THE BLUES BOX 7CDs + DVD
This is a box filled to the brim with performances by some of the most celebrated blues artists of the post war period, including some whose careers stretched back to earlier decades. What you hear—and see on the included DVD—is a kaleidoscope of approaches to this enduring music: songs molded from personal experiences that reflect good as well as bad times, snippets of autobiography and touches of humour. Yes, the blues is not restricted to tales of woe. There were good times to be had in the juke joints of the South and the watering holes of Chicago, an urban environment to which many of these artists gravitated.
Contains the following artists:
Sonny Boy Williamson, Champion Jack Dupree, Robert Lockwood Jr., Henry Gray, Boogie Bill Webb, Lonnie Johnson, Otis Spann, Speckled Red, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Sippie Wallace, Little Brother Montgomery, Big Joe Williams, Sleepy John Estes, Robert Pete Williams, Memphis Slim, Eddie Boyd, Jay McShann, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and many more …
Cat no.108 8604
BLUES BOX
CD 1
Lonnie Johnson – Otis Spann
1. Tomorrow Night
2. Clementine Blues
3. See See Rider
4. Raining On The Cold, Cold Ground
5. Jelly, Jelly
6. Too Late To Cry Baby
7. Call Me Darling
8. Why Did You Go
9. Swinging With Lonnie
10. Please Help Me
11. My Baby Is Gone
12. You Don’t Know What Love Is
13. Don’t Cry Baby
14. Good Morning Mr. Blues
15. Riverside Blues
16. Jelly Roll Baker
17. Trouble In Mind
18. Worried Life Blues
19. T.B. Blues
20. Spann’s Boogie
21. Goin’ Down Slow
Total time. 78:12 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
CD 2
Speckled Red – Sunnyland Slim
1. The Dirty Dozen
2. I Had My Fun
3. Caldonia
4. Oh! Red
5. St. Louis Stomp
6. Milk Cow Blues
7. Dad’s Piece
8. You’ve Got The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo
9. Red’s Own Blues
10. Uncle Sam’s Blues
11. It Feels So Good
12. How Long Blues
13. Tain’t Nobody’s Biznezz
14. Prison Bound Blues
15. Johnson Machine Gun Blues
16. Miss Ida B.
17. I Done You Wrong
18. Brown Skin Mama
19. Goin’ Down Slow
20. Sunnyland’s Boogie
21. One Room Country Shack
Total time: 73:40 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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CD 3
Roosevelt Sykes – Sippie Wallace – Little Brother Montgomery
1. Big Ben
2. Boot That Thing
3. Springfield Blues
4. Henry Ford Blues
5. I’m A Dangerous Man
6. True Thing
7. Whole Lot Of Children
8. The Last Laugh
9. 44 Blues
10. Women Be Wise
11. Trouble Everywhere I Roam
12. Special Delivery Blues
13. Murder Gonna Be My Crime
14. Shorty George Blues
15. I’m A Mighty Tight Woman
16. Bedroom Blues
17. Up The Country Blues
18. You Don’t Know My Mind
19. I Must Get Mine In Front
20. Willie Anderson’s Blues
21. Jim Jam Blues
22. Hesitatin’ Blues
23. Mama, You Don’t Mean Me No Good
Total time: 78:36 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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CD 4
Big Joe Williams – Sleepy John Estes – Robert Pete Williams
1. Shake Them Down
2. Saturday Night Jump
3. Jinx Blues
4. Pick A Pickle
5. Ramblin’ And Wanderin’ Blues
6. Old Saw Mill Blues
7. Don’t The Apples Look Mellow
8. El Paso Blues
9. Juanita Blues
10. Vitamin “A” Blues
11. Drop Down Mama
12. I’d Been Well Warned
13. Stop That Thing
14. Diving Duck Blues
15. Vernita Blues
16. Bottle Up And Go
17. Mountain Cat Blues
18. Doctor Blues
19. Got On His Mind
20. Meet Him Over In Paradise
21. Goodbye Baby
22. It’s Gotta Be Jelly ‘Cause Jam Don’t Shake Thataway
23. She Walked Around With Her Mouth Poked
24. Greyhound Blues
Total time: 75:03 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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CD 5
Big Bill Broonzy – John Henry Barbee
1. Glory Of Love
2. Careless Love
3. I Gets The Blues When It Rains
4. My Name Is Lee Conley Broonzy
5. Take This Hammer
6. See See Rider
7. Diggin’ My Potatoes
8. Midnight Special
9. Keep Your Hands Off Her
10. I Got A Girl
11. You Better Mind
12. I Love You So Much
13. Sixteen Tons
14. Black Brown And White
15. Goodnight Irene
16. Dust My Broom
17. I Heard My Baby
18. I Ain’t Gonna Pick No More Cotton
19. Miss Nelly Grey
20. Tell Me Baby
21. Jump Blues
Total time: 75:19 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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CD 6
Memphis Slim – Champion Jack Dupree - Eddie Boyd – Jay McShann
1. El Capitan
2. This Is A Good Time To Write A Song
3. I’m So Alone
4. True Love
5. Two Of A Kind
6. Big City Girl
7. The Question
8. Misery
9. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
10. Born With The Blues
11. Whizzle Wham
12. How Long Blues
13. Blues Before Sunrise
14. In The Evening
15. Tomorrow Night
16. In The Dark
17. Fine And Mellow
18. Drinkin’ Wine Spodie-Odie
19. Third Degree
20. Five Long Years
21. A Reel Good Feeling
22. Kansas City Blues
23. How Long Blues
24. Cherry Red
Total time: 73:39 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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CD 7
Sonnyboy Williamson – Sonny Terry – Brownie McGhee
1. I Can’t Understand
2. Movin’ Down The River
3. The Story Of Sonnyboy Williamson
4. Rebecca Blues
5. I Wonder If I Have A Friend
6. Same Girl
7. Girl Friends
8. Tippin’ Through Customs
9. Little Girl
10. You Can’t Get Away
11. I’m Crazy About Your Pie
12. The Sweetest Girl I Know
13. Easy Rider
14. Rock Island Line
15. Find My Way Home
16. Midnight Special
17. The Chariot Is Coming
18. Howdy Blues
19. In The Evening
Total time: 77:04 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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DVD
Champion Jack Dupree
1. Introduction/Dupree Special
2. Mean Old Lonesome Train
3. Alberta
Sonnyboy Williamson
4. Tell Me Baby
5. You’re My Baby
6. Goin’ Back Home
All Alone With The Blues
7. Intro: Jim Gabour (Narrator)
Robert Lockwood Jr.
8. Drivin’ Wheel
9. They Gonna Ball Tonight
10. Kindhearted Women
11. Little And Low
James Caroll Booker III
12. Intro: Jim Gabour
13. Seagram’s Jam
Henry Gray
14. Intro. Jim Gabour
15. Blues Dance
16. Cold Chills
Boogie Bill Webb, Harmonica Slim
17. Ninth Ward Blues
Cousin Joe
18. Intro: Jim Gabour
19. Life Is A One Way Ticket
20. Beggin’ Woman
21. Me And Hard Work
22. I Wouldn’t Give A Blind Sow An Acorn
23.Closing: Jay Vincent
Total time: 77:41 For full details of tracks and personnel see booklet.
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