VA - Essential Mississippi Blues (2012)

The Mississippi Delta has some of the most fertile soil in the world and became one of the richest cotton growing areas in the world which, before the American Civil War, was worker exclusively by black slaves brought over from Africa. The blues was forged on the anvil of poverty and hardship the black sharecroppers and tenant farmers had to endure. Born of the harsh, brutal conditions of life in the South, and full of pain, frustration and anger, the passionate, soulful sounds of the Delta revolutionised the sound of 20th-century music. This compilation celebrates some of its greatest exponents.

Tracklist:

Disc: 1

01. Gettting Old And Grey - Howlin Wolf
02. Hand In Hand - Elmore James
03. Aini t No Tellin - Missippi John Hurt
04. Peach Orchard Blues - Joe Williams
05. Black Spider Blues - RoLockwood
06. Stack O Lee - Mississippi John Hurt
07. Last Time Blues - Charlie McCoy
08. Ninety Nine Blues - Joe Reynolds
09. Rampaw Street Blues - W Blackwell
10. Devil In The Lion s Den - S Collins
11. Travelling Mama Blues -J Callicott
12. Muddy Water Blues - Fred Spruell
13. Levee Camp Blues - Son House
14. Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers
15. Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties
16. Last Kind Word Blues - G Wiley
17. Frigidaire Blues - Sonny Williamson
18. Gone Dead Train - Solomon Hill
19. Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton
20. Bed Spring Poker - Missis Sheiks
21. Little Rock Blues - Pearl Dickson
22. Diamond Joe - Big Charlie Butler
23. Times Has Done King - Solomon Hill
24. Motherless And Fatherles - C McCoy
25. It s Hard Time - Joe Stone

Disc: 2

01. Freight Train Blues - Fred McDowell
02. Blue Harvest Blues - John Hurt
03. Jumpin Shoutin Blues - G Akers
04. That Won t Do - Arthur Petties
05. Baltimore Blues - Charlie McCoy
06. She s Young & Wild - Will Blackwell
07. Going Move To Alabama - C Patton
08. Down On My Bended Knee - King Hill
09. Sitting On Top - Mississippi Sheiks
10. Don t Cry - Freddie Spruell
11. The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins
12. Skinny Leg Blues - Geechie Wiley
13. Twelve Pound Daddy - Pearl Dickson
14. Scolded And Drove Me - Miss Bracey
15. Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
16. Shake Em On Down - Fred McDowell
17. Down South Blues - Arthur Petties
18. Happy Home Blue s- Matilda
19. Look Who s -Joe McCoy
20. Preaching - Mississippi John Hurt
21. Whoopee Blues - King Solomon Hill
22. Cherry Ball - Mississippi Bracey
23. Machine Gun Blues - Willie Blackwell
24. Low Down Mississippi - F Spruell
25. Fare Thee Well Blues - Joe Callicott