Mississippi Blues - When The Levee Breaks - Rare Cuts 1926-1941 - 4 CD Box Set
100 extremely rare early blues recordings. When Mississippi blues is mentioned, it's most often associated with the Delta, with its supposed prevalence of slide or bottleneck guitar playing. In reality, this was but one of many styles to be found within the state's boundaries. At least as prevalent was the rhythm-based approach favoured by musicians from the hill country to the east of the state. These men infiltrated the Delta. Most of these musicians were itinerants, their lives undocumented, whose arrival in front of a microphone was often a matter of chance. Other musicians made their way to Jackson, MS, to seek H.C. Speirs' music shop. Speir recorded them on his basic equipment, sent dubs to northern record companies and for the chosen, arranged their travel to sessions. The majority of the music on these discs was first made as much as 80 years ago. Some tolerance should be exercised when listening to what are sometimes the only copies of records close to mythical status. A case in point is Son House's "Mississippi County Farm Blues", recorded in May 1930. This and "Clarksdale Moan" were known to have been released but only in the last couple of years has a copy, luckily in reasonable condition, been found. This music, vital and entertaining, is also a record of the world these musicians inhabited, its sites, its events, its people - a compendium of knowledge important in its day. These titles are among the building blocks of blues history. Extensive notes tell as much as is known about the background to the recordings.
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100 extremely rare early blues recordings. When Mississippi blues is mentioned, it's most often associated with the Delta, with its supposed prevalence of slide or bottleneck guitar playing. In reality, this was but one of many styles to be found within the state's boundaries. At least as prevalent was the rhythm-based approach favoured by musicians from the hill country to the east of the state. These men infiltrated the Delta. Most of these musicians were itinerants, their lives undocumented, whose arrival in front of a microphone was often a matter of chance. Other musicians made their way to Jackson, MS, to seek H.C. Speirs' music shop. Speir recorded them on his basic equipment, sent dubs to northern record companies and for the chosen, arranged their travel to sessions. The majority of the music on these discs was first made as much as 80 years ago. Some tolerance should be exercised when listening to what are sometimes the only copies of records close to mythical status. A case in point is Son House's "Mississippi County Farm Blues", recorded in May 1930. This and "Clarksdale Moan" were known to have been released but only in the last couple of years has a copy, luckily in reasonable condition, been found. This music, vital and entertaining, is also a record of the world these musicians inhabited, its sites, its events, its people - a compendium of knowledge important in its day. These titles are among the building blocks of blues history. Extensive notes tell as much as is known about the background to the recordings.
TRACKS
Cottonfield Blues Part 1 - Garfield Akers
Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
Poor Boy Blues - Sam Butler
I'm Leavin' Town - William Harris
Hittin' The Bottle Stomp - Mississippi Jook Band
Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
Muddy Water Blues - Freddie Spruell
Fare Thee Well Blues - Joe Calicott
That Won't Do - Arthur Petties
Four O'Clock Flower Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Evil Devil Woman Blues - Joe McCoy
The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins
Black Spider Blues - Robert Lockwood
Traveling Riverside Blues Take 1 - Robert Johnson
Baltimore Blues - Charlie McCoy
Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney
You Scolded Me And Drove Me - Mississippi Bracey
Milk Cow Blues - Freddie Spruell
Ten Pound Hammer - Mose Andrews
Noiseless Motor Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
4A Highway - Freddie Spruell
Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill
Mississippi County Farm Blues - Son House
When The Levee Breaks - Joe McCoy
Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
Snake Doctor Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
Little Girl In Rome - Otto Virgial
It's Cold In China Blues - Mississippi Moaner
Bald Eagle Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Boodle-De-Bum Blues - Bogus Ben Covington
Bull Frog Blues - William Harris
Dangerous Woman - Mississippi Jook Band
Shaggy Dog Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
Devil In The Lion's Den - Sam Collins
Quarrellin' Mama Blues - Arthur Petties
Devil And My Brown Blues - Sam Butler
Take A Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood
Last Time Blues - Charlie McCoy
Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers
The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes
Motherless Child Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Married Woman Blues - George Torey
She's Young And Wild - Willie '61' Blackwell
Cherry Ball - Mississippi Bracey
Bad Notion Blues - Otto Virgial
Don't Cry Baby - Freddy Spruell
Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon - King Solomon Hill
Snatch It Back Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
Machine Gun Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Revenue Man Blues - Arthur Petties
Mr Freddie's Kokomo Blues - Freddie Spruell
Over To My House - Geeshie Wiley
Barefoot Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
Look Who's Coming Down The Road - Georgia Pine Boy
Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott
Leavin' Here Blues - William Harris
Got The Blues About Rome - Otto Virgial
Young Heifer Blues - Mose Andrews
Skippy Whippy - Mississippi Jook Band
Yellow Dog Blues - Sam Collins
You Can't Keep No Brown - Sam Butler
Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
Stered Gal - Mississippi Bracey
Motherless And Fatherless Blues - Mississippi Mudder
Don't Misuse Me, Baby - Willie '61' Blackwell
I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Robert Lockwood
Out On Santa Fe Blues - Arthur Petties
It's Hard Times - Joe Stone
Your Good Man Is Gone - Freddie Spruell
Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
Clarksdale Moan - Son House
Adam And Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington
Lonesome Man Blues - George Torey
Leaving Home Blues - Walter Rhodes
Loving Lady Blues - Sam Collins
Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris
Number Three Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
Tell Me Baby - King Solomon Hill
Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood
Cottonfield Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers
Chalk My Toy - Willie '61' Blackwell
Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band
Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties
Back Door Blues - Joe Stone
Way Back Down Home - Freddie Spruell
Skinny Leg Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Meat Cutter Blues - Joe McCoy
Mississippi Moan - Mississippi Moaner
Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
Jefferson County Blues - Sam Butler
Rampaw Street Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
I'll Overcome Someday - Mississippi Bracey
Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties
Grand Daddy Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
Let's Go Riding - Freddie Spruell
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