The Encyclopaedia of Music: Best of Blues [3 Volume Set]
Label: Rajon Distribution | Year: 2004 | Genre: Blues | Flac | 568 MB
Title: The Encyclopaedia of Music: Best of Blues
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rajon Entertainment Pty Ltd (Australia)
Type: Compilation
Released: September 20, 2004
Genre: Blues
Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (EAC / Flac 1.1.3)
Playing Time:
- Vol. 1: 43:07
Vol. 2: 43:06
Vol. 3: 43:40
From the covers:-
The earliest printed reference to the Blues in music can be found in 1912, in the titles of several tunes played by black musicians for some years before that.
There is no doubt that the Blues was black man's music for many years. There is every reasont to suspect that this type of music was developed by the early slaves on the plantations in the Deep South. Not the Blues as we know it, but an early version of it.
There are indications that the earliest Blues singers accompanied themselves on a variety of instruments from violins and banjos to a type of Kazoo. In the 1880s the guitar began to be adopted as the constant accompnaniment of the bluesmen. These guitarists rapidly discovered how to get unique chord structures by imitating the open fret tunings of other instruments and by playing the guitar with a bottleneck or knife.
Essentially stemming from an unwritten fold tradition, the ferst recorded Blues were the Country Blues of Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell. These were fairly primitive recordings, more often than not comprising just the singer in the studio, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar - sometimes with harmonica included in the "live'' recording.
Advances in technology in the Fifties led to a broader acceptance of many types of music, including the Blues. This, coupled witha a more urban force, featuring the electric guitar as the prominent instrument (commonly referred to as Chicago Blues) resulted in an upsurge of black musicians in the recording studios. Over the ensuing years, artists such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson became leading exponents of the so-called "Devil's Music".
It wasn't until the 1960s that a major force of white musicians adopted the Blues as their own and, strangely enough, many of them were British. John Mayall and Eric Clapton led a whole movement of British Blues groups, which shone briefly in the early sixties.
Over the years the Blues have told about every facet of life, every strong or tenuous human emotion, every disappointment and every joy. The Blues have never become irrelevant or insignificant because they uncover new aspects of life and constantly enrich the actual practice of living. The influence of the Blues has seeped right through the fabric of everyday existence.
The forty-five recordings contained in this set present a snapshot of an extremely influential period in Blues Music - that late Forties and early Fifties. It contains recordings by some of the most influential Bluesmen and some of the original versions of songs later recorded by the white Blues artists of the Sixties and Seventies. The music is drawn from the swamps of Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta and the streets of Chicago and ranges from the acoustic Country Blues of Leadbelly and Blind Willie McTell to the electric Blues of John Lee Hooker and Lightning Hopkins.
Important note: Because of the historic nature of these recordings, the sound quality may not be up to contemporary standards. The high resolution of these compact discs may reveal limitations inherent in the original recording.
Track list:
Volume 1:
01 - John Lee Hooker - Walkin' The Boogie (1952)
02 - Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good (1941)
03 - T-Bone Walker - I Got A Break, Baby (1942)
04 - Robert Johnson - Ramblin' On My Mind (1936)
05 - Lonnie Johnson - Winnie The Wailer (1936)
06 - Memphis Slim - Beer Drinking Woman (1940)
07 - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Rock Me Mama (1940)
08 - Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning, Schoolgirl (1937)
09 - Sonny Terry - Train Whistle Blues (1938)
10 - Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway (1940)
11 - Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro' Blues (1928)
12 - Leadbelly - Good Morning Blues (1940)
13 - Champion Jack Dupree - Dupree Shake Dance (1935)
14 - Tampa Red - It Hurts Me Too (1940)
15 - Casey Bill Weldon - You Just As Well Let Her Go (1936)
Volume 2:
01 - Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me (1948)
02 - Memphis Slim - Rockin' The House (1948)
03 - T-Bone Walker - Hypin' Woman Blues (1947)
04 - John Lee Hooker - Sally Mae (1948)
05 - Sonny Boy Williamson - Better Cut That Out (1947)
06 - Lowell Fulson - I Wanna See My Baby (1946)
07 - Big Bill Broozy - All By Myself (1941)
08 - Joe Turner - I'm In Sharp When I Hit The Coast (1946)
09 - Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie (1948)
10 - Leadbelly - Dead Letter Blues (1938)
11 - Lonnie Johnson - He's A Jolly Roll Baker (1942)
12 - Arthur Crudup - Mean Old Frisco (1942)
13 - Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom (1936)
14 - Champion Jack Dupree - Big Time Mama (1941)
15 - Blind Boy Fuller - Rag Mama Rag (1935)
Volume 3:
01 - Sonny Boy Williamson - Susie Q (1938)
02 - Leadbelly - Midnight Special (1940)
03 - Brownie McGhee - Born For Bad Luck (1940)
04 - John Lee Hooker - Union Station Blues (1951)
05 - Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me (1940)
06 - Roy Milton - Big Fat Mama (1947)
07 - Big Bill Broonzy - Key To The Highway (1941)
08 - Lightning Hopkins - Let Me Play With Your Poodle (1947)
09 - Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (1941)
10 - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - That's All Right (1946)
11 - Big Joe Turner - Piney Brown Blues (1940)
12 - T-Bone Walker - Mean Old World (1942)
13 - Sonny Terry - Harmonica And Washboard Breakdown (1940)
14 - Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago (1936)
15 - Willie Dixon - If The Sea Was Wiskey (1947)
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