Various Artists - Lonesome & Blue / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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

Everybody had their own style, Jelly Roll Morton said of blues and jazz piano players. This collection explores the music of famous and less well-known blues pianists in the 1920s Inchclassic bluesInch era and in the 1930s, when the distinctive boogie-woogie style of piano playing began to emerge. Album Tracks 1. Big Mama 2. Dice's Blues 3. Broke Man Blues 4. Skippy Whippy 5. Fanny Lee Blues 6. Number 29 7. Pratt City Blues 8. M & O Blues #3 9. Dyin' Rider Blues 10. On the Wall 11. Lost All I Had Blues 12. The First Time I Met You 13. Jab Blues 14. Good Woman Blues

During the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, documentarians and aficionados searched for country blues singers whose music had previously only been known through old recordings. This album's music presents historic recordings of these singers from 1920-1940, while it's liner notes describe these InchrediscoveredInch musicians' lives in the 1960s. Album Tracks 1. Ain't No Tellin' 2. Avalon Blues 3. Sleepy Man Blues 4. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues 5. Poor Man Blues 6. Poor Man's Friend 7. Liquor Store Blues 8. Oh Lord, Search My Heart 9. You Got to Go Down 10. Doin' Wrong 11. Jelly Roll 12. Sweet Papa Moan 13. Highway 49 14. Someday Baby