Skip to product information

Best There Ever Was

The Best That Ever Was: Legendary Early Rural Blues Performers [CD]

In stock
Regular price 18.99
Sale price 18.99 Regular price
Shipping calculated at checkout.
  • Free Shipping on in-stock orders over $125
  • Secure Packaging with optional insurance
  • Easy 30-Day Returns – No hassle, no worries
Release Date: 2003-08-26

Features the 20 greatest blues performers of the earlies peroid of blues recordings, the 1920s into the early 1930s, including Charlie Patton, Skip James, Son House, Blind Willie McTell among others.

Tracklist:

  1. Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers
  2. Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
  3. My Black Mamma, Pt. 1 - Son House
  4. Ain't No Tellin' - Mississippi John Hurt
  5. Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James
  6. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - Blind Willie Johnson
  7. Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell
  8. Barefoot Blues - Jaydee Short
  9. I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins
  10. Squabblin Blues - Ed Bell
  11. It Won't Be Long - Charley Patton
  12. What's the Matter Blues - Frank Stokes
  13. Last Kind Word Blues - Geeshie Wiley
  14. Bullfrog Blues - William Harris
  15. You Gonna Quit Me Blues - Blind Blake
  16. Gone Dead Train, The - King Solomon Hill
  17. Outdoor Blues - Memphis Minnie
  18. Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
  19. Graveyard Digger's Blues - Sam Collins
  20. Big Chief Blues - Furry Lewis

UPC: 016351300225
Label: Yazoo
Release Date: 8.26.03
Format: CD

163884

016351300225

The Best That Ever Was: Legendary Early Rural Blues Performers [CD]

18.99