Various Artists - Angola Prisoners Blues / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Berta - Roosevelt Charles 2. Take This Hammer - Hogman Maxey 3. Stewball - Big Louisiana 4. Five Long Years for One Man - Odea Mathews 5. Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long - Hogman Maxey 6. I Had Five Long Years - James Russell 7. Early in the Mornin' - Johnny Butler 8. All Teamed Up in Angola's Mule Lot - Big Louisiana 9. I Got a Hurtin' in My Right Side - Willy Rafus 10. Let Your Hammer Ring - Big Louisiana 11. Cleaning This Highway - Johnny Butler 12. John Henry - Robert Pete Williams 13. Something Within Me - Odea Mathews 14. Jesus Cares - Murray Macon 15. Working on the Levee Part 1 (Good Morning Captain) - Emanuel Dunn 16. Working on the Levee Part 2 - Emanuel Dunn 17. Take This Hammer - Big Louisiana 18. Pickin' Cotton All Day Long - Creola 19. My Mule 'Grey' (A Plowing Song) - Emanuel Dunn

50 blues tracks, many of 'em legendary, all of 'em essential! Includes C.C. Rider Chuck Willis; Bo Diddley Bo Diddley; Dust My Broom Elmore James; I Hear You Knocking Smiley Lewis; I Put a Spell on You Screamin' Jay Hawkins; Smoke Stack Lightning Howlin' Wolf; I Can't Quit You Baby Otis Rush; Dimples John Lee Hooker; I'm a King Bee Slim Harpo; Ain't That Loving You Baby Jimmy Reed; Got My Mojo Workin' Muddy Waters; Ain't Got No Home Clarence InchFrogmanInch Henry; Don't Start Me Talkin' Sonny Boy Williamson; Boom Boom (Out Goes the Lights) Little Walter; Are You Out There? Percy Mayfield; Farther up the Road Bobby Bland; Walking by Myself Jimmy Rogers, and more. Album Tracks 1. I Put a Spell on You - Screamin\X{2019} Jay Hawkins 2. Just Make Love to Me - Muddy Waters 3. Dust My Broom - Elmore James 4. Every Day I Have the Blues - B.B. King 5. C.C. Rider - Chuck Willis 6. I\X{2019}M a Man - Bo Diddley 7. I Hear You Knocking - Smiley Lewis 8. Queen Bee - John Lee Hooker 9. Smokestack Lightning - Howlin\X{2019} Wolf 10. Ain\X{2019}T That Loving You Baby - Jimmy Reed 11. I Can\X{2019}T Quit You Baby - Otis Rush 12. Who - Little Walter & His Jukes 13. Keep It to Yourself - Sonny Boy Williamson 14. When I\X{2019}Ve Been Drinkin\X{2019} - Smokey Hogg 15. It\X{2019}S My Life - Bobby Bland 16. The Things That I Used to Do - Guitar Slim 17. Wanderin\X{2019} Heart - T-Bone Walker 18. Thrill Me Baby - Lil\X{2019} Son Jackson 19. Memphis Slim U.S.A. - Memphis Slim 20. Mama Talk to Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir 21. I\X{2019}M Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters 22. Walking the Blues - Willie Dixon & the All Stars 23. Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers 24. Blues Blasters Boogie - Jimmy McCracklin & His Blues Blasters 25. Two-Headed Woman - Junior Wells 1. Dimples - John Lee Hooker 2. I'm a King Bee - Slim Harpo 3

Originally released in 1959, The Country Blues features a range of styles and a collection of recordings not included in other Folkways compilations. This selection-mostly recorded between 1927 and 1931-includes such gems as a test pressing of Robert Johnson's InchPreaching BluesInch and local releases from the 1920s. Album Tracks 1. Matchbox Blues 2. Careless Love 3. Walk Right in 4. Low Down Rounder's Blues 5. Statesboro Blues 6. Stealin', Stealin' 7. You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond 8. Alabama Woman Blues 9. Special Agent 10. Key to the Highway 11. Fixin' to Die 12. I'm a Guitar King 13. Preachin' Blues 14. I Been Treated Wrong