The Best There Ever Was: The Legendary Early Blues Performers, Classic Recordings from the 1920s and ’30s / Yazoo CD-3002

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Yazoo CD 3002 / This collection is a best of the best of the best, featuring 20 all-time greatest early rural blues performers, each doing one of their best performances. This is the ultimate one desert-island CD of American blues roots.

1. GARFIELD AKERS, Dough Roller Blues

2. TOMMY JOHNSON, Big Road Blues

3. SON HOUSE, My Black Mamma – Part 1

4. MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, Ain’t No Tellin

5. SKIP JAMES, Cypress Grove

6. BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON, I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole

7. BLIND WILLIE MCTELL, Mama, Tain’t Long Fo’ Day

8. JAYDEE SHORT, Barefoot Blues

9. ROBERT WILKINS, I’ll Go With Her Blues

10. ED BELL, Squabblin Blues

11. CHARLIE PATTON, It Won’t Be Long

12. FRANK STOKES, What’s The Matter Blues

13. GEESHIE WILEY, Last Kind Word Blues

14. WILLIAMS HARRIS, Bullfrog Blues

15. BLIND BLAKE, You Gonna Quit Me Blues

16. KING SOLOMON HILL, The Gone Dead Train

17. MEMPHIS MINNIE, Outdoor Blues

18. BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON, Prison Cell Blues

19. SAM COLLINS, Graveyard Digger’s Blues

20. FURRY LEWIS, Big Chief Blues