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Various Artists - Blues Masters, Volume 18: More Guitar Classics

Track listing:
  1. I Can't Be Satisfied Muddy Waters 2:42
  2. The Sky Is Crying Elmore James 2:43
  3. Take Five Hound Dog Tayler & The Houserockers 2:44
  4. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole Blind Willie Johnson 3:05
  5. Hip-Shakin' J.B. Hutto & The Hawks 2:21
  6. Little Boy Blue Robert Junior Lockwood 3:13
  7. Rocking In The Cocanut Top Hop Wilson & His Blues Steel Guit 2:35
  8. Your Leg's Too Little Black Ace 2:24
  9. I'm Worried Joe Carter & His Chicago Broomdusters 3:21
  10. Green And Lucky Blues Tampa Red 2:47
  11. John Henry Eddie One String Jones 3:08
  12. Death Letter (Alternate Take) Son House 4:22
  13. Wah Wah Blues Earl Hooker 4:36
  14. Dallas Johnny Winter 2:48
  15. All In My Dreams Boyd Gilmore 3:12
  16. Blues For Hawaiians Chuck Berry 3:24

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Blues Masters Volume 18 - More Slide Guitar Classics

Rhino's second slide guitar anthology leads off with a couple of dyed-in-the-wool classics with Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied" and Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying." But the emphasis on this 18-track disc is much more on little-heard delights that might come as surprises even to knowledgeable blues fans. Earl Hooker's "Wah Wah Blues" shows him playing around with the wah wah pedal to great effect in late 1968; Boyd Gilmore's 1952 single "All My Dreams" has great raw soloing from Elmore James (spliced in from James' "Please Find My Baby" single); Chuck Berry's "Blues for Hawaiians" reveals a little-noted aspect of his playing; and Eddie "One String" Jones' "John Henry" is a primitive one-string blues that takes the slide back to its diddley bow origins. There's also the strange rockabilly-blues hybrid "Rocking in the Coconut Top" by Hop Wilson, with weird background noises that sound like balloons being rubbed. There are also plenty of quality selections by bigger names like Blind Willie Johnson, J.B. Hutto, Robert Junior Lockwood, Son House, Tampa Red, and Johnny Winter, with the expected expert liner notes by Cub Koda.