Artist: VA
Title: Essential Mississippi Blues
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Not Now Music – NOT2CD459
Genre: Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 02:32:38
Total Size: 475 MB


Tracklist:

CD1
01.Howlin' Wolf - Gettting Old And Grey (2:42)
02.Elmore James - Hand In Hand (2:51)
03.Mississippi John Hurt - Ain't No Teilin' (2:56)
04.Big Joe Williams - Peach Orchard Blues (2:41)
05.Robert Lockwood - Black Spider Blues (3:00)
06.Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O'Lee (2:57)
07.Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues (3:03)
08.Blind Joe Reynolds - Ninety Nine Blues (2:40)
09.Willie '61' Blackwell - Rampaw Street Blues (3:11)
10.Sam Collins - Devil ln The Lion's Den (2:43)
11.Joe Callicott - Travelling Mama Blues (3:13)
12.Freddie Spruell - Muddy Water Blues (3:12)
13.Son House - Levee Camp Blues (3:45)
14.Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues (3:10)
15.Arthur Petties - Two Time Blues (3:14)
16.Geechie Wiley - Last Kind Word Blues (3:02)
17.Sonny Boy Williamson - Frigidaire Blues (3:01)
18.King Solomon Hill - Gone Dead Train (3:21)
19.Charley Patton - SpoonfuI Blues (3:08)
20.Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker (3:12)
21.Pearl Dickson - Little Rock Blues (3:08)
22.Big Charlie Buttler - Diamond Joe (2:17)
23.King Solomon Hill - Times Has Done Got Hard (3:14)
24.Charlie McCoy - Motherless And Fatherless Blues (3:13)
25.Joe Stone - It's Hard Time (3:11)

CD2
01.Mississippi Fred McDowell - Freight Train Blues (2:54)
02.Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues (3:06)
03.Garfield Akers - Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues (3:08)
04.Arthur Petties - That Won't Do (3:01)
05.Charlie McCoy - Baltimore Blues (2:50)
06.Willie '61' Blackwell - She's Young And Wild (3:17)
07.Charley Patton - Going To Move To Alabama (3:01)
08.King Solomon Hill - Down On My Bended Knee (2:55)
09.Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World (3:04)
10.Freddie Spruell - Don't Cry (3:05)
11.Sam Collins - The Jail House Blues (2:31)
12.Geechie Wiley - Skinny Leg Blues (3:09)
13.Pearl Dickson - Twelve Pound Daddy (3:10)
14.Mississippi Bracey - You Scolded And Drove Me (3:19)
15.Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues (3:04)
16.Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down (3:41)
17.Arthur Petties - Down South Blues (3:14)
18.Mississippi Matilda - Happy Home Blues (2:47)
19.Joe McCoy - Look Who's Coming Down The Road (2:47)
20.Mississippi John Hurt - Preaching On The Old Camp Ground (2:37)
21.King Solomon Hill - Whoopee Blues (3:12)
22.Mississippi Bracey - Cherry Ball (3:15)
23.Willie '61' Blackwell - Machine Gun Blues (3:08)
24.Freddie Spruell - Low Down Mississippi Bottom Man (3:25)
25.Joe Callicott - Fare Thee Well Blues (3:17)

The Mississippi Delta has some of the most fertile soil in the world and became one of the richest cotton growing areas in the world which, before the American Civil War, was worked exclusively by black slaves brought over from Africa. The blues was forged on the anvil of poverty and hardship the black sharecroppers and tenant farmers had to endure. Born of the harsh, brutal conditions of life in the South, and full of pain, frustration and anger, the passionate, soulful sounds of the Delta revolutionised the sound of 20th-century music. This compilation celebrates some of its greatest exponents.