Various Artists - Meaning in the Blues [Box]

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

788065714123

Description:

Liner Note Author: Max Haymes.
When Paul Oliver`s Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues was published, it was one of the first books to focus on the country blues from the 78-rpm era (which stretched from the 1920s through the very early `50s) as a kind of black American folk music, a music that tackled black culture in all of its concerns, from love, sex, joy, and sadness to the broader sweep of displacement, war, and death, in an often coded, passionate, and poetic black idiom. It remains required reading for anyone interested in the genre, and this wonderful four-disc, 103-track anthology from JSP Records honors and serves as an audio companion to Oliver`s groundbreaking book, celebrating the 50th anniversary year of its publication. Assembled by Max Haymes, who also wrote the text for the lovely 80-page booklet that accompanies the box set, Meaning in the Blues collects blues 78s that illustrate key points in Oliver`s book, but it also stands alone as a fascinating and engaging survey of early black country blues in all of its forms and variants. ~ Steve Leggett

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Falling Rain Blues
2. Jinx Blues - Ora Brown
3. Dark Night Blues
4. Pony Blues - Charley Patton
5. Milk Cow Blues
6. Labor Blues - Tom Dickson
7. Shake `Em on Down - Bukka White
8. Lonesome Home Blues
9. No Place to Go
10. Cotton Seed Blues
11. Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 1
12. Steamboat Man Blues - Clara Smith
13. Gravel Camp Blues
14. Blue Monday Blues
15. Rock and Gravel Blues - Peg Leg Howell
16. Right String But the Wrong Yo-Yo, The
17. Make Than Gravel Fly - Hattie Snow
18. Rock Island Blues
19. Crazy Blues
20. Snatch It Back Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
21. John Henry
22. Cannonball Blues - Furry Lewis
23. Friendless City Blues - Joshua White
24. Stocking Feet Blues
25. Stranger`s Blues
26. Wintertime Blues

DISC 2:

1. New Way of Living Blues
2. Black Gal Makes Thunder
3. Three Women Blues
4. Yellow Girl Blues - Texas Alexander
5. Gonna Ramble Blues
6. Brown Skin Man
7. Brown Skin Gal
8. Brown Skin Blues
9. Chocolate to the Bone
10. Kitchen Mechanic Blues - Excelsior Quartette
11. Black Evil Blues
12. Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
13. Reckless Woman
14. It Won`t Be Long
15. Little and Low - Roosevelt Sykes
16. Big Fat Mama Blues
17. My Pencil Won`t Write No More
18. Signifying Blues
19. Black Snake Moan
20. Save My Jelly
21. Freakish Man Blues
22. Sissy Man Blues
23. Prove It on Me Blues
24. B.D. Woman`s Blues
25. Dirty Dozen, The
26. Jacksonville Blues - Nellie Florence

DISC 3:

1. Mojo Hand Blues
2. Mojo Hidin` Woman
3. Papa`s Got Your Water On
4. "Toby" Woman Blues
5. Squinch Owl Moan
6. Black Cat Blues - Old Pal Smoke Shop Four
7. Broke and Hungry
8. Wish I Had You (And I`m Gonna Get You Blues) - Viola McCoy
9. Bad Boy
10. Doggone My Good Luck Soul - Hattie Hudson
11. Black Cat Moan
12. Those Black Man Blues
13. Seven Sisters Blues, Pt. 1
14. Seven Sisters Blues, Pt. 2 - Funny Paper Smith
15. Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues
16. I`m a Gamblin` Woman
17. Skin Game Blues
18. Gamblin` Charley
19. If You Lose Your Good Gal, Don`t Mess with Mine
20. Jack O` Diamond Blues [Take 2] - (take)
21. Stack O` Lee Blues
22. Policy Dream Blues
23. Policy Wheel Blues
24. Four Eleven Forty Four
25. Three Sixty Nine Blues
26. Clearing House Blues, The

DISC 4:

1. Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacey
2. Lonesome Blues
3. Old Rounder`s Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
4. Moon Going Down
5. Smack That Thing - Walter Coleman
6. I Had to Smack That Thing - Frances "Barrelhouse Frankie" Wallace
7. I Had to Come Back Home Blues
8. Rowdy Blues
9. Barrelhouse When It Rains
10. Blues in the Alley - Curtis Jones
11. Old Jim Canaan`s
12. On the Wall
13. Beaver Slide Rag
14. Low Down Mississippi Bottom Man
15. You Got to Reap What You Sow
16. Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
17. Some Summer Day, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton
18. I`m Still Sitting on Top of the World
19. Mama Blues
20. Friday Moan Blues
21. Violin Blues
22. Shaking Weed Blues
23. Fairasee Woman (Memphis Woman)
24. Spike Driver Blues
25. Waking Blues

Album Information

Release Date:

05/02/2011

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Delta

Label:

JSP (UK)

Catalog Number:

JSPCD 77141

Original Release Year:

2011

# of Discs:

4

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

309 : 20

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