Details

Subject(s)

• Blues (Music) [Browse]
• Piano music (Blues) [Browse]

Composer

• Lowe, Allen, 1954- [Browse]

• Lowe, Allen, 1954- [Browse]

Notes

• Compiled by Allen Lowe.
• "This volume covers recordings from 1893-1929"--Container.
• Compact disc.
• Includes CD-ROM disc with the contents, discography, and track listing.
• Track list (8 p.) inserted in container.

Language note

Sung in English.

Contents

• CD 1: Mama's black baby boy / Unique Quartet Fall (2:27)
• Keep movin' / Standard Quartet (2:46)
• Poor mourner / Cousins and DeMoss (1:56)
• You been a good old wagon / Len Spencer (2:13)
• Poor mourner / Dinwiddie Colored Quartet (2:54)
• Nobody / Bert Williams (2:53)
• What a time / Polk Miller and his Old South Quartet (3:43)
• The camp meeting jubilee / Male Quartet (1:41)
• Poor mourner / Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (3:09)
• Down home rag / James Reese Europe (3:22)
• The rain song / Afro American Folk Song Singers (3:07)
• Memphis blues / Victor Military Band (3:02)
• Memphis blues / Morton Harvey (2:40)
• Blame it on the blues / Victor Military Orch. (3:09)
• St. Louis blues / Prince's Band (4:06)
• N Blues / George O'Connor (2:58)
• Livery stable blues / Original Dixieland Jazz Band (3:08)
• Moonlight blues / WC Handy (3:16)
• Death where is thy sting? / Arthur Collins (3:12)
• Beale Street blues / Al Bernard (3:05)
• Memphis blues / James Reese Europe (2:37)
• Kansas City blues / Wilbur Sweatman Col. (3:08)
• Swanee blues / J. Milton DeCamp (2:28)
• Lovin' Sam from Alabam / Mamie Smith (2:49)
• Frankie blues / Mamie Smith (3:05)
• Chain gang blues / Sam Moore ; Octacorda (2:49)
• My soul is a witness / Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartet (2:21).
• CD 2: Society blues / Kid Ory (3:12)
• Teasin' the frets / Nick Lucas (2:54)
• I ain't got nobody / Marion Harris (3:05)
• Midnight blues / Ethel Waters (3:03)
• Aggravatin' papa / Sophie Tucker (3:03)
• New Orleans joys / J.R. Morton (2:45)
• Guitar blues / Sylvester Weaver (2:40)
• London blues / Jelly Roll Morton's Jazz Orch. (3:14)
• Waitin' for the evening mail / Noble Sissle ; Eubie Blake (2:54)
• Bleeding hearted blues / James P. Johnson (3:01)
• London cafe blues / King Oliver ; Baby Dodds ; Jimmy Noone (2:45)
• The gospel train am comin' / Homer Rodheaver and the Wiseman Quartet (2:56)
• Any woman's blues / Bessie Smith (3:17)
• God's gonna set this world on fire / Kentucky Trio (3:02)
• If you do what you do / Eddie cantor with the Georgians (3:04)
• Hatchet head blues / Old Southern Jug Band (2:44)
• Time ain't gonna make me stay / Ed Andrews (2:45)
• Waffle man's call / Johnny Bayersdorffer (3:01)
• Rhapsody in blue / Paul Whiteman (3:52)
• I've got a cross eyed papa / Levitsch Tanzorchester (3:28)
• Barrel house blues / Rosa Henderson (3:17)
• Mississippi shivers / Zez Confrey and his orch. (3:24)
• Kiss me sweet / Butterbeans and Susie with King Oliver (3:08)
• Toddlin' blues / Bix and his Rhythm Jugglers ; T. Dorsey, Bix, Murray (2:42)
• Nobody knows the way I feel this morning / Alberta Hunter (2:47)
• Steppin on the blues / Lovie Austin ; Ladnier/O'Bryant (2:30).
• CD 3: All night long blues / Roba Stanley and Bob Stanley (3:14)
• Meddlin' with the blues / the Two of Spades (3:09)
• Frank Du Pree [i.e. Frank Dupree] / Blind Andy (Jenkins) (2:56)
• Steel string blues / Sylvester Weaver (3:12)
• Hersal blues / Hersal Thomas (2:58)
• Street cries of New Orleans / Edna Thomas (2:59)
• The wagon / Ben Harney (1:45)
• A married man's blues / Wade Ward (2:38)
• She's cryin' for me / New Orleans Rhythm Kings (2:44)
• Put me in the alley / Nicholas/Jones St. Cyr (2:51)
• All I want is a little spoonful / Papa Charlie Jackson (2:38)
• Red man blues / Piron's New Orleans Orchestra (2:58)
• South Street blues / Benny Moten's KC Orchestra (2:34)
• No home blues / Louise Ross (2:44)
• Sugar babe / Lee Morse (2:38)
• Careless love / Bessie Smith (3:26)
• Don't fish in my sea / Ma Rainey with Jimmy Blythe (2:52)
• I'll be rested / Roosevelt Graves and his brother (2:29)
• I want my life to testify / Hendersonville Double Quartet (2:52)
• Can't sleep blues / The Pebbles (2:28)
• String band blues / Kansas City Blues Strummers (2:31)
• Black cat blues / Old Pal Smoke Shop Four (3:05)
• Mama's angel child / Papa Stovepipe (2:57)
• Jack O' diamond blues / Sippie Wallace ; Armstrong ; Hersal Thomas (3:04)
• Memphis Shake / Dixieland Jugblowers (3:16)
• Crucifixion / Arizona Dranes, piano solo (3:29)
• Royal palm special / Leecan and Cooksey (3:02).
• CD 4: Lamb's blood has washed me clean / Dranes ; Rev. F.W. McGee ; Jubilee Singers (3:15)
• I shall wear a crown / Dranes ; unknown musicians and female singers (3:10)
• High fever / Cookie's Ginger Snaps ; Freddie Keppard (3:19)
• I want Jesus to walk with me / Homer Quincy Smith (2:44)
• Blackville / Hazel Meyers (3:09)
• Birdwell blues / Nolan Welsh with L. Armstrong (3:27)
• Fat meat and greens / Jelly Roll Morton (2:56)
• Christians fight on your time ain't long / Sam Butler (Bo Weavil Jackson) (2:43)
• Got the blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:57)
• Chock house blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:40)
• Birth of the blues / Paul Whiteman ; Ray Henderson ; B.G. DeSylva ; Lew Brown (3:05)
• Knoxville blues / Sam McGee (3:01)
• My soul is a witness / Arizona Dranes (2:25)
• Smoke house blues / Jelly Roll Morton ; Kid Ory ; Omer Simeon (3:25)
• Boneyard shuffle / The Red Heads ( Red Nichols ; M. Mole ; A. Schutt ; Fud LIvingston) (2:52)
• Motherless child / Blind Willie Johnson (3:20)
• The bumps / Jeanette's Synco Jazzers with M.L. Williams (2:22)
• Tin roof blues / Sol Hooopi ; Leon Roppolo ; Paul Mares ; George Brunies ; Ben Pollack (3:16)
• Bamalong blues / Andrew and Jim Baxter (3:08)
• Hanna won't you open the door / Sam and Kirk McGee (2:51)
• Honey just allow me one more chance / Henry Thomas (2:50)
• James Alley Blues / Richard Rabbit Brown (3:09)
• Franklin Street blues / Dumaine's Jazzola Eight (3:21)
• Fight that thing / Reb Spikes (2:33)
• Clarinet wobble / Johnny Dodds (2:35)
• Mr. Johnson turn me loose / South Georgia Highballers (2:58).
• CD 5: My old daddy's got a brand new way to love / Leecan ; Cooksey ; Thomas Morris (3:28)
• Honey in the rock / Blind Mamie Forehand (2:42)
• Georgia crawl / Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony (3:20)
• Blessed are the poor / Luther Magby (3:07)
• A good man is hard to find / Bix ; Tram ; Murray ; Russell ; Rolini ; Venuti ; Eddie Green (3:02)
• I am resolved / Ernest Stoneman ; Kahle Brewer ; with vocal chorus (2:58)
• Curley headed woman / Burnett & Rutherford (3:06)
• Down south blues / Doc Boggs (2:50)
• Black snake blues / King Oliver (3:06)
• Weary way blues / Natty Dominique ; Johnny Dodds ; Jimmy Blythe (3:12)
• Honky tonk train blues / Meade Lux Lewis (3:28)
• The Lord is my shepherd / Blind Connie Rosemond (2:50)
• Penn beach blues / Joe Venuti ; Eddie Lang ; Signorelli ; Don Murray (3:12)
• Black hearse blues / Sarah Martin ; with Sylvester Weaver (3:25)
• Cold penitentiary blues / B.F. Shelton (3:12)
• Shaking the blues away / Ruth Etting ; with Rube Bloom, piano ; Irving Berlin (3:23)
• The crowing rooster / Walter Rhodes (3:02)
• Creole love call / Duke Ellington (2:46)
• Gods gonna separate the wheat from the tares / Blind Joe Taggart (2:52)
• Jazz me blues / Bix B. and his Gang (2:53)
• Royal garden blues / Bix B. and his Gang ; Clarence Williams ; Spender Williams (3:07)
• Chattanooga blues / Allen Bros. (3:02)
• New Orleans lowdown / Duke Ellington ; B. Miley (2:46)
• Barrellhouse man / Will Ezell (3:12)
• I am born to preach the gospel / Washington Phillips (3:02).
• CD 6: Death is only a dream / Edward Clayborne (2:55)
• Neckbones and beans / Henry Johnson and his boys (2:45)
• She's in the graveyard now / Earl MacDonald's Original Jug Band (2:44)
• Yellow dog blues / Sam Collins (2:31)
• Mamlish blues / Ed Bell (2:35)
• Starvation blues / Jessie Stone (3:14)
• Wild man blues / Louis Armstrong ; Johnny Dodds (3:10)
• Can you blame the colored man? / Gus Cannon (2:43)
• Mama you don't know how long / Long Cleve Reed and the Downhome Boys (2:55)
• A woman gets tired of the same man all the time / Stovepipe #1 Same Jones (3:13)
• Second-hand blues / Maragret Johnson with Leecan ; Cooksey (3:10)
• Awful fix / Buddy Boy Hawkins (2:28)
• Train 45 / Grayson and Whitter (3:05)
• Hesitation blues / Al Bernard ; C. Quealey ; Bobby Davis ; Al Duffy (3:07)
• Section gang blues / Texas Alexander with Lonnie Johnson (2:59)
• Lonesome ghost blues / Lonnie Johnson (3:09)
• Lord I can't stay away / Violet Harmony Singers (3:22)
• Deep river / Paul Robeson (2:19)
• Doan let satan git you / Barbour's Plantation Singers (2:44)
• Every time I feel the spirit / C. Mae Frierson Moore and the Four Aces of Harmony (2:59)
• Man Trouble / Jaybird Coleman (3:03)
• Big road blues / Tommy Johnson (3:19)
• Deep river / Forbes Randolph Kentucky Jubilee Choir (2:52)
• Blues in the bottle / Prince Albert Hunt (3:23)
• Stealin' / Memphis Jug Band (3:08)
• I'm wild about my lovin' / Jim Jackson (3:13).
• CD 7: Viola Lee blues / Cannon's Jug Stompers (3:09)
• Take me back / Frank Stokes (3:10)
• Three preludes. 2nd prelude / George Gershwin (2:34)
• I heard the voice of Jesus say / Biddleville Quintet (3:15)
• Away down in the alley blues / Lonnie Johnson (2:55)
• Going across the sea / H.L. Bandy (2:58)
• Chocolate to the bone / Barbecue Bob (2:54)
• Pinetop's blues / Pinetop Smith (2:46)
• 99 year blues / Julius Daniels (3:03)
• Touch me light mama / George Bullet Williams with unknown (2:46)
• Mississippi jail house groan / Rube Lacy (3:22)
• Sawmill moan / Rambling Thomas (2:56)
• Johnson City blues / Clarence Green (2:57)
• Wayward girl blues / Lottie Kimbrough (2:52)
• I must have that man / Annette Hanshaw ; Dorothy Fields ; James McHugh (2:58)
• Slow motion / Bennie Moten (2:41)
• Molly man / Moses Mason (3:07)
• If the light has gone out in your soul / Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers (3:04)
• Mon cherie / Bebe Creole Dennis McGee (in New Orleans) (2:45)
• Four or five times / King Oliver (3:10)
• Avalon blues / Mississippi Joh Hurt (3:03)
• I ain't got nobody / Emmett Miller (3:06)
• G Burns is gonna rise again / Johnson ; Nelson ; Porkchop (3:01)
• Can't help lovin' that man / Helen Morgan ; Jerome Kern (2:56)
• Violin blues / The Johnson boys (Hayes and Prater) (3:20)
• Good old turnip greens / Bo Chatman (3:07).
• CD 8: Every day of the week blues / Pink Anderson ; Simmie Dooley (2:53)
• Alley rat / Jimmy Blythe, piano solo (2:59)
• I'm on my journey home / The Denson Quartet (3:19)
• One way gal / William Moore (3:15)
• Stack O'Lee pt. 2 / Cliff Edwards (2:32)
• Worried blues / Gladys Bentley (2:46)
• Can't help lovin' that man / Helen Morgan ; Jerome Kern (3:02)
• Jungle blues / Benny Goodman's Boys (3:17)
• Old man river / Bing with Paul Whiteman ; Jerome Kern (3:13)
• Old time baptism, pt. 2 / R.M. Massey (3:29)
• Blue piano stomp / Johnny Dodds (3:08)
• Sunshine special / Frenchy's string band (3:12)
• Midnight mama / Frances Hereford ; J.R. Morton (2:46)
• Lord Lord he sure is good / Elder Richard Bryant with Sanctified Singers (3:04)
• Wang wang blues / Sam Ku's West Harmony Blues (3:07)
• Tight like that / Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band (2:43)
• A blues serenade / Original Memphis 5 ; Signorelli (2:35)
• I truly understand you love another man / Shortbuckle Roarke and his family (2:35)
• I found a new baby / Teschmacher ; Spanier ; Sullivan ; Krupa ; Clarence Williams (3:09)
• Hard hustling blues / Bernice Edwards (3:10)
• The boy in the boat / Charlie Johnson's Paradise 10 (3:33)
• School girl blues / Rosa Mae Moore (3:28)
• I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate / Boyd Senter and his Sentipedes (3:05)
• Ham beats all meat / Dr. Humphrey Bate and his Possum Hunters (2:37)
• In the mornin' / Johnson ; Nelson ; Porkchop (2:56)
• The preacher got drunk and laid his bible down / Tennessee Ramblers (2:46).
• CD 9: Home town blues / Roane County Ramblers (3:08)
• Judge Harsh Blues / Furry Lewis (3:04)
• Caution blues / Earl Hines (3:00)
• Blues harmony / Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers ; Carl Smith ; Hense Grundy (3:31)
• Cannon ball Blues / Frank Hutchison (3:20)
• Brown skin blues / Dick Justice (3:11)
• Leake County blues / Lake County revelers (3:05)
• Bathe in that beautiful pool / Doc Walsh (2:56)
• Easy rider blues / Leo Soileau (2:55)
• Operation blues / Frankie Jaxon ; Georgia Tom Dorset (3:11)
• I'm a mighty tight woman / Sippi Wallace ; Dodds Dominique (2:51)
• That's no way to get along / Robert Wilkins (2:53)
• Walking blues / Raymond Barrow (3:10)
• Don't mistreat your good boyfriend / The Bubbling Over Fire (Blues Birdhead) (3:15)
• St. Louis blues ; Weary yodelin' blues / Roy Evans ; W.C. Handy (3:56)
• Fresno blues / Johnnie and Albert Crockett (2:55)
• Mean low blues / Blues Birdhead (3:15)
• Georgia bound / Blind Blake (3:22)
• If I call you mama / Luke Jordan (3:11)
• Just blues / Memphis Jazzers ; Andy Sannella ; Al Duffy (2:53)
• Lawdy lawdy worried blues / Teddy Darby (3:06)
• New York blues / Blind Roosevelt Graves ; Will Ezell (3:11)
• Guitar blues / Lang ; Lonnie Johnson (3:17)
• Avenue strut / Heurve Duerson (2:48)
• Slum Guillion stomp / Cow Cow Davenport (2:59).

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Other title(s)

Blues history 1893-1959

Publisher no.

WHRA-6028

OCLC

640002896

Other standard number

• 5425008377094

RCP

C - O

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