Various Artists - Chicago/The Blues/today! Vol.1 (Various Artists) - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. Album Tracks 1. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You 2. C.B. & Axe Gang - Rosie 3. Bobby Bland - Cry Cry Cry 4. Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues 5. Ray Charles - I've Got a Woman 6. Fats Domino - I'm Walking 7. Vera Hall - Trouble So Hard 8. B.B. King - Sweet Thing 9. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' 10. The Son Seals Blues Band - Your Love Is Like a Cancer 11. Otis Rush - Double Trouble 12. Johnny InchGuitarInch Watson - Looking Back 1. Potliquor - Born Under a Bad Sign 2. T-Bone Walker - Hypin' Woman Blues 3. Booker T. & the M.G.'s - Green Onions 4. John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom 5. Louis Armstrong - St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues) 6. Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is 7. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind 8. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand 9. Bobby Bland - I'll Take Care of You 10. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy

Album Tracks 1. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy 2. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago 3. Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night 4. Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive 5. C.B. & Axe Gang - Rosie 6. Buddy Guy - First Time I Met the Blues 7. Popa Chubby - Carrying on the Torch of the Blues 8. Lucky Peterson - Four Little Boys 9. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand 10. T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues 11. B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues 12. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You 13. Vera Hall - Trouble So Hard 14. Ray Charles - Mr. Charles' Blues 1. Bo Diddley - I'm a Man 2. Fats Domino - Blue Monday 3. Memphis Slim - Lonesome 4. Otis Rush - All Your Love 5. Booker T. & the M.G.'s - Green Onions 6. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues 7. Jean-Jacques Milteau - Down in Mississippi 8. John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom 9. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog 10. Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm - I'm Lonesome Baby 11. Chuck Berry - Driftin' Blues 12. Slim Harpo - I'm a King Bee 13. Bobby 'Blue' Bland - It's My Life, Baby 14. Elvis Presley - G.I. Blues 15. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

Blues is a living and dynamic tradition that has resounded throughout Black communities for over a century, channeling transcendent grief and strength.  In the mid-20th century, Folkways Records became a major hub for blues legends such as Lightnin' Hopkins,  Lead Belly, Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, Elizabeth Cotten, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee.  Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways spans half a century and features these and other foundational figures in blues history performing in the Delta,  St.  Louis, Southwest,  Piedmont,  and Chicago styles.  From boogie to ballads and laced with innuendo and irony, this classic collection is available on vinyl for the first time on two LPs with extensive notes by musician and scholar Dr. Barry Lee Pearson. Album Tracks 1. Old Jabo 2. Mule-Ridin' Blues 3. Joggie Boogie 4. Black Woman 5. Mercury Blues 6. Ran the Blues Out of My Window 7. Leaving Blues 8. One Dime Blues 9. County Farm Blues 10. Clog Dance (Stomping Blues) 11. Boll Weevil 12. Nickel's Worth of Liver 13. Don't Leave Me Here 14. Jimmy Bell 15. Candy Man 16. Beer Drinking Woman 17. Come Go Home with Me 18. Careless Love 19. I Asked Her If She Loved Me 20. Rising Sun 21. Pony Blues 22. Vicksburg Blues 23. Vastopol 24. Drifting Along Blues 25. Oh Baby, You Don't Have to Go 26. Don't Lie Buddy