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Various Artists - The Greatest In Country Blues Vol 3 (1929-1956) (SOB CD 3523-2) (1956)

Track listing:
  1. Shorty George Smith Casey 3:19
  2. Ain't No Grame Can Hold My Body Down Bozie Sturivant 3:47
  3. I Be's Troubled Muddy Waters 3:04
  4. How You Want It Down? Big Bill Broonzy 2:54
  5. She's Comming Back Some Cold Rainy Day Georgia Cotton Pickers 3:04
  6. Sic 'Em Dogs On Bukka White 2:28
  7. California Desert Blues Lane Hardin 3:19
  8. Lonesome Day Blues Jesse James 3:03
  9. Moanin' The Blues Allen Shaw 3:05
  10. Midnight Hour Blues Leroy Carr 3:13
  11. Jack ODiamonds Pete Harris 2:06
  12. Dust My Broom Elmore James 2:48
  13. Rowdy Bluyes Kid Bailey 3:01
  14. Rollin' And Tumblin' Pt.1 Baby Face Leroy 2:51
  15. Penitentiary Blues Pt.1 & 2 Smokey Hogg 5:37
  16. Baby How Long Dan Pickett 2:45
  17. Mighty Long Time Sonny Boy Williamson 3:01
  18. River Blues Pt.2 Lowell Fuson 2:36
  19. Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf 3:09
  20. Moanin' Blues Lighnin' Hopkins 2:29

Notes

1929-1956

Anyone interested in a survey of early blues will be thrilled with having any of these three historical volumes, suited to both novice and connoisseur alike. Each provides a dazzling, panoramic survey of artists both famous and obscure and covers every region known to have nurtured the music. Volume 2 features Skip James's "Devil Got My Woman," and Robert Johnson's "Preaching' Blues," and Kokomo Arnold's "Paddlin' Madeline Blues." From Texas Alexander there is a version of "Levee Camp Moan Blues" which is made timeless by the incomparable guitar of Lonnie Johnson. Great instrumentals like Palmer McAbee's "Railroad Piece" and the Dallas String Band's "Dallas Rag" add spice, and there are also first-rate entries by more obscure giants like King Solomon Hill, George "Bullet" Williams, "Hi" Henry Brown, and Blind Joe Taggart.