Various Artists - Crucial Harmonica Blues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The good people at Smithsonian Folkways have put together another stellar CD full of true roots music. This time they focus on the simple harmonica and it's complicated masters such as Doctor Ross The Harmonica Boss and Sonny Terry. Bluesmen forgotten no longer, here they are preserved with their incredible harmonica stylings. Album Tracks 1. Theme Song 2. Heart in Sorrow 3. Take Your Fingers Off It 4. Nine Below Zero 5. Bye Bye Bird 6. Gillum Blues 7. Crow Jane Blues 8. Dog Days of August 9. Minglewood Blues 10. Good Morning Little School Girl 11. Sweet Home Chicago 12. One Way Out 13. Boogie Baby 14. Low Down Blues 15. Hooka Tooka 16. Train Piece 17. Chicago Breakdown 18. I Feel So Good 19. Barbara Allen Blues 20. Custard Pie

14 tracks feat. Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Lowel Fulson, Alexis Corner, Jimmy Witherspoon +. Album Tracks 1. Alabama Bound - Leadbelly 2. Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson 3. Walking Blues - Muddy Waters 4. Wandering Blues - John Lee Hooker 5. How Blue Can You Get? - Albert Collins 6. Country Girl - Buddy Guy, Junior Wells 7. Coming, I'm Coming - Peter Green 8. Step at a Time - Lowell Fulson 9. Help Me Operator - Jimmy Witherspoon 10. River's Invitation - Alexis Korner 11. Morning Star - Duster Bennett 12. Work Song - Paul Jones 13. Boom Boom - Alan Price 14. Fine Condition - Paul Lamb 15. I Wonder Who - Mick Abrahams 16. Going Up, Going Down - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack 17. Wang Dang Doodle - Ruby Turner

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