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Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumberand turpentine camps of East Texas these were the places African American piano bluesmen called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with its players from the deep South to the urban North. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Leadbelly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P. Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections. Includes 32 page booklet with extensive notes. |
 Dedication To Pete Johnson (a)
Early In The Morning (b)
How Long Blues (c)
Yellow Dog Blues (d)
Key To The Highway (e)
Medium Blues (f)
Black Wolf Blues (g)
Dices Blues (h)
Big Fat Woman (i)
Harlem Parlor Blues (j)
Little Drops Of Water (k)
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (l)
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (c)
Wish Me Well (n)
All My Money's Gone (n)
You're My Man (g)
On My Way To See Moe Asch (o)
Sweet Old Chicago (l)
No Special Rider Blues (p)
Hesitation Blues (q) |
Artists: a- Memphis Slim; b- Booker T. Laury; c- Speckle Red; d- James P. Johnson And Katherine Handy Lewis; e- Memphis Slim And Jazz Gillum; f- Meade "Lux" Lewis; g- Champion Jack Dupree; h- Big Chief Ellis; i- Lead Belly; j- Sammy Price; k- Henry Brown With Edith North Johnson; l- Little Brother Montgomery; m- Memphis Slim And Willie Dixon; n- Henry Townsend; o- Victoria Spivery; p- Roosevelt Sykes; q- James P. Johnson |
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