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Charley Patton - Founder of the Delta Blues (1929)

Track listing:
  1. Down the Dirt Road Blues 2:58
  2. Mississippi Boweavil Blues 3:10
  3. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues 3:09
  4. Stone Pony Blues 2:55
  5. It Won't Be Long 3:26
  6. Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It... 3:12
  7. Magnolia Blues 3:14
  8. Dry Well Blues 3:23
  9. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 3:09
  10. High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2 3:10
  11. Green River Blues 3:12
  12. Bird Nest Bound 3:15
  13. High Sheriff Blues 3:15
  14. A Spoonful Blues 3:15
  15. Moon Going Down 3:20
  16. Pony Blues 3:03
  17. Elder Greene Blues 3:06
  18. Banty Rooster Blues 3:06
  19. Some of These Days 3:21
  20. Tom Rushen Blues 3:11
  21. 34 Blues 3:02
  22. Going to Move to Alabama 3:04
  23. Hammer Blues 3:19
  24. Poor Me 3:01
  25. When Your Way Gets Dark 3:10
  26. Devil Sent the Rain Blues 3:11

Notes


A cornerstone of any blues collection, this is where you start. As compilations go, this originally started life as a double record set featuring all of Patton's best known titles and sound wise was miles above all previous versions. Its compact disc incarnation here trims the tune list to 24 tracks, but all the seminal tracks are here: "Pony Blues," "High Water Everywhere," "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues," "A Spoonful Blues," "Shake It and Break It" and the wistful "Poor Me," recorded at his final session in 1934, a scant two months before he died.