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Various Artists

Essential Mississippi Blues

The Mississippi Delta has some of the most fertile soil in the world and became one of the richest cotton growing areas in the world which before the American Civil War was worked exclusively by black slaves brought over from Africa The blues was forged on the anvil of poverty and hardship the black sharecroppers and tenant farmers had to endure Born of the harsh brutal conditions of life in the South and full of pain frustration and anger the passionate soulful sounds of the Delta revolutionised the sound of 20thcentury music This compilation celebrates some of its greatest exponents

Tracklist

• CD 1
  1. Gettting Old And Grey- Howlin’ Wolf
  2. Hand In Hand- Elmore James
  3. Aini’t No Tellin’- Mississippi John Hurt
  4. Peach Orchard Blues- Big Joe Williams
  5 Black Spider Blues- Robert Lockwood
  6. Stack O’Lee- Mississippi John Hurt
  7. Last Time Blues- Charlie McCoy
  8. Ninety Nine Blues- Blind Joe Reynolds
  9. Rampaw Street Blues- Willie ‘61’ Blackwell
  10. Devil In The Lion’s Den- Sam Collins
  11. Travelling Mama Blues- Joe Callicott
  12. Muddy Water Blues- Freddie Spruell
  13. Levee Camp Blues- Son House
  14. Dough Roller Blues- Garfield Akers
  15. Two Time Blues- Arthur Petties
  16. Last Kind Word Blues- Geechie Wiley
  17. Frigidaire Blues- Sonny Boy Williamson
  18. Gone Dead Train- King Solomon Hill
  19. Spoonful Blues- Charley Patton
  20. Bed Spring Poker- Mississippi Sheiks
  21. Little Rock Blues- Pearl Dickson
  22. Diamond Joe- Big Charlie Butler
  23. Times Has Done Got Hard- King Solomon Hill
  24. Motherless And Fatherless Blues- Charlie McCoy
  25. It’s Hard Time- Joe Stone
  CD 2
  1. Freight Train Blues- Mississippi Fred McDowell
  2. Blue Harvest Blues- Missisippi John Hurt
  3. Jumpin’ And Shoutin’ Blues- Garfield Akers
  4. That Won’t Do- Arthur Petties
  5. Baltimore Blues- Charlie McCoy
  6. She’s Young And Wild- Willie ‘61’ Blackwell
  7. Going To Move To Alabama- Charley Patton
  8. Down On My Bended Knee- King Solomon Hill
  9. Sitting On Top Of The World- Mississippi Sheiks
  10.Don’t Cry- Freddie Spruell
  11.The Jail House Blues- Sam Collins
  12.Skinny Leg Blues- Geechie Wiley
  13.Twelve Pound Daddy- Pearl Dickson
  14.You Scolded And Drove Me- Missisippi Bracey
  15.Avalon Blues- Mississippi John Hurt
  16.Shake ‘Em On Down- Mississippi Fred McDowell
  17.Down South Blues- Arthur Petties
  18.Happy Home Blues- Mississippi Matilda
  19.Look Who’s Coming Down The Road- Joe McCoy
  20.Preaching On the Old Camp Ground- Mississippi John Hurt
  21.Whoopee Blues- King Solomon Hill
  22.Cherry Ball- Mississippi Bracey
  23.Machine Gun Blues- Willie ‘61’ Blackwell
  24.Low Down Mississippi Bottom Man- Freddie Spruell
  25.Fare Thee Well Blues- Joe Callicott