Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook

Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook

Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Goin' Down The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell
  2. Rolled And Tumbled - Rosalie Hill
  3. Cherry Ball Blues - Jack Owens
  4. Dust My Broom - Howlin' Wolf
  5. Boogie Children - Joe Lee
  6. Stagolee - Lucious Curtis
  7. Stop All The Buses - Cecil Augusta
  8. Worried Life Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
  9. The Pony Blues - Son House
  10. Tangle Eye Blues - Walter 'Tangle Eye' Jackson
  11. Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall
  12. Worried Blues - Sonny Terry
  13. Beggin' The Blues - Bessie Jones
  14. John Henry - Gabriel Brown
  15. Country Blues - Dock Boggs
  16. Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James
  17. I Hate A Man Like You - Jelly Roll Morton
  18. Roll 'Em - Pete Johnson
  19. Kokomo - The Memphis Jug Band
  20. Life Is Like That - Big Bill Broonzy
Music CD 2
  1. I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' - Big Bill Broonzy
  2. Dimples In Your Jaws - Joe Lee
  3. Catfish Blues - Jack Owens
  4. Kill-It-Kid Rag - Blind Willie McTell
  5. You're Gonna Need My Help - Elinor Boyer
  6. The Army Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
  7. Blues De La Prison - Canray Fontenot
  8. I Been Drinnkin' - Vera Ward Hall
  9. I Been A Bad, Bad Girl - Ozella Jones
  10. I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters
  11. Boogie Instrumental - R.L. Burnside
  12. Blind Lemon Blues - Lead Belly
  13. Sweet Patootie Blues - Albert Ammons
  14. The Last Time - Sam Chatmon
  15. Shorty George - Smith Casey
  16. Desert Blues - Hattie Ellis
  17. Joe Turner - Hobart Smith
  18. Joe Turner - Miles
  19. Joe Turner - Big Bill Broonzy
  20. See That My Gracve Is Kept Clean - Hobart Smith
  21. How Long Blues - Sonny Terry

Music reviews of Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook

Music Review: CD problems
Rating: 2 Stars

I'm not sure what happened or if it is just my cd, but the sound quality isn't even close to that of some of my oldest records...really sad too because the collection is great.
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Description of Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook

After the floodgates opened due to 2003?s Martin Scorsese-produced PBS series of blues films, most labels scoured their vaults to nab a piece of the action. Dozens of reissues and repackagings hit the shelves, but Rounder, who has released classic blues for decades, eclipsed the field with this wonderful double-disc set.

Comprised of field recordings made by John and Alan Lomax from 1935-?78, the scope alone of this album is formidable. Many of the acts are obscure even to blues aficionados, yet icons like Muddy Waters, Howlin? Wolf, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Leadbelly, and Mississippi Fred McDowell are peppered throughout the nearly 2 1/2 hour playing time. Although the audio quality varies from excellent to primitive, the astounding remastering makes it all listenable. This is raw, pure, spine-tingling music played with the intense nothing-left-to-lose passion of ordinary people whose impossibly difficult lives are exposed in their voices and performances.

Chilling, mysterious, and even playful--sometimes simultaneously--this collection with 40 pages of detailed history, informative track-by-track notes, and forays into Cajun and spiritual side roads is most recommended to established blues fans wishing to further explore the roots of the genre. --Hal Horowitz

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