- Mother Earth Memphis Slim 2:42
- Please Send Me Someone To Love Percy Mayfield 2:55
- Rocket 88 Jackie Brenston 2:50
- Dust My Broom Elmore James 2:45
- No More Doggin' Rosco Gordon 3:09
- Juke Little Walter 2:45
- Hound Dog Big Mam Thornton 2:50
- Reconsider Baby Lowell Fulson 3:10
- The Things That I Used To Do Guitar Slim 3:02
- In The Night Professor Longhair 2:32
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man Muddy Waters 2:51
- Eisenhower Blues J.B. Lenoir 2:53
- Blue Monday Fats Domino 2:17
- Hard Times Ray Charles 2:55
- I Hear You Knockin' Smiley Lewis 2:44
- Mystery Train Elvis Presley 2:27
- Don't Start Me To Talkin' Sonny Boy Williamson Ii 2:34
- Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf 3:08
- Who Do You Love Bo Diddley 2:30
- I'm A King Bee Slim Harpo 3:04
- Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry 2:42
- Farther Up The Road Bobby 'blue' Bland 2:58
- So Many Roads, So Many Trains Otis Rush 3:13
- First Time I Met The Blues Buddy Guy 2:18
- Big Boss Man Jimmy Reed 2:49
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Mar 2, 1927 - Apr 9, 2003
This five-disc, 116-track box set presents a sweeping history of the blues from its emergence in the early 1900s clear through to its various contemporary guises, and includes samples of country blues in all of its regional variations, as well as cuts from string bands, jug bands, jazz combos, gritty Chicago blues outfits, and a look at how rock artists like Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix incorporated the blues into their distinctive styles. Intelligently gathered and arranged, it treats the blues both from a historical perspective and from a working assumption that the form is still alive and well, continually morphing and transforming itself. There simply isn't a better or deeper survey of the blues on the market.
