Blues Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll

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Tracklist

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▼CD 1: Good Rockin’ Tonight
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Shave ’em Dry
Ma Rainey2:30
2How Long, How Long Blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell3:04
3A Spoonful of Blues
recording of:
A Spoonful Blues
composer:
Charley Patton (American Delta blues musician)
Charley Patton3:09
4Statesboro Blues
recording of:
Statesboro Blues
lyricist and composer:
Blind Willie McTell
publisher:
Peer International Corporation (BMI)
Blind Willie McTell2:27
5Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Bessie Smith2:56
6Devil Got My Woman
recorded in:
Grafton, Wisconsin, United States (in 1931-02)
guitar and lead vocals:
Skip James (in 1931-02)
part of:
Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 2006)
recording of:
Devil Got My Woman (in 1931-02)
lyricist and composer:
Skip James (in 1931)
publisher:
Wynwood Music Company Inc
Skip James2:57
7Midnight Special
Lead Belly2:01
8Keep Your Hands Off Her
Big Bill Broonzy2:50
9Rhythm Is Our Business
Jimmie Lunceford3:10
10Boogie Woogie Stomp
Albert Ammons3:35
11Dust My Broom
Robert Johnson2:55
12Boogie Woogie Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie2:52
13Hep Hep, the Jumpin’ Jive
recording of:
(Hep‐Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive
writer:
Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba and Jack Palmer (Jazz pianist and composer)
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing France and Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.
Cab Calloway2:47
14Cow Cow Boogie
Ella Mae Morse3:11
15The Jumpin’ Blues
Jay McShann2:59
16Little John Special
Lucky Millinder3:06
17Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Tampa Red and Big Maceo2:34
18Yancey Special Jimmy Yancey
Jimmy Yancey4:23
19Blowin’ Away The Blues
Billy Eckstine3:10
20Flying Home
Illinois Jacquet2:46
21Caldonia
Louis Jordan2:32
22The Honeydripper
Joe Liggins3:02
23RM Blues
Roy Milton2:55
24My Gal’s a Jockey
Big Joe Turner2:53
25Good Rockin’ Tonight
Roy Brown2:58
▼CD 2: Hound Dog
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Chicken Shack Boogie
Amos Milburn2:48
2King Size Papa
recording of:
King Size Papa
writer:
Johnny Gomez and Paul Vance (US songwriter and producer)
Julia Lee2:39
3I Want a Bowlegged Woman
Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats3:00
4Better Cut That Out
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1947-11-12)
bass:
Ransom Knowling (on 1947-11-12)
guitar:
Big Bill Broonzy (on 1947-11-12)
harmonica and lead vocals:
Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, 1914–1948) (on 1947-11-12)
membranophone:
Lawrence "Judge" Riley (early blues drummer) (on 1947-11-12)
piano:
Blind John Davis (on 1947-11-12)
Sonny Boy Williamson2:57
5Fine Brown Frame
Nellie Lutcher2:53
6Elevator Boogie
Mabel Scott2:31
7All She Wants to Do Is Rock
Wynonie Harris2:30
8Saturday Night Fish Fry
recording of:
Saturday Night Fish Fry
writer:
Louis Jordan (US jazz, blues and r&b musician and songwriter) and Ellis Walsh
publisher:
Cherio Corp. and Ocheri Publishing Corp.
Louis Jordan5:21
9Deacon’s Hop
Big Jay McNeely2:48
10I Want My Fanny Brown
Wynonie Harris3:04
11Everyday I Have the Blues
Lowell Fulson2:25
12Cupid Boogie
Little Esther with Johnny Otis2:33
13Train Kept-A-Rolling
Tiny Bradshaw2:43
14I Got Loaded
recording of:
I Got Loaded
lyricist and composer:
Peppermint Harris
Peppermint Harris2:30
15Please Send Me Someone to Love
Percy Mayfield2:51
16She’s Dynamite
recording of:
She’s Dynamite
lyricist and composer:
Hudson Whittaker
B.B. King2:29
17Rock Little Baby
Cecil Gant3:07
18Rocket 88
Jackie Brenston2:46
19I’m in the Mood
John Lee Hooker3:04
20Blues Is a Woman
T‐Bone Walker2:45
21It Won’t Be Very Long
Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers2:32
225-10-15 Hours
Ruth Brown3:11
23How Many More Years?
recorded in:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States (in 1951)
drums (drum set):
Willie Steele (in 1951)
guitar:
Willie Johnson (Member of The Famous Flames) (in 1951)
harmonica and lead vocals:
Howlin’ Wolf (in 1951)
piano:
Ike Turner (in 1951)
part of:
Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 2013)
recording of:
How Many More Years (in 1951)
writer:
Chester Arthur Burnett (in 1951)
Howlin’ Wolf2:39
24Baby Won’t You Please Come Home?
cover recording of:
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
writer:
Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader)
publisher:
Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Universal‐MCA Music Publishing (US) and Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
Ray Charles2:51
25Hound Dog
Big Mama Thornton2:50

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ASIN:UK: B00064OUL0 [info]