the Blues History - it's here, sort of -

[AllenLowe]

Th first volume of 9 CDs should be out by the end of the month - I've remastered and written the notes (about 80,000 words) to a project called: Really The Blues? A Blues History, 1893-1959; total of 4 volumes, 9 CDs in each, 36 cds total. I can sell it directly, though I will not have a price for a few weeks (if you're interested, email at alowe5@maine.rr.com) -

it's a lot of info, but here's the total song list:

Really The Blues?

A Blues History, 1893-1959

song list

Volume 1

CD 1

1. Mama's Black Baby Boy Unique Quartet Fall 1893

2. Keep Movin' Standard Quartet 1894

3. Poor Mourner Cousins and DeMoss 1897

4. You Been A Good Old Wagon Len Spencer 1900 or 1901

5. Poor Mourner Dinwiddie Colored Quartet 11/29/02

6. Nobody Bert Williams 5/06

7. What A Time Polk Miller and His Old South Quartet 12/09

8. The Camp Meeting Jubilee Male Quartet ca. 1910

9. Poor Mourner Fisk University Jubilee Quartet 2/10/11 Vic. 16843

10. Down Home Rag James Reese Europe 12/29/13

11. The Rain Song Afro American Folk Song Singers 3/12/14

12. Memphis Blues Victor Military Band 7/15/14

13. Memphis Blues Morton Harvey 10/2/14

14. Blame it on the Blues Victor Military Orch. 4/8/15

15. St. Louis Blues Prince's Band 12/18/15

16. Nigger Blues George O'Connor 7/18/16

17. Livery Stable Blues Original Dixieland Jazz Band 2/26/17

18. W.C. Handy Moonlight Blues 9/24/17

19. Death Where is thy Sting? Arthur Collins 1918

20. Beale Street Blues Al Bernard 1919

21. Memphis Blues James Reese Europe 3/7/19

22. Kansas City Blues Wilbur Sweatman Col. 3/22/19

23. Swanee Blues J. Milton DeCamp 1920

24. Lovin' Sam From Alabam Mamie Smith 11/6/20

25. Frankie Blues Mamie Smith 2/21/21 T

26. Chain Gang Blues Sam Moore octacorda 7/21

27. My Soul is a Witness Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartet 9/22

CD 2

1. Society Blues Kid Ory 6/22

2. Nick Lucas Teasin' the Frets 1922

3. I Ain't Got Nobody Marion Harris 1923

4. Midnight Blues Ethel Waters 3/23

5. Aggravatin' Papa Sophie Tucker 3/23

6. New Orleans Joys JR Morton 1923

7. Guitar Blues Sylvester Weaver 4/2/23

8. London Blues Jelly Roll Morton's Jazz Orch. 1923

9. Waitin' for the Evening Mail Noble Sissle/Eubie Blake 5/23

10. Bleeding Hearted Blues James P. Johnson 7/15/23

11. London Cafe Blues King Oliver Baby Dodds Jimmy Noone 10/15/23

12. The Gospel Train Am Comin' Homer Rodheaver and the Wiseman Quartet 8/10/23

13. Any Woman's Blues Bessie Smith 10/26/23

14. God's Gonna Set This World on Fire Kentucky Trio 11/2/23

15. If You Do What you Do Eddie Cantor w/the Georgians 1/4/24

16. Hatchet Head Blues Old Southern Jug Band 12/24

17. Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay Ed Andrews 3 or 4/24

18. Waffle Man's Call Johnny Bayersdorffer 3/17/24

19. Rhapsody in Blue Paul Whiteman 6/10/24 (excerpt)

20. I've got a Cross Eyed Papa Levitsch Tanzorchester 7/24

21. Barrel House Blues Rosa Henderson 7/24

22. Mississippi Shivers Zez Confrey and his Orch. 7/3/24

23. Kiss Me Sweet Butterbeans and Susie w/King Oliver 9/24

24. Toddlin' Blues Bix and his Rhythm Jugglers T Dorsey/Bix/Murray 10/11/24

25. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning Alberta Hunter 12/22/24

26. Lovie Austin Steppin on the Blues Ladnier/O'Bryant 11/24

CD 3

1. All Night Long Blues Roba Stanley and Bob Stanley 12/24

2. Meddlin' with the Blues The Two of Spades 3/25/25

3. Frank Du Pree Blind Andy (Jenkins) 4/13/25

4. Steel String Blues Sylvester Weaver 4/25

5. Hersal Blues Hersal Thomas 6/25

6. Edna Thomas Street Cries of New Orleans 1925

7. The Wagon Ben Harney 9/9/25

8. A Married Man's Blues Wade Ward 9/1/25

9. She's Cryin' for Me New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1/23/25

10. Put Me in the Alley Nicholas/Jones/St. Cyr 1925

11. All I Want is a Little Spoonful Papa Charlie Jackson 9/25

12. Red Man Blues Piron's New Orleans Orchestra 3/25/25

13. South Street Blues Benny Moten's KC Orchestra 5/14/25

14. No Home Blues Louise Ross 12/16/25

15. Sugar Babe Lee Morse 11/11/25

16. Careless Love Bessie Smith 5/27/25 L Armstrong C.Green

17. Don't Fish in My Sea Ma Rainey w/Jimmy Blythe 12/26

18. I'll Be Rested Roosevelt Graves and His Brother 12/26

19. I Want My Life To Testify Hendersonville Double Quartet 1926

20. Can't Sleep Blues The Pebbles 6/21/26

21. String Band Blues Kansas City Blues Strummers 7/27/26

22. Black Cat Blues Old Pal Smoke Shop Four 7/28/26

23. Mama's Angel Child Papa Stovepipe 11/26

24. Jack O' Diamond Blues Sippie Wallace/Armstrong/Hersal Thomas 3/1/26

25. Memphis Shake Dixieland Jugblowers 12/11/26

26. Crucifixion Arizona Dranes piano solo 1926

27. Royal Palm Special Leecan and Cooksey 5/24/27

CD 4

1. Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean Dranes, Rev FW McGee, Jubilee Singers 1926

2. I Shall Wear a Crown Dranes, unknown musicians, unknown female singers 1926

3. High Fever Cookie's Ginger Snaps Freddie Keppard 6/2/26

4. I Want Jesus to Walk With Me Homer Quincy Smith 12/26

5. Blackville Hazel Meyers 6/1/26

6. Bridwell Blues Nolan Welsh w/L. Armstrong 6/16/26

7. Fat Meat and Greens Jelly Roll Morton 1/20/26

8. Christians Fight On Your Time Ain't Long Sam Butler (Bo Weavil Jackson) 9/26

9. Got the Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 5/26

10. Chock House Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 5/26

11. Birth Of the Blues Paul Whiteman 8/12/26 A

12. Knoxville Blues Sam McGee 1926

13. My Soul is a Witness Arizona Dranes 6/17/26

14. Smoke House Blues Jelly Roll Morton Kid Ory Omer Simeon 9/15/26

15. Boneyard Shuffle The Red Heads Red Nichols M Mole A Schutt Fud Livingston 1926

16. Motherless Child Blind Willie Johnson 12/3/27

17. The Bumps Jeanette's Synco Jazzers w/ML Williams 1/27

18. Tin Roof Blues Sol Hoopi 3/7/27

19. Andrew and Jim Baxter Bamalong Blues 8/9/27

20. Hanna Won't You Open the Door Sam and Kirk McGee 1927

21. Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance Henry Thomas 1927

22. James Alley Blues Richard Rabbit Brown 1927

23. Franklin Street Blues Dumaine's Jazzola Eight 3/5/27

24. Fight That Thing Reb Spikes 10/15/1927

25. Clarinet Wobble Johnny Dodds 4/21/27

26. Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose South Georgia Highballers 10/5/27

CD 5

1. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love Leecan/Cooksey/Thomas Morris 7/27

2. Honey in the Rock Blind Mamie Forehand 1927

3. Georgia Crawl Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony 8/4/27

4. Blessed are the Poor Luther Magby 1927

5. A Good Man is Hard to Find Bix/Tram/Murray/Russell/Rolini/Venuti 10/2/27

6. I Am Resolved Ernest Stoneman Kahle Brewer w/Vocal Chorus 7/25/27

7. Curley Headed Woman Burnett & Rutherford 11/3/27

8. Down South Blues Doc Boggs 3/10/27

9. Black Snake Blues King Oliver 4/27/27

10. Weary Way Blues Natty Dominique Johnny Dodds Jimmy Blythe 10/5/27

11. Honky Tonk Train Blues Meade Lux Lewis 12/27

12. The Lord is my Shepherd Blind Connie Rosemond 7/20/27 VI20950

13. Penn Beach Blues Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Signorelli, Don Murray 11/5/27

14. Black Hearse Blues Sarah Martin w/Sylvester Weaver 8/30/27

15. Cold Penitentiary Blues B.F. Shelton 7/29/27

16. Shaking the Blues Away Ruth Etting 1927 w/Rube Bloom, piano

17. The Crowing Rooster Walter Rhodes 12/10/27

18. Creole Love Call Duke Ellington 10/26/27

19. Gods Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares Blind Joe Taggart 1927

20. Jazz Me Blues Bix B. and his Gang 5/10/27

21. Royal Garden Blues Bix B. and his Gang 5/10/27

22. Chattanooga Blues Allen Bros 11/4/27

23. New Orleans Lowdown Duke Ellington B. Miley 2/3/27

24. Barrelhouse Man Will Ezell 9/27

25. I Am Born to Preach the Gospel Washington Phillips 12/2/27

CD 6

1. Death is Only a Dream Edward Clayborne 7/19/27

2. Neckbones and Beans Henry Johnson and his Boys 4/20/27

3. She's in the Graveyard Now Earl MacDonald's Original Jug Band 3/30/27

4. Yellow Dog Blues Sam Collins 4/5/27

5. Mamlish Blues Ed Bell 9/27

6. Starvation Blues Jessie Stone 4/27/27

7. Wild Man Blues Louis Armstrong Johnny Dodds 5/7/27

8. Can You Blame the Colored Man? Gus Cannon 11/27

9. Mama You Don't Know How Long Long Cleve Reed and the Downhome Boys 5/27

10. A Woman Gets Tired of the Same Man All the Time Stovepipe #1 Same Jones 4/26/27

11. Second-Hand Blues Margaret Johnson w/Leecan Cooksey 2/24/27

12. Awful Fix Buddy Boy Hawkins 1927

13. Train 45 Grayson and Whitter 10/27

14. Hesitation Blues Al Bernard C. Quealey, Bobby Davis, Al Duffy 11/14/27

15. Section Gang Blues Texas Alexander w/Lonnie Johnson 8/12/27

16. Lonesome Ghost Blues Lonnie Johnson 8/11/1927

17. Lord I Can't Stay Away Violet Harmony Singers 3/29/27

18. Deep River Paul Robeson 5/10/27

19. Doan Let Satan Git You Barbour's Plantation Singers 9/6/27

20. Every Time I Feel the Spirit C. Mae Frierson Moore and the Four Aces of Harmony 9/27

21. Man Trouble Jaybird Coleman 8/3/27

22. Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson 1928

23. Deep River Forbes Randolph Kentucky Jubilee Choir 7/28

24. Blues in the Bottle Prince Albert Hunt 3/28/28

25. Stealin' Memphis Jug Band 9/11/28

26. I'm Wild About My Lovin' Jim Jackson 8/27/28

CD 7

1. Viola Lee Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers 9/20/28

2. Take Me Back Frank Stokes 8/30/28

3. Three Preludes (2nd Prelude) George Gershwin 6/11/28

4. I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Biddleville Quintet 10/28

5. Away Down in the Alley Blues Lonnie Johnson 2/21/28

6. Going Across the Sea H.L. Bandy 10/17/28

7. Chocolate to the Bone Barbecue Bob 4/13/28

8. Pinetop's Blues Pinetop Smith 12/29/28

9. 99 Year Blues Julius Daniels 2/19/27

10. Touch Me Light Mama George Bullet Williams w/unknown 5/28

11. Mississippi Jail House Groan Rube Lacy 1928

12. Sawmill Moan Rambling Thomas 2/28

13. Johnson City Blues Clarence Green 10/15/28

14. Wayward Girl Blues Lottie Kimbrough 1928

15. I Must Have That Man Annette Hanshaw 7/4/28

16. Slow Motion Bennie Moten 9/6/28

17. Molly Man Moses Mason 1/28

18. If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers 10/29/28

19. Mon Cherie Bebe Creole Dennis McGee (in New Orleans) 1928

20. Four or Five Times King Oliver 4/13/28

21. Avalon Blues Mississippi John Hurt 12/21/28

22. I Ain't Got Nobody Emmett Miller 6/12/28

23. G Burns is Gonna Rise Again Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop 2/17/28

24. Can't Help Lovin' that Man Helen Morgan 2/14/28

25. Violin Blues The Johnson Boys (Hayes and Prater) 2/15/28

26. Good Old Turnip Greens Bo Chatman 12/28

CD 8

1. Every Day of the week Blues Pink Anderson/Simmie Dooley 1928

2. Alley Rat Jimmy Blythe piano solo 3/30/28

3. I'm On My Journey Home The Denson Quartet 10/20/28

4. One Way Gal William Moore 1/28

5. Stack O'Lee Pt. 2 Cliff Edwards 1928

6. Worried Blues Gladys Bentley 8/8/28

7. Can't Help Lovin' that Man Helen Morgan 2/14/28

8. Jungle Blues Benny Goodman's Boys 6/14/28

9. Old Man River Bing w/Paul Whiteman 1/28

10. Old Time Baptism PT 2 R M Massey 1/28

11. Blue Piano Stomp Johnny Dodds 7/15/28

12. Sunshine Special Frenchy's String Band 12/5/28

13. Midnight Mama Frances Hereford Jelly Roll Morton 1/21/28

14. Lord Lord He Sure is Good Elder Richard Bryant w/Sanctified Singers 2/7/28

15. Wang Wang Blues Sam Ku's West Harmony Boys 1928

16. Tight Like That Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band 11/9/28

17. A Blues Serenade Original Memphis 5 12/28/28 Signorelli

18. I Truly Understand You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roarke and his Family 11/4/28

19. I Found a New Baby Teschmacher/Spanier/Sullivan/Krupa 4/28

20. Hard Hustling Blues Bernice Edwards 11/28

21. The Boy in the Boat Charlie Johnson's Paradise 10 9/19/28

22. School Girl Blues Rosa Mae Moore 2/3/28

23. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Boyd Senter and his Sentipedes 3/23/28

24. Ham Beats All Meat Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters 3/3/28

25. In the Mornin' Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop 2/17/28

26. The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid His Bible Down Tennessee Ramblers 2/28

CD 9

1. Home Town Blues Roane County Ramblers 10/15/28

2. Judge Harsh Blues Furry Lewis 8/28/28

3. Caution Blues Earl Hines 12/9/28

4. Blue Harmony Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers Cal Smith Hense Grundy 5/31/28

5. Cannon Ball Blues Frank Hutchison 7/9/29

6. Brown Skin Blues Dick Justice 5/20/29

7. Leake County Blues Leake County Revelers 12/10/29

8. Bathe In That Beautiful Pool Doc Walsh 9/25/29

9. Easy Rider Blues Leo Soileau 7/13/29

10. Operation Blues Frankie Jaxon Georgia Tom Dorset 7/22/29

11. I'm A Mighty Tight Woman Sippi Wallace Dodds Dominique 2/7/29

12. That's No Way To Get Along Robert Wilkins 9/23/29

13. Walking Blues Raymond Barrow 6/7/29

14. Don't Mistreat Your Good Boyfriend The Bubbling Over Five (Blues Birdhead) 10/13/29

15. St. Louis Blues/Weary Yodelin' Blues Roy Evans 3/30/29

16. Fresno Blues Johnnie and Albert Crockett 8/9/29

17. Mean Low Blues Blues Birdhead 10/13/29

18. Georgia Bound Blind Blake 1929

19. If I Call You Mama Luke Jordan 11/19/29

20. Just Blues Memphis Jazzers Andy Sannella Al Duffy 6/29

21. Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues Teddy Darby 9/7/29

22. New York Blues Blind Roosevelt Graves Will Ezell 1929 T

23. Guitar Blues Lang/Lonnie Johnson 5/7/29

24. Avenue Strut Heurve Duerson 8/28/29

25. Slum Guillion Stomp Cow Cow Davenport 6/22/29

Volume 2

CD 1

1. Dallas Blues Louis Armstrong w/Luis Russell Orchestra 12/10/29

2. Copyin' Louis Jack Purvis Orch. 12/17/29

3. Prayin' the Blues Jimmy Dorsey 6/13/29

4. Waiting at the End of the Road Ethel Waters 7/11/29

5. Biddle Street Blues Henry Spaulding 5/29

6. Been on the Job Too Long Wilmer Watts and The Lonely Eagles 10/29

7. Sweet and Lowe Blues Jabbo Smith 2/29/29

8. Blood Hound Blues Victoria Spivey Holmes/Allen/Higginbotham/Nicholas/Foster 10/1/29

9. Stompin' on Down Tiny Parham 2/1/29

10. What's the Matter Now Monarch Jazz Quartet of Norfolk 10/16/29

11. Let's Get Loose Clara Smith 12/31/29

12. Blue Devil Blues Walter Page's Blue Devils. 11/10/29

13. Tip Easy Blues Jones/Collins Astoria Hot 8 11/15/29

14. West End Blues Zach Whyte's Chocolate Beau Brummel's 2/26/29

15. Pneumonia Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson 9/24/29 (see CD 4)

16. Numb Fumblin' Fats Waller 3/1/29

17. Apex Blues (No. 2) Jimmy Noone 7/8/29 Zinky Cohn

18. The Great Reaping Day Bessie Johnson 10/1/29

19. House Dance Blues Speckled Red 9/14/29

20. Dark Holler Blues Clarence Ashley 10/23/29

21. Nothing But Blues Cleo Gibson 3/14/29

22. Roll and Tumble Blues Hambone Willie Newbern 3/13/29

23. It's Tight Like That Clara Smith w/Charlie Green 1/26/29

24. Don't Leave Me Here Henry Thomas 1929

25. He's Tall, Dark, and Handsome Julia Lee 11/8/29

CD 2

1. Cravin' a Man Blues Lillian Glinn 12/26/29

2. Copenhagen Elmer Schoebel Teschmacher, Ray Biondi 10/29 (

3. I'm Hot Like That Slim Barton and Eddie Mapp 5/29

4. Old Lonesome Blues The Bowman Sisters 10/23/29

5. My Daddy Rocks Me Tampa Red w/Frankie Jaxon 4/19/29

6. Dearborne St Breakdown Charlie Avery 10/29

7. Bill Was a Texas Lad J.P. Farley 7/29/29

8. Dee Blues Coleman Hawkins/Bobby Starks/Jimmy Harrison/Benny Carter 10/3/30

9. That Too Do Bennie Moten Jimmy Rushing 11/28/30

10. Stop Look and Listen Blues No.2 Mississippi Sheiks 12/19/30

11. Skinny Legs Blues Geeshie Wiley 3/30

12. Muleskinner Blues Jimmie Rodgers 7/11/30

13. Black Snake Moan Cobbs and Lindwood 9/29/30

14. Farm Girl Blues Carolina Tar Heels 11/19/30

15. Careless Love Jimmy Tarlton 12/3/30

16. Milwaukee Blues Charlie Poole 9/9/30

17. Preachin' the Blues pt. 1 Son House 5/28/30

18. Pure Religion Blind Gussie Nesbitt 1930

19. Baby's Got the Rickets, Mama's Got the Mobile Blues Vol Stevens 12/11/30

20. Beale Street Breakdown Jed Davenport and his Beale Street Jug Band 1930

21. Unknown Blues Tarter and Gay 11/2/30

22. Itching Heel Irene Scruggs, acc. Blind Blake 1930

23. South Carolina Rag Willie Walker 1930

24. Number 29 Wesley Wallace 2/30

25. Original Blues Bayless Rose 6/7/30

26. Don't Put Off Salvation Too Long Southland Ladies Quartette 1930

CD 3

1. Warm Wipe Stomp Tampa Joe and Macon Ed (Peg Leg Howell/Eddie Anthony) 12/9/30

2. Giving It Away Birmingham Jug Band 12/11/30

3. The Poor Girl's Story Moonshine Kate (Rosa Lee Carson) 1930

4. Killing Blues Jess Johnson w/Byrd Moore 1930

5. Tennessee River Bottom Blues Mike Shaw's Alabama Entertainers 12/30

6. Distant Moan Frank Melrose 4/11/30

7. Prohibition Blues The Missourians 2/17/30

8. Blues de Basil Amede Ardoin 11/24/30

9. Mother Called Her Child to Her Dying Bed Lil McLintock 1930

10. Dupree Blues Willie Walker 12/6/30

11. Future Blues Willie Brown 1930

12. Kelly's Special Roosevelt Sykes 1930

13. Oh Lovin' Babe Uncle Dave Macon 12/17/30

14. When I Take My Vacation in Heaven Mother McCollum 6/30

15. Down On Me Eddie Head and his Family 4/22/30

16. Kentucky Blue State Street Ramblers 3/13/31 Roy Palmer

17. My Baby Got a Yo Yo The Two Poor Boys/Evans and McClain 5/21/31

18. Please Don't Holler Mama Ben Ferguson w/Cal Smith 12/16/31

19. My Bones Gonna Rise Again Dave McCarin 5/19/31

20. River Stay Away from My Door Boswell Sisters 1/5/31

21. Get Off With Me Grant and Wilson 2/10/31

22. Midnight Blues Jimmie Davis w/Ed Schaeffer and Snoozer Quinn 5/27/31

23. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Bozo Sam Theard 3/24/31

24. Hard Times Killing Floor Blues Skip James 1931

25. The Devil's Son In Law Peetie Wheatstraw 9/31

CD 4

1. My Good Gal's Gone Jimmy Rodgers w/Clifford Hayes Cal Smith 7/11/31

2. Let Me Be Your Sidetrack Jimmy Rodgers/Cliff Gibson 6/11/31

3. Wild Man Stomp Chicago Stompers Jimmy Blythe w/banjo solo 3/20/31

4. Clair & Pearley Blues Kid Coley 6/13/31

5. Mistreated Blues Walter Smith and his Carolina Buddies 2/24/31

6. Sittin' On Top of the World Joe Evans 1931

7. Sugar Foot Stomp Fletcher Henderson Orch. 4/29/31

8. Haunted Road Blues Clarence Ashley/Gwinn Foster 12/31

9. River Stay Away From My Door Phil Harris 1931

10. Black Bottom Blues Gene Autry 6/30/32

11. Bye Bye Cherry/Frankie and Johnny Gene Autry 1932

12. If You See My Savior Thomas Dorsey Scrapper Blackwell 3/17/32

13. Pratt City Blues Jabo Williams 1932

14. How You Want It Done? Big Bill Broonzy 3/29/32

15. Mae West A Guy What Takes His Time 2/7/33

16. Red River Blues Buddy Moss 1/16/33

17. King Solomon Hill The Gone Dead Train 1932

18. I Must Have that Man Adelaide Hall w/ Duke E. 1/7/33

19. Hambone Am Sweet 4 Southern Singers 2/23/33

20. Organ Grinder Clarence Williams/Eva Taylor 8/27/33

21. Miss Handy Hanks Archie Lewis 3/30/33

22. Texas Tea Party Jack Teagarden 10/18/33

23. Red Ripe Tomatoes Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band 8/1/33

24. St. Louis Blues Louis Armstrong 4-26-33

25. Willow Weep for Me Greta Keller 1/24/33

26. Get on the Golden Train Sons of the Pioneers 1934

CD 5

1. Washboard Blues Hoagy Carmichael 11/16/34

2. Throw Me in the Alley Peetie Wheatstraw w/Ike Rodgers 8/24/34

3. Ida Red Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers w.Riley Puckett 3/29/34

4. Sendin' the Vipers Mezzrow/Carter/O'Brien/WL Smith B. Freeman/M. Kaminsky 5/7/34

5. St. Louis Blues Guy Lombardo 2/15/34

6. Hobo's Blues Wilf Carter 1/11/34

7. Hard Working Woman Johnnie Strauss w/Henry Brown violin 8/20/34

8. 44 Blues Lee Green 8/24/34

9. Hang It On the Wall Charlie Patton 1934

10. Matchbox Larry Hensley 11/25/34

11. Starvation Farm Blues Bob Campbell 1934

12. West Dallas Drag Robert Cooper 4/3/34

13. Oh Death Charlie Patton Bertha Lee Patton 1934 .

14. Old Man River Casa Loma Orchestra 2/3/34

15. Old Man River Tiny Bradshaw 10/3/34

16. Black Evil Blues Alice Moore 8/18/34 Ike Rogers, Henry Brown

17. Repeal the Blues Johnny Green piano solo 2/1/34

18. Moaning the Blues Memphis Minnie McCoy Kansas Joe McCoy 9/10/34

19. Miss Jackson, Tennessee Goebel Reeves 8/31/34

20. I'm Throwin' Up My Hands The Rev. Gary Davis 7/21/35 .

21. Down South Blues Sleepy John Estes Hammie Nixon 7/9/35

22. Pelican Stomp Cleo Brown 5/20/35

23. How You Want Your Rollin' Done? Louie Lasky 4/2/35

24. Shave 'em Dry Lucille Bogan 3/35

25. Stop That Thing Sleepy John Estes Hammie Nixon 7/9/35

26. I'm Sittin On Top of the World Shelton Brothers 12-19-35

CD 6

1. Deep Elm Blues Prairie Ramblers 8/15/35

2. Baby Please Don't Go Big Joe Williams 1935

3. Blues in E Flat Red Norvo/B. Berigan/Chu Berry/Teddy Wilson/J. Mince/G.Krupa 1/25/35

4. Rounder's Luck (Rising Sun Blues) Homer Callahan 4/11/35

5. Rocks in My Bed Leroy Carr/Scrapper Blackwell 2/25/35

6. Until the Cows Come Home Lucille Bogan 3/35 S

7. Little Brother Montgomery Vicksburg Blues II 1935

8. Alberta Lawrence Walker 1/18/35

9. Hittin' the Bottle Jimmie Lunceford 9/30/35 arr. and guitar: Eddie Durham

10. Alabama Booker T. Sapps/group 6/35

11. Boot That Thing 6/35 Booker T. Sapps/group

12. The Longest Train JE Mainer's Mountaineers 8/6/35

13. Sloppy Drunk Again Walter Davis (Henry Townsend, gtr) 2/5/35

14. Cold Winter's Day Blind Willie McTell 4/25/35

15. Honey I'm All Down and Out Leadbelly 1/23/35

16. Willow Tree Mildred Bailey Berigan/Wilson/Hodges 12/6/35

17. Give It To Me Daddy Hartman's Heartbreakers 6/22/36

18. I'm a Pilgrim and a Stranger Heavenly Gospel Singers 2/13/36

19. I Used to Work on the Tractor Jimmy Strothers 6/14/36

20. The Nasty Swing Cliff Carlisle 6/16/36

21. Who Was John? Mitchell's Christian Singers 4/29/36

22. Bluin' the Blues Original Dixieland Jazz Band 11/10/36

23. I Must Have that Man Valaida Snow 9/36

24. New Jelly Roll Blues Al Dexter 11/28/36

25. Somebody's Been Using That Thing Milton Brown w/Bob Dunn 3/36

26. Walkin' Blues Robert Johnson 11/27/36

27. Lonesome Day Blues Jessie James 6/3/36

CD 7

1. The Wamp Boots and His Buddies 2/25/36

2. Poor Girl Smith and Harper 6/26/36

3. Skippy Wippy Mississippi Juke Band 7/16/36

4. I'm Goin' to Cincinnatti Walter Coleman 2/8/36

5. Louise Louise Johnny Temple 11/12/36

6. I'm Wild About That Thing The Tune Wranglers 2/28/36

7. There's More Pretty Girls Than One Arthur Smith Trio 2/17/36

8. Bell Clappin' Mama Bill Carlisle 2/16/37

9. Blues in the Bottle Jimmy Revard ca. 1937

10. Diamond Joe Charlie Butler 3/8/37

11. Dirty Hangover Blues W Lee O'Daniel and his Hillbilly Boys 6/11/37

12. Crazy With the Blues Peetie Wheatstraw 3/26/37

13. Down the Highway Charlie Pickett 8/13/37

14. Blues Django Reinhardt/Grappelli/Phillip Brun 12/27/37

15. Good Morning Little School Girl Sonny Boy Williamson 5/5/37

16. Bluer Than Blue Lil Armstrong Joe Thomas 4/15/37

17. Old Man River Frankie Trumbauer Orch. Mannie Klein/Jimmy Oliver 1937 or 1938

18. Good Morning Blues Count Basie Jimmy Rushing 8/9/37

19. I Don't Mind the Weather Jim Henry 1937

20. Just A Mood (Blue Mood) Teddy Wilson/Harry James 9/5/37

21. I Got a Man in the 'Bama Mines Addie Spivey 10/1/37

22. Leavin' Home The Swingbillies 8/1/37

23. Woodchip Blues Smokey Wood 9/12/37

24. Blues of Avalon Boots and His Buddies 9/29/37

25. Dicky Wells' Blues 7/12/37 Dicky Wells

26. Blues Bunny Berigan/Fats Waller/Tommy Dorsey/Dick McDonough 3/31/37

27. Dirty Dish Rag Blues Light Crust Doughboys 11/30/38

CD 8

1. From Symphony Number 1 Charles Ives, piano 5/11/38

2. Swingin' the Blues Count Basie Orch. 2/16/38

3. Coalminer's Blues The Carter Family 6/8/38

4. Weary Blues Sidney Bechet Tommy Ladnier 11/28/38

5. Getting' Tired The Rambling Rangers 12/1/38

6. If You See Me Comin' Mezz Mezzrow/Ladnier/Teddy Bunn 12/19/38

7. Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby Roy Newman 12/1/38

8. Dust Roy Rogers 3/30/38

9. Blues L. Armstrong F. Waller J. Teagarden 10/19/38

10. Rollin' On Monroe Brothers 1/28/38

11. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Louis Armstrong w/Mixed Chorus 12/25/38

12. Naked Dance Jelly Roll Morton 1938

13. Cold Iron Bed Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band 1939

14. Roland Hayes Were You There When They Crucified Our Lord? 1939

15. Pete Johnson Baby Look at You Joe Turner Buster Smith 6/30/39

16. Billie Holiday Long Gone Blues 3/21/39

17. Nickel Nabber Blues Bob Zurke Orch. 12/15/39

18. Settle Down Blues Buddy Jones 4/30/39

19. Goin' to Chicago Blues Count Basie Jimmy Rushing Dickey Wells Lester Young 2/13/39

20. I Looked Down the Line Dixie Hummingbirds 9/19/39

21. Honky Tonk Blues Jelly Roll Morton 1938

22. Floyd's Guitar Blues Andy Kirk/Floyd Smith 3/16/39

23. Orange Blossom Special Rouse Brothers 6/16/39

24. Five O'clock Blues Jimmy Yancey 10/25/39

25. Whiskey Headed Woman Tommy McLennan 11/22/39

26. Blues My Baby Gave to Me Frankie Newton 1/13/39

27. Lonesome Jailhouse Blues Aunt Molly Jackson ca. 1939

CD 9

1. Blues Vladimir Safanov with the Pop Band of Moscow 1939

2. Don't You Leave Me Here Jelly Roll Morton 12/16/39

3. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water Three Cats and the Fiddle 6/27/39

4. Natchez Mississippi Blues The Lewis Bronzeville Five 5/9/40

5. Minute and Hour Blues 5 Breezes (Willie Dixon) 11/15/40

6. Blues in Thirds Bechet/Hines 1940

7. Sepia Panorama Duke Ellington 6/24/40

8. Sweepin' the Blues Away Sammy Price/Don Stovall 3/13/40

9. Desert Hokum Farr brothers 1940

10. A Good Man is Hard to Find Miff Mole/Pee Wee Russell/Max Kaminsky 3./24/40

11. Breakfast Feud Benny Goodman, Charlie Chistian 12/19/40

12. Don't You Lie to Me Tampa Red 5/10/40

13. Muleskinner Blues Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys 10/7/40

14. Piney Brown Blues Joe Turner Pete Johnson HL Page 11/11/40

15. New Falling Rain Blues Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers w/Bob Dunn 4/8/40

16. Thousand Women Blues Blind Boy Fuller 6/19/40

17. I Can't Give You Anything But Love Joe Turner w/Joe Sullivan 2/9/40

18. My Little Girl Lee Brown w/Fess Williams., Lil Armstrong, Jonah Jones 4/17/40

19. Papa Please Georgia White w/Jonah Jones 4/18/40

20. Lowdown Blues Kid Rena Jim Robinson Picou/Nelson 1940

21. Muleskinner Blues Roy Acuff 4/40

22. Fixin' to Die Blues Bukka White 3/8/40

23. Stormy Weather Charlie and his Orchestra 1940

24. On a Blues Kick Boyce Brown Wild Bill Davison 2/12/40

25. The Last Time I Saw Chicago 1 and 2 Pee Wee Russell/Joe Sullivan/Z. Singleton 1941

Volume 3

CD 1

1. Give Your Mama One Smile Lil Green 3/21/41

2. New Confessin Blues Walter Brown Jay McShann 11/18/41

3. Snub's Blues Snub Mosely 10/21/41

4. Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You Chu Berry/Hot Lips Page/Clyde Hart/Al Casey 8/28/41

5. Rock Me Rosetta Tharpe w/Lucky Millender 6/27/41

6. Peach Tree blues Yank Rachel Sonny Boy Williamson 12/11/41

7. Evening Star Raymond Scott 1941

8. Jezebel The Golden gate Quartet 1941

9. Cross Cut Saw Tony Hollins 6/3/41

10. Toledo Blues Art Tatum 7/26/41

11. Anyhow Golden Gate Quartet 5/23/41

12. I Must Have That Man Ella Fitzgerald 7/31/41

13. I Bes Satisfied Muddy Waters 1941

14. Walking Blues Son House w/Willie Brown 9/3/41

15. Lonesome Train Blues Hank Penny 6/29/41

16. Hootie Blues Jay McShann Walter Brown Charlie Parker 1941

17. Mama You Goin to Quit Me Good as I Been to You Allison Mathis 1941

18. Country Blues Muddy Waters 8/41

19. Sluefoot on the Levee Light Crust Doughboys Zeke Campbell 2/27/41

20. Confessin' The Blues Dr. Clayton 8/19/41 w/Blind John Davis

21. Daddy Chappy and His Orchestra 1942

22. I Like Pie, I Like Cake The Four Clefs 7/22/42

23. Catfish Blues Robert Petway 3/28/41

24. Ramblin' Mind Blues Big Maceo w/Tampa Red 6/24/41

25. Mean Old World T. Bone Walker 7/31/42

CD 2

1. Liberty Inn Drag Art Hodes 1942

2. The Cuckoo Bird Hobart Smith 8/42

3. David Honeyboy Edwards Water Coast Blues 7/42

4. Aint't No Grave Gonna Keep My Body Down Bozie Sturdivant 1942

5. When I Lay My Burden Down Taylor Junior Johnson 1942

6. Walking The Floor Over You Ernest Tubb 1942

7. Rhapsody in Blue Glenn Miller 7/16/42 arr. Bill Finegan

8. Joe Turner Blues Son Simms 4 w/Muddy Waters 7/24/42

9. Old Joe Nashville Washboard Band 7/15/42

10. I'm Gonna Leave You On The Outskirts of Town Louis Jordan 7/21/42

11. Bluest Blues Ted Daffan 2/20/42

12. Corinne Nathan Frazier 3/42

13. Unlucky Blues Helen Humes w/ Pete Brown, Sammy Price 2/9/42

14. Chain Gang Bob Crosby 2/17/42 Nappy Lamarre, arr Haggart

15. Travelin' Light Billie Holiday 6/12/42

16. How Long Blues Count Basie 7/24/42

17. Low Down Dirty Dog Blues Son House 7/17/42

18. The Letter Harry Partch 1943

19. St Louis Blues Dave Apollon 1943

20. I Don't Know Cripple Clarence Lofton 12/43

21. When I'm Dead and Buried Ake (Stan) Hasselgarde 1943

22. Jelly Jelly Josh White John Simmons/JC Heard 12/13/44

23. St. Louis Blues Mary Lou Williams 4/19/44

24. I Keep Rollin On Hot Lips Page 6/14/44

CD 3

1. Cecil Gant I Wonder 1944

2. The Hipster's Blues Opus 6 7/8 Harry the Hipster Gibson 4/21/44

3. M.K. Blues Art Hodes' Backroom Boys w/Max Kaminsky 4/21/44

4. Four O'Clock Drag Lester Young/Dickie Wells/ Joe Bushkin/Bill Coleman 3/28/44

5. Sugar Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston 1944

6. Lips Blues Hot Lips Page, Clyde Hart, Earl Bostic 9/12/44

7. I'll Always Love You Just the Same Tiny Grimes/Charlie Parker 9/15/44

8. Willow Tree James P Johnson 1944

9. Bed On The Floor Woody Guthrie Cisco Houston 4/19/44

10. No Smokes Blues Sarah Vaughan Dizzy Gillespie Chuck Wayne 12/31/44

11. Blowin' the Blues Away Billy Eckstein Gene Ammons Dexter Gordon 12/5/44

12. West End Blues Cootie Williams/Bud Powell 7/4/44

13. Play My Jukebox Boy Green 1944

14. Willie Weep For Me Willie Smith and his Orch. Les Paul, Arnold Ross 2/11/45

15. I Fell For You Miss Rhapsody Freddie Webster/Lockjaw Davis 5/15/45

16. Travellin' Blues Slim Galliard Howard McGhee Teddy Edwards 9/45

17. Scattin' the Blues Leo Watson 1/24/45

18. The Honeydripper - Part 1 Joe Liggins 3/26/45

19. Hobron City Stomp Cow Cow Davenport 1945

20. Can't Help Lovin' That Man June Christy 12/45

21. Did You Ever Love a Woman Gatemouth Moore 11/14/45

22. Evil Gal Blues Dinah Washington w/Lionel Hampton 4/15/45

23. Misterioso Gramercy 5 Artie Shaw 7/31/45

24. I'm Confessin Peggy Lee 1/45

25. Dirt Road Blues Arthur Crudup 10/22/45

26. Snag It Bunk Johnson/George Lewis 12/6/45

27. I Wonder L Armstrong 1/14/45

CD 4

1. Riffamarole Metronome All Stars Bill Coleman B Bailey Nat Cole Max Roach 3/30/45

2. Baby Won't You Please Come Home Jo Stafford w/Metronome All Stars 3/28/46

3. The Clouds Rained Trouble Down Jack Guthrie 1946

4. Dark Bayou Charlie Barnett arr Dennis Sandole 3/8/46

5. Railroad Blues Luckey Roberts 5/21/46

6. South Side Blues George Barnes Octet 1946

7. Travelin' Blues Texas Ruby 1946

8. Empty Bed Blues Ivy Anderson Lucky Thompson 1946

9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Lena Horne 1946

10. Burying Ground Blues Muddy Waters 9/27/46

11. Talkin' 'Bout You Bob Wills w/Junior Bernard 1/4/46

12. Evil Hearted Woman Blues Johnny Shines 2/24/46

13. Blues Riff Django Reinhardt w/Duke Ellington Orchestra 11/10/46

14. Lost John Boogie Merle Travis 1946

15. When Your Lover Has Gone Charles Brown 1946

16. Pete's Lonesome Blues Pete Johnson 1/46

17. St. Louis Blues Dorothy Donegan 1946

18. Intermission Riff Stan Kenton 1/14/46

19. The Snake Pit Leo Watson A Garrison V. Dickenson 9/7/46

20. God Shall Wipe All Tears Away The Kings of Harmony 1946

21. Blues Lennie Tristano/Billy Bauer 10/8/46

22. Back to the Land Lester Young Nat Cole Buddy Rich 3 or 4/46

23. Ruby Cousin Emmy and her Kinfolk 4/12/46

24. Buddy Johnson Walk 'Em 1946

25. Willow Weep for Me Stan Kenton June Christy 7/25/46

26. Diminuendo in Blue Duke Ellington 10/23/46

27. St. Louis Blues Boyd Raeburn w/Ginny Powell 8/14/47

CD 5

1. Blood Red River Blues Richard Trice 9/25/47

2. Dig a Little Deeper Mahalia Jackson ca. 1947

3. Cocaine Blues Roy Hogsed 5/20/47

4. Seventh Avenue Express Count Basie B Tate D Wells 10/19/47

5. Elevation Red Rodney/Eager/Haig/Chaloff/T Kahn 1/29/47

6. Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip Anita O'Day 9/47

7. Boyd Meets Stravinsky Boyd Raeburn 2/5/46

8. Old Man River The Ravens 4/47

9. My Baby Likes to Bebop Johnny Mercer Nat Cole 8/20/47

10. Relaxin' at Camarillo Dizzy Gillespie Big Band arr. George Russell 9/29/47

11. A Woman Alone With The Blues Lee Wiley/Jess Stacy 6/47 (comp/ Willard Robison)

12. Blue Monday Blues Memphis Minnie Little Son Joe 12/27/47

13. Get off It and Go Ella Mae Morse 1947

14. The Clothed Woman Duke Ellington 12/30/47

15. Open the Door Richard Dusty Fletcher Big Nick Nicholas Jimmy Jones 1/4/47

16. There's Another Mule in Your Stall Nellie Lutcher 8/47

17. I'm Confessin Slim Galliard w/Bam Brown 1946 or 1947

18. On Time Mary Ann McCall arr. R Burns 6/19/47

19. I Took the Front Door In Eddie Cleanhead Vinson ca. 12/47

20. Milk Cow Blues Rose Maddox and Her Brothers ca. 1947

21. Annie's Blues Annie Laurie Paul Gayten 10/47

22. Rainy Weather Blues Roy Brown 10/48

23. A Lesson In Bopology Babs Gonzalez/ James Moody 12/2/48

24. Wrong Road Blues Tommy Duncan ca. 1948

25. Grievance Blues Lightning Hopkins ca. 1948-1950

26. Lonesome Johnny and Jack late 1940s

27. While the Blood Runs Warm Madame Ernestine late 1940s

28. This is My Prayer The Soul Stirrers 5/48

CD 6

1. Deacon Hop Big Jay McNeely 11/48

2. Boar Hog Blues Ralph Willis 6/8/48

3. Grievin' Blues John Lee Hooker 1948

4. Bowlegged Woman Bull Moose Jackson 1948

5. I Feel Like Going Home Muddy Waters 4/48

6. Locked Out Boogie Leroy Foster 11/30/48

7. Careless Love Tex Williams w/Joaquin Murphy, Deuce Spriggins 1948

8. Hastings Street Woogie Man Detroit Count 1948

9. God Don't Like It Reverend A, Johnson ca. 1948

10. Like A Woman John Lee Hooker 1948

11. Barbarabatiri Machito 1948

12. She's My Old Time Used to Be T. Bone Walker 5/12/49

13. Lestorian Mode Brew Moore 5/20/49

14. I Quit My Pretty Mama Ivory Joe Hunter 7/15/49

15. I'm Gonna Move Home Bye and Bye Moon Mullican 1949 .

16. Steelin' the Blues Jerry Byrd; w/Rex Allen 1949

17. Blues Stay Away from Me Delmore Brothers 5/6/49

18. Baby Don't You Cry The Striders 11/14/49

19. Gonna Write You a Letter Jesse Thomas 1949

20. Now's the Time Bird/Haig 1949

21. Miss Martha King B.B. King late 1949 w/Newborn family

22. Sittin' On It All the Time Wynonie Harris 10/19/49

23. You Better Leave My Gal Alone Walter Brown w/ Harold Ashby 10/31/49

24. Blue Satin Illinois Jacquet 12/14/49

25. Lemon Man Dan Pickett 1949

26. Mama Bring Your Clothes Back Home Lowell Fulson 1949

27. Tangle Eye Blues Tangle Eye 1948

CD 7

1. Unlucky Blues Blues Taylor ca. 1949

2. Tiny's Blues Tiny Kahn Orch. 2/24/49

3. Were You There When They Crucified Our Lord? Sister Rosetta Tharpe 12/12/49

4. Can't You Hear Me Callin'? Bill Monroe/Earl Scruggs 10/22/49

5. Doris Day I'm Confessin 1949

6. I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City Frantic Faye Thomas ca. 1949

7. Riding to a Funeral in a V8 Dan Pickett 1949

8. Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams 3/1/49

9. Sweet Old Woman Blues Goree Carter 1949

10. Four Piano Blues (excerpt) Aaron Copeland 1949

11. Prowlin' Ground Hog Willie Lane summer 1949

12. Give Me Wings Willie Mae Ford Smith 1950

13. Some Rainy Day Curley Weaver 1950

14. Six Three O Robert Nighthawk 11/5/50

15. Her Mind is Gone Professor Longhair 2/50 ...

16. I'm Just a Country Boy Jimmy Witherspoon 1950

17. I Just Keep Loving Her Little Walter, Baby Face Leroy Foster 1/50

18. Didn't He Ramble? Louis Armstrong 4/26/50 (excerpt)

19. In a Blue Summer Garden Ellington/Strayhorn 11/50

20. Rollin and Tumblin Part I Little Walter, Leroy Foster Muddy Waters 1/50

21. Rollin and Tumblin Part II Little Walter, Leroy Foster Muddy Waters 1/50

22. Lovesick Blues Anita O'day 12/27/50

23. The Blues Came Falling Down Al Hibbler 10/25/50

24. Ain't Gonna Quit You Baby Helen Humes/D. Gordon 11/20/50

25. Yodel Your Blues Away Bill Haley ca. 1950

26. Sad Feeling Helen Humes w/ Britt Woodman 5/9/50

27. Band Ain't Draggin' Maynard Ferguson Metronome All Stars arr. Gene Roland 9/13/50

CD 8

1. Bad Bad Whiskey Amos Milburn w/Wayne Bennett 9/21/50

2. When Things Go Wrong With You Tampa Red 3/21/50

3. Take Out Some Time Laverne Baker 1950

4. It Happened to Me Iry LeJune ca. 1950

5. Sittin' and Thinking Memphis Slim 1950

6. Lost in a Dream Little Esther Phillips J Otis/Pete Lewis 9/14/50

7. St. Louis Blues Django Reinhardt 4 or 5/50

8. My Blue Heaven Bing Crosby Al Jolson 1/14/50

9. Release Me Eddie Miller 1950

10. Try Me One More Time Willie Nix w/Willie Johnson 6/18/50

11. Now Tell Me Baby Walter Horton 2/51

12. Me and My Crazy Self Lonnie Johnson 10/26/51

13. My Daily Wish Robert Junior Lockwood Sunnyland Slim 11/15/51

14. Weary Blues From Waitin' Hank Williams 1951

15. Slowly Goin' Crazy H Bomb Ferguson 12/12/51

16. I'll Never Forget Ira Tucker with the Dixie Hummingbirds 12/51

17. Bud's Blues Hampton Hawes 9/22/51

18. I'm a Fool to Want You 6/2/51 Dinah Washington

19. Cryin' at Daybreak Howlin' Wolf 10/51

20. Too Much Boogie Doc Pomus with Bill Doggett Orch. Joe Thomas 3/8/51

21. Gloomy Sunday Bill Russo Shelby Davis 8/15/1951

22. I'm a Fool to Want You Frank Sinatra 3/27/51

23. Don't You Lie To Me Fats Domino 4/51

24. Lillie Mae Boogie Alex Moore 1951

25. Too Hot To Handle Gene O'Quin 1951

26. I Love You Porgy Billie Holiday 10/51

27. Harmonica Frank-She Done Moved 1951

CD 9

1. Fool Fool Fool The Clovers 1951

2. I'll Drown in My Tears Lula Reed 1951

3. Tonight You Belong to Me Kay Starr ca. 1951

4. Juke Box Boogie Jimmy Dolan 1951

5. No One to Love Me Manny Nichols 1951

6. Got My Call Card Lawson and Scott 1951

7. Juiced Billy Love Calvin Newborne 6/51

8. Dark Road Floyd Jones 1951

9. Turn Your Lamp Down Low Billy Wright 11/51

10. Lonesome Highway Percy Mayfield 3/31/52

11. Love My Baby Junior Parker. 9/52

12. Walked All Night Charlie Booker 1952

13. TNT Woman Sonny Boy Holmes BC 23 1952

14. When the Saints Go Marching In Papa Lightfoot 1952

15. I Ain't For It Boogie Bill Webb 1952

16. Mama Don't Allow Me Big Joe Williams 9/25/52

17. Everybody's Fishin Willie Love Joe Willie Wilkins 1952

18. Lawdy Lawdy Lawdy Pt. 1 Dave Bartholomew Tommy Ridgely 12/22/52

19. Little Rootie Tootie Thelonious Monk 10/15/52

20. Bus Fare James Peck w/Sonny Boy Williamson 1/22/52

21. Drifting From Town To Town Bobby Bland with Matt Murphy 1/24/52

22. Daddy Daddy Daddy Ruth Brown 1952

23. The Gears Gil Melle 1952

24. I'm On the Outside Looking In Flo Garvin 1/11/52

25. It's So Peaceful Smiley Lewis 6/3/52

26. One Morning Soon Dorothy Love Coates 1952

27. 44 Blues Dudlow & Peck Curtis 1952

28. A Lonesome Train Stan Kenton comp. Gene Roland Kay Brown 9/52

29. The Birdland Story Eddie Jefferson 7/11/52

Volume 4

CD 28

1. Trane's Slo Blues John Coltrane 8/31/52 (excerpt)

2. Giddy Up Lloyd Fatman Smith 1952

3. Broken Heart Memphis Minnie 7/11/52

4. Crying with the Rising Sun Pete Lewis 1/4/52

5. Loo Pa Doo Bill Triglia/Tony Fruscella/Phil Urso 2/16/52

6. Tell Me Why Varetta Dillard 1/22/52

7. Cool Blues Dick Twardzik 12/14/52 (excerpt

8. Who's Blues Herbie Nichols 3/6/52

9. Would You? Roy Hawkins T Bone Walker 1/52

10. Honey In The Rock The Larks 3/52

11. I Love My God Gospel Twins 1952

12. Deep Sea Blues Clyde McPhatter and the Dominoes 1952

13. Hambone Tennessee Ernie Ford 1952

14. The Snow is Falling Ray Charles 1952

15. Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Brother Claude Ely 10/12/53

16. Story of My Life Guitar Slim 10/26/53

17. I Don't Hurt Anymore Hank Snow 12/16/53

18. Chicago Blues Little Johnny Jones 10/9/53

19. Bye and Bye Bob Angliano Quartet ca. 1953

20. Two Wings Rev. Utah Smith 1953

21. Call Me Anything But Call Me Memphis Ma Rainey 4/19/53

22. Jealous Blues Sonny Parker 12/23/53

23. I Was Wrong Charline Arthur 2/9/53

24. Misery in My Heart Ray Charles 1953

25. Lonely Heart Link Davis 3/20/53

26. I Gotta Right to Sing The Blues Jack Teagarden w/C. Teagarden 11/4/53

27. Overboard Sugar Boy Crawford 9/53

28. Frank Sinatra I'm Confessin ca. 1953

CD 2

1. Parker's Mood King Pleasure 12/24/53

2. Earl Hooker Blue Guitar 1953

3. You're Down With Me Huey Piano Smith Lee Allen 6/1/53

4. Never No More Blues Lefty Frizzell 2/7/53

5. How Long? Sister O.M. Terrell 1953

6. Little City Woman Big Bill Broonzy/Washboard Sam 1953

7. Shake His Hand Peanut Faircloth with the Log Cabin Boys Fall 1953 T

8. Cold in the Evening J.D. Edwards 5/27/53

9. Paper in My Shoe Boozoo Chavis 1953

10. Tiny's Blues Bud Powell 4/15/53

11. December Blues Duke Ellington 12/3/53

12. Say No to the Devil Reverend Gary Davis Kinney Peebles 1953

13. Boyd Gilmore 1271. I Believe I'll Settle Down w/Earl Hooker 7/15/53

14. Ugly Woman Johnny O'Neal w/Ike Turner 8/2/53

15. Stratosphere Boogie Jimmy Bryant Speedy West 9/2/54

16. Monte Carlo Dixie Blues Boys ca. 1954

17. Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down Caudhill Family 1954

18. Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley 10/16/54

19. Cotton Crop James Cotton 5/14/54

20. Mecca Flat Blues Clair Austin 4/2/54

21. All Aboard Original Five Blind Boys Archie Brownlee 1954

22. Footnotes George Handy/Dave Schildkraut 6/13/54

23. Jolie Tee Catin Bee Arnold 1954

24. Contrapuntal Blues Red Camp 1954

25. This is All Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1954

26. The Woman I Love B.B. King 1954

CD 3

1. Eulogy For Rudy Williams Mingus/LaPorta/Macero 10/31/54

2. A Blues Serenade Frank Signorelli George Wettling 1954

3. Tin Roof Blues Tom Brown Johnny Wiggs Harry Shields Doc Souchon 10/11/54

4. So Lonely Johnny Ace 1/27/54

5. Down the Line Buddy (Holly) and Bob 1954

6. Walkin' (excerpt) Miles Davis 4/29/54 (excerpt)

7. Honky Tonk Part II Bill Doggett w/P France 1954

8. Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orch Rolf Lieberman 1954 (excerpt)

9. Hand in Hand Elmore James 1954

10. Billie's Bounce Russ Freeman/Shelly Manne 9/14/54

11. Long Long Time Saunders King 1954

12. I Have a Friend Above All Others The Soul Stirrers w/ Sam Cook 7/22/55

13. I Still Love You Baby Lowell Fulson 8/3/55

14. Taurus Mary Lou Williams 1955

15. Nobody Knows Highway QCs 5/2/55

16. When Your Lover Has Gone Mel Powell 1955

17. You Played the Part The Spiders 8/55

18. Please Return The Jewels 6/11/55

19. One For My Baby Bobby Troup 1955

20. That's My Pa Jack Dupree 6/27/55

21. Louie's/Burlesque Elmer Bernstein comp. (from The Man With the Golden Arm) w/Bud Shank 1955

22. I've Changed Chuck Berry 12/55 w/ O Spann

23. Sitting in the Dark Nappy Brown 9/29/55

24. Baby Dee Little David and the Harps 10/4/55

25. Rockin' With Leroy Tommy Burnette Middle 1950s

CD 4

1. Ringtail Monkey Jimmy Giuffre Jack Sheldon 1/31/55

2. My Baby One String Sam Mid 1950s

3. Early One Monday Morning (Wee Baby Blues) Doc Pomus live. M. Baker/J Crawford Mid 1950s

4. Mean Eyed Cat Johnny Cash 6/30/55

5. Keep Your Feet on the Floor The Jewels 4/27/55

6. Washboard Blues Pt. 1 Washboard Willie w/Calvin Frazier mid 1950s

7. She's Mine All Mine Arthur Gunter 1955

8. Milk Cow Blues Speckled Red 1955

9. Requiem Lennie Tristano 1955

10. The Day John Brown was Hanged George Russell Hal McKusick 3/3/56 (excerpt)

11. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' Annie Ross 8/22/56 (excerpt)

12. The Key (To Your Heart) Sonny Boy Williamson 1956

13. Motherless Child Julie London 1956

14. Blues in G Lester Young w/Bill Triglia 8/15/56

15. Let's Get Together and Cry Alec Wilder Mundell Lowe 6/19/56

16. Slow Down Jack Earls 4/56

17. I Want a Little Girl Joe Turner 3/7/56

18. Dixie Fried Carl Perkins rel. 8/56

19. All Is Loneliness Moondog 1956

20. Tomorrow Night Jerry Lee Lewis 1956

21. Ace and Jack Rafe Brady late 1950s

22. There I Said it Again Big Maybelle Mickey Baker 7/20/56

23. Route 66 Betty Roche 4/56 (excerpt)

24. Why? Baby Face Willette 1956

25. Knee Deep In the Blues Gene McKown circa 1956

CD 5

1. Miss Ann Little Richard 2/17/56

2. Suffering With The Blues Little Willie John 9/18/56

3. Ghosts/Baby Doll's Fright (Kenyon Hopkins from Baby Doll) 1956

4. Solo Blues Hank Jones 7 or 8/56

5. I Can't Quit You Baby Otis Rush 1956

6. Bye and Bye The Davis Sisters Imogene Green, lead ca. 1956

7. Three Hours Past Midnight Johnny Guitar Watson 1956

8. Pitiful Big Maybelle Mickey Baker 5/14/56

9. If It's News to You Little Esther Mickey Baker 5 /2/56

10. The New Woodpecker Song Billy Mitchell 1956

11. 2 Degrees East 3 Degrees West John Lewis/Bill Perkins 2/10/56 (excerpt)

12. Down Home Jimmy Giuffre 3/22/56

13. My Honey's Lovin' Arms Connee Boswell, Orig Memphis 5 1956

14. Little Maggie Stanley Brothers 8/15/56

15. Lowland Blues Chris Barber with Ottilie Patterson 1956 (excerpt)

16. Never Grow Old Aretha Franklin 1956

17. Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley 3/12/56

18. Slow Groove Roland Kirk 11/9/56

19. Rick Kick Shaw Cecil Taylor 9/56 (excerpt)

20. Aint That Lovin' You Baby Jimmy Reed 1/56

21. K.M. Blues Harry Edison Ben Webster Jimmy Rowles 9/4/56

22. Hot Dog That Made Him Mad Wanda Jackson 9/20/56

23. Dreaming Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra 1956

24. I Flipped Gene Vincent 1956 w/Cliff Gallup

25. Tough Lover Etta James 1956

26. Strip Tease (from the Brigitte Bardot Film Plucking the Daisy) 1956

CD 6

1. I Can't Keep From Lovin' You Baby Face Willette 1956

2. The Squirrel Kenny Clarke arr. Andre Hodeir Martial Solal 10/26/56

3. Blues Stay Away From Me Johnny Burnette Trio Paul Burlison 7/2/56

4. No Use Knocking Bobby Charles 8/28/56

5. I'll Fly Away The Kossoy Sisters 8/56

6. Blue Serge Kenny Clarke arr. Andre Hodeir w/Martial Solal, 10/26/56

7. I Got Love If You Want It Slim Harpo 1957

8. Don't Explain Abbey Lincoln S. Rollins K. Dorham 10/28/57

9. Hold My Baby's Hand James Brown 1957

10. Reflections in Blues Sun Ra Pat Patrick 11/57 (excerpt)

11. Willow Weep For Me Billy Tipton 1957

12. Lets Rock and Roll Little Shy Guy and the Hot Rods 1957

13. Freight Train Blues Jimmy Dean 1957

14. Juneteenth Jamboree Gladys Bentley ca. 1957

15. Bess You is My Woman Larry Adler 1957

16. Baby Please Don't Go Billy Lee Riley 11/25/57

17. Old New Orleans Blues Fess Manetta 5/23/57

18. Blue and Sentimental Francis Wayne 11/14/57

19. Big Daddy Rabbit Barbara Bennett ca. 1957

20. Blue Flame Bill Harris 9/3/57 (excerpt)

21. Love Me With a Feeling Magic Sam 1957

22. Ramblin' Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry/Paul Bley 1957 (excerpt)

23. Blues Chorale/3rd Variation John LaPorta 10/57

24. Poor Howard Charles McDevitt and his Skiffle Group 1957

25. Say It The Five Royales 8/57

CD 7

1. Searchin' The Coasters 2/15/57

2. Daybreak in Alabama Bob Dorough Text by Langston Hughes 1958

3. Come Back to Me Jackie Wilson 1958

4. Barbara Surrenders comp. Johnny Mandel: I Want to Live 1958

5. Doxy Sonny Rollins 8/3/58 (excerpt)

6. There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York Ralph Burns 1958

7. Babe's Blues Betty Carter 1958

8. St. Looey Blues Mickey Katz ca. 1958

9. Key to the Highway Little Walter 11/58

10. Tear Drops on Your Letter Hank Ballard 11/11/58

11. I'm So Lonely Bobby Jay R. Buchanan ca. 1958

12. Missing Link Link Wray 1958

13. This is the End Buddy Guy 1958

14. You've Got to Move Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm 1958

15. Rocket in My Pocket Jimmy Logsdon 1958

16. Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran 1958

17. Invitation to the Blues Ray Price 1958

18. You Don't Bug Me Terry Daly 5/5/58

19. Lament Jack Montrose comp. Text by Dylan Thomas 1958

20. I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson 1958

21. Better Day Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry 1958

22. My Starter Won't Start Lightnin Slim 6/58

23. Groovin' At Small's Jimmy Smith 4/7/58 (excerpt)

24. Lonely One Babs Gonzales Ray Nance 1958 (excerpt)

25. Wake Up Chillun' Wake Up Bobby Short 1958

CD 8

1. Wes Montgomery 4/58 Hymn for Carl (excerpt)

2. That Ain't Right Buck Owens ca. 1958

3. No More Auction Block Paul Robeson w/ L. Brown 6/1/58

4. One for Daddy O C. Adderley Miles Davis 3/9/58 (excerpt)

5. State & 32nd Kenneth Rexroth 1958 Fan. 7008

6. Trombone Blues Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Band 1958

7. Let the Teardrops Fall Patsy Cline 1958

8. When Your Lover Has Gone Della Reese 1958

9. Ooh Ee Baby Albert King 1959

10. Blues for Mother's Henry Mancini 1959

11. I Loves You Porgy Dorothy Dandridge w/Harry Belafonte 1959

12. Antioch Alabama Sacred Heart Singers 1959

13. Respectable The Isley Brothers 12/59

14. Get Crazy Kenyon Hopkins (from the Fugitive Kind) 11/59

15. Sermon/Hymn Reverend I.D. Back and Congregation 1959

16. Sister Sadie Horace Silver 8/30/59 (excerpt)

17. Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow Congregation of Mt. Olive Reg. Baptist Church 1959

18. House of Blue Lights Eddie Costa 7/13/59

19. Liza Jane Dale Hawkins 1959

20. Taboo Fabulous Flee-Rakkers prod. Joe Meek 1959

21. Storm Warning Mac Rebennack 1959

22. Moanin' Charles Mingus Jackie McLean Booker Ervin 1959

23. Good News Staple Singers 8/16/59

24. Blackland Farmer Frankie Miller 1959

25. KC Moan Dave Van Ronk 1959

26. Gone Home Shenandoah Quartet 1959

CD 9

1. Cold Cold Heart Helen Merrill 5/25/59

2. Antioch Alabama Sacred Heart Singers 1959

3. Loretta Al Jones R. Buchanan 1959

4. Eyesight to the Blind Mose Allison 2/13/59

5. Poems from the Unpublished Book of Blues Jack Kerouac Al Cohn Zoot Sims 1959 (excerpt)

6. Chicken Hop Bill Bland w/S. Terry and B. McGhee 1959

7. Baby Baby All the Time Konitz/Marsh/Evans 3/3/59 (excerpt)

8. Blues For Amy Teo Macero 1959

9. I'm Just A Woman Jerry Southern 1959

10. Sea of Love Marty Wilde 1959

11. Teen Beat Sandy Nelson 1959

12. Boogie Woogie All Night Bill Wills 1959

13. Willow Weep for Me Nina Simone arr. Ralph Burns 1959

14. Mash The Wailers 1959

15. Spot 5 Blues Randy Weston Coleman Hawkins 10/28/59 (excerpt)

16. Blue Strollin Willis Jackson Jack McDuff 11/9/59 (excerpt)

17. Pete Kelly's Blues Bobby Darin 5/59

18. Shutdown The Gems 1959

19. Almost Cried Duke Ellington 6/1/59

20. Moanin' Lambert Hendricks and Ross 8/59

21. Cleopatra Rag Joseph Lamb 1959

22. Stingy Woman Roscoe Holcomb 1959

23. Davenport Blues Gil Evans w/Johnny Coles 1959

24. Sweet Nothins Brenda Lee 8/59

25. Mammy Ethel Waters 1959

26. Jaki's Blues Next 1959 Jaki Byard

Edited March 4, 2010 by AllenLowe

[Dan Gould]

You used both Baby Face tracks - cool!

I don't know how I am going to be able to swing this set but I really really really want to get it.

[papsrus]

great news Allen. Looking forward to it!

[Hot Ptah]

You included Charlie Johnson's "Boy in the Boat", which I used on my Blindfold Test #69.

This looks fascinating. I have to get it.

[AllenLowe]

the best thing about these is the emails I get from crazy collectors pointing out mistakes, which are inevitable - I actually welcome these kind of emails, though invariably they tell me how careless and sloppy I am, even while finding only one problem in about 1,000 entires -

Edited March 4, 2010 by AllenLowe

[Christiern]

When it is ready to go and you have a price, I will put a plug and a link on my blog. It has close to 16,000 hits so far, so one never knows, do one?

BTW, give me some pertinent images and I will create a visually enticing plug

[clifford_thornton]

Ditto.

Want it.

[Stefan Wood]

drool

[AllenLowe]

thanks, Chris, will do so asap -

and Stefan, I think this would make a perfect wedding present (rule of thumb: always give the other person something that YOU want) -

[Brad]

Sounds fascinating Allen.

[Alexander]

I'm looking forward to this. I'll also be happy to give it a plug on "Where Dead Voices Gather."

[ejp626]

Congrats on getting this done!! Or almost done at any rate.

Let us know when some clips and/or writing excerpts if any are available. I do hope that if we order directly from you as these are released one at a time, you can let us in on any discount available to those buying all 4 volumes at one fell swoop. That might help smooth out cash flow on both sides. Just a thought.

[Neal Pomea]

Hey! I sent a bunch of good suggestions and even copies of Cajun stuff. Why didn't any of it make it into this collection?

Anyway, congratulations on this massive project.

[AllenLowe]

there is a fair amount of cajun - Ardoin, Lawrence Walker, LeJune, Dennis McGee, some '50s Cajun rock and roll...

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[John L]

Wow! Congratulations! This looks...BIG!

[brownie]

Just what was needed when I'm trying to cut down on spending money on records purchase!

Obviously music to get!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just what was needed when I'm trying to cut down on spending money on records purchase!

Obviously music to get!

Ditto.

Ditto.

But disappointed you couldn't clean up the Billy Wright "Do somethin'"; I'd have liked to hear a clean version.

MG

[Big Beat Steve]

Consider me VERY interested too.

Will be looking forward to hearing about the total cost and the cost of international shipping once they're there.

Good work!

[AllenLowe]

MG - I almost used Do Somethin' but actually liked the other performance, in strictly musical terms, a little better.

though he's no Johnny Winter....

[ghost of miles]

Count me in as well, Allen.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

MG - I almost used Do Somethin' but actually liked the other performance, in strictly musical terms, a little better.

Well... "Do somethin'" was taking things a bit farther, while "Turn your lamp down low" seems to have been the mixture as before (though I could well be wrong about that).

though he's no Johnny Winter....

True

MG

[Man with the Golden Arm]

These sets look amazing. congrats on all the work!

IIRC you were looking for art for the set (or maybe I'm senile)??

I check some artist blogs off & on and thought of this guy for a look: http://limbolo.blogspot.com/

(he reminds me a bit of Joe Ciardiello - http://www.joeciardiello.com/ - who did the Capitol blues collection covers, only a bit softer and rarer seen & a bit of old Bart Forbes in style but w more oomph.)

Edited March 5, 2010 by Man with the Golden Arm

[AllenLowe]

thanks, no, the art work is done on the blues set; I am thinking right now, in addition, of self-publishing two books, one on the history of rock and roll, the other on jazz of the 1950s. Haven't, however, quite made up my mind -

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

These sets look amazing. congrats on all the work!

IIRC you were looking for art for the set (or maybe I'm senile)??

I check some artist blogs off & on and thought of this guy for a look: http://limbolo.blogspot.com/

(he reminds me a bit of Joe Ciardiello - http://www.joeciardiello.com/ - who did the Capitol blues collection covers, only a bit softer and rarer seen & a bit of old Bart Forbes in style but w more oomph.)

Nice stuff!

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

I look forward to this.

'That Devilin' Tune' is easily the most enjoyable set of CDs compiling early jazz that I've come across.

'Blues' is a much foggier area for me so I'm hoping for an education!