Josh White - Blues 1932-1945 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

(2-CD set) The legendary star Big Joe Williams was one of the major creators of Delta blues and played an important role in orchestral Chicago blues before holding a key position in the sixties folk boom - indeed, he can be thanked for the discory of Bob Dylan! This album covers the first part of the career of this blues great, from his most celebrated composition, InchBaby Please Don't Go,Inch to InchShe Left Me,Inch his last hit for the black public in 1951.

Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues 1933-46 [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/17/2005

These mid-'40s Folkways sessions capture the all-time great blues guitarist/folk singer at his prime. He ruminates about civil rights, World War II and labor struggles as he sings the House I Live In; in My Time of Dying; Motherless Children; Beloved Comrade; One Meat Ball; Free and Equal Blues, and more.