The Rough Guide to the Delta Blues
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- The Rough Guide to Delta Blues, Sounds from the Cottonfields of the Deep South, 2002 World Music Network, $16. If I were going to make myself a compilation of essential (and enjoyable) mostly-early Delta blues, this would pretty much be it. Almost all acoustic, this excellent CD includes pre-war heavyweights like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson PLUS obscure geniuses like Geechie Wiley and Alfred Lewis PLUS a handful of more modern Mississippi marvels like R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. (Makes a great introductory gift for new or future blues converts.) This is my best or second best title as far as sales go. 24 tracks:
- R.L. Burnside - Jumper oOn The Line
- Robert Johnson - Preaching Blues
- MS Fred McDowell - Done Left Here
- Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere
- Son House - Walkin' blues
- MS Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World
- Muddy Waters - Country Blues
- Asie Payton - Goin' Back To The Bridge
- Geechie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues
- Robert Petway - Catfish Blues
- Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink Of Water Blues
- Robert Belfour - Black Mattie
- Blind Joe Reynolds - Outside Woman Blues
- Willie Brown - Future Blues
- Louise Johnson - On The Wall
- MS John Hurt - Stack O'Lee Blues
- Alfred Lewis - MS Swamp Moan
- Bukka White - Aberdeen MS Blues
- Jr. Kimbrough - Meet Me In The City
- Robert Wilkins - Thas' No Way To Get Along
- Big Bill Broonzy - The Banker's Blues
- Bo Carter - Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
- Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
- Skip James - I'm So Glad
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Alvin Youngblood Hart, Down in the Alley, 2002 Memphis International Records, $16.
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Robert Belfour, Pushin My Luck, 2003 Fat Possum Records, $17.
Be sure to check out the other featured CDs.
- Cadillac John, Crazy About You, $12.
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T-Model Ford, Bad Man, 2002 Fat Possum Records, $17.
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Willie Foster, Live at Airport Grocery, 1999 Mempho Records, $15.
- Wesley Jefferson Band, The Delta Blues Live from the Do Drop Inn, 1996 Repap, $15.
- Jelly Roll Kings, Off Yonder Wall, 1997 Fat Possum Records, $17.
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Willie King, I Am the Blues, 2000 Rural Members Association, $16.
- Super Chikan, What You See, 2000 Fat Possum Records, $17.
Compilations and Soundtracks:
- Hammer in the Delta, A Collection of Music from the Mississippi Delta, 2003 Clarksdale Habitat for Humanity, $15.
- Last of the Mississippi Jukes Soundtrack, 2003 Sanctuary, $18.