Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Rough Guide
Track List
- 1 Bukka White: When Can I Change My Clothes?
- 2 Otto Virgial: Little Girl in Rome
- 3 Mississippi Bracey: Cherry Ball
- 4 Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas: Pick Poor Robin Clean
- 5 Big Joe Williams: Providence Help the Poor People
- 6 Mississippi John Hurt: Louis Collins
- 7 Skip James: Devil Got My Woman
- 8 Bo Carter: The Law Gonna Step on You
- 9 Tommy Johnson: Big Road Blues
- 10 Mississippi Jook Band: Barbecue Bust
- 11 Robert Petway: Ride ‘Em on Down
- 12 Sam Collins: My Road Is Rough and Rocky
- 13 Garfield Akers: Jumpin’ and Shoutin’ Blues
- 14 Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie: When the Levee Breaks
- 15 Ishman Bracey: Brown Mamma Blues
- 16 Mississippi Matilda: Hard Working Woman
- 17 Mississippi Sheiks: Bootleggers’ Blues
- 18 Son House: Walkin’ Blues
- 19 Robert Wilkins: Police Sergeant Blues
- 20 Charley Patton: High Water Everywhere – Part 1
- 21 Mississippi Mud Steppers: Vicksburg Stomp
- 22 Arthur Petties: Two Time Blues
- 23 Louise Johnson: By the Moon and Stars
- 24 Freddie Spruell: Let’s Go Riding
- 25 Sonny Boy Nelson: Long Tall Woman
Notes
ROUGH GUIDE TO MISSISSIPPI BLUES / VARIOUS (2024) The state of Mississippi is the undisputed home of the blues – the single most important source of modern popular music. From the towering influence of Delta legends Charley Patton and Son House to the guitar intricacy of Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt, this collection highlights the remarkable blues legacy of the Magnolia State through these seminal early recordings.
