Great original recordings. One hundred and three tracks of the familiar and the obscure. Great listening.
CD # 1 highlights include: “I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan”-Margaret Carter, “Who’ll Chop Your Suey (When I’m Gone)”-Margaret Johnson, “You’ve Got To Save That Thing”-Ora Alexander and “My Gals’ Done Quit Me”-Luke Jordan.
Other artists on CD #1: Mamie Smith, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Ora Brown, Ethel Ridley, Jed Davenport & His Beale Street Jug Band, Big Bill Broonzy w/Memphis Slim, Lucille Bogan, Alberta Hunter, Charley Patton, Viola McCoy, Bessie Smith, Charlie Manson, Robert Johnson, Ida May Mack, Luella Miller and Willie Brown.
CD #2 highlights include: “Broke Down Engine Blues”-Blind Willie McTell, “I’m All Out And Down”-Leadbelly, “For Sale (Hannah Johnson’s Jack Ass)”-Clara Smith and “Strut Miss Lizzie”-Mary Stafford & Her Jazz Band.
Other artists on CD #2: Flo Bert, Julia Moody, Robert Wilkins, The Original Memphis Five w/Anna Meyers, Mississippi John Hurt, Bert Williams, Martha Copeland, Fanny May Goosby, Leona Williams, Tampa Red, Texas Alexander, Mamie Smith w/Harlem Trio, Clara Smith, Edna Winston, Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Charley Lincoln, Ma Rainey & Her Georgia Jazz Band and Whistler & His Jug Band.
CD #3 highlights include: “Spread Yo’ Stuff”-Five Jazz Bell Hops w/Daisy Martin, “Eagle Rock Me Papa”-Clarence Williams’ Blue Five w/Sara Martin, “M & O Blues No.3 (My Baby Called The Police)”-Walter Davis and “A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time”-George Williams.
Other artists on CD #3: Papa Charlie Jackson, Clara Smith, Kokomo Arnold, Furry Lewis, Virginia Liston, Jazz Masters w/Essie Whitman, Henry Thomas, Ishmon Bracey, Memphis Jug Band, Edna Hicks, Sleepy John Estes, Monette Moore, Hound Dog Henry, Charley Patton, Ma Rainey & Her Georgia Jazz Band, Stovepipe No.1, Ida Cox w/Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders and Robert Johnson.
CD # 4 highlights include: “Find Me At The Greasy Spoon (If You Miss Me Here)”-Coot Grant w/Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “Bow Legged Papa”-Butterbeans & Susie, “He May Be Your Man (But He Comes To See Me Sometimes)”-Lucille Hegamin & Her Blue Flame Syncopaters and “Twistin’ Your Stuff”-Barbecue Bob.
Other artists on CD #4: Joe “Jackson Joe” Williams, Bessie Tucker, Esther Bigeou, Mary H.Bradford, Papa Harvey Hull, Grant & Wilson, Blind Willie McTell, Ida Cox w/Lovie Austin’s Serenaders, Will Bennett, Martha Copeland, Viola McCoy, Sam Collins, Edna Hicks, Alberta Hunter, Trixie Smith, Memphis Jug Band, Rosa Henderson and Clifford Gibson.
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