Various - Let Me Tell You About The Blues [New York] 3 CD Box Set
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From Chicago to Memphis and onwards to New York Fantastic Voyage's Let Me Tell You About The Blues sails imperiously onwards. As the series has progressed it's become more apparent the geographical location is more of a generalisation than a fixed point on the map. Not all the artists originated from the cities in question, not all became renowned for playing the style of blues under the microscope (Big Bill Broonzy would soon be labelled the King of Chicago Blues), but most did gravitate to the New York studios or were tempted, even fleetingly, to turn their hand to the Big Apple's take on the genre.

The stylistic difference is made immediately clear with both Bessie Smith's "Beale Street Mama" and Ma Rainey's "Countin' The Blues" including a clarinet accompaniment. Jazz may not be a dominant factor but the added instrumentation does provide the air of sophistication you would perhaps associate with a more progressive city – but it is, of course, all a facade. The Depression wasn't exactly the great leveller but it's catastrophic consequences were felt throughout the land (Bob Campbell's "Starvation Farm Blues"). However, when it comes to New York, the impression is one of seedy decadence, a slow decline into a state of decay where booze, drugs and sex are viewed as a means of escape, a way to turn a fast buck and, in some cases, a question of survival.

Rosetta Howard's "If You're A Viper" attempts to add a touch of seamy glamour to smoking the evil weed ("Dreamed about a reefer five feet long") and, if you believe, Victoria Spivey's "Dope Head Blues" drugs will cure all ills, but their worn down delivery gives the lie to the lyrics. Elsewhere booze is a constant factor, as routine as drawing breath, while sex is used as a instrument to shock, to entertain or to underline the depths some were forced to sink to make ends meet. Poor old Bo Chatman suffers the indignity of coping with a wayward woman because "My Pencil Won't Write No More", Charlie Pickett is looking for someone to "squeeze his lemon" and the female lead on the Famous Hokum Boys' "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat" ain't singing about felines. Most telling is Lucille Bogan's "Groceries On The Shelf" whose salacious manner can't disguise the plight of someone forced to take to the streets to make a living.

As expected the album contains some big hitters: Blind Willie McTell, Leadbelly, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Charley Patton all of whose work has been anthologised so often it's become something of a cliché. Still, whoever decides which tracks to include knows their stuff with "I Put A Spell On You", "Candy Man Blues" and "High Sheriff Blues" being personal favourites.

But, as with all these compilations, the real gold lies elsewhere. The menacing threat of violence from "Dead Cats On The Line", the matter-of-fact inevitability of "Penniless Blues", "Roll 'Em Pete" remarkably recorded in 1939 yet surely the template used by Jerry Lee Lewis to forge his career, the boogie woogie binge-fest of "Drank Up All The Wine Last Night", the big band treatment given "They Call Me Mr Blues", the Bill Haley rock 'n' roll blues of H-Bomb Ferguson, the cabaret swing of "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", the heavy rhythmic beat of "Country Boy", the rolling piano of "I'm Gonna Keep My Good Eye On You", the pumping beat of "Ride and Roll", all relatively obscure, all doing their bit to ensure New York maintains an assured balance between the best and the rest.

There's definitely an art to collating an album such as this. Witness Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Blues". The background hiss renders the track virtually unlistenable highlighting the difference between historical and commercial relevance. It certainly deserves its place in the pantheon but some tracks are simply too far gone to do anything other than store in an archive.

Thankfully Fantastic Voyage prove they are fully in control of that balance.



Disc 1
Bessie Smith - Beale Street Mama
Sylvester Weaver - Guitar Blues
Ma Rainey - Countin' the Blues
Lonnie Johnson - To Do This You Got to Know How
Sam Butler - Jefferson County Blues
Bobby Leecan - Need More Blues
Robert Hicks [aka Barbecue Bob] - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Victoria Spivey - Dope Head Blues
Helen Humes - Cross-Eyed Blues
Texas Alexander - Work Ox Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues
Kansas Joe McCoy - When the Levee Breaks
Famous Hokum Boys - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
Bo Chatman [aka Bo Carter] - My Pencil Won't Write No More
Sam Collins - Slow Mama Slow
Tampa Red and Georgia Tom - Dead Cats on the Line
Jelly Jaw Short [aka J.D. Short] - Snake Doctor Blues
Amos Easton [aka Bumble Bee Slim] - B & O Blues
Big Bill [aka Big Bill Broonzy] - How You Want It Done
Curley Weaver - No No Blues
Buddy Moss - Hard Road Blues
Lucille Bogan - Groceries on the Shelf
Jack Kelly - President's Blues
Blind Willie McTell - Warm It Up to Me
Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues

Disc 2
Leroy Carr - Barrel House Woman2:56
Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That
Bob Campbell - Starvation Farm Blues
Lead Belly - Packin' Trunk Blues
Josh White - Black Man
Walter Roland - Penniless Blues
Bull City Red - I Saw the Light
Roosevelt Sykes - Driving Wheel
Peetie Wheatstraw - Coon Can Shorty
Sam Montgomery - Mercy Mercy Blues
Sleepy John Estes - Hobo Jungle Blues
Charlie Pickett - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon
Rosetta Howard - If You're a Viper
Pete Johnson - Roll 'Em Pete
Blind Boy Fuller - Shake It, Baby
Ollie Shepard - Throw This Dog a Bone
Brownie McGhee - I'm a Black Woman's Man
Gabriel Brown - You Ain't No Good
Boy Green [blues] - Play My Jukebox
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times
Little Boy Fuller [aka Rich Trice] - Bed Springs Blues
Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues
Hank Kilroy - Harlem Women
Ralph Willis - Christmas Blues
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - How Blue Can You Get

Disc 3
Stick McGhee - Drank Up All the Wine Last Night
Leroy Dallas - Your Sweet Man's Blues
Grant (Mr. Blues) Jones - They Call Me Mr Blues
Duke Bayou and His Mystic Six - Rub a Little Boogie
Curley Weaver - Some Rainy Day
Brownie McGhee - I'm Gonna Move Cross the River
H-Bomb Ferguson - Preachin' the Blues
Danny "Run Joe" Taylor - Coffee Daddy Blues
Country Paul [aka Carolina Slim] - Side Walk Boogie
Bob Gaddy - I (Believe You Got a Sidekick)
Little Bobby Harris - Love, Love, Love
Little Esther [aka Esther Phillips] - Sit Back Down
Square Walton - Pepper Head Woman
Chuck Willis - I Feel So Bad
Margie Day - Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy
Larry Dale - Midnight Hours
Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop Ne Show
Tiny Kennedy - Country Boy
Teddy McRae and The Bearcats - I'm Gonna Keep My Good Eye on You
Sonny Terry - Ride and Roll
Big Connie - Mumbles Blues
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
Hurricane Harry - The Last Meal
Champion Jack Dupree - Just Like a Woman
Cousin Leroy - Waitin' at the Station