Release date: 1991-01-01 Price: £12.99
Review I Am a True Vine: 1962-1963 / Rev. Gary Davis:
Tracks Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel - Fisk Jubilee Singers
- If You See My Saviour - Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey
- What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? - George Washington Phillips
- Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
- Key to the Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Broke Down Engine - Blind Willie McTell
- Mister Tom Hughes' Town - Leadbelly
- Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
- Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Crying - Blind Willie Johnson
- Blues Before Sunrise - Scrapper Blackwell, Leroy Carr
- Careless Love - Bessie Smith
Publisher: Columbia/Legacy Release date: 1999-10-12 RRP: £18.99 Price: £16.95
Review Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will the Circle Be Unbroken / Various Artists:
Tracks Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill/Folk Singer
- Mopper's Blues
- Lonesome Road Blues
- You Gonna Need My Help
- Hey Hey (Baby)
- Just A Dream (On My Mind)
- When I Get To Thinking
- My Captain
- My Home Is In The Delta
- I Done Got Wise
- Feel Like Going Home
- Big Leg Woman
- I Feel So Good
- Good Morning School Girl
- Country Boy
- Cold Weather Blues
- Tell Me Baby
- Southbound Train
- Double Trouble
- Long Distance
Publisher: Bgo Release date: 1998-08-17 RRP: £13.99 Price: £7.85
Review Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill/Folk Singer / Muddy Waters:
Tracks In His Prime 1927-1929
- Judge Harsh Blues
- Everybody's Blues
- Jellyroll
- I Will Turn Your Money Green
- Falling Down Blues
- Why Don't You Come Home Blues
- Furry's Blues
- Kassie Jones
- Good Looking Girl Blues
- Mean Old Bedbug Blues
- Mistreatin' Mamma
- Cannonball Blues
- Kassie Jones
- Rock Island Blues
Publisher: Yazoo Release date: 1999-10-01 RRP: £13.99 Price: £6.49
Review In His Prime 1927-1929 / Walter 'Furry' Lewis:
Tracks Manchester Free Trade Hall 1964: Live
- You Got to Move
- If I Had My Way
- Cincinnati Flow Rag
- Cocaine Blues
- Sun Is Going Down
- I Got a Little Mama, Sweet as She Can Be
- Sally, Please Come Back to Me (Worried Blues)
- Children of Zion
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Coon Hunt [Harmonica Instrumental]
- I'm a Soldier
Publisher: Document Release date: 2008-03-17 RRP: £10.99 Price: £6.68
Review Manchester Free Trade Hall 1964: Live / Rev. Gary Davis:
Tracks Complete Recorded Works 1933-35
- Fried Pie Blues
- Oh Lawdy Mama
- Next Door Man
- Leg Iron Blues
- Tippin' Tom
- Two Faced Woman
- Tricks Ain't Walking No More
- Empty Room Blues
- You Was Born To Die
- Birmingham Gambler
- Black Woman
- No No Blues
- Sometime Mama
- Some Cold Rainy Day
- Decatur Street 81
- Tampa Strut
- Joker Man
- It Must Have Been Her
- Dirty Mistreater
- Next Door Man
- Early Morning Blues
- City Cell Blues
- Who Stole De Lock
Publisher: Document Release date: 1992-11-01 RRP: £10.99 Price: £6.82
Review Complete Recorded Works 1933-35 / Curley Weaver:
Tracks The Best of John Lee Hooker: I Feel Good
- Baby Don't Do Me Wrong
- We Are Cooking
- Dazie Mae
- Roll and Tumble
- Call It the Night
- Baby Baby
- Going Home
- I Feel Good
- Stand By
- Bottle of Vine
- Looking Back Over My Day
Publisher: Blues Forever RRP: £10.99 Price: £2.13
Review The Best of John Lee Hooker: I Feel Good / John Lee Hooker:
Tracks Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings 1927-1929
- Hard For To Love
- Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There
- Down South Blues
- Old Rub Alcohol Blues
- Hard Luck Blues
- Lost Love Blues
- Sammie Where Have You Been So Long
- Old Rub Alcohol Blues
- Lost Love Blues
- Peddler And His Wife
- False Hearted Lover's Blues
- Pretty Polly
- Country Blues
- Danville Girl
- New Prisoner's Song
- Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There
- Aunt Jane Blues
- Sugar Baby
- Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There
- Bound Steel Blues
- Lost Love Blues
Publisher: Discmedi Release date: 1997-11-17 RRP: £28.99 Price: £127.95
Review Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings 1927-1929 / Dock Boggs:With his dark genius lauded by the literary likes of Greil Marcus in this compilation's accompanying 64-page hardcover booklet, Dock Boggs is remembered as a grim and tortured man who barely managed to save his soul with a banjo and a handful of songs. Originally recorded in the late 1920s, this collection illuminates the history of murder ballads like "Pretty Polly" from their origins in the English countryside to their more contemporary expressions (see "Polly" by Nirvana). While Boggs experienced popularity when these recordings were made, he retired from music for more than 30 years until being "rediscovered" in the early 1960s. Along with 12 classic Boggs performances, Country Blues includes five unreleased outtakes and four cuts with Dock as an instrumental sideman. -Mitch Myers.
Tracks Blues Blues
- Blues, Blues
- Catfish Blues
- Bumble Bee
- I Love You Baby
- Take Me In Your Arms
- Louise
- When You Get Lonesome
- Key To The Highway
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Bad Rooster
- Drop Down Mama
- Kansas City
Publisher: Document Release date: 2005-09-05 RRP: £12.99 Price: £6.55
Review Blues Blues / David 'Honeyboy' Edwards:
Tracks Milk Cow Blues
- Kansas City - Nelson, Willie & Susan Tedeschi
- Rainy Day Blues - Nelson, Willie & Johnny Lang
- Nightlife - Nelson, Willie & B.B. King
- Ain't Nobody's Business - Nelson, Willie & Johnny Lang
- Crazy - Nelson, Willie & Susan Tedeschi
- Thrill Is Gone - Nelson, Willie & B.B. King
- Funny How Time Slips Away - Nelson, Willie & Francine Reed
- Black Night - Nelson, Willie & Dr. John
- Texas Flood - Nelson, Willie
- Wake Me When It's Over - Nelson, Willie
- Lonely Street - Nelson, Willie
- Milk Cow Blues - Nelson, Willie & Francine Reed
- Outskirts Of Town - Nelson, Willie & Keb Mo
- Fool's Paradise - Nelson, Willie & Dr. John
- Sittin' On Top Of The World - Nelson, Willie
Publisher: Mercury Release date: 2000-09-18 RRP: £13.99 Price: £4.99
Review Milk Cow Blues / Willie Nelson:Ask a country legend, and they will tell you they learned to play and sing from the neighbouring bluesman/sharecropper. Likewise BB King is apt to mention that he tuned in the Grand Ole Opry growing up. Thus it feels natural for country's grand old hippie Willie Nelson to record an album of blues standards-especially since he wrote some of them (see: "Night Life"). Producer and featured guitarist Derek O'Brien lays down a funky but relaxed bed for the King of Laid-Back and some serious musical synergy with veteran guests like Dr. John and the aforementioned BB King. Kenny Wayne Shepherd's incendiary guitar on "Texas Flood" notwithstanding, the contributions of the younger contingent (Susan Tedeschi, Jonny Lang, Keb' Mo'), while heartfelt, seem more like perfunctory marketing ploys. Those who buy Milk Cow Blues for those names will be disappointed. Those who buy it for Willie will be delighted as he proceeds to show the youngsters (and all of us) what soul, and phrasing, and the blues are all about. -Michael Ross.
Tracks Sideman Serenade
- Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens
- Long Tall Mama
- Testify
- Midnight Hour Blues
- Top Of The Slide
- Mobile Lil The Dancing Witch
- Watch Baby Fall
- Sideman's Samba
- Save The Last Dance For Me
Publisher: Rounder Release date: 1995-10-17 RRP: £13.99 Price: £6.68
Review Sideman Serenade / David Bromberg:
Tracks Self Portrait in Blues
- Where Did I Lose Your Love
- Leavin' Blues
- Quote
- Wonderful Affliction
- Out And Down
- Drive Away Blues
- Fool's Paradise
- Live Wire Blues
- Truth Is On The Streets
- Devil Got My Woman
- Midnight Hour Blues
- Henry David Thoreau
- Shake It And Break It
- Kick It In The Country
Publisher: Red House Release date: 1995-08-11 RRP: £15.99 Price: £6.20
Review Self Portrait in Blues / Paul Geremia:
Tracks Rediscovered
- Hot Time In The Old Time Tonight
- Nearer My God To Thee
- I'm Satisfied
- Goodnight Irene
- Shortnin' Bread
- First Shot Missed Him
- Avalon My Home Town
- Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
- Talking Casey
- You Are My Sunshine
- Keep On Knocking
- It Ain't Nobody's Business
- Funky Butt
- Stocktime (Buck Dance)
- Richland Women Blues
- Stagolee
- Coffee Blues
- I've Got The Blues And I Can't Be Satisfied
- Salty Dog Blues
- Mondy Morning Blues
- Since I've Laid My Burden Down
- Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
- Hop Joint
Publisher: Vanguard Release date: 1999-01-25 RRP: £14.99 Price: £5.11
Review Rediscovered / Mississippi' John Hurt:
| Models & Brands: Angola Prison, A Tribute to Leadbelly, Complete Recorded Works Vol.7 1947-1949, Pure Religion and Bad Company, The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s, Blue Light Boogie [Us Import], Soul Fever: Selected Singles 1955-6, I Am a True Vine: 1962-1963, Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill/Folk Singer, In His Prime 1927-1929, Manchester Free Trade Hall 1964: Live, Complete Recorded Works 1933-35, The Best of John Lee Hooker: I Feel Good, Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings 1927-1929, Blues Blues, Milk Cow Blues, Sideman Serenade, Self Portrait in Blues, Rediscovered |