Triumphs of the Blues (limited edition, cardboard sleeves)

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Annotation

Original recordings, restored and digitized.
Sound Restoration CEDAR.system
Artwork:Claude Rinaldy - Photo: John Lee Hooker (J. Demétre)
Limited edition with a 60 pages booklet in English, Italian, German and Spanish
Each CD have a cardboard printed sleeve with its own barcode.
Each track listed with its composer (on the sleeves) and its recording date (in the booklet).

Rights Society: mcps

Annotation last modified on 2023-10-21 18:00 UTC.

Tracklist

▶ CD 1: From the Delta to Detroit
▶ CD 2: Mississippi Blues
▶ CD 3: Texas Blues
▶ CD 4: Female Blues Singers #1
▶ CD 5: Female Blues Singers #2
▶ CD 6: Country Blues
▶ CD 7: Chicago Blues
▼ CD 8: Blues Stylists
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Mean Old Bedbug Blues
Lonnie Johnson2:55
2Have to Change Keys (To Play These Blues)
recording of:
Have to Change Keys
writer:
Lonnie Johnson (American blues and jazz musician) and Eddie Lang (New Orleans blues)
Lonnie Johnson3:02
3Guitar Blues
recording of:
Guitar Blues
writer:
Lonnie Johnson (American blues and jazz musician) and Eddie Lang (New Orleans blues)
Lonnie Johnson33:15
4Playing With the Strings
Lonnie Johnson3:01
5No More Trouble Now
Lonnie Johnson3:15
66/88 Glide
Lonnie Johnson3:00
7Flood Water
Lonnie Johnson2:44
8Swing Out Rhythm
Lonnie Johnson2:39
9Hot Springs Blues (Skin and Bones)
Lonnie Johnson2:58
10I'm Not Rough
Lonnie Johnson avec Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five3:00
11Blind Arthur Breakdown
Blind Blake3:02
12You're Gonna Quit Me Baby
Blind Blake2:45
13Dry Bone Suffle
Blind Blake2:45
14Southern Rag
Blind Blake2:52
15Too Tight Blues
Blind Blake2:55
16Georgia Bound
Blind Blake3:22
17Depression's Gone From Me Blues
Blind Blake3:36
18Police Dog Blues
recording of:
Police Dog Blues
writer:
Blind Blake (1920 blues)
Blind Blake2:51
19A Blues
solo guitar:
Scrapper Blackwell (on 1935-02-25)
Scrapper Blackwell3:00
20D Blues
solo guitar:
Scrapper Blackwell (on 1935-02-25)
Scrapper Blackwell2:42
21Miss Martha King
recorded in:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States (in 1949)
bass:
Tuff Green (in 1949)
drums (drum set):
Phineas Newborn, Sr. (in 1949)
guitar:
B.B. King (in 1949) and Calvin Newborn (50s US R&B guitar player) (in 1949)
piano:
Phineas Newborn, Jr. (American jazz pianist) (in 1949)
tenor saxophone:
Ben Branch (in 1949)
vocals:
B.B. King (in 1949)
recording of:
Miss Martha King (in 1949)
writer:
B.B. King
B.B. King2:41
22When Your Baby Packs Up
recorded in:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States (in 1949)
double bass:
Tuff Green (in 1949)
piano:
Phineas Newborn, Jr. (American jazz pianist) (in 1949)
saxophone:
Ben Branch (in 1949) and J.P. Louper (in 1949)
trombone:
Sammie Jett (trombonist) (in 1949)
trumpet:
Nathan Woodward (trumpeter) (in 1949)
vocals:
B.B. King (in 1949)
recording of:
When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
writer:
B.B. King
B.B. King2:27
23The Other Night Blues
recording of:
The Other Night Blues
writer:
B.B. King and Jules Taub
B.B. King3:31
24B.B.'s Boogie
recording of:
B.B. Boogie
writer:
B.B. King and Jules Taub
B.B. King3:12
25Walking and Crying
B.B. King3:19
▶ CD 9: Piano Blues #1
▶ CD 10: Piano Blues #2
▶ CD 11: Piano-Guitar Duos
▶ CD 12: Blues & Folksongs
▶ CD 13: East Coast Blues
▶ CD 14: Harmonica Blues
▶ CD 15: Steel & Slide Guitarists
▶ CD 16: Blues Guitarists
▶ CD 17: Jug Bands, Washboards...
▶ CD 18: Gospels & Evangelists
▶ CD 19: Rhythm and Blues
▶ CD 20: From Blues to Jazz