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Charley Patton - Devil Sent the Rain Blues

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Pony Blues 3:00
  2. A Spoonful Blues 3:10
  3. Down the Dirt Road Blues 2:57
  4. Prayer of Death Pt. 1 3:05
  5. Prayer of Death Pt. 2 2:49
  6. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues 3:08
  7. Bandy Rooster Blues 3:03
  8. Tom Rushen Blues 3:05
  9. It Won't Be Long 3:26
  10. Shake It and Break It 3:07
  11. Pea Vine Blues 3:03
  12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues 3:09
  13. Lord, I'm Discouraged 3:07
  14. I'm Goin' Home 3:05
  15. High Water Everywhere Pt. 1 2:58
  16. High Water Everywhere Pt. 2 2:58
  17. I Shall Not Be Moved 3:04
  18. Rattlesnake Blues 2:45
  19. Going to Move to Alabama 3:00
  20. Hammer Blues 3:15
  21. Joe Kirby 3:08
  22. Frankie and Albert 3:10
  23. Devil Sent the Rain Blues 2:56
  24. Magnolia Blues 3:03
  25. Runnin' Wild Blues 2:54
Volume 2
  1. Some Happy Day 3:10
  2. Mean Black Moan 3:17
  3. Green River Blues 3:07
  4. Jim Lee Pt. 1 3:04
  5. Jim Lee Pt. 2 3:01
  6. Mean Black Cat Blues 2:53
  7. Jesus Is a Dying-Bed Maker 2:51
  8. Elder Greene Blues 3:02
  9. When Your Way Gets Dark 3:07
  10. Some These Days I'll Be Gone 3:08
  11. Heart Like Railroad Steel 2:49
  12. Circle Round the Moon 2:32
  13. You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die 2:49
  14. Some Summer Day 3:01
  15. Bird Nest Bound 3:10
  16. Dry Well Blues 3:19
  17. Moon Going Down 3:16
  18. High Sheriff Blues 3:11
  19. Sone Pony Blues 2:53
  20. Jersey Bull Blues 3:10
  21. Hang It on the Wall 2:44
  22. 34 Blues 2:57
  23. Love My Stuff 2:57
  24. Poor Me 2:59
  25. Revenue Man Blues 2:42

Notes

Jun 14, 1929 - Feb 1, 1934

Source: Original CD

Patton really was there at the beginning. While the Revenant box set was an admirable and in fact totally unprecedented devotional exercise as part of John fahey's last will and testament, it did perhaps succeed too well. By this i mean, the tracks became almost subservient to the opulence of the packaging. On this exceedingly modest italian issue, Patton's just allowed to do his thing - this guy was playing guitar behind his head fifty years before Hendrix. Listen to the opiated 'Spoonful Blues' for one of my favourite tunes of all time, fear for the later Charley - having your throat slit by a jealous boyfriend is never going to be tidy business and above all enjoy the primal surge and mercurial talent of one of the founder members.